Anyone ever have an unexpected physical exam?

I did. I went to the dr. for a physical because I wasn't feeling well and was having weird heart rhythms. She examined me and did an EKG (bra was on and i wore a paper vest). She didn't find anything weird but sent me to a cardiologist that day (unexpected). The cardio did a complete heart exam, my shirt & bra were both off and i again wore a paper vest.

She started with the thumping thing on my chest & I guess my ribcage, it was a long time ago, I was about 30. Then she did the stethoscope exam. She listened everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE. She started with my lungs, and that exam lasted a good 5 minutes at least. Then she did the auscultation, starting at my neck and going almost to my waist. My breasts were exposed, she used the dual head stethoscope that i loved. Might have lasted 10 minutes or so.

Best exam ever, would have been better if I weren't anxious about what she found. Then I wore a Holter for 24 hours. Turned out to be just SVTs; she said my "wiring was a little off" but nothing to worry over. I wish I could get that every year.

I went to the doc for a bad cough and i can usually keep my undershirt on. this time the doc made me take off my shirt, undershirt, and bra so that he could examine me "completely". then he noticed i looked flushed and made me strip all the way down for a temp check.

I got married at 19 and had a pre-marital exam a few days before. I was surprised when the dr. did a rectal exam although I thought he would check my penis and testicles. Didn't have another rectal exam until about 35 when I had a rectal cecal appendicitis.

Yes I was about 9 or 10 went with my dad to a doctors office in a hospital. I was not happy about seeing my pediatrician but since it was not an office visit, I felt a little better. When we entered the office it was just a regular business office. he greeted my dad and I. He talked to my dad for a while. After they were done talking Dr. D turned to me and said to my dad that he would like to give me an examination. This scared me !

He walked over to a door leading to a small room with cabinets and an examination table in the middle. Dr. D ushered me inside and told my dad we will be out shortly. The door was closed behind me. Dr. D told me to get undressed as he helped me since he noticed I was taking my time. He removed my tee shirt, and picked me up putting me on the table. Once on the table Dr.D removed my socks and quickly pulled my underpants downward and then off. He said we don't need them.

Laying flat and nude, he started checking my eyes ears and nose. Moving to my throat. Taking a depressor stick and telling me to say ahhh. Then he made me cough. He stepped away and patted my belly. Then putting on his stethoscope he bent over my body, listing to my hear, lungs sitting me up, listing to my back. Laying back down flat his scope now went lower to my belly and down to above my penis. He stopped put on gloves and spread my legs wide. I was so embarrassed and nervous. he checkec my penis and balls slowly.. then while laying nude he felt me up and did two hernia checks. He then checked the inside of my legs all the way down to my feet.

When he finished my legs, he spread my legs again and did one more hernia check before rubbing my balls. He then picked me up placed me on the scale and weighed me. after that he told me to stand in the middle of the floor looking me up and down. After 2 minutes he told me to get dressed, handing me my underpants and watching me get dressed. once dressed he opened the door and we walked out to his office and my dad. I was so embarrassed and scared. I could not tell my dad about this exam.

Last week my wife went to see an Endocrinologist for the first time about her Diabetes but at this office you see the Nurse Practitioner unless it is more serious. A different nurse called my wife to take her vitals and asked me to wait in the waiting room. I thought this should only take a few minutes but after about 10 minutes I am beginning to think they forgot me when I am called back to the room.

My wife tells me the nurse just took her height, weight and BP and the time was writing down all her prescriptions, this office still used paper records and not computers. Shortly after, the NP comes in and she looks over the prescriptions then looks over the blood glucose levels chart for the past month that we brought. After discussing some changes she was going to make to her medicines the NP got up and said something that I was somewhat expecting based on other posts on this thread.

"Now I am going to do a physical examination, take off you shirt, you can leave your bra on and take off your pants but leave the underwear on". Then she opened a side shelf on the exam table and took a gown out and told her to put it on with the tie in back and she would be back in a few minutes. The NP mentioned that they just recently got cloth gowns because the paper ones kept ripping all to pieces. She left and my wife said that she didn't really expect this, I just smiled because I wasn't surprised at all. When the NP came back she started by examining her eyes then her throat and thyroid glands. Then she listened to her lungs by having her take deep breaths.

