How Old at First Prostate Exam

I was about 32. I was having pain in my scrotum so I went to see a urologist. After he examined my penis, scrotum, and testicles, he had me bend over the table for the prostate exam. He pushed his finger (fingers?) in and pressed on my prostate. I started to leak pre-cum. After he pulled his fingers out he handed me some wipes and left the room.

I just turned 40 and have never had one yet. Probably they will give me one next check up.

I assume that your experience was true for a lot of adults at least the older ones who have known the time of the mandatory military service in many european countries

For me my first prostate exam was at my draft physical examination at 18 age. It was followed by the same exams later at the physicals when inducted

He performed the expected visual inspection of the anus while bending over and spreading butts but he performed also a DRE with his finger inserted in the butts without warning. After a slap on the butts, I had been instructed to sit on all fours on the medical table but without explanations

I had never heard of such an exam before so I was surprised by the exam of the military doctor and he did not explain why he was doing such an examination.

I learned the reason of that examination later when I was inducted, then the military doctor took the time to explain to the group of recruits why he wanted them to sit on all fours and lift their butts to be able to perform the examination

First Prostate exam was at 50+ when having problems with frequent urination, ended up having a TURP operation after meds did not work. No more regular DRE's but check kept on PSA levels.

At 59 and it showed nothing. PSA showed 6 point rise, biopsy showed cancer, had it removed......life goes on.

First rectal and prostate exam at 33 during a routine physical.

I'm 64+ now, and I had a urologist do my first rectal/prostate exam in my mid 20's to evaluate me during a visit for leaking. I had prostate symptoms, so he used a forceful (i.e., appropriate) prostate massage to express some prostate fluid onto a glass slide. Such a massage and fluid expression needs quite a bit more pressure than a routine DRE/how big is my prostate exam, more along the lines of how you would massage looking for a prostate orgasm. It turns out I had bacterial prostatitis which we cleared up with an old penicillin analogue. If I hadn't had the urological symptoms, I probably wouldn't have had one till at least 40 by my internist. My 22 year old son just had his first-ever History and Physical exam last month, and our doc said he didn't start routine DRE/prostate exams until at least 40 unless there was a reason from the H&P. He did do a penile/scrotal exam because testicular carcinoma is a young man's disease often (remember pre-scandal Lance Armstrong?). I warned my son ahead of time and convinced him it was normal practice to put him more at ease, and it all went fine.

Your son got his first genital exam ever at age 22? That seems really late for a first time, such that you needed to prepare him in advance for it. By 22, I had numerous genital and hernia exams but played sports all through school so had a physical every year during my teen years.

To me its quite funny how apparently this exam is so much in the USA and hardly or not at all here in the Netherlands and Germany. In my entire life my prostate was only examined this way once. I think it was at the army medical when i was 18. Quite uncomfortable on all fours on a table, but briefly. I didn't enjoy it, but it did not hurt either. Since then never had one again, until recently during a ultrasound scan when it was just looked at via the scan.

Maybe we do less checkups here , and if there is one, its without the finger up the bum, but now with ultrasound.

David,

Good pickup. I omitted a detail, sorry. That was his first History, Physical and Lab tests as an adult with a family practice doc. He had been regularly seeing a pediatrician since birth as he has a cleft lip and palate like me. But after becoming an elder teen of 17-19, it was like pulling teeth to get him to go to a first well-adult exam with a new doc. He's overweight, like me also, and I think he was avoiding the first complete adult exam out of embarrassment about that and just not being a fan of being examined by another human. It all turned out normally with just some "lose some weight" advice from our doc. The only "preparation" I gave him was mostly to avoid any embarrassment possible on his part, so to expect a real genital exam and possible rectal. He had me stay in during the exam for moral support and said "don't look, Dad" during the genital exam. Thanks for noticing.

Eric

Your son got his first genital exam ever at age 22? That seems really late for a first time

You may laugh or disbelieve me, but I cannot recall ever having gotten a real, to any degree of thorough, genital exam at all yet.

I have had a small cyst on a testicle diagnosed once when I was in my 50s, but aside from the doctor feeling around, trying to locate the small thing, in no serious way was it a genital exam. There was no examining of the penis or foreskin or anything else. All she did was try to find the cyst. And the resultant ultrasound wasn't really what you'd call a genital exam either. I had the impression the doc and nurse wanted to cover my genitals up as much as possible, leaving only a small field bare to conduct the ultrasound on.

