Genital Exam Lying Down

I've had the exam both lying down and standing. One DR I went to for about 10 years examined the genitals while lying down after the abdominal exam and then asked me to stand and the turn and cough.

Standing in front of the doctor who is seated on a low stool, shorts down, with my feet shoulder-width apart, and everything just hanging there for him to examine visually and manually, is humiliating. I hate it! No, I love it! I am not sure, but it is a very stimulating bad/good feeling.

Well said WillyNilly!! I couldn't agree more. Kind of a bitter sweet moment.

Lying down not work as good. lying down make harder to see thing like varicocele

My primary care physician does the genital exam laying down and the rectal on my side. I stand for the hernia check.

I most always have mine laying down

I have had it both ways. It might just be the preference for the doctor. I usually sit down after I've take my pants down that way she has to say either lay down or stand up. Either way..., I'm being ordered around.

I am assigned a new residency doctor every few years. I remember one year lying on my back and being asked to slide my underwear down foe the exam. I found it rather odd as I was accustomed to a standing position during this component of the exam. The following year I saw the same doctor. This time I was standing up.

I've only ever been examined standing up with my arms to my sides and legs slightly apart. When asked to cough it has always been in the opposite direction from the doctor, for obvious reasons.

I do think it's kind of awkward when i am lying down and the doctor tells me to lower my shorts. you have to do kind of a reverse push up to get your butt off the table and then shimmy your underwear down. if it's standing, i usually let my underwear drop to the floor so it's around my ankles.

Lat year I found a lump next to one of my testicles and got an appointment the next day with a female GP.( there are seven GPs at my doctors practice and five are female). I was examined first with me standing up and then lying down on the couch.The whole thing lasted a two to three minutes.

I have always had this part of the exam standing before the doctor. I have either been standing on some on some kind of raised platform with the doctor standing normally on the floor or I've been standing on the floor with the doctor sat on a low stool. Whilst I'd like to try this part of the exam lying down I expect I'd prefer to be standing naked in front of the doctor for the feeling of vulnerability this creates.

I only recall having it done while standing - typically a quick hernia and testicular check together.

In a play setting I generally examine both ways and like to have the same done to me. Different perspectives and more time spent examining such an important area, of course.

I have been seeing the same female doctor for a number of years. She always does the genital exam with me lying down, pants to my knees. In fact even before going to this doctor I do not recall ever standing up. Luck of the draw I guess.

I have never had a real doctor do the genital exam with me laying down except as a child. However, in a play exam I have had it done either way and I like both. As a play doctor, I always do a genital check of my patients from both the standing and the laying position and everyone seems to like that.

My current Dr does it while I am laying down too. Not the best position, but its how he does it.

I had that happen only with one doctor years ago. I was in a gown, no underpants. He had me lying on my back on the exam table and had lowered the gown from the neck down to my belly to check the top half. Then he put the top half of the gown back over my chest while he flipped the bottom half of the gown up to my chest to expose my genitals. The doctor didn't do a hernia exam, just flipped my penis up and looked at my balls. He did a rectal exam but the lack of a genital/hernia exam was a surprise.

I cannot see how the doc can do a hernia exam with the patient lying down. Sounds like poor exam technique.

I've always had mine laying down. Both pediatrician and urologist did my genital exams while I was laying down on my back.

Generally standing is the preferred position for hernia check. However, while lying down, the doctor can visually see any rise in the abdomen when straining.

Hernia exam with patient laying down is possible, though I prefer to do it with patient standing. As I said in previous posts, I often now do the genital exam in both positions. My patients do not object.

When young I had hernia checks laying flat on the exam table, totally nude.

He always had my legs spread wide open. Sometimes with a female nurse in the room watching. It was embarrassing for me. It seemed like forever. Please reply if you had the same feelings and examinations. Send message if you want.

It is considered an acceptable exam technique.

I have had it both ways. My last exam was VERY thorough. The doctor ask me to lie on my back so that he could examine the four quadrants of my abdomen. For my lower 2 quadrants he asked me to lower my pants. I lowered them to my ankles. He proceeded to check me for a hernia on both sides, rolled each testicle in his fingers, then grasped my penis and retracted my foreskin. He asked if I ever had an infection under my foreskin or if I had any problems with my foreskin to which I responded "no". He was rather focused and somewhat inquisitive with regards to my foreskin, but then I live in a community where circumcision is almost universal. He was rather surprised to see that I was not circumcised. Although he questioned me about not being circumcised, he was respectful of my non-circumcised status. His questioning was of a curiosity nature to which I felt comfortable.

I had both ways - to be quite honest, I felt more naked and also vunerable when I was standing in front of my (fully clothed) doc.

I've had genital exams both ways but my current doctor examines my genitals laying down. Just to clarify, I am laying down...not my doctor 😉

Of all the docs that ever gave me physicals, only one performed the genital exam while I was lying down (and without a gown) Right after finishing examining the abdomen, he'd just go ahead & either lift the waistband of my briefs & reach in, or lower them There are youtube videos that demonstrate both ways. Ironically, lying down seems more sensuous. I think if you are lying down, you can relax & enjoy the experience being done to you vs having to stand up.

Growing up I remember this being how they were done. Just a simple abdomen exam into a lift the band, pull down, give it a look and pull up. I only remember standing at about 14 and older.

I, too, have had this done both ways. I much prefer the standing, because, and I may be incorrect in this, but I believe I have heard that the hernia exam SHOULD be done in the standing position.

I, too, have had this done both ways. I much prefer the standing, because, and I may be incorrect in this, but I believe I have heard that the hernia exam SHOULD be done in the standing position.

Yes, gravity is your friend when doing a hernia exam.