Age during first rectal exam

You sound like a real dr. Can you give me a thorough exam? Including a rectal exam and temperature? Get back to me right away. I hope you are in New york.

First rectal exam was at 16. I don't know why, the doctor did it as part of my regular school physical.

AAAHHHH!! I've never had one, thank goodness! I'm sure at some point I will, most likely around the time of the dreaded colonoscopy, but for now I'm enjoying anal virginity!

I was 13 when my mother took me to the gyno to make sure everything was working. I had really bad cramps.

I was in the stirrups, which is already total humiliation for a young girl when he said he would do an internal exam, and before I could register what that meant he stuck his finger into my rectum (instead of the more normal examination I was told to expect via vagina), and pushed it really deep so he could feel my uterus and ovaries. I was SO mortified and outraged I was practically spitting mad, esp. at my mother whose idea it was! No one said there'd be anything like that!

I could feel his finger in there for hours.

Now, of course, I have had much larger things pushed up my ass, and I hadn't thought of that stupid doctor in years. Zero points for bedside manner, moron!

I was 40 as part of my annual exam. now i'm disappointed when i dont get one

My first was at my first gyno exam, It was small rectal exam, all did is put finger up rectal then , in my vaginal , late on around 15 , went to doc physical ,due to at I was mid through my puberty, give me ,full examination, enema, full rectal exam, then pelvic exam. he use speculum both vaginal and rectal exam, then year after than

What you were subjected to is common practice - particularly if your hymen was still intact.

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I was 5 when I got my rectal exam it was embarassing but it changed me since.

My was first was at 24 for suspected appendicitis with a female doctor she wasn't my usuall doctor she was my mother's doctor she was the duty doctor at the time she told me to roll on my side and pull my pants down and to push when she put her finger in all over in 3-5 seconds it was notting much really.

I was 18 and it was done as part of my regular exam, it was done by a older male doctor and he lubricated around my anus and kinda massaged my anus before slipping his finger in.

My first rectal exam was at age 17 -- during a complete physical exam. It was my first time visiting a new internist, so I had to undergo a "new patient exam."

I saw a blue and white tube that looked like a toothpaste tube, lying on the medical tray by the exam table. Had no idea what it was for.

The doc had me completely unclothed and asked me to "bend over the table." Then, I heard the glove snap on. (Still clueless about what was going to happen to me.) I'll bet I jumped a country mile when I felt that finger go in! I grabbed the edges of the table and held on for dear life.

I know that teenagers probably don't get routine rectal exams any more, but this was in the early 1970's, and it must have been pretty routine to get one, because I remember talking to high school friends who had also been given the same treatment.

Very interesting how different docs start at such different ages, makes me wonder if some just enjoy it more!

Mash, that might be a very good study but there may be another influence on the thoroughness of the exam and that is the relationship between the patient and doctor. With all the years we have been seeing our family practice physician, we have become very friendly with her and I think that has made her less willing to suggest what she thinks may be embarrassing procedures for us. I am a 54 year old male and it has been almost three years since she has checked below the belt and she has never done an overall skin check. As I related in another post, I was the one that got her to give my wife a pelvic exam after not seeing a gynecologist for over 4 years and last year it was at my urging she gave my wife a cursory skin check. I know I also can speak up and demand more thorough attention to my health care if I really wanted to.

Haven't had one yet, but I remember when I had a checkup at the pediatrician at like 16 or so my mom asked me after if he "stuck his finger up my butt."

I'm surprised a Doctor started checking the prostate while a person is so young. Usually it is not until you're 40-50 years old.

I was 16 and went to the doctor because of frequent urination. I saw a middle aged female ARNP. This was the first time I had seen a female for any type of exam. She explained she wanted to do a full work up. I was told to drop my pants, put my knees together and bend over the table. She told me to bear down and as she inserted her finger. She did use plenty of KY and I can remember feeling squishy down there for the rest of the day even at football practice later in the day. I had another rectal exam a year later because of bleeding issues. I saw the male MD at the practice this time. For this exam I laid on my side and he stood behind me and did the exam from there. He did check a stool sample for blood. The exams were both about fifteen years ago, and that area of my anatomy has not been examined since then.

Definitely different experiences! I'm 40+ and so far I've never had any rectal exam.

I was 14 when I had my first (and yet only) rectal exam. I had problems with my bowel movements and old male doc put his finger in my rectum. I was laying on the examination table on my side.

Haven't had one yet and not sure if i really want one right now.

I had my first DRE a few days ago(iam 34). My PCP is a mid 40s cougar that wears awesome little skirts under her lab coat. I had one of those sheets on and had to lay on my left side. It felt really good...she slide her finger in slow and turned it. It lasted probably 30 seconds. She smiled after she was done. I had to laugh when i got dressed, there was a lube spot on the paper. I always wondered why there were these little wet spots on the paper when I came into an exam room (the nurse would freak and change the paper really quick). now I know!

63 and still never had one. My PSA is always within the normal range-so I see no need as of now.

Age 8 in the children's ward in the hospital. There was 1 large room with 9 beds and all children were examined rectally every morning to see if they moved their bowels. If they didn't we got enemas which we had to expell in that same large room.

Never had one yet, but have not had a physical in a while

I was 22 is that to young?

I was 13. Told to: ..." stand, drop my shorts, bend over the exam table, open your legs, this isn't going to hurt, you're going to feel as if you're having a bowel movement "....

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My first was at age 18.. The doc had me lay back on the exam table and spread my legs. Put a well lube finger up me for what seemed like a long (but fun) time . I fought like hell not to get an erection, but I still got half hard!!

Probably around 25 or 26, before a sigmoidoscopy. I had an appointment with my doctor because of constipation, and to my surprise, he wanted to scope me. After a Fleet to clean out my lower colon, he did a quick finger check before inserting the scope. It was a bizarre sensation for someone who's never had one before, like a worm trying to wiggle up my butt. Of course, the scope itself was even more uncomfortable!

A question to "bricker" ; when you were examined by the male doctor at the age of 14 and for each of the four year after until you left high school for the college, did you were alone or was your mother present in the exam room ? as it could happen for a boy of 14 age when you needed her to drive the car to go to the doctor' office.

My first rectal/prostate exam was by my female doctor when I was about 26 years old. She probably would not have given me the exam, but I told her prostate cancer runs in the family.

I was 24, female Doctor.