Genital Exam Lying Down

Once or twice I have been in the supine position. I dont find it that unusual but is it not easier for a practitioner to conduct this exam if the patient is standing?

I have always had my Genital Exam in a standing position

When I was 13 I had a hernia exam in the laying position. My underwear had been pulled down and the doctor pressed hard in my groin and made me cough. He pressed all around my pubic area too.

Usually had it done both in the lying and standing position.

The only time I remember being examined while laying down was one of the earliest physicals I can remember. It was a school physical, done in a mobile medical trailer or RV, they brought to our school each year. I received an annual physical each year from when I was probably 6-8. I think this was at the first of those exams. I was asked to undress down to only my briefs. Near the end of the exam, while I was lying on the exam table, the doctor reached into my briefs and felt around under my scrotum. I must have wiggled or moved around a bit because I remember her asking if that tickled a little? That was what I remember most from that exam. And, these exams left a quite an impression on me, probably where my Medfet began.

The other two years of these school physicals, I wasn't wearing any underwear, one year I was completely naked, and the other I was just wearing socks. I believe each of those years I was standing for the genital exam, and it's been that way for all other exams ever since.

Like "schooldr" I was always standing in front of the doctor, mainly a woman ,for the genitals examinations at all my compulsory school physical examinations.

For the hernia exam which was performed each year of school, I was also standing.

I remember being lying only at a doctor office when I was older.

For military service , I was also always standing in front of the doctor at my examinations at pre-induction military centers and after induction.

I remember for my last sports physical in high school, I went to the minute clinic and actually had to get a genital exam. The nurse was examining my stomach and transitioned to checking my testicles while lying down, along with lymph nodes and pulses down there.

The only genital exam I’ve had lying down was with my previous doctor and it was just the penis exam. She would lower the sheet on my waist and check my penis before she would have me stand for the testicle exam. Only time I ever had that done. Weird.

I’ve had both the penis and testicle exam laying down. Sometimes the doctor just does it all standing which is much quicker. Just depends on the doctor IMHO. When I was younger I recall the whole exam being performed while I was standing.

As child, I had both : lying down or standing, but without hernia check. The first hernia check was for military induction at 19, standing. As adult lying down at the urologist, standing for another physical exam.

All of my doctors that I have been to have examined my genitals both standing up and lying down. They would examine my testicles standing up and examine my penis while I was lying down.

As a child, the examination of my genitals was done with me standing naked in front of the doctor. As a teen and now adult, the doctor checks with me lying on my back and then standing.

Both as a teen and now, I was very aware of either being naked for the exam or having to remove my briefs. Over time, I have learned that doctor's have their own preferences for how the exam is going to proceed. Whether bare at the start or subject to removing my briefs, there is some initial anxiety, likely a bit of shrinkage, and knowledge that the doctor will examine my penis and genitals. Currently, I am subjected to examination of them lying down and standing. Of course, there is a rectal or prostate exam. Leaving the exam room now is accompanied by the feel of some KY residue!

It's definitely not abnormal. I think it just depends on provider training.

I’ve only had a standing genital exam maybe once or twice, all other times I’ve been lying on my back. It’s definitely a very vulnerable position, it’s embarrassing to be objectified and have your most sensitive organs exposed to cold air and an older mans hands, but I find it somewhat reassuring of my doctors presence.

Aside from having the sides of the base of my penis felt, I don’t believe I really go through a true hernia exam. I’ve only been asked to stand and cough maybe once a while ago.

Ive had a couple of genital exams laying down in my younger years...

This has been commented on but I have a lot more anxiety and intense feelings laying on my back for a genital exam. there’s something about those hands getting closer and closer on your abdomen pushing and then you know they’re going to continue. Being asked to lift up so they can pull down your underwear to be exposed is arousing for me. I was never worried about shrinkage I was always worried about an erection

Interestingly, pretty much all of my genital exams have been done standing, except for once as an adult and I do recall laying on the table as a child/preteen (around age 11). Usually as a teen I would be asked to stand up and the doctor would usually tell me to pull my underwear (briefs) all the way down. So essentially I was standing naked in front of him for a short time. Besides the testicular exam he did always have me turn my head and cough for a hernia check.

Mine have been done standing up. The nurse has me take off my underwear and turn my head and cough after that she checks my penis. Then I get dressed.

My doctor always does my genital exam and hernia check with me laying on the table. I can understand the genital exam laying down but I think it would be more effective to check for hernias when standing. He never examines my penis and he does my prostate exam with me laying on my left side.

The last full physical I had, the genital exam was while laying down on the table. It was a lift your hips and the doctor slipped my shorts down a few notches, did a testicle check, and then said you can get up and pull your shorts up. Two years back I needed a physical for work, the doctor kept things as basic as the form asked him to, and the hernia check was also performed while laying down without checking for an inguinal hernia.

Always standing.

I have had my penis and testicles examined while lying down on my back and while standing.

I’ve had my anus and rectum examined facedown, face up with legs raised, and on my left side.

I have usually been checked for hernias and a first examination of the testicles and penis while standing, then a more in-depth examination of the testicles and penis while lying on the table.

The prostate examination has been done to me while I was standing holding the table and other times lying on the table and either face down or in a left lateral position.

Both exams were satisfactory, I suppose that each doctor will have their preferences, since the exams were done by different doctors.

Nearly all of my genital examinations have been done while I'm lying down, i can only remember standing once for a hernia examiniation.

All of my genital exams, except for one when I was seventeen years old, have been done while I was lying down on the exam table. Through age 16, the pediatrician always would pull down the front of my briefs for me, never asking me to lift my hips. When I was in my 20s, I was nude under a gown, so my doctor would lift the gown and fold it up toward my chest. I actually prefer for the doctor to take control like that instead of asking me to do it.

Yes, after my abdominal exam she takes off my underpants and feels my Testicles and my penis, but then has me stand up so she can spread my cheeks for just a second

All my genital exams have been while standing. Lying down would be a new experience for me.

I had to go to Concentra today for a pre-employment exam. The doctor had me in my underwear laying down and he pulled down the front to feel my femoral pulses and palpated my bladder and penis THEN I had to stand for the hernia and testicular exam.

I have had a lot of laying down exams. Which the doctor would reach in my underwear and feel my testicles and femoral pulses. Then put fingers in inguinal canal while laying down and had to cough for hernia check.

All of my genital exams have been performed standing facing doctor.