Has anyone been examined by a parent?

I regularly had foreskin check ups at home.

@Matthew2000 said

I regularly had foreskin check ups at home.

WHY?

Didn't you get an exam at your doctor's?

@SwitchableSusie

I had such exams. But my pediatrician suggested it to my parents, because I had a light phimosis.

I'm not sure examined is the right phrase to describe my mother's technique. But me and my sister were only taken to the doctors surgery as a last resort. I suppose if I was ill she always made me open my mouth wide so she could look at my throat. She'd also smoother my chest in vapour rub if I had a chest cold. In fact weirdly she could tell if either me or my sister were getting colds, by smelling our breath, she always said our breath smelt different. Sure enough a few days passed and we'd have a blocked nose. I remember feeling embarrassed when she checked my groin as she noticed I had a small lump appear when I was drying off after bathing, she felt all around my groin and tummy. She took me to the doctors the next day and it turned out I had a double hernia and had to go into hospital for an operation.

I have not, but I had a friend in high school whose father was a doctor. One year when it nearing time for our sports physicals for the soccer team, I asked if he needed a ride to school the day of the exam. He said no, that his father had examined him and his brother (he was a year younger than us) that year. I never had the courage to ask, but had always wondered if he examined them together and in what level of undress they were for the exam.

Slightly off topic, but the father of another friend of mine was my doctor during my high school years. I always found it a bit exciting that Tim knew his father had seen me naked.

He said no, that his father had examined him and his brother (he was a year younger than us) that year. I never had the courage to ask, but had always wondered if he examined them together and in what level of undress they were for the exam.

A shame you never found out the full details but I can imagine it would have been super embarrassing, standing there with your brother, both stripped down to your boxers in front of your own father while he examined you both in front of each other. Then, having to pull your undies down so that your dad could feel your willy in front of your brother. I'd have wanted to die from embarrassment.

I have been examined by my mom I remember I was about 9 when my testicles were huge and I told my mom and she escorted me to the bathroom for privacy and she ordered me to drop my pants and underwear and she examined the testicles then she scheduled an appointment with urologist the same day. I seen the urologist who did the same thing and ordered immediate surgery. I had that done twice another one I'm when I was 12.

Yes! And in a very embarrassing way too

At around 10 I remember her examining my butt for evidence of pinworms. She came in to the bathroom with me, and made me get off the toilet without allowing me to wipe so she could look for worms in my poop ?. Having still not wiped she made me bend over the side of the bath tub to allow her to spread me wide and look inside for these dreaded pinworms.

Not an experience you forget....

@Checkmate, you wrote

I have been examined by my mom I remember I was about 9 when my testicles were huge and I told my mom and she escorted me to the bathroom for privacy and she ordered me to drop my pants and underwear and she examined the testicles then she scheduled an appointment with urologist the same day. I seen the urologist who did the same thing and ordered immediate surgery. I had that done twice another one I'm when I was 12.

How did she know your "testicles were huge" before she made you strip and examined the naked testicles? What turned out to be the medical problem? When you were 12 was it more embarrassing/exciting/erotic that your mom examined you nude because your penis by then was more developed and maybe you had some hair above the penis and possibly some on the testicles?

We were three brothers in the same room. My mother examined us once a week. I'm sure she was doing it for our health and without ulterior motives. I was the oldest, my younger brother had to have a circumcision and I think it affected my mother. She wanted to avoid the other two having the same problems.

It had become a sort of ritual on Saturday night. We could go to bed later than usual. We were already in our pajamas. She asked us to lower our trousers and retract our foreskin as far as possible. She was watching that we had no trace of smegma. My circumcised brother also had to present his penis. Then she controlled our anus.

Once, a cousin came to our house on vacation and slept on an extra bed. My mother asked him to come out or, if he wanted to stay, to show his penis too. He was surprised, he said his mother never looked at home. He hesitated and then finally accepted. He left an underwear under his pajamas to sleep. He was interested in seeing my circumcised brother's penis up close. It strengthened our friendship with him for sharing this moment together.