Maybe I have had one or more when very young, but for the life of me I simply cannot recall. I'm certain I would have remembered, given how by around 10 years old I already had the inklings of a medfet interest. And I have gone over memories again and again.

And as for a prostate exam, none at all yet, ever.

The only prostate exam I have ever had (in a non kink setting) was at 16. It was from a Urologist attempting to diagnose the cause of an issue i was having while urinating. Didn't enjoy it all at the time.

I was in my early to mid 20's when I had my first prostate/rectal exam. Everything was going as normal during a standard physical with a new female doctor who was probably in her early 30's. I had never had a rectal exam before and was not expecting one on this visit. After all the standard procedures, she said "the physical includes a rectal exam, so I'll need you to undress to your underwear". I feel like my face showed my surprise. She left the room while I undressed and came back a couple minutes later. "OK, I need you to stand at the edge of the table and put your chest and arms on the table for me." I did as instructed and heard her open a cabinet and then heard the flip of a cap for a tub of surgilube and the "farting" sound of the lube being squeezed out of the tube. She then wheeled her chair over to me and pulled my underwear down past my buttocks. She spread one cheek with her left hand and said "ok, deep breath in and hold it. Exhale" Upon the exhale she pressed the tip of her finger against my anus and slid it in, feeling my prostate and describing what it should feel like as she did so. She then pulled my underwear back up and said "that wasn't so bad, was it?". Unfortunately, that was my one and only prostate exam by a real doctor. I keep hoping there will be more, but have not encountered that again since.

Mine was at 22 with my dad's internist for a mandatory exam.

Stripped to my tighty whities from the start we proceeded through a fairly thorough exam including range of motion, etc

Having had a company pre employment back in rhe day i was unfazed at the "drop em." Whst i wasn't prepared for nor was i expecting was the "grab your knees..."

It was over quickly and was nornal.

I was 16 years old.I was entering into 11th grade.I was sent to a new general practioner,from my pediatrion.I was in a paper gown and was told to sit at the end of the exam table and he pulled the stir-ups out and placed my feet into them.I was told to let my legs fall open as he rolled his stool right in front of me,he turned a bendable light on my whole crotch area,I was like what?And he said a rectal exam is required for all students entering 11th grade.He lubed me up with k-y -and then his finger entered into my virgin boy-hole! He then said he was now going to check my prostate gland,I shuddered as his finger was rubbing(almost like he was finger fucking me!I got an instant erection and started to dribble pre-cum,he just said relax,that is normal and my prostate felt congested.He said he was going to massage my prostate to releave the proble & to just relax.After maybe two minutesI was like(Ah Doc I think I'm gonna pee)He said no-you won't,just relax,just as he said that I started to have a very powerfull ejaculation.Onto my belly,and even onto my chest and neck,I ejaculated so hard,the paper gown was soaked with my seman.He said that is normal and handed me several paper towels,and said clean myself up and he would make a follow-up appointment for me to be rechecked in two weeks.I told him he could recheck me anytime!

he said a rectal exam is required for all students entering 11th grade

No doubt it was a Gentlemen Doctor. 😃

I was like 29 on my first rectal exam.

First I got just a standard physical exam.

When I thought it's all over I heard "Just one more thing, I need to check your prostate and anus".

I had to lay on the table on my back. Then pull up my legs to my chest, that spread my buttocks apart so doctor had full view on my anus.

And he started ... He took some lube from the tube, put it on his finger and exam began.

Few seconds and done...

It wasn't so bad but a little bit weird feeling.

@joshs26 Remember, we SEPARATE fantasy from reality here. Put your speedo and snowpants back on.

I was 18 at the time and I really wasn't expecting it when I walked in the door. it was a female doctor and when she pusher her finger in, i let out an involuntary groan. She said something like, nobody enjoys this part. She was wrong. :-)

25. Totally unexpected and probably not necessary

... and he would make a follow-up appointment for me to be rechecked in two weeks.I told him he could recheck me anytime!

@joshs26, So did you go back in 2 weeks for a follow up? And how often after that?

