Age you stopped going to the pediatrician

Was 13 i believe

I was 18

I was 16 when I had my first exam by an "adult doctor"

I was 17 when I switched to a family physician however, the last time I had an exam at the pediatrician I was 10. My mother was in the room. I had my exam in my white briefs and near the end the female NP stuck her hands down my briefs, felt me for a minute, then had me stand and stuck her hand down my briefs again for the cough test. My exam at 17 I was alone with the male doctor. He also performed my exam in just my boxers and had me stand and drop them for the cough test.

I went up to age 18. I started going into the exam room by myself at around 7th grade, so around age 12 or 13.

I to went to one until I was 18 and off to college. Also I see I am not the only one who has the ped. to blame for their fetish. Up until I moved when I was 12 I had seen the same dr who never really examined me all that thoroughly, that changed when I got a new ped upon moving. Being a small town the choice for a ped. was limited to the one and only one around, she turned out to be an older woman in the process of retiring at my initial visit. To say the least she was an old school dr. and I realized real quick things were different at this dr's. My first visit was for the physical I needed for my new school. As soon as I entered the room the nurse told me to strip down to my underwear, and that she would be right back. A few minutes later she returned to take my vitals, everything as usual until she got to the temp, the next thing I know she is standing there with a jar of vaseline and a thermometer and I am being told to slide my underwear down and lay on my tummy. Being in the middle of puberty I did the best I could to shield my penis from view and I assumed the position with no protest, to be honest I was to shocked to really do anything else. She proceeded to spread my cheeks and plunge the thermometer home, it felt like forever laying there, and finally she removed it and told me I could pull my underpants back up and that the doc would be right with me. A few minutes later the doctor enters the room with another much younger woman in tow, she introduced herself and explained that the other woman is a doctor also in training and that she would be taking over her practice soon when she retired. The exam proceeded as normal and she reached a point where she said she was almost done and at this point I thought that the worst was over and that the rectal temp was the worst part. She made some notes in the chart as I waited and then she turned to me and said stand on up and take off the underwear. In a shocked state I stood up and just stood there with them both looking at me an waiting for me to remove my underpants. About 30 seconds past and she got a little agitated at this point and then requested again for me to remove my underwear. I stood there and after a few seconds I slid them down, leaving me standing in front of 2 women stark naked. She rolled forward on her stool as the younger doc watched on. She then reached forward and touched my penis without saying a thing, and proceeded to examine it not saying a word. She then cupped my testicles and had me cough, at this point being a pubescent boy I felt things beginning to stir, even though she is an older unattractive woman. The younger doctor while not overly attractive, she was still quite appealing to me at the time with the hormones raging. The doctor finished and not a moment to soon as I had avoided an erection or so I thought. She then said to the younger doctor who had just observed at this point go ahead an examine him as well. She came forward and within seconds of the first touch I had went from flacid to fully erect. They both noticed right away and began to apologize, the younger one reassured me while the other doctor looked on with a scowl on her face. I was mortified, she also had me do the good old cough and she was too done with my genitals. At this point the older doctor told her to finish it up, I was thinking what else is there to do. The younger doctor told me to turn around and bend over the exam table, so I followed her instruction and bent over the table, my penis was still fully erect, and I felt my cheeks being spread. She then grabbed a tissue and wiped the vaseline from my anus that was left over from earlier and just looked and felt around my anus thankfully not doing a digital exam. To this day I am sure I would ejaculated had she done it. After that they said every looked good and that I could get dressed. They left the room. It was the last time I ever saw the older doctor and about a year later I returned for another physical. The younger doctor had taken over and she took care of me for the next 5 years. I can tell you she made little changes and used what she had learned from the orginal dr. about the only difference I saw was that she used gowns instead of having you sit there in your underwear.

My mom took me to the pediatrician until I was 18 yrs old! In my childhood and youth I was a sick boy and had often health (mostly abdominal) problems so my mom took me regularly and often to him since I was 11. I had often disputes with my mom, because I didn´t want to go to him, because he was a strong man and I remember I was often a bit afraid about the exams, because he always did a full body exam from head to feet, for which I had to undress everything and completely naked. He also checked the genital area every time, but the longest and main part was the thorough exam of my abdomen with very long auscultation and palpation of my whole abdomen and my outie navel (hernia), too, which I hate most, because it was really uncomfortable. But the worst thing was, that I felt often nausea before and during the exam and I remember few exams, when I vomited during these exams!

I saw the pediatrician untill i was 16.5 and every time i saw her she gave me a genital exam - as i wrote in other post. after her i started going to the rgular g.p and at the first meeting he gave me a full exam including a long ang thourogh check of my genitals wich was embarressing inn a way.

