When was your first Gynecology Exam?

My first exam was at 17 took me months too work up the courage to book a Pap test. a real rough period made me decided to make sure everything was ok. I felt super awkward but quite proud of my self in the end

I've shared the very unpleasant story of the intrusive exam I had as a pre-teen. While that was a gynecological exam, I don't really count it as one as it was just weird. The first time I had an actual well woman exam was when I was looking to get on birth control as a teen.

This was 1980 and I was a 16 year old good Irish/Polish Catholic girl (so my mother thought) and I couldn't just ask to go on The Pill, so I used the excuse most girls my age/background did then: I wanted to use it to control acne.

Did I have acne? No more than anyone else but I was modeling and my mother bought it as an excuse. Our GP did it. I had been going to him since age 12 so there wasn't a whole lot of background needed. He told us that he was going to need to do an exam with internal and asked if I wanted my mother present. I said no so she left. I was required to 'take everything off'. I left my socks on. He asked if I was sexually active, told me the answer would remain confidential and I figured he was going to be able to tell anyway so I told the truth and said 'yes'.

He did a breast exam, warned me that I had a lot of nodal breast tissue and to be sure to do self-exams regularly and then put me in the stirrups. Yes, I had some flash-backs but his attitude was a lot better than my previous time, he explained what he was doing and looking for at each step of the way so it wasn't bad. He did an external which included looking through my pubic hair and then opening me, introduced a speculum (it hurt a little) and did a Pap, then did an internal exam. Told me everything looked good, wrote the prescription 'for acne control' and warned me that I would be fertile for the first 30 days on the pill and to use another method of birth control for the first 30 days.

At 15. It was really awkward.

First full gyne exam I was 17. My mom had been hounding me to book one, and I lied and said the doctor was making a referral to the gynecologist - I had only heard about the exams from reading American magazines and didn't know that in Canada it's usually the family doctor that does your pap etc. Busted! So then I actually booked the exam. I remember the breast exam was embarrassing but unexpectedly tingly feeling in a nice way, but the pap and bimanual were pretty uncomfortable; I wasn't a virgin but the doctor noted I had scar tissue around my vagina that made it very tight. (No idea what from, I didn't even use tampons. Maybe that first boyfriend was rougher than I remembered.) "Speculums are proof that God is a man," the doctor said.

But my first vaginal exam I was around 8 - I had a bladder infection and the pediatrician slipped my pants and panties down past my knees and put me in frog leg position and spread my lips and manipulated the tissue of my vulva a bit, including using the tip of one finger in my vagina. Not sure if that was to expose the urethra or check for signs or abuse or what. "Now, I'm just looking. No one but a doctor or your parents helping with your bath should be touching or looking at you here." The idea of someone looking intently at my vulva - someone who was allowed to and supposed to - was very exciting to me. Later I would get undressed in bed under the blanket and pretend I was being examined again. I still love the feeling of two fingers spreading my labia wide.

I was 18 and it was a full exam but is always so quick!! I’ve never had a doctor do a rectal. I always remember my doctor pulling my undies down and looking at my vagina in the frog leg positron when I was younger.

I was 16 years

I started my period early, at 9. I remember it was before I had pubic hair. I was referred to go because I was having trouble holding my pee, especially at night.

It was a urogynecologist. I remember they did a bunch of tests. They put a speculum up in me and it was painful. My big sister had just been diagnosed with cancer in that area and it had spread.

They put a camera in my pee hole and then put a catheter in me and ran dye in me and I had to pee in front of doctors. They put what i now know to be an ultrasound probe in my vagina.

It was a terrible day. All that hell and all they found out is that I couldnt hold my pee very well.

I was 19. Wanted to go on the pill. It wasn’t awful. I didn’t start hating speculums til my 40s.

19. My mom made me an appointment when she went for her yearly exam.

I was 24 .... Took way too long to get one because I was scared

I was 16 and my mother was with me inside the exam room-