Waiting room thoughts

I am thinking about whether or not I've shaved recently. I also get a bit nervous, especially if it is a new doctor or I haven't been in a while.

This is a very interesting thread. Like others, I am curious about what the women in the room are thinking as they sit patiently waiting to be called back, not just what is going through their mind about their own exam, but also as they look around, what they are thinking about in relation to the others in the room (i.e. reason they are there, are they as nervous as me, etc.)

When i get nervous I perspire. So, I'm always wondering if the doctor can tell the experience isn't of dread but that I like a random stranger giving me an exam and also wonder with glistening if I smell. Gross!

The first time my sister kept joking with me. I made her change the subject on the way. So she had me laughing. I was sort of wanting to keep my panties on under the gown. She was like nope those have to come off etc. The only part I was not prepared for was the rectal. My sister either forgot to tell me or it was a bad joke. We have never settled on why as of today.

Now days I usually look at a magazine or talk to my sister about whatever. Now it is me, my sister and her girlfriend who go together. Not examined at the same time. But my sister comes in for mine and I go in for hers. She also goes in for her girlfriends. So in the waiting room conversations can get crazy. We talk about the last party or whatever. We try not to talk about what is going to happen because we tend to get a little excited. On the way home we talk about it and are turned on. But that is after.

... put on makeup and perfume and always smelled nice for him....

I've seen more & more doctors' offices have signs saying they DON'T want patients wearing perfume or cologne, citing allergies with the staff, etc.

To the point where i would say if a patient didn't know any better, their appointment might get cancelled and then have to be rescheduled.

Sometimes you gotta be careful....

JTMac formerly Healthy44 When I was in college I worked for a very large company. There was a guy who worked there who had a car accident. He tried to sue the other driver which did not work. Then he tried to sue the city for not enough lights on the road. That did not work. Then he claimed he could not work because all of a sudden he was alergic to perfums, colognes, scents in the carpet and carpet shampoos, soaps and even scented tampons etc. Oh and he had a hard time sleeping until the scents of the gas fumes from cars went away. We were told we could not have car scents in our car because it may get on our clothes and mess with him. We could not use scented anything. He stated that if the company didn't treat him right he would sue them. We had doctors and attorney's in groups walking through all the time. They even has sensors throughout the building. They even built him a plexiglass cage to sit in. People started calling him bubble boy and getting fired. There was a mass of people leaving that place after the no scented soaps rule came out.

When I worked at an OB/GYN it is true that a lot of women would put on perfume right before being called back. It can give you a bad headache. Some women are worried they may smell down there. We had one doctor who had a good trick for smells. He bought Binaca breath spray by the case. He would always before getting down between any woman's legs put on a surgical mask and spray Binaca in the mask. He could smell from a distance just fine but like he said why make it worse and have the smell in your nose the rest of the day?

A little bit of nervousness and anxiety but also slightly excited. Like to sit legs crossed

I had 2 such appointments recently and I was scared as hell for both of them because it was the first time a doctor would take a look "down there"

But this is not specific only to gyn appointments, I am like this for all doctor appointments. Doctor's clinic in real life is not a happy place to be according to me.

I try not to think about it too much. I usually look around the waiting room at others who are there and wonder exactly what they are there for. It helps to pass the time until the nurse calls me back.

I generally don't get much thoughts in the waiting room because I know what's coming up next, be it the GP, Gastro or the Gyn.

At the gyn waiting room I try recollecting my last period date and anything I felt at that time.

But for my first Gyn appointment I had that nervous excitement of exposing myself to a complete stranger lady for the first time, and also, what will she do, what will she ask kinda thoughts.

Many of you may find it funny but the toughest for me is wait for abdominal ultrasound after I have had water and I am ready for my turn with a full bladder. Then I just want to run inside so that procedure can start faster😃

Sit on my phone trying to not think about what's coming next.

I always feel embarrassed when there’s other patients in waiting room. I feel like they know that I’m about to be butt naked on exam table.

My wife loves being examined by a male gyno, to the extent that she goes out of her way to arrange it. She says that part of the excitement is the anticipation when she's in the waiting room of the intense experience she's about to have. Good to hear other women sometimes feel the same.

I always feel embarrassed when there’s other patients in waiting room.

I'm curious as to whether that embarrassment is even greater when one of the others in the waiting room is a male, accompanying his wife or significant other. Does that add to your embarrassment?

ArtZ