Pediatric Examinations

Pecan,

Im not completely sure what she did but i think that she touched everything down there. I couldn't see what she was doing because I was lying on my back in frog leg. I dont know how long she was down there for but it felt like at least 1 minute, probably more.

Outside only, I suppose? No internal examination?

Like Matt I recall when I was younger I had exams with sister present which stopped before teen years naturally and it wasn't sexual but I was very curious to observe.

As Matt said it's such a different view frog leg position compared to seeing bare standing up.

She would be examined in the way reported by Jill. It wasn't long though.

I dont remember anything internal.

Ethan,

Were you naked for those exams or were you dressed for most of it. Also, you were there while she was in frog leg?

Undressed to underwear which were only removed at the end. Yes I did get to witness but soon as at age where would either felt odd we went individually.

I did look forward to it which typing makes me sound like a weirdo to some I'm sure.

Did she see you when you were being examined naked?

Only naked for the very last part of the exam but yes she did.

Jill,

Were you developed by the last exam with the pediatrician at age thirteen? Were you sexually aware enough to be embarrassed by a naked examination including genitalia? My uneasiness turned to embarrassment as I became sexually aware. Suddenly, the process took on a sexual component whenever I was examined by my female pediatrician. Even if it was only in my mind, I couldn't help but associate exams with sex.

Sensei,

I was not. The doctor did not do this once I was.

Once you developed, were you embarrassed to be examined in your bra and panties without a gown? How did you feel when the doctor removed your bra and panties for the breast and genital exams?

A little but not really.

I don't remember my toddler years: before 2.5, but knowing it was customary to examine anyone under the age of three naked in the good old Soviet Union, I suppose the doctor did check my boy parts. I just don't remember any well-check visits. Only house calls and followups for flu, bronchitis, pneumonia, scarlet fever, chicken pox, and other childhood ailments, which obviously didn't require genital examination. Absolutely all pediatricians were female at that time, not to mention their nurses.

The next time I had my boy parts felt was around nine. My mom took me to the local pediatric clinic's resident "surgeon": a muscle/skeletal, reproductive, and perhaps other organs specialist rather than a scalpel-wielding operation room star. I don't know why both have the same titles over there. A female of course. I'm not making that up. The majority of physicians were women at that time. Somehow medical care was considered female occupation. And still is in my mind. I do trust hairy and brute male surgeons, but when it comes to regular physicians and especially dentists, I prefer the light and careful female touch.

I don't remember what brought us there, but I vividly remember that visit. Not sure how Russian clinics look now: perhaps mimic the Western setup with a pool of exam rooms. But back then every doctor had her own office, where she saw the patients. The nurses were typically assigned too, so they had their own desk in the same office. Another mom with an appr. 7-8y.o. boy just left the room. She looked somewhat distressed, briefly looking at my mom (we were next) and saying to my best recollection: "What the heck she thought she was doing? One more time and she'd turn him into a masturbator." ("onanist" in Russian). What is the official term for masturbation phobia? You know, the threats of going blind or growing hair on your palms.

I had discovered the joy by that age, but I had no idea about the official term. Glanced at my college-educated mom, who was embarrassed, and obviously not going to explain to me what that direct blue-collar woman meant. I just knew it was something embarrassing and unpleasant, having heard stories, that the "surgeon" makes you remove your underwear and touches your boy parts.

A couple years later I finally understood, that was the mere act of pulling back the foreskin. No one (thankfully) circumcised boys back then, and it was very common to have a tight foreskin even at that age. Mine was. She tried and gave up, telling my mom (with a grumpy look) that she should have taken care of that during my baths long time ago.

That was it. The next time I had that kind of physical was last year (in the US). And that was the first time anyone invaded my bum hole. I had never ever had a finger or thermometer inserted there, as far, as I remember my childhood.

For me, from what I can remember, up until I was around 14 or 15, my physicals involved me undressed down to undershorts, with a quick lift and peek while I was laying down on the exam table. When I turned 12 or so, in addition to the quick peek, the doctor donned a glove and reached inside my undershorts for a quick feel of my testicles, which he said was to check for proper development as I was entering puberty.