I was 16 years old.I was entering into 11th grade.I was sent to a new general practioner,from my pediatrion.I was in a paper gown and was told to sit at the end of the exam table and he pulled the stir-ups out and placed my feet into them.I was told to let my legs fall open as he rolled his stool right in front of me,he turned a bendable light on my whole crotch area,I was like what?And he said a rectal exam is required for all students entering 11th grade.He lubed me up with k-y -and then his finger entered into my virgin boy-hole! He then said he was now going to check my prostate gland,I shuddered as his finger was rubbing(almost like he was finger fucking me!I got an instant erection and started to dribble pre-cum,he just said relax,that is normal and my prostate felt congested.He said he was going to massage my prostate to releave the proble & to just relax.After maybe two minutesI was like(Ah Doc I think I'm gonna pee)He said no-you won't,just relax,just as he said that I started to have a very powerfull ejaculation.Onto my belly,and even onto my chest and neck,I ejaculated so hard,the paper gown was soaked with my seman.He said that is normal and handed me several paper towels,and said clean myself up and he would make a follow-up appointment for me to be rechecked in two weeks.I told him he could recheck me anytime!

Is that like "sweet sixteen and never been kissed?" 😁 😁 😁 What an imagination.

16 year old boys with a "virgin boy-hole" don't need or get prostate exams as a school requirement. In addition, 16 year old boys don't have congested prostates because they are jerking off all the time. A DRE takes about 5 seconds, maybe 10 if there is a problem. Two minutes? not at all.

I was 22 and had a urethral Infection.

I was 39 and going for a consult about getting a vasectomy. It might have been done twice at various appointments and the last one was at Dr physical at 45 or so. I don't get into medfet as a patient, but I can't say I minded my attractive Asian PCP doing it.

But yes, it's a 3 second thing... anyone that talks about minutes is in fantasy land.

I was 23, having general body pain and fatigue.... doctor trying to be be as thorough as possible did a prostate exam (later to be diagnosed with fibromyalgia perhaps not surprising considering my grandpa had been diagnosed with it back in the 1950s Fibrositis ). I had already been topped numerous times and fingered sexual often so it was no big deal to me. This doctor did ask me to have my rectal exam each time i saw him, I am not sure if he was getting off on it or just wanting to ensure I was healthy as there can occasionally be issues down there with gay men on the receiving end. As for Josh, it does sound like some BS teen fantasy... that said having gone through 25 or more exams when i was age 23-24 (test results, prescription renewals were the various appointments at such a young age always involved him saying lets check your prostate while you are here), I know there are some Doctors who behave in unusual ways (this doctor in Calgary never spent a lot of time or seemed to be overly enjoying it but I do know it was atypical to say the least). Ironically the only time a Dr. has examined my prostate since then was if i was having sex with one. Although at 43 I suspect my Doctor may eventually want to start doing them.

I was 55 and it was my first urological check-up.

I was 31 and was having bad pains in my stomach and back and having trouble urinating. My first female GP after the pediatrician. She did it with me laying down on my stomach she said she thought I had a prostate infection and put me on antibiotics. Which after a few days I passed what I would find out my first bout of kidney stones.

First time was in college, probably when I was around 20. It was just an annual physical with our family's doctor. I was just wearing a cloth gown, nothing underneath. Everything was same as before, until after he did the hernia check. He then said it was time to start having my prostate checked, too, so he had me turn around and bend over the exam table while he put something well-lubed up there and shined a light in. I remember the nurse had left the room for the hernia check, but she was back when the doctor said he would do the prostate check, so she just went to the other side of the room and faced the other way doing paperwork.

I hadn't had anyone do something like that to me before, that I can remember, although I'd played around seeing what I could slide in there since I was probably 10. I felt a bit embarrassed, perhaps unnerved by the intrusion, and with the nurse there, too. Left me with all sorts of emotions buzzing in my head as I got dressed and went out to the parking lot. As I drove home, it all began to turn into a feeling of arousal. I ended up pulling into my old school, going in to use the restroom, a handicapped one which was private, and stroking to a powerful orgasm. I had to put my hand against the wall to steady myself. A couple hours later at home I stroked again to another strong orgasm, and then, finally, I was more relaxed. Definitely left an impression in me.

Mid twenties for my first rectal exam which was done with me on my side with knees drawn up. It was to check for blood. I was 40 when I had my first rectal to check the prostate. I was on my side then too.

I was perhaps 40.

It was very fast and not a problem for me.