Women, when the doctor listens to your heart are your breasts exposed?

Are your breasts normally exposed when your doctor listens to your heart? Does your doctor lift your left breast or ask you to lift it so he/she can get under it with the stethoscope for a good listen at your apex?

Usually my doctor has me remove my bra when he listens to my chest with the stethoscope. My doctor will move the stethoscope from place to place on my chest, and will manipulate my breasts to get to the area he wants to listen to.

Some months ago, I opened a topic on this subject. I had some doctors who auscultated topless and some did not. So it is always a surprise if you have to take of your bra or not during the heart exam.

No it is not a surprise for me to be required to take off my bra for the doctor to listen to my heart and lungs, I kind of expect it now.

Doctors are often in a hurry seeing patients and often don't take their time listening all around a woman's heart if they don't have any reason to suspect a heart problem. If a woman doesn't have to take off her bra, she is not getting a thorough stething of her heart. The bra has to be off to get a good listen at the apex where sounds from the mitral valve are best heard. A lot of heart murmurs in women are missed (especially the "click" of mitral valve prolapse and mumurs caused by mitral regurgitation) because the doctor doesn't have the patient remove her bra and (if she has larger breasts) lift her left breast to get a good listen at the apex. It helps to have the bra out of the way to get a good listen at the tricuspid valve (between breasts at left edge of sternum).

I accompanied my for few occasions. Only one doctor asked her to remove bra. Others just slid the steth in to the bra and listen to murmur

I think it has a lot to do with the size of the woman's chest as well. It is probably harder to properly auscultate a busty woman's chest with her bra on.

Last year I called the Dr to our home as my wife experienced a sudden irregular heartbeat......the Dr had her strip to the waist and sit on a chair. He then lifted her left breast and placed his 'scope under it. He then sat for about 10 mins listening to her heartbeat while feeling her pulse. I was present during the exam. Fortunately it was just ''one of those things'' and nothing serious.

I have asthma, so the doctor checks my lungs each time, and also checks my heart at the same time. but i never have to go topelss or braless, the doctor just lifts up my top a little.

doesnt even see my bra or anything else. and when he does the front, just puts it down the neck of my top (usually a tshirt)

2 or 3 years ago my girlfriend went to see a cardiologist because of some episodes of arrythmia. The doctor auscultated her heart with her undressed for the waist up. First seated and then laying down. A very thorough auscultation. Happily it proved to be nothing serious. Now, here in Portugal GPs always listen ladies lungs and heart with the bra on and sometimes only lifting the shirt with the bra on, only once many years ago I saw a female GP auscultate another girlfriend of mine with her undressed from the waist, but in that occasion she wanted to do a breast exam on her after because of a lump complain.

gynecologists here never make any kind of pulmonary or cardiac checkup, and only take care of breast, abdomen and gynecological exam, again only once and many years ago I went to my girlfriend to lady OB/GYN and she told her, "today I want to auscultate your heart first" which she did before the rest of the exam.

At the GP's, I'm made to remove my bra but still covered by a gown. At the cardiologist's, I'm nude from the waist up since he palpates and percusses in addition to listening.

Have you ever became so arroused when the doctor listens to your heartbeat that he actually said something about how fast it was beating? I would absolutely love to give your heart a thorough exam to see how it reacted from different things.

Miss kitty wouldn't you like to describes an examination of yours at the cardiologist?

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Have you ever became so arroused when the doctor listens to your heartbeat that he actually said something about how fast it was beating? I would absolutely love to give your heart a thorough exam to see how it reacted from different things.

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Yes, and he asked me to relax and take slow deep breaths to bring my heart rate down. He actually held the stethoscope diaphragm over my apex for several minutes while I did this.

So youare from New York huh? I am near the poconos in Pennsylvania. Have you ever considered meeting someone to have a stethoscope session? I would absolutely love that. I never met anyone in real life that loved heartbeats in the same way that I do. I think it would be a totally amazing thing to do!

Wow I bet that was a super HOT thing to see! Did you have any irregular heartbeats etc. while you were pregnant? And did you ever listen to your own heartbeat while you were expecting?

Do you like to listen to your own heartbeat? If so I hope you don't mind me asking if you have ever listened to your own heart beating while you had an orgasm?

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So youare from New York huh? I am near the poconos in Pennsylvania. Have you ever considered meeting someone to have a stethoscope session? I would absolutely love that. I never met anyone in real life that loved heartbeats in the same way that I do. I think it would be a totally amazing thing to do!

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Dated a few docs and always volunteered to let them practice their auscultation skills on me.

I went to the doctor a few months ago as I wasn't feeling all that well and she went to listen to my heart rate but didn't ask me to remove my shirt or my bra. I think she may have been in a hurry which was kind of disappointing really

My doctor always has me remove my bra to listen to my heart and lungs.

Usually my breasts are exposed when the doctor listens to my heart and lungs.

It happened to me once or twice, the doctor lifted my breast slightly by the head of the stetoschope and once by the head of the ultra sound scanner when a male doctor examined my heart. A pity he was 60+, hehe 😁

Darn, maybe I am being neglected in this area, but no Doctor has ever asked me to remove my bra and listen to my heart, let alone touch or lift my DD breasts. Most of them listen by placing their stethoscope under my blouse, but I remain fully clothed. Maybe, I need a good listen from some play Docs! 😉

Lady Teddy

I am asked to remove my bra for the stethoscope exam whether or not she does a breast exam. I just wear the gown ad she opens it.

I am always asked to remove my bra by my GP when he listens to my heart and lungs. I am well endowed and suffer with asthma. When he is listening to the front of my chest whether I am sitting up or reclined, he does move my breasts. Unless it is an annual, he just slides up under my shirt.

Usually my bra is off if i am getting my heart listened to. Even a GP visit.

Most of the time my doctors only barely listen at all. Usually its only over the clothes and there is no nudity. Earlier this month (march 1 ish) I went to the OBGYN for my "yearly" woman check-up and follow-up to some problems I had been having in that area. They had me strip completely except for socks and at my request, they provided me with two gowns and a sheet so that I would be adequately covered.

I still felt really exposed sitting up on the exam table and was incredibly anxious. The first thing the doctor did was listen to my heart and lungs (it was brief) but long enough that I'm sure he heard my heart pounding.. I felt it was going to leap out of my chest.

Then he had me lay back and he conducted the breast exam... and it went from there....

Somtimes the doctor will listen through the gown. But I've also had doctors that lower my gown, exposing my breasts. And then they do lift my breast to place the stethescope under it.

My Gyn always has me lower my gown when he moves to the front with his stethoscope, but this is that last thing he does before the breast exam so the gown's about to come off anyway so I don't see why he shouldn't. And a Cardiologist one removed my gown. But no regular doctor has even needed to listen to bare skin except one time. I was seeing an insurance doctor following a car accident, and he caught me off guard by making me lower my gown. I was there for a knee injury, and I'm sure he ddin't need to do that and was just taking advantage of an unsuspecting young girl, but I was too surprised at the time to think to refuse.

Almost always topless with the doctor lifting my left breast to listen at the apex. When I was a preteen with an A cup chest, the doctor would listen over my left breast. Now that my chest is larger, he listens under the breast.

My girlfriend had D cup breasts and is always asked to remove her bra for her doctor to 'scope her, and everytime i've gone with her the doctor has lift/moved her left brest to better position the 'scope at one point or another. Its nice to she the female doctor doing this as it gets me aroused for when the breast exam begins

Most of the times I have been asked to remove my bra before the doctor has listened my chest and heart.