Intercourse prior to pelvic exam

Yeah the pay off is prob. just not worth it.

My current gyn's office instructions are not to put anything into the vagina 48 hours prior to my appointment including intercourse, tampons, douche. With other doctors it's been 24 hours no intercourse. I've always followed the guidelines, being told too that it can interfere with the pap test.

I have had a friend who had sex the night before have to go through much more extensive testing (and embarassment, her words) due to the fall test reading. It was great while she was telling me the story cause all I could think about was her in the stirrups for a long time. Wish I could have been there...

Does it count if it's the doctor you had intercourse with just before the exam???

I agree! 24 hour is what we've been told to wait. But right after the sex is always great!

24 hours is usually a safe rule to follow for routine exams.

If its to see the doctor for a suspected std then I'm sure you wouldn't wait 24 hours and want to be seen by the Doctor asap.

Marie, the Dr is your hubbys friend right?

In years past, semen in a Pap smear could obscure the important cells on the slide. These days, the gynecologist collects cells from your cervix with a brush, dunks the brush into a liquid medium, and then spins the liquid so everything extraneous washes away. Sure, your gyn might see the evidence of last night’s romp, but she won’t care. If you think you’ll be embarrassed, hold off on sex or use a condom.

Too much cleaning, like douching, can negatively affect exams like the Pap test. The douche can wash away the cells your gyno needs to examine, so you may have to come in for another Pap. Instead, take your routine shower (using soap is fine) and avoid powders in the genital area.

My wife won't let me near her for at least 2 days.

My wife and I play it safe and abstain from intercourse for 48 hours before her exams. It adds to the sexual tension before I see her receive her physical and pelvic. The anticipation really builds during those two days, and we have hot, passionate sex as soon as we get home from her exam!

When she makes the appointment, she is usually instructed to make sure that nothing is inserted into her vagina 48 hours before the exam, including tampons, and not to douche either.

As the old joke goes.. My girlfriends gyno says no sex 2 days before her exam, but he is not her dentist.

By the way, my wife does not recall receiving instructions like "abstain from intercourse 24h prior"...

I do not have sex for the 2 days before I go to see my gynecologist for a check up. Then after he has given my exam I can then have intercourse again when I want. I soon start to think about what happened when I was having my exam and then I can not wait to get my husband into bed. After needing to make him wait, he gives me the good fucking that I need! 😃

I have always been a good girl and refrained from intercourse 2 days before. It has really become part of the process that is our annnual.exams. The hands off policy adds to the after exam sex that will ensue as soon as we get home that evening.

For 48 hours I have no activity at all whatsoever vaginally.

I have never heard my wife say anything about this. I haven't even been told anything about sex before exams, even though ejaculation is supposed to slightly spike your PSA.

I did have one embarrassing occurrence on our first child. Our doctor assured us that sex was OK and encouraged up to labor, as it relieved stress, brought us closer together and might even help the labor process. So we were enjoying ourselves as much as my wife wanted to.

We get to the hospital and one of the questions was "have you had sex in the last 48 hours." Answer was yes, then I get the "you slimeball" look from a big chunk of the medical personnel there. I probably would have been more pissed under ordinary situations, but all my attention was on my wife.

Moliere: I'm surprised that they have asked such a question, but maybe some of the medical personnel here may enlighten us.

My wife and I have engaged in sex until the last days before both births. It was just a matter of adjusting positions. She did not see why she should deprive herself of that. The only thing is that the birth canal was really distended in the end so we had poor sensations.

There is no reason to either have sex or abstain from sex prior to childbirth....there is no proof that intercourse brings on labour....but nothing harmful in doing so...assuming the pregnancy is uncomplicated.

On the initial question ... it's more about the chance a pap test will be rejected by the lab requiring a repeat....but the same thing can happen if the sample is inadequate. A number of studies show that semen does not interfere with interpreting a pap, even though they often get rejected

One evening, when my wife was very pregnant with our second child, we had sex. Later that night, (early the next morning) my wife suddenly thought her water had broken. I took her to the hospital where the nurse did a pelvic exam. The nurse didn't seem to think my wife's water had broken, but she ran a test on the liquid anyway to see if it was amniotic fluid. Much to our embarrassment the test revealed that the liquid was sperm... I still laugh about it this day, but my wife does not appreciate the humor.

Our doctor was great, so I think the question was probably driven by the request of some backward doctor that was also at the hospital. I've heard some horror stories about obstetricians.

As I said, her doctor was fantastic, as is our PCP, and any more there really isn't any reason to put up with anything else.

Intercourse after the pelvic exam is ALWAYS great.

My Dr. for many years was a female and she always wanted to check my diaphragm fit so I had to put it in at home before the exam. If we had intercourse the night before or in the morning I just left it in. She would always ask how long it had been since ejaculation before she removed it for the exam. Her nurse would take it and wash it in the sink and hand it to me after the exam. One particular nurse would always ask if I wanted it back in, I always said yes and she would do the jelly thing and insert it. I think she got aroused doing it.

I have always been a good girl and refrained from intercourse 2 days before. It has really become part of the process that is our annnual.exams. The hands off policy adds to the after exam sex that will ensue as soon as we get home that evening.

Ditto for me and my wife! The two days of abstinence, plus witnessing each other being thoroughly examined, really adds to the intense sex we have right after we get home from our exams.

Intercourse after the pelvic exam is ALWAYS great.

Yep. Not sure how much of it was due to her gyno appointment on Monday a.m. and how much of it was our Sunday night conversation, but my wife practically attacked me on Monday night. And again last night.

The sexless marriage is a thing of the past. She seems like a brand new woman.

My wife nor I have ever been told that. We had our first joint exams this year and in anticipation we had sex a few times that morning before our afternoon appointments,the Doc didn't say anything.

My question is do you go to the dentist before you brush what if you were a gyne would you like to go into some place where sex has been done a few hours ago respect for your dr is important or one day you might not have that dr or little roumers might happen to spread just a thought

If you used a condom having sex before the gyno, they wold have a clean area to examine.

My question for you cowboy, would be why would you assume that we didn't use a condom and then shower and get cleaned up before we went? People who assume things are why rumors get started in the first place.