The doctor called me in next - she was really friendly and made me feel comfortable. I sat opposite her at the other side of her desk, and we talked through some things I'd written in the pre-appointment forms for discussion, and the results of tests I'd completed online beforehand, including a memory and reactions test, and the results of the measurements and tests I'd just had done.
She asked about something I wanted to show her on the sole of my foot and to point out something related on the other foot, so I took my shoes and socks off and she came round to look while I stayed seated, touching my foot and then apologising (I think she felt she should have asked first, but I didn't mind at all). Then she sat back down again - I went to put my socks back on but she said I didn't need to as she would have another look in a minute when I was lying down.
Then it came to the physical examination. She was saying we'll take your blood and examine you, rest assured if there's a physical cause of one of the things I had mentioned we'll find it. She asked if I minded if she examined me - of course I said no - and I followed her over to the back of the room where there was an exam table and a blue curtain which was hanging fairly close to the table, so that when she stood in front of me she was quite close.
She left the curtained area, leaving it mostly closed so I couldn't be seen from the rest of the office, and asked if I would mind undressing. She said I could just take my top off, or I could undress to my underwear if I liked - she commented that she wasn't shy if I wasn't.
So I undressed to my underwear - taking my tops off first and then my trousers, folding them and laying them on a chair at the end of the bed. My shoes and socks were still under the other chair by her desk. While I was doing that she commented that it was good that I'd booked a check up myself, and I made conversation about getting more in tune with my body but also not really knowing what's normal or not when you're only comparing to yourself.
When she came back I felt awkward for a second as I didn't know quite what to do other than just stand there in front of her. She gave me a general look over and then had me sit on the table first, while she said she was feeling my neck for my lymph nodes, looked in my ears with an instrument, asked me to open my mouth and say “aah” while she looked in, and listened to my heart with a stethoscope on both sides of my chest. I didn't feel it all that much so it mustn't have been very cold. She also checked the skin on my back and placed the stethoscope on my back in different places about four times while asking me to breathe deeply.
She asked me to lie back, and took a few blood pressure readings - which were a bit high, but she suggested it might just be the setting. While one of the readings was being taken, she had another look at my foot, and while I was lying down she also checked me over for moles, prodded my stomach in a few places, and asked me how my psoriasis was doing, which I pointed to in a few spots.
At one point, she asked me to stand - I was at the long edge of the bed and she was between me and the curtain - and she look some measurements with a tape measure, including of my waist.
When most of the exam was done, and I was sitting on the white paper sheet on the table, she asked if I would like her to examine my testicles. I said yes please, and that it's something I know I should do but never do, partly for fear of finding something, which I know is illogical. She said she'd examine them and show me how I should to it, that testicular cancer is something particularly affecting men of my age, and said I could stand or lie down, whichever I preferred. I had to think for a second, I wasn't really sure and it felt awkward having to decide quickly, but I said I would stand, and stood up. She asked me to lower my underwear to ‘here’, gesturing to just above her knees. So I bent forward slightly and pulled my briefs down to my knees, which immediately fell to my ankles when I straightened up.
I was too busy watching my balls to notice if she was sitting on a chair or crouched down - but saw she was wearing blue gloves. She very gently rolled each of my balls in her fingers in turn, and explained that she was feeling the cord etc. That bit wasn't embarrassing like I'd feared, I felt quite comfortable, apart from when I moved my arm automatically to feel my ball after she'd explained, but then stopped as I wasn't sure if I was supposed to or not. I had a moment of vanity looking down at my dick, thinking it looked respectable and hadn't shrunk (not that it is of any consequence!).
Then it was done and she said I could pull my underwear back up. She suggested that my boyfriend and I could remind each other to check our balls, or even check them for the other, which is a good idea, as well as being funny.
While I was standing in my underwear, she commented that my body looked good, and a good balance, and that I wasn't too slim etc. It wasn't inappropriate, I think she was partly saying it as we'd earlier talked about my exercise routine and that I'd like to gain a small amount of weight, and a little bit of extra muscle, as well as it being for enjoyment and stress relief.
She asked if I'd brought gym kit (I had) and then suggested I get changed back into that, since my exercise stress test was next. She left the curtained off area while I changed, although I had to go to her desk to get my socks and the shoes I'd arrived in. We chatted a little about my gym clothes, and then when I was ready she wrote me a prescription before showing me back to the waiting room.
I was glad she was so friendly and that the examination came after a fairly long chat, I might have been more nervous otherwise.
I'll describe the exercise test in the relevant thread soon.. 😃