Then at around 14 or 15 it all changed. Still undressed to undershorts, but instead of the lift and peek/feel, he had me stand up on the step at the base of the table. That was when I had my first command to lower my undershorts to mid thigh, and had my first full testicular exam and hernia check. Needless to say I was quite surprised. Then at 17 he had me turn around, bend over and spread my cheeks while he did a visual exam. The fact that he kept the glove on during that check had me worried he was going to give me a rectal exam, too. But he never did. That was the only time he did that visual exam of my anus, I went to him for a few more physicals after that before switching doctors. I never mentioned any problems down there during the history taking, so I don't know why he did it.

For my wife, from her best recollection, she was examined in panties only until she started wearing a training bra, then it was bra and panties for a year or two, then bra, panties and gown. Before she turned 15 the doctor only lifted the waistband of her panties for a quick peek. Only a couple of times the doctor had her slide her panties down to her knees and did a more thorough visual, no touching. Then at 15 she was in panties and gown only. She had her first breast exam, and the doctor showed her how to perform breast self exams. Then he had her bend her knees up, heels to her bottom, slip her panties down to her ankles, and drop her knees all the way to the sides. He donned latex gloves and visually examined her external vaginal area, spread her labia to visually check her urethral and vaginal openings, but didn't do any type of internal check. A year later at 16 she had her first full pelvic exam and Pap in stirrups.

A temperature is always taken at a physical or any reason for a medical visit. For a grade school age youngster, sometimes a rectal temperature since glass mercury type glass thermometer is still used. Most of the time the youngster is a boy who has delays in intellectual and/ or emotional maturity which impact his ability to responsibly manage a glass oral thermometer in his mouth (a situation that continues to a greater degree as time moves on).

Most of the time the youngster is a boy who has delays in intellectual and/ or emotional maturity which impact his ability to responsibly manage a glass oral thermometer in his mouth (a situation that continues to a greater degree as time moves on).

Of course. Just let me take off my snow pants while I get my temperature taken in my rectum...

A temperature is always taken at a physical or any reason for a medical visit. For a grade school age youngster, sometimes a rectal temperature since glass mercury type glass thermometer is still used. Most of the time the youngster is a boy who has delays in intellectual and/ or emotional maturity which impact his ability to responsibly manage a glass oral thermometer in his mouth (a situation that continues to a greater degree as time moves on).

Is it taken by the nurse with the long red fingernails or the Gentleman Doctor?

@Jds4med - I see you couldn't resist the temptation either then? 😄

Is your rear still sore after you bent over the lap of the receptionist giving you a bum shot, too?

I almost feel left out, I barely had anything.

I had three pediatricians in my childhood. I remember the first one looking down the front of my pants, never the back. When she retired, we went to a new doc. I'm not sure we were with him long enough for me to need a physical before we left (he wanted to involve us, me specifically, in some insurance fraud). The third and final pediatrician asked me to strip to my underwear. I remember being too scared to actually do that and needing to be told twice. Don't remember him actually examining much of anything.

Only time I've ever had a rectal exam, it was in the ER when I found out that I had hemeroids.

I always was undressed to some extent during my visits to the pediatrician when I was a kid, often to my underwear but they soon came off, and it was awful at the time for me because I had a male doctor and I always hated it. I remember a few times in particular, for example, when I was about 4, I remember sitting on the cold exam table with the paper on top, fully dressed, but then my male doctor randomly stuck his hand into the front of my pants and panties and felt around inside, spreading my lips and examining my clitorus (btw, why such a through exam at such a young age??) My mom and brother were both in the room. Another time, when I was 9 years old, I was told to undress down to my panties and I didn't wear a bra yet anyway, and I was asked all of the questions and all other areas of the exam were conducted with me just in my panties and then he told me to stand up and bend down to touch my toes as his rolled his chair behind me and then he checked my back and before I knew it, without warning he pulled open the back of my panties and said, "Let's have a little peek at your bottom." Right after this happened I stood straight back up, mortified, and hated the entire rest of the exam. I hated all aspects of the doctor, and I always would feel so violated and embarrassed. Right after he checked my backside I was told to lay on the table and he lifted my panties in the front to "check your private parts" and he looked on for quite a while and then proceeded to examine my lower belly by pushing, all the while holding open and looking into my panties, all the while my mom was in the room. Then he gave me a breast exam at 13 and I remember asking him: "Why do you have to touch there?" And he said, "I need to check how they're growing." I now go to a family doctor and I'm 18, but the last exam (my first in that practice) there was no undressing at all so I'm scared that the next one will be more invasive...