Next she checked her heart by sticking her hand and stethoscope down the top of the gown never exposing anything. The NP then had her lay back and she reached under the gown and palpitated my wife's stomach area for any tenderness. Then she took a nylon filament and touched different places on her foot and leg to test for neuropathy. Afterward the NP had her sit up again and she used a tuning fork on various joints. Then she told my wife she could get dressed and she would be back to finish up and make a follow up appointment. Not as thorough as I may have liked but much more than my wife was expecting for this appointment.

Yes, pretty much any time i got to the doctor. in the past 25 years i have gone to the doctor 5 times. unfortunately, because such a long time goes between visits i don't have a regular doctor. anyway, about 10 years ago a bug got caught in my ear. at first, i thought i had killed it and gotten it out. but after a couple of weeks i developed some swelling and pain. i called the doctor's office for an appointment. they "scolded" me for not coming in for regular check ups and that any office visit would result in a physical. not wanting to do that, i called a local clinic. they too gave me the whole, why don't you go to your regular doctor? if we schedule you, we would have to have a medical history sent over and a physical would be performed. i hated the dilemma i was in. then i remembered that my pharmacy has a mini-clinic and they deal with minor first aid as they are primarily there for Rx advice.

anyway, i called the pharmacy and told them i had something stuck in my ear and that i needed help. they tried sending me to the ER, but told them it was nothing serious, i told them that i probably just had wax build up and needed a recommendation for an over the counter product. they agreed and i was able to set an appointment for later that same day. i arrived to my appointment, i checked in and filled out a small health questionnaire. i was so excited. i beat the system! within a few minutes my name is called and my plan was to be out of there in 5 minutes.

to my surprise, one of the most attractive persons in my medical experience was going to tend to me. she introduced herself as nurse practicioner jane doe. she asked about the reason for my visit. i told her. she looked at my ear and before even looking in it, she asked if i realized it was swollen. i told it just started swelling that morning. she told me she as going to look in my ear and that i might feel some discomfort. she then told me that she wasn't sure what kind of bug it was but indeed something was trapped in the ear canal. she then started with the medical stuff. depending on what kind of bug it was, i could be infected. depending on that outcome, i may need antibiotics or a steroid. if that ended up being the case, she couldn't issue a prescription without confirming a clean bill of health. therefore, my options were to set up an appt. w/ my regular doctor, she could call my doctor's to discuss my medical history or she would have to perform a general examination herself. you might be surprised by my answer, but i didn't care for any of those options. she ruined my plan! she obviously saw my disappointment.

in an effort really help me she said, "look, i can see that you are probably thinking it will take days to get an appt w/ my regular doctor. and i probably won't be able to get a hold of your doctor on the phone right now. you're probably also concerned that you are missing time from work and that an exam will take too long. but don't worry, i promise i will have you out of here in 15 minutes. what do you say?"

i know i was shaking my head and thinking NO WAY, but somehow "okay" just slipped out of my mouth. she said, "great! let me wash my hands and in the meantime please unbutton your shirt and pants and you can just lean against the edge of the exam table." i thought to myself well if i'm not getting undressed, then this really won't take long and should be a breeze. like a pro, she put a thermometer in my mouth, wrapped the blood pressure arm band around my arm and started checking vitals. she wrote things down. she checked my eyes, nose and mouth. she opened my unbutton shirt a bit and placed stethoscope on chest. deep breathe in, exhale out. repeat...

please stand up straight and extend your arms out to the sides. she felt and pressed around my armpits, my rib cage, my stomach and waist. she then asked me to turn around. for a second this felt like a pat down at the airport. she felt and pressed shoulder blades, along my spine and waist. she asked me to put my arms down. she told me was going to lift my shirt a bit and listen to my lungs with stethoscope. deep breathe in, exhale out. repeat. as i was facing the wall, i recall seeing he clock and only 7 or 8 minutes had passed. i remember thinking, wow, we're done and not even 10 minutes have passed. no sooner did i finish that thought when i felt a cool breeze and i realized my pants and underwear were around my knees. she had gone ahead and dropped my drawers. all i heard next was, "could you spread your feet apart a bit?" she continued with her exam. she felt and pressed my butt and the back of my legs. and then the dreaded, "please turn around and face me."

