Orchidometer at physicals

Yes the size of testicles was checked at each exam. The Orchidometer was always Instrument used for that. The Doc usually spend a long time comparing the testicle with the orchidometer.

It wasn't used in our school medicals, just a visual inspection, but i had one used on me during my treatment for delayed puberty.

@Medexam 's Belgian leaflet was no doubt published to inform and reassure parents and students, but I'm sure that section on page 11 must have made many of them anxious!

Yes, many years ago now but the doctor used them starting at age 12 and going on through puberty.

The link below is a pdf presentation to inform pupils about the school doctor physicals in belgium by the social services.

I've read school examinations in Belgium are quite intrusive. Many members have posted about them. Perhaps someone from Belgium can tell us if they've ever had been examined with an orchidometer.

I had an Endrocrinologist use them on my first visit 7 years ago. I expressed concern of my lack of energy and decreased sex drive to my primary care physician that year at my yearly physical. She submitted labs for me and sure enough my testosterone level was low. After returning to my PCP a week later to go over the blood labs, she referred me to an Endocrinologist. At this first visit she reviewed my blood labs and performed an exam of my penis and testicles. During the exam she excused herself and came back with a string with egg like objects increasing in size with numbers on each. She explained it was used to determine testicle sizes. She then felt and examined each of my testicles thoroughly to determine the size and gage them in comparison to the orchidometer. She made note of the size and i pulled up my briefs and pants and discussed my options.

I'm from Belgium but it was never used during our school physicals;

that was in the 80's; maybe they started to use it later, I wonder

I was in school in Belgium from 1963 onward till 1974 and I never had any genital exam and certainly no orchidometer measurements. I was in a Catholic school and that might perhaps be a reason why.

The link below is certainly very modern using up-to-date Dutch and expressions and way of addressing kids. To my ears it sounds incredibly goody-goody and wimpy. In the 1960s there would have been nothing at all like such a pamphlet or even any information at all about what an exam entailed. And certainly not to reassure kids about anything. When the teacher said something, told you to do something, you did it without any questioning. And off to the school exam you went.

Yes. I have. Andrologist was a dude, much to my dismay. I was lying on an exam table and he was VERY cautious about the process of measuring and examining me. I think some men can become violent when another man is thoroughly examining and touching his testicles. I was not violent, just compliant. It didn't hurt, but it didn't do anything for me. For what it's worth, he remarked that mine were at the upper extreme of his scale in size. So, I've got that going for me.

I only once experienced an orchidometer measurement. When my mom took me to the pediatrician for my annual well-child exam just after my fourteenth birthday (1990), it was basically like all of the exams in previous years. The nurse who took my mom and me to the exam room told my mom that I should be in just underpants for the exam. Once I was undressed, the nurse then walked me down the hall for height and weight. After returning to the exam room, the doctor came in and examined me, usually talking to my mom instead of to me. But when he got to the usual part with me lying on the exam table where he would briefly pull the front of my underpants down, he had me lift my hips so that he could pull them down to the middle of my thighs and leave them there. He then pulled beads out of a drawer that I later learned were an orchidometer. He was holding the beads while he examined my testicles, but I didn't realize he was comparing size. All he said was, "just about 5." And then put the beads back in the drawer. He told my mom that I'd finally start catching up to the other boys my age, and then he pulled my underpants back up.

It all was very confusing for me, since he didn't explain any of it. When we got back to the car, my mom asked me what I thought. I shrugged and didn't say anything. At that point, she asked me if the reason I didn't like gym class was because I still had a "small peepee." I could have died. I didn't like gym class, because I was the shortest and slowest. But she had just given me something else to be worried about. She was trying to help. She explained that the doctor was using the beads to measure how big my testicles were, and since they had started growing, I'd catch up to the other boys soon. And though I heard the whole thing, I fixated on the "small peepee" part. He never used the orchidometer on me again, so I guess despite my still being basically hairless at my fifteen-year-old exam, I must have been progressing, because he told my mom I was "back on track." Of course, by my exam at sixteen, I had been successfully masturbating to ejaculation for a few months, and they both saw my pubic hair for the first time (a proud moment for me after such delay), at which point he said I had "caught up." That was my final visit to that pediatrician.

My ped used it several times when I was between 12 and 16.

I wish, but no.

I wish, but no.

You aren't missing TOO much. I had it done several times. It's kind of a mindtrip when you know what he's doing with it, but it doesn't actually feel like much except someone holding your balls one at a time against wooden beads. I mean, it isn't much of a sensory thing like DRE or injections, etc.

My pediatrician never used an orchidometer. know they are more common with endocrinologists.

To the best of my knowledge, I have never had one used on me in any real exam that I can recall. However, I could see it as a very fun piece of equipment to use in a play exam. Testicles are very difficult to measure accurately in an exam, so this would greatly help in the measuring process.

I have never had one used in a real life physical exam but it would be fun to have it included in a play exam...

I didn´t know, that Orchimeters do exist.

It seems that are typical chinese instruments.

I have had this done a couple of times starting when I was 11 or 12 years old, it wasn’t a big deal. While laying on the exam table, he asked me lift up then pull them down to the middle thighs another times he completely took off my underwear. After examining my penis, he then took out these beads from the table‘s drawer. As he examined my testicles, then asked to spread my legs apart a little. I remember just staring at the ceiling as compared one testicle to the appropriate size bead then proceeded my other testicle. He told my mom the number and it was normal for boys my age.

Never had any personal mesurenents with an orchidomter done. Although this research on anogenital measurements and fertility looks interesting.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092750/#!po=1.66667

I never had a doctor use an orchidometer on me;.

Never heard of it till now, Googled it.

Here is video of woman doctor demonstrating orchidometer

https://vimeo.com/120447313

Here is video of woman doctor demonstrating orchidometer

https://vimeo.com/120447313

Interesting to watch. It does however seem a rather clumsy way to measure their size, lots of fumbling about with balls and a pair of hands too few it would seem.

I wonder why no type of caliper isn't used to measure? That could be done with one pair of hands only and without having to guessitmate sizes …

My pediatrician used several times on me between the age of 11 and 18. I always had to lay down during that part of the exam, most of the time it was done after the foreskin check. It took up to 30 seconds to a minute to check and compare both balls.

Yes I would have one used on me.

My ped never used it in a real exam but I'm fascineted about this instrument and in a play exam would be very interesting if the Doctor would use it.

Never had in real life, but I recently purchased one to use in play exams and so far the patients absolutely love it.

Never had them used on me?

Never had one used on me. Always figured if they could pop one into their mouth I was about the right size. Two, I would be worrying a bit. Unless they had a big mouth like Julia Roberts. 😃

I was in an antiques store a couple of weeks ago and the had an orbitoclast, the pointed tool used for lobotomies.

I was in an antiques store a couple of weeks ago and the had an orbitoclast, the pointed tool used for lobotomies.

Not quite the same thing.