Most embarrassing procedures

Defecography. After an enema, I had to get on the table in the fetal position. The doctor then smeared barium paste in my vagina with his finger. Then he did a rectal exam. After that a tech put a nozzle in my anus and a pump gun was used to fill me with very thick barium paste (to simulate feces). This continued until I couldn't hold any more and was having cramps. Then I had to sit on this toilet sort of apparatus fitted with a plastic bag and poop it out while x-rays were taken. I had to hold it, then bear down and not let any out, and then poop it out with effort. Very humiliating pooping in front of strangers.

Defecography. After an enema, I had to get on the table in the fetal position. The doctor then smeared barium paste in my vagina with his finger. Then he did a rectal exam. After that a tech put a nozzle in my anus and a pump gun was used to fill me with very thick barium paste (to simulate feces). This continued until I couldn't hold any more and was having cramps. Then I had to sit on this toilet sort of apparatus fitted with a plastic bag and poop it out while x-rays were taken. I had to hold it, then bear down and not let any out, and then poop it out with effort. Very humiliating pooping in front of strangers.

Why? What was the medical issue they were evaluating. Sounds extreme!

Damn, that had to really suck!

Something I've never heard about - Defecography https://www.uwmedicine.org/sites/default/files/2018-10/181019_Radiology_Preps_Defecography.pdf

@liquidsky Is your wife a physician?

Back in the 80s I had bad stomach pains and was put on my hands and knees and had a anal exam. I was being used a a learning exhibit for 3 doctors. First I had an enema repeated 3 times. Then lubed and had a large speculum inserted and was spread wide open with something that probed me. Each doctor did this. 2 we're females and I loved it but was shy till I realized I could not resist them examining me.

Pecannutjob. Yes my ex wife was a physician.

That could be a whole lot of fun, if you could get her to play Dr.

Probably having my anus examined as a teen. It wasn’t something that was done every year so I wasn’t used to it like I was with the genital exam.

I had my catheter removed following an appendectomy- the embarrassing part was the entire time they were commenting on how my foreskin was tight, and due to my small flaccid size and long overhang it had caused them trouble inserting the catheter earlier. This was in front of some friends that had come to visit (behind the curtain) but they could still hear it all. No one said anything after, though they def. heard.

I have to go for a anotectal manometry! Been to gyn and got both ends checked! sent Me to a urogynecologist I have vagina atrophy a rectocele and he examined both ends! He finally said kneel down and let me put your butt up a little! He went up my buff with something not a speculum so I’m going for this test and the next day I’m going to another doctor and he said he would do a anoscope but most likely a proctoscope! I had a colonoscopy in september! Anyone ever had a anal rectal manometry! They put a ball up your butt and add water to it! I’ve had my butt in the air several times! Anyone have a proctoscope lately?

Someone mentioned vasectomy- that was my case too. The doctor didn’t have an “operating table” in his office, instead he had a dentist’s chair. I think it should have been in a museum. He had me sit then with the help of his nurse they removed my pants and underware. There was never any question whether the nurse stay or leave, she stayed right there beside me. The doctor asked if I wanted to remain sitting up “to watch” or to lie back. I chose to lie back. Although the shots numbed me I could tell the nurse was reaching in to help hold things. I didn’t feel any pain but did feel him tugging from up around my solar plexus. At one point his little clamp or forceps slipped off and the cut end of one tube retracted like a released spring. He muttered “Ah, the perversity of inanimate objects” as he went digging for the loose end. I’m glad the nurse was not a “pretty young thing“, more like an ordinary middle aged teacher. I don’t know why I’ve always equated her with a teacher rather than nurse which she obviously was. Strange, the way you remember things.

I dont remember the younger years .This time in my life . I love it all .Never embarrassed. I love it all .

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For me the genital electrophysiology exam. I was involved in a drug clinical trial were healthy subjects have to undergo that after a complete physical and urological exam. It consisted in the placement of several electrodes including the glans, inside the urethra and anus.

I remember the stimulus intensity was tuned progressively raising it from sensation to the contraction threshold of the anal sphincter. A pharmacological erection was induced with a couple of injections on the glans. The study should evaluate effects of the drug on the nerves and sensitivity of the penis. The procedure was very intense due to the embarrassment of being manipulated with an erection and have to get the stimulation tuned by trials with the doctors palpating with fingers my perineum and anus. I remember my anal sphincter contracting around the probe during stimulation, some discomfort at electrodes on the glans and a lot of precum...

My most personal exam was being examined for anal fissure with a doctor and a female nurse. They put me on a table and spread me wide open as they inserted instruments to find the Fissure!

Most embarassing.. When I had a breast exam done by a guy who was almost my son's age and he spent almost ten minutes squeezing my nipples to check for discharge.

I made an appointment for a sore throat and my usual doctor (female) wasn't available, so I had to see a male doctor, which I usually avoid if I can in actual medical scenarios as I feel a bit less awkward around female providers. It turned out to be a strep infection, an easy fix. The embarrassing part was I was blushing so hard while he was checking my ears (close proximity) that he said he could feel my body heat. Thankfully, I had a fever anyways, so he chalked it up to that. He also proceeded to tell me that my tonsils looked like, and I quote, “hamburger meat” and how much he wished he had a medical student around that he could show. I was mortified. It all could have been avoided if the PA I saw during the weekend walk-in clinic had actually bothered to look at my throat instead of assuming my symptoms were due to other factors. Not an extreme experience but certainly a memorable one for me.

