Age you stopped going to the pediatrician

I refused to go again after age 13 or so. Next time I saw a doctor I was like 17 and it was a regular PCP type.

14 i think.

I believe I was around 13 when I started going to my mothers doctor. I think my pediatrician retired or moved away, and needed a physical for school, so I went to my mothers doctor.

I was 17 and finished all school immunizations.

16 and I suspect I looked too mature around my last visits 😳

I was 42!. When I moved to the city I lived in previously, my doctor friend was a pediatrician. He could not recommend any of the family practice doctors then taking patients, so he suggested I just call him when I needed a doctor. The office staff had a blast with this, needless to say.

I stayed with him until his health forced him to retire way too early. We did find me a doctor in a town about 25 miles from where I lived then and now I have a competent family doctor where I live today.

Speed

Like several others below, I grew up in a rural town of 2500 in Oregon. Never saw anyone other than the GP who had delivered me. My first encounter with another doc was when, at age 17, I went for my college physical. The only doctor I could get an appointment with for a physical in a timely manner was new in town -- an internist. He did a very thorough exam. Much to my surprise, he completed it by having me assume knee chest position on the exam table, snapping on an exam glove, adding lube and inserting it in my bottom. Even at that point I was fascinated with everything about bottoms so spent a great deal of time reliving the experience, tho I was embarassed at the time. I knew my girlfriend had seen the same internist for her exam so asked her whether it had been "complete." She responded that she had had a rectal exam as well. Unfortunately, I was never so lucky with her.

I haven't had a physical since I was 10 or 11. Although I did get vaccines in school since then.

I think I was 14, for strep, not a physical.

Growing up in the 1940s and '50s I and the rest of the family had only a GP who took care of all of ou health needs. he was fine with us getting enemas (from mom of course), and she didn't need "permission" to get out the enema can and bar of Ivory as needed.

Until the age of 17, when i turned 18 i had a pre employment exam by a regular adult doctor where i had my first rectal during a physical

I was 19. The next year I went to the gynecologist.

I "escaped" my pediatrician at age 17. It was not one minute too soon.

I can forever thank him for leading down the path that brought me here.

I was 15 when I started going to the women's health center. My pediatrician always just looked down the front of my panties and then had me pull them down and lay on my side while she spread my labia and bottom. Around 13 she had started examining my beasts and nipples. At my first GYN appointment I had a bi manual exam and speculum. The speculum really stretched my small vagina open and i had some cramps in my belly when he took samples. After he removed the spec he said he needed to check one more thing and that I'd feel some pressure in my rectum. He then put his entire middle finger in my rectum! I'd never had anything bigger than a thermometer in that far, I'd had my bottom examined before but onto a little ways in. It didn't hurt really, just a lot of pressure and stretching around my hole. I could feel the knuckes of his hand pressed between my cheeks and he said he needed to re check my vagina as well and put his index finger inside and squeezed them together. He used his other hand to press on my belly again and then I was done. I moved a year later and I missed that doc..he was very throughout

Stopped at age 12 but had to go back when I was 18 because I didnt know where else to go. Poor area in Fla, old dr made me strip completely for whole exam, stood for genital exam, and had me lay on my side for rectal temperature with old glass thermometer, no electronic one. I got totally erect which was in plain view as he stood over me . Could feel his fingers between my cheeks holding thermometer in for 4 or 5 mins. Pretty embarrassing and totally humiliating. After that I got the finger up the butt, slowly and lasted too long, about a full minute. I almost shot.

13 or so for me...

I was just 18 and it was because the doctor had all my medical records and they were requested by my college. It was basically a farewell visit.

At 16 I started to visit a "normal" doctor.

For me it was 17. The physical for college was the change to FP.

I've never seen one, always had a GP. Friends of mine who have seen pediatricians typically stopped going after graduating high school at around 17-18, or earlier if they became sexually active and wanted to see the doctor about sexual health concerns or contraception.

18 years old, just before heading off to college. I was very nervous and excited because this was the same doctor who, during my first exam during puberty, had examined my anus to my complete and total surprise, horror, and delight. So during my entire exam I was waiting for the moment when he'd ask me to "turn over" (anticipating him then pulling down my underwear, feeling his fingers on my cheeks, and then opening my bottom wide like he had before). Sadly, he did no more than examine my penis and testicles.

We moved when I was 11, and started going to a general family doctor after moving.

It was age 18 for me. I went to college in those ensuing years, but didn't go to the doctor until I had better health insurance. Those bills are killer...

I am surprised that so many have visited with the pediatrician up until 18 years of age.

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I am surprised that so many have visited with the pediatrician up until 18 years of age.

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I'm also surprised that so many members here seem to remember their ages so well, when they went to which type of doctor.

I can just remember a sort of blur - I was taken to 'the doctor' and I don't know if there was ever any reference given by my mother that it was a doctor specifically for youngsters or for all ages. To my mind back then all doctors were of one and the same kind - when you were ill they came to the house to give an injection (antibiotics no doubt) and when you went for an appointment to their office, it was normally for an inoculation or vaccination - meaning another injection ... ha ha. Luckily I never had any problems with injections.

Somewhere along the line, between 14 and 18 I guess, the family doctor treated everyone, kids and grownups ... I certainly never experienced any specific feelings of suddenly changing doctors and having things done differently.

Like until 17 or 18 i don´t really remember

I was about 15 years old when I stop going to ped.

I was 15 when I stopped going to the pediatrician.

I was 14..

When I was young, I never had to go see a pediatrician, it was not as prevalent today, we just had a family doctor who examined children and parents, usually my mother or my father were sometimes present, but from 16, I went alone.