Best real medical full physical I've ever had!!!

Thanks all for your concern. I joined 2 days ago and is my first post, I had taken this forum to be a place to share the patient experience side of things with like minded people anonymously not as much the specific medical diagnosis. Obviously my health is my primary concern and my doctor's. The BP and sugar are top of my mind to monitor and regulate hence the regular checkups.

The post was a description of how it happened in terms of my feelings which are different from the practitioners. If this is not the right place, the moderator can perhaps move or remove it. Thanks again.

Wifey had been on my case for some time about seeing a doctor, and I finally consented. Probably the last time I saw a Doc was 10 years ago, but hey, if it ain't broke don't fix it. Truth be told, I was somewhat ready to see a doc because the blood pressure had been misbehaving for a couple months.

So I went in, having obsessed about it ever since the appointment was made. Doc asked "when was the last time you had a physical", and I couldn't help but laugh out loud. No disrespect intended or implied, but I'm really not the kind who does this on an annual basis......hell, a year goes by like a month, 10 years nearly as quickly 😃

So, he says, I think you need a comprehensive exam as that will help with figuring out what's not right, and I can do it right now. Whoa there big fella, give me a second to think about this! You mean you can't just hand me a script for some BP pills, and give a more deserving patient more of your time?

Well OK says I slowly, totally unprepared for this turn of events. Wifey is in the room with me ( so how can I say no? ), and the Doc says I'll be back in a minute, take off all your clothes except underwear. I proceed to disrobe down to sox and my fresh tight white briefs.

Now I'm beginning to wonder what's ahead. Doc comes back, and does the usual tests: brief eye movement exam, ears ( you've got some wax in the right ear), rubber hammer on the knees and ankles, stethescope all over chest and back, feeling/palpating torso, arm and leg movements, etc. while I'm seated on the crinkly-paper table.

Then he asks me to stand on the floor as he pulls out a wheeled stool. I'm to stand in front of him and lower my underpants ("slide down your underwear for me"). I REALLY wasn't prepared for this - haven't had a genitalia exam since a work physical when I was early twenty-something (where I had to strip naked and wait inside a cubicle the size of a public toilet; then imagine my surprise when the door opened without a knock-knock, and an attractive female intern stepped in to spend quality time with me inside the cube. Yes, she was very thorough with the hernia and naughty bits examinations).

So I slid my briefs down to my knees and repositioned my legs somewhat apart as the doc gloved up, wondering the whole time what he was going to think about my smooth privates......in addition to thoughts about how exciting it was when I was getting my little kid undescended testicle exams, and the order was "take down your underpants", which I did by bending over and pushing my briefs all the way down to my ankles.

He began by feeling my penis, then each testicle. It was warm in the room, so my un-aroused (and somewhat apprehensive) 3 inch cock and smooth small tight scrotum were somewhat relaxed , hanging loosely, presenting a bit larger. He asked if I had any problems, pains, etc. which I have not. Then he did a gentle hernia exam (turn your head and cough) confirming that I do have a hernia whose repair should be addressed at some point. Other than that all is well he proclaimed, then asked me to turn 90 degrees, and lean over the exam table, not saying what was next. Guess I was supposed to know, but it really took a few seconds to realize what the next procedure would be.

Oh-oh, I said to myself.....I've never had a rectal exam before!! I had heard enough negative stories about this that I was somewhat afraid, but also very excited and curious. Doc put some lube on my hole, then I felt some pressure as his finger travelled without hesitation much further inside me than I had ever thought or imagined. I had thought he would ask me to spread my cheeks, but no, he obviously knew exactly where he was going and how to get there. Then began some extremely pleasant sensations in my soft penis. He spent more time feeling around, and commented that the prostate felt good (which was great affirming news to me).

Just as I was getting used to the full feeling and tinglies he withdrew his finger, and provided some tissues ("if you want to clean up the excess lube"). Overall it was an exquisite experience.....wanted it to go on for a good while longer, and wondered how nice it might have been to have a baby-oiled glove "examining" my naughty bits as the prostate received extended attentions!

Herbal remedies have some valuable purposes but they are not going to manage some conditions. The right meds combined with some changes in diet, physical activity and stress reduction is the way to control the blood pressure. If a doctor ever gave me a prescripton of twigs and leaves to manage any serious chronic ccondition I would find a new doctor.

Some people just don't get it.

Last year i remember, my girlfriend had some chest pain. She made a doctors appointment and invited me to escort her to the doctor. we went to the doctor's office, we talked with the receptionist. as we were the first to arrive, we didnt have to wait. my girlfriend insisted me to come with her. i didnt miss the chance. you wont believe, that was the first time i ever saw a full medical exam of a female live. everything was included, breast exam, topless steth exam, vaginal and rectal exam, i almost got an erection seeing those medical procedures. the doctor was a female in her 50s but seeing a young girl examined for the first time is really arousing.

after the procedure, i told my girlfriend that i would escort her in each and every future medical exams..she smiled and we kissed.

They did a pelvic and rectal exam when the presenting complaint was chest pain? Yikes! What did she have? That seems wandering a little far afield.

I do a problem oriented exam myself. Hmmm...

Was she wearing snow pants?

Gee whiz...

Was she wearing snow pants?

They did a pelvic and rectal exam when the presenting complaint was chest pain? Yikes! What did she have? That seems wandering a little far afield.

I do a problem oriented exam myself. Hmmm...

liquidsky and Jds,

My thoughts exactly!