Work in medicine. have three boys but do not do their physicals. they go to a pediatrician. think from a legal standpoint that someone other than a parent should handle their medical care. just my opinion.

There was a booklet put out by some branch of the US government (I ASSUME the Health and Human Services but I don't know) back in the 1940s or 50s that was for rural families in remote areas for whom getting to a doctor could mean a long, expensive trip. The booklet detailed how parents could give their kids a routine physical exam and then only reach out to an actual doctor as really needed. I do not know how involved the physical exam procedure outlined in the booklet was.

I THINK someone posted that booklet or some part of it here before but it may have been on a different site. If anyone knows about it, I'd love to hear from them. I've been trying to find it again.

Then she controlled our anus.

What does that mean?

What does that mean?

If it was clean, no redness or irritation.

A young man that I know, when he was in high school, would have his father, who was a doctor, do his physicals for school/sports. I asked him if he wanted his father to do his physicals and he was very matter of fact about it. He said “yes, why would I want to go to a stranger”.

Another young man that I know, after graduating college decided to join the Navy. Before having his DoDMERB exam he had his father give him a physical to rule out anything that might be problematic for the DoDMERB exam.

And like JonathanC below, the pediatrician that I started with in 6th grade turned out to be the father of a friend of mine when I got to high school. It was weird whenever I was at his house and his father was around knowing that the guy who was grilling my burger had seen me nude and erect lol !

My only experiences of parental checks were during my time living with my uncle and aunt. I was checked every so often during a shower by my uncle. There was no specific doctor available for us and he was a radiologist for some time in his life. Standng in the shower, I would lift up my penis and balls for him to check. I think I was about 10-14 yeas old. My cousins (fem) were also checked, but not in my presence. They would undress to their underwear in their room and go into my uncle's bedroom, so I never witnessed the checking itself. Although, if I loitered around out fo curiousity, when he opened the door, I would see them naked. Later in life, we have discussed the experiences and one of my cousins said she was always very embarassed about having him check ‘down there’.

I presume that it was embarrassing at 13 -14 age to stand naked and lift your penis to let your uncle check your genitals even if he had been a medical person and if you were used since younger age, so that it was mless embarrassing when becoming a teenager.

you talked of female cousins who were also checked privately in bedroom

Did they were allowed by your uncle to attend your checking by him after shower ?

Hi esaterman. It was pretty embarassing letting him see my penis and balls but it was fairly quick - a minute or so. I think his intention was that while i was already undressed and washing my body in the shower it wasnt too much trouble to check me over. I remember him making comments about growing pubic hair around my balls.

The bathroom doors were never locked but the my cousins were not around when i was in the shower.

I have this evening by my Dad. My sister has been making another of her short films which I have been in and one of the scenes involved me going for a Doctor's appointment. Her friend was supposed to be playing the Doctor but she had to pull out so my Dad stepped in to play the Doctor. We used the spare bedroom as the Doctors office. Ive had my height and weight taken, my temperature measured, my heart and chest listened to and my stomach palpated. Felt weird

Never examined by a parent, thank goodness, but that could be some very hot roleplay!

My mother used to check me until I was probably 10 or 11. I guess she wanted to be sure that I was cleaned myself properly. She wasn't a medical specialist or smth.

My adopted mom is a RN. I was ready to take a swim in the pool one day when she came out onto the patio and asked if I had taken my meds yet. I didn't mind taking the meds as they were helping. I was jus a little forgetful. My mind had been elsewhere because my biological mother died of a drug overdose not too long ago. I knew it was going to happen eventually and I told myself I was strong enough. I was not . I spiraled into an awful depression and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for 3 weeks for treatment.

Mom handed me my pill and some water. Down the hatch. She then put her hand on my shoulder and said I looked like I lost a little weight and told me to have a seat and she would be back in a moment.