i did as told. when i turned around she was on one knee with her face just inches from my genitals. she felt and pressed my knees, quads and pubic area. she then informed me that she was going to check my testicles and penis. she lifted my sack and felt and pressed between my legs. she then felt and checked my testicles. she ended up finding the clamps from my vasectomy, but it took her a couple of passes before she figured it out. she did ask me just to double check. she then grabbed my penis. she grabbed it from the base and squeezed it a couple of times as if she were engaging in a firm handshake. she then held it from the head and pointed it up, to the right and to the left. finally, she retracted my foreskin all the way back, not once but twice (full motion). she stood up and instructed me to pull my pants up.

she reached over to the counter and grabbed a pair of tweezers. she said, "ok, now let's get that bug out of your ear." she got the bug out. she rinsed my ear with a syringe. she wrote me a prescription and sent me on my way. i was so confused and shocked by what had just happened, that i simply said thank you and walked out. this visit happened at my regular pharmacy which i got to once or twice a month. to this day, i have not seen nurse jane again. it has crossed my mind a couple of times, was that really a nurse or did someone pull a prank on me?

An unexpected physical doesnt hurt. Just comply and do what your told.

So when i was at college i had quite an exciting experience. my balls were aching so i took myself off to the college nurse (after checking he was male!) I went in and explained my problem, after which he told me to go to a little room. i took a seat and he came in and put some gloves on. well, i knew what was going to happen and my heart rate shot up. he asked me to drop my trousers and pants. but in the mean time when i saw him donning on the gloves i vecame highly erect and developed slight pre cum. well what was i to do? i stood up and dropped them as well as revealing my hardened state! The male nurse said "well I can certainly see you dont have erection problems!" he then felt one of my balls and suggested actually i should get checked out by my doctor as well.

While not a full physical, I find this frequently in medical school training. Often, the students engage in graded timed testing. They're presented with a patient (me) with a specific complaint. Their instructions are to get a history and perform a brief focused exam. A focused exam means to only examine those items involved with the complaint. There's lots of latitude here, but, if I'm complaining of low back pain, there's no reason to waste time doing a neurology exam of the cranial nerves, look in ears and eyes, etc.

They often blow the test doing unnecessary exams and running out of time before they evaluate the chief complaint. I don't mind, I get more exam techniques.

When I was around twelve years old, a routine blood test revealed possible issues with my thyroid gland. I was scheduled for an ultrasound of my thyroid, which required me changing into a gown. I was relieved when I didn't have to remove it for the ultrasound. I was ushered into an exam room and told to wait for the doctor.

When the doctor entered the room, she told me that the ultrasound results showed no issues with my thyroid. I thought that I had been left off the hook, when she leaned in and began feeling my neck. She then had me lay back and lifted each foot and pricked them with a small pin. I tried to bunch up the gown at my genitals to avoid any exposure, when she abruptly pulled the gown up to my stomach and proceeded to give me the most thorough genital exam I have ever received.

I was mortified, i had never had anyone handle my manhood in such a way, i didn't understand at the time why the doctor needed to examine my genitals. In my naive understanding, genital exams were only performed at the end of the dreaded yearly physical exam.

Many years ago... In the late 80's.

I was suffering from regular issues with infections in an old circumcision wound, I've posted the details on here before, and had been going to the Doc quite regularly.

On one occasion I popped in for a repeat prescription of hay fever tablets and was waiting when the nurse asked to see me in her room. I was in my late 20's and she was late 40's.

Anyway, she'd been in on a couple of my exams with the Doc and asked how things were now. I'm not sure how it happened, but I ended up nude with her checking me. From what I remember she asked if I wanted her to see if any infection had reappeared and I just stripped off and let her.

Nothing really odd at the time, but looking back... Well it is a bit strange!

Yes when in the hospital my paediatrician and a young female walked into my room. He told me that she needs to examine me. They took me to another room across the hall. There was a pretty young nurse inside getting the table ready. After entering my doctor told the woman that he is all yours, as he stepped to the side and sat down. The woman told me to take all my clothes off and step on the scale. She was wearing a white lab coat and stethoscope.