In addition to the procedures discussed there https://en.zity.biz/index.php?mx=forum;ox=display;msg=653244 I recall this embarrassing discussion.

I was about to leave home to study in another city and, basically, our doctor was inciting me to get vaccinated against hepB since it's sexually transmitted and she expected that, as I was no longer living with my parents (and my overprotective mother who disapproved of teenage relationships), I would be sleeping around. But she was saying that in a rather roundabout way and I did not catch immediately what she was saying, which probably made me seem quite naive and awkward; and then I realized and blushed.

In adult age, my wife had a discussion with her GP and the GP suggested she did breast self-exams and gave her a leaflet. My wife blushed when the GP said “you can do them or ask your husband to do them”.

Personally, my most embarrassing was a cystoscopy, which I really need to jot down the recollection here at some point.

But! I think the most embarrassing exam/procedure would be the urologic consult for Peyronie's disease diagnosis. For those of you who don't know, Peyronie's disease is an abnormal curvature of the penis which is caused by scarring from trauma or other vascular abnormalities. At the exam, the urologist will do a very detailed examination of the penis to try and feel any of the scar plaques in the erectile tissue. Following this, they may elect to inject the penis with a drug to induce an erection in the office. This is because a very firm erection is necessary to accurately observe the severity of the curve. They will then measure the erect penis including using a special tool to evaluate the degree of curvature. Following measurement, they may also elect to do an ultrasound on the still erect penis to identify the plaques causing the curvature. You must then wait in the office for the erection to subside sufficiently before you can leave. Here is an excellent video from the mayo clinic showing the whole process:

https://youtu.be/BKQFbBLVKqw

I think the combination of inducing an involuntary rock-hard erection along with getting measured and evaluated is so embarrassing. A nurse will check on you in 15-minute intervals to ensure you are erect enough and then at the conclusion to ensure you are “soft” enough to leave. I can't imagine going through this!

A bed wetter until puberty, my urinary retention was under 1 hour. At age 5 (1970) I had a voiding cystogram, this was performed at an old Victorian hospital. The modern children’s hospital X-ray department was closed due to building faults.

X-rays were taken most of the day, we went for lunch and came back. My mum waited in a corridor which went around the room with the giant ceiling mounted camera and prep/post procedure rooms. I always went into the same prep room via the same sliding door and was undressed completely. Then had to stand naked waiting at a door for the X-ray room to be opened.

It was terrifying and embarrassing, especially first time around. Could hear the camera move over a child the other side of the door, it was loud. I wasn’t allowed to cover myself, guess they were afraid I would on the table.

The X-rays were taken in different positions, not always voiding. Contrast dye injected and a horrid tasting drink. Catheter inserted and filled before peeing out in the afternoon. The staff touched me down below many times.

This was the first time I felt really embarrassed. Had been seen undressed a few times prior and had my foreskin retreated as prep a few weeks before the X-rays but this was the worst embarrassment wise.

That day I was in and out the X-ray room many times during the day and was told I was “brave” and “good”.

But! I think the most embarrassing exam/procedure would be the urologic consult for Peyronie's disease diagnosis.

I have this condition. My erect penis curves down and to the left. Been that way since i can remember, going back to before i started puberty. No childhood trauma that i can remember. Never hindered sexual relations.

The exam sounds super embarrassing. Maybe I need to book one. 😉

Proctologist examining the anus

First pediatric physical exam during puberty. Never felt so exposed, vulnerable, embarrassed, AND excited all at once.

Felt so exposed, vulnerable, embarrassed, AND excited all at once.

That is quite a range of emotions and I fully agree that is exactly how it felt as boy growing up also.

An army paratrooper told me his mom embarrassing experience happened in Asia many years ago when his parachute failed to deploy properly resulting in a heavy landing which injured his back. There was concern that he could be seriously injured and he was carefully transported to a nearby civilian hospital. X-rays show they he may have issues with his spine and it was decided that he should be put in a body case and transported by helicicopter to a major hospital.

By luck there was a female orthopedititration trained in the US at the hospital. She explained to the officer what they needed to do and he agreed. She asked if it would be all right for her nurses to observe the procedure. In considerable pain, he quickly agreed. Laying naked one an examining table he was told he needed to have his body hair removed and the doctor asked one of her assistants to shave him from nipples to groin and she was shave below while half a dozen nurses watched. As the doctor cut away his pubic hair, he apologized as his penis slowly erected. He was used to being nude in a massage parlor but never with an audience. The doctor told him to relax and close his eyes as they put on his cast.

Before tha happened a nurse asked the doctor why the patient's penis looked different. She had never seen a circumcisted male. The doctor grasps the man's penis and showed the nurses how the man's foreskin had been removed as a child. Handling his organ brought the man close to orgasim and he asked her to let go. Embarrassed, the young physician released him and proceeded to put on a body cast while his penis remained erect. At the end she told him a helicopter was on the way to transport him to a bigger hospital in the capital. Embarrasse that he was still erect he asked not to leave him exposes.

The doctor asked all the nurses but one to leave the room. The girls laughed as a one girl stayed behind. Then the young doctor explained the the nurse has previously been a masseuse and would resolve the problem. The doctor said he was observe as she had never seen a male masturbated. He agreed and the young nurse gave him a quick and very professional hand job. That over, the man was prepared for his evacuation and asked the doctor if he could invite her for a dinner to thank her. She agreed but that is another story.