With all the cardio pulmono exams and tests I have had over many years now for chest pain, I have never had a pelvic or breast exam in combination. I definitely would have questioned the physician if they asked for a pelvic! I have been asked if I am current on having a pelvic, breast exam and mamo. If I have been due to have one, I have been advised to see my GYN or GP and schedule one. Being asked if I am current on these exams is the examining physician being thorough and making sure ROS is being taken care of and followed up on as needed.

See I see it from a whole different perspective. While I agree with all the above my thoughts are as follows. If someone I love is having chest pain, current, past or what have you and it was important enough to be seen by a doctor for it I would have thought his love and concern for her would have pushed any thoughts like that out of your mind. Maybe that's just the woman, nurse and mother in me? Not sure? Now if she is there for a routine physical and you were there then I could easily see your thoughts going there. I know mine would have, lol.

Mashie

I very much agree with you on this, Mashie. When there's an issue, the issue becomes the focus. Once the situation has passed, recollections of intimate procedures might be enjoyable, but in the moment, not so much. That said, I suppose it's possible that if all this happened as described, there may have been ameliorating circumstances: maybe it was very much a "we don't think anything is wrong, but just in case..." situation. The poster did describe his girlfriend as a young girl, which certainly doesn't mean that chest pain couldn't indicate a serious problem, but may have affected how seriously they saw the situation. And perhaps all the "add-on" procedures took place after the most threatening possibilities were ruled out? Also worth considering that since she "made an appointment" as opposed to going to the ER, perhaps she was one of those people who goes for a physical and then mentions a potentially troubling symptom in the last thirty seconds of the visit.

Or something else entirely.

Chest pain even in young people is always to be taken totally seriously. Frequently it can be something benign but it can be the manifestation of terrible things such pulmonary embolism or pericarditis. It is never to be ignored. I can say without equivocation that I've never done a pelvic or recital exam when evaluating chest pain. The exception is when I suspect that the pain is referred from below the diaphragm such as irritation from blood in conditions such as a ruptured ovarian cyst or intraperitoneal hemorrhage. The other exception too is when chest pains occur as a result of profound anemia with GI hemorrhage. Always the history dictates what is done in the physical exam. Also, I think for an onlooker to obtain prurient pleasure from watching the exam totally creeps me out.

This could be more handcrafted BS from an attention seeker.

I've had chest pain and have been treated by a cardiologist including cardiac catheterization.

The ONLY times my groin was examined was during the cath to find my femoral artery and again later to insure that there was no bleeding.

Do you want complete and caring attention when you're sick? Of course you do, but that care is focused on the problem. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's unlikely to be a zebra.

Or a nurse in snow pants with long red fingernails for that matter.

One thing seems certain "Old Snow Pants" will never be forgotten!

Sorry I must correct everyone. It's a Gentleman Doctor with SnowPants and the Nurse with Red Fingernails. It's very important to put it in uppercase so we don't forget the original poster.

Sorry I must correct everyone. It's a Gentleman Doctor with SnowPants and the Nurse with Red Fingernails. It's very important to put it in uppercase so we don't forget the original poster.

Nope, your recollections are confused. Snow pants was a different set of psychoses.

I'm terribly sorry Jds but my luetic encephalopathy is progressing faster than I'd like. Could you provide a link to snow pants? I desperately need a good laugh. Thanks.

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Thanks! It was even better than I remembered.

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I like the fact that it's all one paragraph. Nice touch.

The part I find unbelievable is what WASN'T done.

No EKG when a patient's CC is chest pain?????

Just to clarify, when I said that the patient's age "may have affected how seriously they saw the situation," I was referring to the patient and her boyfriend as "they," NOT to the medical professionals.

Susie, I agree that the lack of an EKG is odd, but it could be chalked up to a few things, the first of which in my mind being that if it was done, it may not have been particularly interesting to the poster, and thus was omitted, just as there's no mention of a blood pressure check or other things that likely would have happened in the situation he describes.

EKG and blood pressure? He was too busy leching to notice.

Exactly what I was thinking! Well, actually, several thoughts...one being that it could be a not-completely-factual account, not necessarily from whole cloth, but possibly a conflation of several experiences. Time does change how we remember things. To be fair, if you are someone with a medical fetish, real life can intrude upon your fetish and vice-versa. For me, the fetish stuff doesn't come into my head in an enjoyable, exciting or arousing way if I am with a person I care about who is in any distress at all, but I can understand how different people could be "triggered" by it in different ways.

I actually have a question related to this exam!

I read somewhere a while back that sometimes when an emergency doc can't figure out what the source of a complaint is, they do a full physical to cover all bases. Is this true?

I've often had to work up a patient who is unable to give a history because of altered mental status or because of a language barrier. If a family member is there a history may be obtained. If not I'm forced to do a rapid focused medical exam which may not reveal the problem. Frequently this is unexplained coma. Then I have to cast a wide net of lab tests to hopefully explain the cause of the coma. These include blood sugar, toxicology tests, CT exams and spinal tap. Sometimes the cause is not immediately forthcoming. One of the most challenging cases I've had was a woman from Southeast Asia whose only complaint was "belly hot" which was no help whatsoever. In the work up I did an EKG which revealed uncontrolled atrial fibrillation. Her old chart finally arrived and revealed that she had been admitted four times before with identical complaints. Such situations happen frequently and always evoke terrible stress. They do make emergency medicine challenging though.

So what, no breast or pelvic for "belly hot"? Ay, what a country!

Well brief and to the point is the name of the game in emergency medicine.