Both ladies were smiling. I was down to my underpants and socks. She reminded me everything off. The nurse slid my underpants down and took off my socks with everyone watching me. I stepped on the scale and was weighed and measured by the nurse. After that the young Dr. motioned me to the centre of the room. I was standing naked in front of her as she placed her scope on my chest. Moving it around. The room was cold. She stopped and placed her gloved hand on my upper belly, pressing inwards. She stopped and cupped her hand between my legs. She then lightly touched my balls.

The nurse took over and laid me on the exam table on my belly. That is when she opened my backside cheeks and inserted a thermometer deep inside. they waited, and took it out. the doctor had me turn on my back and spread my legs wide. The female doctor took some pictures of me from neck to toe. The camera went away and she started examining my upper belly going lower. The nurse was at the foot of the table, the doctors fingers went lower and lower to my balls. She did an extensive exam on my penis and balls. She changed gloves and inserted fingers into my rectum. Moving them around. She had me sit up and then probing my belly. Allowing my balls to hang down at the end of the table. She asked me to open my mouth and stuck a tongue depressor inside and down, making me cough, then grabbed my balls and squeezed.

Lastly she had me stand up and cupped her hands on my penis and balls. I was instructed to lay flat on the table one more time so the cute nurse could look at me and the doctor could take one last picture. The nurse felt me up and rubbed my belly. I was asked to get dressed with the help of the nurse. Both my Dr. and the young Dr smiled and left the room. Leaving me with the one nurse and a second girl who just walked in. Both nurse felt me up and checked my belly. Then I got dressed and went back to my room.

In 1972 I had a vasectomy done by my GP in his office. My next door neighbor worked for a large corporation and went to a specialist who did 15 vasectomy's a day and my doctor was a physician and surgeon so I had no worries but he sort of botched things up and I was black and blue and when I went in 3 days later to give a sperm sample for testing, I could not have an orgasm. The nurse had offered Playboy to take into the rest room but I was embarrassed and refused.

After about 10 minutes she knocked on the bathroom door and said, "can I come in?" There she was with a fresh specimen cup and a tube of lube in her hand. What happened then was the surprise of my life. She just came in the bathroom. She took my cock out of my hand and put KY all over me and carefully jacked me off into the cup. I was so shocked I don't even remember what it felt like but it was awesome and naughty.

I came out of the bathroom first and the other nurse looked at me knowingly and I got the feeling that this might not have been the first time. I told my business partner about it and he came with me on my next appointment and flirted with her, got her number and took her out on a date for dinner and had sex with her. That is the 70's in a nutshell.

When I was a kid, I once had fever, stomach ache, vomiting. My mother called our regular physician home. I expected this to go as usual: palpation of stomach, tongue depressor or similar. At some point, the doctor had a little chat with my mother a bit away from me, and left to fetch a box of rubber gloves in her car. I was made to adopt a weird position, a bit like for going potty in a squat toilet, and told to "bear down". I had my first rectal exam - unexpected, since neither mom nor the doctor had bothered to tell me where the finger would go.

When I was fifteen I was in the hospital for testing because abdominal pain I was having. I had had a barium enema in the morning and was back in my room that afternoon. A nurse and a resident came into the room and said they needed to give me a physical examination. The nurse had me get out of bed and she laid it flat. Then she said take off you pajamas and sit on the edge of the bed. I did as I was told and when I sat down she covered my lap with a sheet. The resident did the routine checks but surprised me by asking me roll over on my side and he did a rectal exam.

In thinking about anticipated exams, I found myself recalling ones where I had no notice! Most of the time, mom let us know the day before our physical exams. On rare occasions, she thought best to just avoid telling us and instead of a trip to school, we found ourselves at the doctor’s office suddenly feeling overwhelmed with anxiety and doubt.

