Are the Instruments Visible?

They have always been hidden at any of my appointments. My current gyn has a cart similar to a tool cart, only bigger, in each room. I presume that's where the instruments are. The stirrups are on the table. Some offices I've been in has had the stirrup on the side away from the wall removed and they put it in after you are laying down.

I can not remember very clearly but I think my gynecologist gets the speculum from a drawer that is very close. Maybe some women do not really want to see much of what is going to be used on them but it really does not bother me if I see the speculum. I know it is going to be put in after he has done the bimanual exam and it is just more interesting if I can see it.

Commonly instruments are always visible on table next to the gyno chair. Only specially instruments aren't. Sometimes I look at doctor, which size of speculum he takes from the table :-)

Instruments are normally not in sight in real exams ...but can be in play exams if it gets the patient excited

When I go with my partner, everything is already laid out on a tray, but left covered until her feet are in the stirrups and the doctor is ready to start the pelvic. Stirrups are not pulled out until they are needed.

My gynecologist has all the instruments laid out on a tray beside the exam table.

Odd. Never had a pelvic for obvious reasons, but when I went in for a cystoscopy everything was laid out in plain view. Was a little surprised at the size of the scope, but figured they knew what would go in.

I'd expect that they'd cover for everyone, or more likely not cover, after all I knew why I was there, but I guess not.

In retrospect I guess I kind of liked it. Seemed more honest - "we all know what's going to happen here and we're not going to try and hide it from you" kind of thing.

Everything is laid out when the nurse brings me into the exam room.

If it is a gynecologist office, I can't imagine anyone having any concerns seeing either the extended stirrups or the specula/KY/cyto brush etc. After all, there is no misunderstanding as to what one is there for.

In my gyn office instruments are always visible on a table next to the gyno chair and only speciall instruments aren't.

Doctor Geoff makes a good point. We all have a good idea what is going to happen, so it shouldn't traumatize us to see the stirrups or instruments. I think, though, it's better hygienically, for the instruments to be put away until needed.

I agree bbw4doc but I do believe most of the plastic speculum (and perhaps the autoclaved metal) are in a sealed bag from which the doctor takes then... so sitting on the counter would not be a major problem

Doctor Geoff

At my last two gyno appts all the speculums , plastic and metal were in sealed packages.

I would think one of the reasons for not having some things displayed ( not in any type of seal or a container) would be for sanitary reasons.

It certainly does not bother me to see anything but I am also not the squeamish type.

At my appointments all the instruments and what they need are on a rolling table but in packages

That's a good point about things being in sealed packages. I'm showing my age - it hasn't always been that way.

For all of my gyno appointments, the instruments are not only sealed, but they are placed on a paper towel.

Back in the days before they came sealed, they were also placed on a paper towel, and one doctor always instructed me to run the speculum under fairly warm water cause he said "I wouldn't want some cold metallic object shoved in me!".

None of my doctors placed instruments on a counter, all had a little movable tray with wheels that was adjustable in height.

The instruments were placed on it with paper towels covering the top for sanity reasons.

I know one lady friend in her 40's that had never seen a speculum before, so apparently her doctors kept things hid or she wasn't very inquisitive. I would think I would be curious to know what things look like that are being inserted inside me. But, to each their own.

By the way, I had one GP that kept unwrapped plastic speculums in a big measuring cup by his exam room sinks (that didn't look sanitary to me).

As we walk into the exam room, only a box of gloves and a tube of lubricating jelly are on the counters. The pap kits, metal and disposable speculums, anoscopes and all interesting "goodies"are in drawers in the exam tables. My wife cannot see most of them, but as I stand behind the doctor I do see them all...

My gf has told me that none of the instruments are out before the exam and that the speculum is in a drawer on the exam table

For my wife's exams, the sample container, brushes, and swabs are laid out on a table, the speculum is in the heating drawer of the table.

I would think one of the reasons for not having some things displayed ( not in any type of seal or a container) would be for sanitary reasons.

Or maybe to keep kinky bastards like me from snatching them!

^LOL! My first stethoscope was one my bestie snatched from our doctor's office. She traded it for a sweater of mine she loved. Best trade I've ever made!

No, I would never do something like that, before anyone asks!

@Tygerwolfsbane yes heat that speculum

Or maybe to keep kinky bastards like me from snatching them!

Sick bastard. 😃 But me too.

The nurse pulls it all out before the dr comes in. I am usually sitting on the table watching her pull it all out.

In a play exam though.... I like for all of the various instruments to all be on display when I walk in... it builds the anticipation and I get a visual of what's going inside of me later. Then as it's sliding in, I can visualize what it looks like and it's more arousing. 😉

My doctor has everything except the speculum on a tray beside the exam table. The speculum is in a drawer at the bottom of the exam table.

Good question. My doctor have all goodies like KY jelly, pap kits and few speculums in shelf, so when I sitting in gyno chair I couldn't seen them. In first one I could see only box of gloves. I think that it was psychology trick to not scary women 😉. What is more, he has got a glass wairdrobe where he has got plenty vearious speculums and special istruments are in lower shelves; opposite to gyno chair and nearby his desk.

Obviously I've never had a gyno exam, but I've witnessed several. The office I've been too has the instruments out on a metal tray-like table, but they are covered by a sterile drape.

I think seeing instruments laid out heightens the suspense of an exam wonderfully,

my GP has a glass cabinet in the exam room with instruments old and new clearly displayed,, a very nice touch, which i can't take my eyes off

At my gyno the speculums are kept in a drawer they are sealed in packages. Everything else is usually scattered about in the room or sometimes on a paper towel covered tray. In the office i work at we don't do those exams much so everything is pretty much in drawers in fact only one of 8 exam rooms is set up for gyno stuff with speculums in the room already. I work in pediatrics and family medicine.