Hello Catalina. Welcome to Zity Biz. Thank you for the comprehensive account of your experiences.

Sensei,

Even before I was developed I was always very shy and anxious about having my bra and panties removed, including the exam being done in only my panties until I left that practice at 17. But when I was more developed, it was even more nerve racking for me due to the embarassment of a man examine my breasts and vagina, with my mom in the room and being asked many embarrassing questions about my period and body, mostly about my vagina. How I felt when they removed it was cold, embarrassed, upset, anxious, and I almost wanted to cry.

I always was undressed to some extent during my visits to the pediatrician when I was a kid, often to my underwear but they soon came off, and it was awful at the time for me because I had a male doctor and I always hated it. I remember a few times in particular, for example, when I was about 4, I remember sitting on the cold exam table with the paper on top, fully dressed, but then my male doctor randomly stuck his hand into the front of my pants and panties and felt around inside, spreading my lips and examining my clitorus (btw, why such a through exam at such a young age??) My mom and brother were both in the room. Another time, when I was 9 years old, I was told to undress down to my panties and I didn't wear a bra yet anyway, and I was asked all of the questions and all other areas of the exam were conducted with me just in my panties and then he told me to stand up and bend down to touch my toes as his rolled his chair behind me and then he checked my back and before I knew it, without warning he pulled open the back of my panties and said, "Let's have a little peek at your bottom." Right after this happened I stood straight back up, mortified, and hated the entire rest of the exam. I hated all aspects of the doctor, and I always would feel so violated and embarrassed. Right after he checked my backside I was told to lay on the table and he lifted my panties in the front to "check your private parts" and he looked on for quite a while and then proceeded to examine my lower belly by pushing, all the while holding open and looking into my panties, all the while my mom was in the room. Then he gave me a breast exam at 13 and I remember asking him: "Why do you have to touch there?" And he said, "I need to check how they're growing." I now go to a family doctor and I'm 18, but the last exam (my first in that practice) there was no undressing at all so I'm scared that the next one will be more invasive...

Sorry to hear you had such a tough time of things. It does not matter if you are a man or a woman, when you are on the exam table you need to be treated with dignity and respect. You are not a pork chop on a meat rack.

If going to the doctor induces a degree of anxiety then you need to converse with your provider regarding your previous experiences. The right doctor will understand your stress level and hopefully accommodate you in some way to make you feel more at ease. I get the impression you are a young person starting out in life. Empower yourself, take control. It is a wonderful feeling. More importantly just hang in there, you are tougher than you think.

My sister and I had the same pediatrician for years. My mom almost always took us together for exams unless one of use was sick maybe. We were made to strip down to our panties. We did't ware bras anyhow when we were young so we were bare on top.

The nurse would always do all the initial stuff weight,blood pressure etc. we had to roll on our side and the nurse would pull down my panties a wAys and take my temp in my butt.

I don't thing I had to pull my panties down for the doctor until I was about 12. That was the first I remember being fully naked in front of the doc and getting touched on my privates.

I can recall lying supine for the abdominal exam and anxiously anticipating when her hands would slip lower into the waistband of my panties. There were no gowns at that age so the panties were all I had on. She never took them all the way off, just pulled back the front and told me, "Let's take a quick peek where your undies are," before a brief look and feel. I don't recall ever spreading my cheeks for a visual examination of my anus, but maybe that part was covered at the beginning when I had my rectal temp done.

My mom would undress me completely when I was 4 and 5 years old so the doctor could assess me head to toe. It wasn't until I was ten that I would wear just panties for most of the exam. Once on my back and anannounced, the nurse would pull my panties down and completely off allowing a full unhampered assessment of my genital and anal areas. This part was left for last and lasted only a minute upon which the doctor and assistant departed. I dressed quickly and we left.

My brothers and I always had our genitals checked if it was a full physical and a couple of doctors did a test for pinworms because we were around animals in the summer.

Every 6 months, I had to have a doctor's exam to get a percribed medication for ADHD when I was in school.

I went every 6 months to get a percribed medication for ADHD when I was in school.

Was that a whole physical or check up every 6 months?

I never really had a pediatrician before because in Hong Kong, school system require yearly physical and every other year the doc would check your genital as what they called 'Puberty exam'