There was no mistaking the purpose. As I think back, those occasions were associated with an embarrassing exam, that is, undress fully so the doctor could see all of my parts and an unwelcome shot! I think that it was the shot that made it memorable as the physical was familiar despite my overwhelming sense of modesty and dislike for the cool temperature in the doctor’s office. It’s rather difficult to feel at ease when you’re in your “birthday suit” experiencing a rectal temperature as the nurse proceeds to inform you of what is to happen.

Somehow the knowledge of all previous examinations flooded my mind causing me to “clench” at that moment. Hearing mom offering a supportive word or two did little to ease me anticipation. It was happening and yet I managed to smile when the doctor entered and again told me I was to have an exam. The smile much like the “clench” was involuntary and surely did not reflect my true emotions. In those days, there was a very limited range of emotions mostly embarrassment and then some sadness when having to receive the shot. Somehow mom or the nurse announcing, “It’s over quickly dear,” did little to reassure me.

The nurse gave it in my rear while making me lean onto the table as Mom would invariably say, “Well, that wasn’t so bad.” Yet, that didn’t eliminate the necessity for tissues to wipe away a tear or two! So for me, the unexpected exam has a great deal of significance. It’s no wonder that memories are made of this!

My first sports physical in high school was an unexpected experience. Although, I knew I was going to the school nurse's office for this, I thought it was just for the nurse to check heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, maybe throat, and walk across the room to see my gait. Usually, no more than lifting shirt, no real undressing.

When I got there, the nurse just handed me a form, then told me to fill it out in the back room, then get undressed down to my underwear and wait for the doctor. I went to the back room. There I found 4 or 5 other guys standing around in their underwear. I filled-out the form against the wall, then got undressed and put my clothes on a table, there were only two chairs, with other guys' clothes on them already, and we all just stood around, waiting.

The doctor came in and had each of us, individually, come out to the exam room in between where the nurse's outer office was. I probably stood in the back room in my briefs for about an hour until it was my turn. The guys who were finished came back and got dressed, and other guys came in and got undressed. The door to the exam room was left open and I could see the doctor performing the other exams. He sat on a stool with the guy in front of him, reached up with his stethoscope to check heart and breathing, had them turn around to do that on back, had them stand with feet apart and move arms around, bend over and touch toes, jump up and down a few times, and some other things like that. Also, checked throat, and bottom of feet while the guy sat on the exam table. Then, with the guy standing facing him, he would pull the underwear down to almost knees and felt around for hernia, then turn around and bend over the exam table while the doctor used a light to look up his anus. No prostate massage or finger up there, though.

When it was my turn, I knew guys waiting could see all this being done on me, too. Then, just as we got to the hernia check, a guy leaving left the door to the outer office open about a foot or so. I could see a couple of girls from my classes standing at the desk asking the nurse for some Tylenol. Just at this point the doctor pulled my briefs down and had me turn my head to cough. I couldn't see the girls anymore, and the doctor turned me around and had me bend over the exam table. Then we were finished. I went to the back room and the guys back there were all standing away from the door, because those girls could see them standing there in their underwear. I got dressed, gave the form to the nurse on my way out, then out in the hallway I found those two girls standing there whispering to each other, giggling. They took one look at me and burst into laughter and turned bright red. I imagine I turned red, too! No question what they had seen while I had been looking away, with my briefs down!

Not just my most unexpected physical, but also my most embarrassing, for sure!

As I've already told, the only unexpected physical examination I had was at 11 years old, in Elementary School when one Monday morning in a regular class day, the boys in the Classroom had to go through this exam that took us by surprise, and basically consisted in the Dr checking our dicks (glans included) balls and anus (look) on each performed in the Director's Office, 2 boys at a time . It was very embarrassing back then!

I wish they were more unexpected. Although sometimes the procedures were more than I expected, the worst part was being told 'what to expect' by my parents ahead of time, and dreading it.

Just because the shot(s) didn't take long, Julie, didn't mean that the worst was over when the needle(s) came out. I remember getting booster shots that just felt like pinpricks at the time but left me unable to sit down next day.

Nick

I was forced to submit to a physical examination and a body cavity search during the intake process in juvenile detention. I was not expecting it. I was also not expecting to be strong armed and stripped naked by two unintelligent and power crazed screws. I had no idea The Commonwealth of Massachusetts employed furloughed carnival workers. You learn something new every day..

