Most embarrassing procedures

Several years ago I got into a bizarre situation at a doctor's visit. Had been having itch/pain in perineum - external vaginal area. Self medicated for a while. Finally went to a walk in clinic. Personnel there said they could not to an internal exam because there was a "bone" in they way. Sent me to a gynecologist. Wound up at gym with multiple Drs., nurses, etc. examining me in every position possible - including front, back in stirrups, out o stirrups, ass up, etc. everyone in room had hands inside me at one time or another. Thank goodness it was not painful because it went on for a very long time. Gown was useless. Finally was told there was a large fibroid growing through my cervix into the vaginal canal. Was advised to get a complete hysterectomy. Refused. Had a myomectomy with no problem except that I am a free bleeder and somehow my packing became dislodged. Wound up back in the OR but turned out to not be a big problem.

A bone in your vagina? OMG! Unfortunately it is consistent with the expertise of some clinics. I've never heard of a fibroid presenting that way. Glad you had a good outcome.

This is not exactly a procedure at the beginning, though it started with a question my orthopeadic surgeon asked me the first time I had an appointment with him at age 11.

He asked if I had started menstruation and for how long. He then explained it had to do with the growth plates and bone maturity in my knees, determining what he could and could not do surgically. It was the first of many surgeries that would follow. This first occasion, he performed surgical procedures on both knees at the same time (bilateral). After the surgery, he told me I may have issues with constipation and trouble urinating and offered a catheter. I was so embarrassed. He told me this info and asked the question when I was completely aware in recovery. He also repeated this later in front of my mom. He also told me the nurse could give me a catheter if it was to difficult to get out of the bed and toilet on my own. I said no thank you and felt no big deal as the bathroom was in my room and it was a single room.

It was embarrassing to have to ask for help pushing the IV stand and navigate my crutches to walk only being able to use what is called "touch toe weight bearing" to the bathroom and need help getting up and down from the toilet. Within a couple times of asking for help I was over the embarrassment and soon did not need assistance. I quickly figured out how to do it on my own. I VERY quickly toileting, walking the ward on my own, pushing my IV pole with PCA machine also attached to the IV pole. I received the DVT and PE lecture. I wanted to avoid that, so I was walking the halls and toileting in the toilet as much as I was up to and more than the minimum that on staff PT and my surgeon encouraged me to do.

Urodynamics, by far.

Cystoscopy behind urodynamics.

My most embarrassing examination was a colonoscopy is a test that is inserted a tube through the anus until the colon

I've had rigid sigs, flex. sigs, 8 colonoscopies, radiation therapy for colon cancer (5 days a week, nude from waist down) and about 5 cystoscopies. The most embarrassing was when a young girl shot sterile saline through my Foley until my bladder was full. She then removed the Foley and watched me empty my bladder, with her hand resting on my one butt cheek. She acted like she was doing routine housework, while I was mortified.

Three day hospital stay for acute testicular hydrocele surgery. The admissions physical was given by a female nurse practitioner in her late 20s and she explored my every crevice in my hospital room. The second shift nurse in early 20s checked the bandage and ice packs regularly. The whole hospital stay was most embarrassing.

Cathaeter as a young boy, more embarassing then anything. When you see the stuff, but do not even have any idea what is it like and what is it for, and then ...

I once had a real doctor perform a rigid sigmoidoscopy on me. The whole experience was embarrassing including his intstructions for a pre exam enema.

I would imagine that mine would have to be the prostate biopsy I had a few years ago,...

The fiorst one wasnt nearly as difficult, just me, the urologist and his gun which he used to collect the cores. Just a wee bit uncomfortable, but nothing major.

A few years later, I went to a different doctor and he had a female assistant, and I'm not sure what the difference was in the two, but this was very painful, and oh so embarrassing because of the position, and the onlooker.

No doubt about it, a barium enema I got when I was in high school.

I remember as a Child I went to a pediatric surgeon that after a careful abdominal and genital exam performed an unespected rectal evaluation with me in a sort Sim's-like position

My most embarrassing procedure was probably when I needed to get my penis swabbed for an std test. Thankfully it came back negative. However, I was erect when the male Doctor had to swab it. So he held my erect penis while he inserted the swab and let it there for about 20 seconds before removing it and letting go of my penis.

Probably the colonoscopy was the most embarrassing.

Without a doubt for me - Rigid sigmoidoscopy

My most embarrassing was doing regular urine tests for the military. In my job, we had random tests about every month. If your number got called, you went to a building where you waited around until you could go, then went to the bathroom where a person had to watch the urine travel from "[penis] head to cup". Peeing under that condition was always stressful for me and I'd have to drink lots of water.