Last full physical with my pediatrician was probably 12/13, after that had sports physicals at school. When I was 16 was at the pediatrician for a upper respitory infection, he said since had not seen me in a couple of years he wanted to check my maturation. Wasn't sure what he meant at first, but he had me stand and drop my pants, he did a thorough genital exam and showed me how to perform a testicle self exam. Was very happy my father took me to the exam instead of my mother since I ended up with my pants and shorts around my abkles.

My last physical with my pediatrician was at 15 and was also my most embarrassing. It was a sports physical so that I could play football. My mother insisted on coming into the exam room with me. When the doctor got to the hernia check/testicle check, he asked my mom if she wanted to leave the room, she emphatically replied no! I was mortified as she had not seen my naked since I had entered puberty.

I was 18, and I have the same female doc since that.

I was 18 and had the works every year...

It was when I was 14 and I remember very well the examination. He made me undress completely, checked the curvature of spine then made me lie on the table and made some checks with stetoscope and hand palpation on my abdomen. He observed symmetry of both feet and legs and took a measurement of their lengths respect arms. Finally he checked skin and development of hairs from head to toes and performed a genital examination observing the gland of penis and testicles. This is the last time I was examinated by a pediatrician.

I was 13. I couldnt stand going to the pediatrician's office!! All the damn lil 4 year olds running around screaming, and going wild!! Couldnt stand it! I told my mother I couldnt stand to go back! I was so nerved out the last visit i had. The doctors group I went to expanded their office and was supposed to have rooms that were less childish!! But their exams rooms were ALL decorated in child themes. I didnt like it! I also didnt like the small table i had to be on during exams. They were way to small!!

I think the average age is 16 years of age.

I was 18,when I last saw MY pediatrician.I now see a GP and an Gyno specialist.I really miss seeing all the little kid type print wall paper and every a pediatrician would need.Includind seeing the diapers out on the counter,and the baby type weight scale.

Based on most of the other replies this is a bit embarrassing, but I went to the pediatrician through the end of college. It always felt funny sitting in the waiting room with babies and little kids, although there were high school kids as well. There were two male doctors and one female, and it was just the luck of the draw which one you got. What was particularly humiliating was that even though I had been switched over to the oral thermometer, if my temperature ever measured 100 or higher they would always retake it in my rectum. The genital and rectal exams were not too big a deal. Since age 15 or so, because I was fully into puberty I just got used to it.

I don't really have any memory at all about this. When we lived in the US and I was young, we had a family doctor who, as far as I can recall, treated everyone n the family. He most certainly gave us all the (dreaded) smallpox vaccinations whenever we would be leaving for a trip to my mother's country.

And later, when we moved to Belgium, we all went to the same general practitioner family doctor.

I suppose that therefore I've never had the pleasure of experiencing this particular type of humiliation ....

I was 14, when i went out from pre-adolescence!

I never had a pediatrician.

In my opinion, unless the patient has persistent childhood conditions, visits to the pediatrician should end at puberty. That's how I dealt with my children.

I went to my pediatrician until the end of college at 22.

I don't have any memory of going to a pediatrician. We didn't go to a doctor for much really - had to be some serious thing to spend money on a doctor visit or for a school/camp physical. The whole family went to the same doctor; he must have been what we now call a GP or an Internal Medicine type. He would do my mom, dad, sister, brother, and I. We didn't often go together. Sometimes my brother and I did for the annual activity physicals - listen to the heart and lungs and then get the old turn you head and cough exam. Took me a long time to figure out what he was really trying to find. After my teen years, I was in college with very little doctor involvement until entering military service and of course that meant at least annual checks but certainly not a pediatrician.

I never went to paediatrician maybe it's an American doctor thing

I was 18 and it was my exam right before college. One of my parents always went in with me.

Where i'm from, the health system kinda decides for you. All kids up to age 18 see a pediatrician (who can also specialize in other fields). At age 18 youre drafted so you can only see military doctors (which is bleh) and after that normal GP

I have to admit , my pediatrician treated me like an adult since the age of 12 or something so it really didnt matter whether she were a pediatrician or a GP

9th grade.

Here in the U S A many pediatricians see youths up to the College entrance physical. Some even see adolescents up to 25 years if their practice includes adolescent medicine. The more extensive examination of a boy is done at 14 which is the post puberty physical and entrance into High School.

I did until I was 18. He even did my college physical. After college started I switched.

I feel nice that so many of you had seen a pediatrician until 18 or so. It is very seldom here that you have an exam by a pediatrician after you are 13 or 14.