Whaaaaat, turkent!? Furloughed carnies!?

One time when I went along for my younger brothers' physical exams because I was just going to get a couple shot updates. I was in 8th or 9th grade and they were in 5th/6th. Partway through, as I was sitting there (the exam was actually two rooms adjoined by a double-wide doorway, with seats, eye chart, a scale and conference table on one side and exam table and other equipment on the other), I heard my name being mentioned as the doctor spoke to my parents. I assumed it was because the doctor or his assistant (male) or the nurse who was in and out (female) were going to get my shots ready. But, it turned out they had decided to have me get a physical while we were there.

"Jake new york " :

if you had a physical examination unexpected that day at tha age of 14 or 15 in presence of your parents and young brothers, how was it performed ?

were you embarrassed during that examination if you had to undress ?

"Gonzalo" : I don't see the interest of calling two boys each time to be examined thoroughly by a doctor in the director's office, it would have not take much more time to call the boys one by one.

if the examination had taken place in a gym, it would have been different because the boys would have been gathered all together to undress at the same time to win time and it would have been logical in that case.

But in an office it was not interesting, just embarrassing for each boy to be examined in front of an other boy, after the examination of the first one, it would have been also easy to call the next one who had already undressed and would have waiting in the corridor in front of the door of the room

"Easterman" ... Yes, you're absolutely right.. It was very embarrassing the exam carried that way, specially when nobody gave us a prior notification on the week before (I think the Director's Board didn't know the Dr was coming either) nobody let our parents know too. It was a surprise examination. Only for Boys from 6th Year (us) all aged 11 and 7th Year, all aged 12..

We went first. When Dr called 2 boy in and he started with the series of examinations, as we waited outside in the hallway. They were carried on in there because the small gym was still under construction. When he finished examining those 2 boys Dr called another 2 inside the room (which were seen naked by the man AND the 2 other kids) and so on and so forth. Me and my classmate (who was my best friend as well) were very nervous (as everyone else) and preferred to be the very last ones to be examined.

When it was our turn we got inside the office, we saw the other kids were finishing dressing back, and they remained in the room during our examination. Dr made us stand side by side and ordered to drop our pants and briefs, (it was the first time I've seen my friend naked and I noticed he was pretty bushy down there, I was almost smooth yet, just a few little hairs although we were same age) Dr hold a little flashlight in his hand and took a good look on each of our dicks using it, then made us retract our foreskin (my mate couldn't do it and Dr almost yelled compelling him to do it otherwise HE would do it with his own hands.

But finally the kid was able to) after that, he instructed to lift our balls up, and show them (so does the space beneath) and last he had us turning around, bend over and spread our butt cheeks to show our holes (it was the same with all the boys examined before) finally he said we were done, we dressed back and the 4 of us left the office. I guess our embarrassment lasted for almost the whole week!

Whaaaaat, turkent!? Furloughed carnies!?

That was a joke. I hope my remark does not lessen your faith in the furloughed carnival worker community.

Yea I want to the hospital for an abdomen exam I needed up getting a pelvic exam and vaginal ultrasound it was an experience . Supersing but felt great

Phew, no, my perception of furlough carnies is back to its high standards.

Esaterman -

"Jake new york " :

if you had a physical examination unexpected that day at tha age of 14 or 15 in presence of your parents and young brothers, how was it performed ?

were you embarrassed during that examination if you had to undress ?

Hi - Yeah, I was a little embarrassed having to undress unexpectedly but also in a way liked showing off. We were not uptight at home about nudity or anything so it wasn't a huge shock and years earlier I had been along when my OLDER brother had had a physical and I remember him not being particularly shy, just maybe nervous.

Because this was in the spring or early summer after a long, cold winter, it was probably the first time my parents had seen me even with my shirt off in a while. At least up close or for an extended period of time. I had to get shirtless and barefoot right away, then to underpants, and then underpants off for a short bit. My brothers were right at the age when jokes about pubic hair was the funniest thing in the world, so they made a few comments but my dad shushed them. Then the comments continued on the way home. That was embarrassing but it was also somehow exciting - the idea of everyone having seen me like that.