I also had a urodynamics test and when I finally needed to go, I had a fun time getting to my feet. I was just in shirt and socks. There was a tube up my butt to measure muscle contraction, various electrodes around my groin. There was a nurse in the room to help me get untangled. I went a few feet to the urinal in the room and began to urinate. Then there was a knock on the door of the room and the nurse went to answer. So I'm standing there with all the cords and stuff, naked from the waist down peeing into the urinal while this nurse and her friend talk with the door wide open about some non-medical stuff.

Mine had to be during a physical required for a work project. The doc had me with my shirt and shoes off during most of the exam. It included some exercises to increase my heart rate, and a few lifting exercises (10-15 lb boxes). When it came time for the hernia/testicle exam, the doc told me to drop my shorts to my knees, and then had me lean forward and press my palms against the wall. He stepped to the side and then reached for my sac, rolling the twins around in his fingers. Then he ran his finger up inside my sac, telling me to "push on my palms and cough". Never been in that kind of position before. Felt strange leaning against the wall with my jeans and shorts around my ankles and my sox on.

Never heard of that position for a testicular and hernia exam. I guess pushing on the wall replicated the force from coughing?

For me, it was the first time that a nurse had to treat my fecal impaction. Although she reassured me that it was just part of the job and that she had done it many times, I was still very embarrassed. I've had to be manually disimpacted a few times since than and it continues to be an embarrassing situation.

Mine was a rectal exam.

Mine was a labia repair after childbirth. It wasn't embarassing until my midwife's back up OB came in to supervise and brought an entourage. I can handle the group of observers just fine, but his continuous commentary made it extremely uncomfortable for all involved.

but his continuous commentary made it extremely uncomfortable for all involved.

What were the comments? I can't imagine anything being embarrassing after childbirth.

The doctor doing a "foreskin dilation" and retraction while my mother watched at age 12.

STd swab of my penis when I was 19. Female doctor had me "milk" my penis for a few seconds to produce some liquid. Hurt a bunch too.

My most embarrassing so far was a rectal exam when I had diverticulitis and was passing blood. It was my first ever at the real doctor, although I'd had a couple with my play doc by then. Oddly enough, it was far more embarrassing when the real doctor did it!

Mine were a number of exams of my genital area due to a tight foreskin with my mum and once my aunt present

Mine were a number of exams of my genital area due to a tight foreskin with my mum and once my aunt present

Hi Bastian, i can feel how it was for you! I had similar experiences often in my teenaged time, too. By the paediatrician, it was so embarrassing for me, because I always had to undress everything and was completely naked during the exams, and he mostly examined my penis, foreskin and testicles, too, because I had a light phimosis, too. And, my mom (and sometimes my aunt) was often in the room there and talked to the doctor all the time. But it was not only the genital exams, which was embarrassing, for me the whole exams were embarrassing, starting from taking off the clothes in the waiting area. But the most embarrassing thing was, when I felt so bad and nausea in my tummy during the long abdominal exam, because sometimes I vomited then. That was sooo awful, bad and shameful for me!

By other doctors, I had embarrassing procedures, too: at the dermatologist for the full body mole exams and at the urologist because I was late at puberty, when he did those complete full body and puberty exams, too.

I was born with one testicle undescended (i.e., still in my abdomen). Until I was 9-10, I never even knew that I should have two testicles in my scrotum. The urologist my parents finally sent me decided that the undescended testicle would not drop down (as everyone hoped it would) from the normal activity of a 10 year old boy ). For about four months, I had periodic visits to the doctor who would try to milk the testicle down. He would have me stand naked on a chair and then insert a finger through my scrotum into the hole (the same way they check for hernia).

After three such attempts across several weeks, there was no success. Since puberty was approaching, my doctor said it was time to do surgery to correct the situation. That summer, I was admitted to a hospital for surgery. That night, they gave me two enemas. I had never been given an enema by anyone except my mother, and I was embarrassed to have a nurse strip me down and put the nozzle in my ass. The next morning I was operated on. After waking up, I found that the testicle was in my scrotum. However, to make certain that it didn't get loose and rise into my abdomen, they had tied a string around it. Then they ran the string through my scrotum, and attached the end of string to a piece of adhesive tape just above my knee.

The hospital that I went to was also part of a medical school. So now I was visited every day or so by doctors, interns, and nurses to see how this was done. 4-6 hospital staff would walk in, and their leader would take the top bed sheet and pull it down to my feet. If I had on a hospital gown, they would pull that up so everybody could see the bandage over the cut through my abdominal wall to get to the testicle. In a sense, I felt that my penis and testicles were constantly on view - just as if I were an exhibit in a museum. While I sort of got used to it, I was always embarrassed and probably turned red the first few times if happened. To boot, there was one nurse in that ward who just couldn't get enough time looking at me. When ever she came in the room, I knew she was coming to pull down the sheet and look at me.

@gayawallah When was this? About what year?