She returned about a minute later with some of her tools of the trade. A thermometer, a stethoscope and a BP monitor. She wanted to just check my vitals BP, pulse respiration, temperature- she did just that and said “Your blood pressure is little low but nothing to be alarmed about. I am going to just have a listen to your heart and lungs, ok?” She took a few minutes, listened to my heart and lungs and did percussion on my chest and back and felt the glands in my neck then checked my thyroid gland and concluded I really need to start eating well again. I was getting better but she understood it was going to take some time for me to recover to some degree.

My appetite had gone to the dogs. It was all part of the depression. The drugs and the therapy eventually got me through the ordeal. Mom examined me because she really cared.

@BoyfriendB Examined where?

Yes, several times.

The first time I remember was when my parents thought I might have pinworms. I think I was 8 years old. My mother came into my bedroom one night, had me roll over, pulled down my pajama pants, and applied the adhesive tape to my anus, to look for worms. (Test was negative - no worms).

Another time, maybe a year later, my parents were suspicious that I had a hernia, because I was reaching for my crotch a lot. The two of them had me go into their bedroom and, while I was standing, had me pull down my pants and underwear. They then both examined my genitals and inguinal region. No hernia, just underwear that I had outgrown.

BTW, my father was a physician who had a general medical practice, but limited to adult medicine. When I was 15, and so already had gone through puberty, my parents decided it was time for me to have a general medical exam, the kind that adults have, not pediatric. At my father's office, I had to strip to my underpants. He conducted a thorough exam. Then he had me take down my underpants and did both a genital and rectal exam. I felt very embarrassed.

The first time I remember was when my parents thought I might have pinworms. I think I was 8 years old. My mother came into my bedroom one night, had me roll over, pulled down my pajama pants, and applied the adhesive tape to my anus, to look for worms. (Test was negative - no worms).

Another time, maybe a year later, my parents were suspicious that I had a hernia, because I was reaching for my crotch a lot. The two of them had me go into their bedroom and, while I was standing, had me pull down my pants and underwear. They then both examined my genitals and inguinal region. No hernia, just underwear that I had outgrown.

Sounds like your parents seemed to assume the worst, instead of thinking about the mundane. Especially the too small sized underwear … ha ha

@Bobbee my parents surprised me several days in a row to use tape to check for pinworms. In my case my doctor asked them to do this at sunrise They did this at my doctor’s request. It was the doctor who examine the tape. I was only 4 or 5 so at the time.

I wonder why all that fuss to check for pinworms.. it's a single pill to clear them with no side effects. Or maybe it is that decades ago the de-worming remedy was complicated and/or had side effects, so it was used only if sure that pinworms were present?

I wonder why all that fuss to check for pinworms..

When it comes to pinworms or tapeworms, it seems everybody is a comic … even my otherwise so staid and serious mother thought the things a hoot and a half. She would joke about them and how they were diagnosed (what she remembered from the 1920's-30s' when she was young). Apparently it was all a bit humiliating and embarrassing back then.

I haven’t been examined by a parent other than them looking down my throat. However, my uncle is a physician and I remember him coming to town one Christmas and I had a terrible cold or some sort of bug. I remember him borrowing my Mom’s stethoscope and listening to my lungs. I still remember him kneeling down next to me and putting one hand under my shirt with the stethoscope and the other in my chest outside of the shirt. 25+ years later, I still often wonder and think about what a complete physical from him would entail or be like! I often wonder if he conducts genital and hernia exams during annual physicals, or if he just discusses self-examination. I wonder if he‘d demonstrate a TSE on me, or even mention it? Skip it all together? Or have a colleague do that portion? I have to admit, I honestly wouldn’t mind a complete exam from him—I trust him not only as my uncle but also as a clinician. Plus, I wouldn’t mind being naked in front of him if I could see how thorough he is!

@Patient414 Maybe you should just schedule an appointment with your uncle. It seems to me that it would be a very fair and legitimate request.