More than two fingers for vaginal exam?

Has anyone ever had the gynecologist insert more than two fingers into their vagina during the bi-manual exam?

I'm just wondering how common this is.

Not during a real exam

erika

Not during a "real exam".

No never.

While she was pregnant, my ex had an exam that she claimed the male doctor had used "at least three fingers" to determine if she could deliver vaginally.

Come on, it's an examination, not a date! Two fingers is it.

One is the most I have ever had.

If you're talking about a "play' exam, of course. I have inserted my entire hand when the occasion warranted, and the patient was OK with it. In fact I did it last time...(almost! she was small, but had two kids).

More than two fingers always requires gentleness and skill...and a lot of "external massage..."

I think I have...it felt like it anyway...I think they put all four and then apply pressure on the lower abdomen. I think...

If a doctor used more than two on my girlfriend i would hunt him down and give him more than just two fingers, he'd find a basball bat up his back passage!

I don't think any doctor would use more than two fingers on a REAL exam.

My wife hhad two up her vagina and one up her backpassage.

Nah.

only 2.

I imagine, if it was warranted, in a very large woman perhaps, there wouldn't be a rule against it.

The most I've had is two, but let me tell you, when you have one finger belonging to a medical student and one finger belonging to their professor, it certainly feels like a lot more than two!

Never more then two in the same hole.

Can't imagine how that could help the doc ... more than two fingers would seem less effective ..

The only time that the doctor may have inserted more than two fingers was when he was diagnosing the degree of my prolapse. That was embarassing. I had to keep my feet in the stirrups, lean forward while his fingers were inside my vagina, and vaginally bear down as hard as I could, much the same way that a woman pushes during labor. He was assessing the degree of movement of my bladder and uterus.

Only two fingers here.

Mine has only done 2 fingers... but he has thick fingers😄

I've had two fingers in the vagina and one in the rectum at the same time to check the tissue between the two openings.

The most i have had is 2 one time it was only 1

I have only had 2 fingers, but 2 yrs ago I had a doctor who had very thick fingers. He was 6'2" and very proportioned so understandable.. but it still doesn't feel like 3 fingers but certainly a lil better than a womans thin fingers!

I actually (with women who don't mind, or whom I can get to try it) have used my entire hand. These are women who love the "stretched" feeling. I won't normally do it, though, unless the woman has had at least one child vaginally. If she's had a "tight" episiotomy it often will not work; otherwise, it's quite an experience. It takes great gentleness, though, because tissues are sensitive, and I never do it without permission, AND I go very slowly to make sure it's OK as I enter, AND I stop if there's any indication that it's not a good idea. Also, it may be a problem with postmenopausal women, since the vaginal walls thin out. But I've done it often.

The last woman with whom I did this (February) orgasmed several times on the table. It's not for everyone, though, and some of my patients really don't want to do it. So we don't. Of course, the admonition about plenty of lubrication goes double here.

Just two

Any time I have had an examination it has always been two fingers.

I usually use two, but sometimes the "full effect" requires more. Depends what you and your patient are looking for. See my previous post. I have had patients who wanted as much stretching as I could give them.

The most I have had is 2.

A woman should not have more than 2 fingers used during a bi-manual examination. Medical textbooks are fairly explicit about this and have been for the past few decades. There is no reason that 3+ fingers should be used as the index and middle fingers, in what my colleagues and I affectionately call the gyne point, provide the best movement and reach into the vagina to examine a patient properly. Standard for a rectovag exam is index finger in the vagina and middle finger in the rectum.

I deliver babies each day I work and have never had the need to use 3 fingers to check on labor progression and dilation and none of my nurses use 3 either.

Regarding finding the ovaries and tubes, although unless infection or ectopic pregnancy are present the tubes are generally unpalpable I can assure you that for the most part, even in many obese women, I can find the ovaries.

Also,

There is no situation where a student and a physician should each have a finger in you at one time. The supervising physician should either examine you before the student, or after, depending on their preferences. It is my practice to examine the patient first so that if a student has a question I have already surveyed the landscape, so to speak, and probably have a good idea about what they are asking. Each having one finger inside of you at the same time would not give them adequate room to examine you properly, either.

I've only had the doctor use two fingers. don't see a need for any more than that to do a good exam.