When was your first Gynecology Exam?

My first gyno exam was at the age of 23. It was a normal exam, as a part of my first annual physical. Yes I have been having physical since I was 23. My parents are of the opinion that health needs topmost attention, that's why started so early unlike the trend here.

Here there's no single doctor for the entire physical. Each doctor is different. And yeah I attended the whole exam alone, for the first time. I was slightly nervous but not scared. The medfetter in me had seen all of it on internet and mom had also explained what would it be like.

Having medfet interest I clearly remember the exam till now because I had written about it in my diary!!

So I was asked to change to gown from T-shirt and skirt (I thought that would suffice) then the doctor asked about my last period, general period pattern and whether I was sexually active (I am still a virgin). Then she asked me to drop the front of the gown and after a quick visual look palpated my breast. Mom had taught me self exam since I was 18 so I was habitual of my breasts being felt like this but this time it wasn't my hand but someone else's so it was slightly weird.

Then came the pelvic exam. I had played with myself down there but never even fingered. So I was little nervous with that being my first time in stirrups. It was a mix of excitement and nervousness. Strange feeling. She first just did a visual check of vulvar area then the bimanual. I thought it would hurt but maybe she used only 1 finger that's why it was just slightly uncomfortable. I even had a speculum exam. She used adolescent speculum. More than it opening, the scraping was uncomfortable. It has a very uncomfortable tickling down there. But otherwise it was fine. Both, mom and the doctor suggested breathing deep. It helped.

I realized first gyn appointment is nothing to fear about (slight nervousness is obvious) if one is properly informed. It may not be total fun but it's nothing to be scared of either.

My first gynecological exam was at my 15 years. One day my mother come to me and told me, that I am women now and is necessary go to female doctor. My parents wasn't much opened to questions about sex and my mother only told me, that female doctor will exam my breasts and vagina.

Most helpful was my best friend, which was at gynecological exam few months before me, so she told me that to expect. She told me too, dotor will exam me rectally, because I am still virgin.

I was scared what will be almost two weeks when I waited for the exam.

When i was 18 to get the pill. Was at a clinic in next town and never had one before, this is when you could not google everything. Not knowing what to expect was very nervous when escorted to the room and given a gown and a drape for my legs. Told to undress completely, put gown on opening in back, drape over my lap. I did as instructed and when the knock at the door came and in walked a middle aged man. Never meeting him before he said hello and introduced himself asked a few questions and then started examining me.

17 years old & right before going to Fire Academy.

I was 18 when I had my first gyno exam. I was getting ready for college, but I had also become sexually active.

I was not far off 15. No real medical issue just being an age when mom said it was time.

Plus i was interested in going on ocp to regulate period and also prevent any unplanned pregnancy.

I was 14 at the time. I had heard horror stories about the procedure but guessed it would not happen to me for my years as I had nothing wrong with my periods, This all changed when I got ill and went to hospital > I had the gyno amongst other examinations to find out what the problem was - it was appendicitis. That bit was horrible, but I loved being nursed so much I became one.

I was seventeen, about to go to college and thought/assumed that I would become sexually active once there, so I needed birth control to ward off complications. I had been active with myself for quite some time. You could probably call me a chronic masturbator, already anal erotic, enemas etc. I was technically a virgin, but enjoyed penetration and not at all shy about my own body. Thoughts of the exam did not trouble me but instead aroused my curiosity.

Appointment day came and I left home freshly bathed and shaved and was met in the clinic by a nurse who gave me several pages of forms to fill out. She interviewed me in the exam room, took my BP, temperature, oxygen level etc. and gave me a cup to take to the washroom to pee in. When I came back, she had a gown waiting for me with instructions to disrobe fully and put it on, " The doctor will be with you shortly."

The doctor knocked on the door, and came in with another nurse and had me sit on the table while he did his stethescope thing and palpated lymph nodes etc. He asked me to lay down on the table, examined my breasts and palpated his way down my body till he got to my hips. I rolled over and he did my spine for its total length and out the sides at waist level. I was then instructed to sit on the edge of the table and had my leg joint movement checked, with reflex test on my knees. The nurse, at this point raised the end of the table a bit and I was told to move till I was on the edge and lay back. The leg rest was pulled out and I got my first look at the stirrups. Now I knew the main event was coming.

He spread my labia and did a visual exam, before lubricating his finger and feeling around inside my vagina. This was not a problem for me, other than having a strange male doing it. Again, I was more curious about the physical feeling and also about what my own mental reaction would be to such an invasion. Not surprising, it didn't bother me and he was gentle but thorough. Next, the dreaded speculum. Again, curiosity reigned and I felt the cold hard metal touching me. He slid it in and slowly opened it. I felt full, but not uncomfortable while he peered inside with a strong light. I guess he liked what he saw, so he closed the instrument and pulled it out, a little too fast for my liking.

For the bimanual, two fair sized fingers while palpating my lower abdomen center, then left and right. He changed his gloves and next thing I knew he was smearing lubricant on my anus and his finger went in fully. He again palpated my abdomen while feeling around with the finger, pronounced all good and withdrew. That was it. He told me to dress and there would be a contraceptive prescription at the desk as I left.

The nurse gave me some wipes and left. As I was wiping the lubricant, I noticed a different kind of lubricant on my vulva. I was actually quite wet. 😃

In summary, the doc was professional, thorough etc. and I had my curiosity satisfied. I've had 6 or 7 exams since then, next one soon. 😃

I was fifteen. I wasn't sexually active. I was very inexperienced but I had to go because of my heavy periods. The female doctor was extremely cold towards me and didn't explain anything she was doing. She gave me a rectovaginal and scolded me when I asked her to stop.

I was 16. I was sexually active so went for my first sexual health screening. First time any doctor ever looked down there.

I remember being really embarrassed and my face going really warm as i lay on the table staring at the ceiling.

Was asked to put my feet together and let my knees flop outwards.

I jumped when i felt the first touch on my labia and began to get a little aroused as she inspected everything with her fingers.

When it came time for the speculum, she lubed me up but it still hurt as she tried to insert it so she pulled it out and said "I think we need a smaller size for you" She switched speculums and it was the first time i was stretched that wide, i got so turned on and so embarrassed because i knew i was wet. If she noticed she never said anything. She did the swabs, removed the speculum and give me tissue to wipe.

I've had many since and due another soon.

I was 18.

I had my first at age 20 in my college’s women’s health clinic.

I was 14 when I changed Doctor and visited a clinic for Women for the first time. The doctor was a woman and her examination was very quick and gentle. It was very different to my previous experience with a male doctor.

I was 14 when I told my regular doctor I was sexually active. After she examined me she referred me to a gynecologist and a week later I had the most thorough exam I'd had to that point

I was 16 and I had menstrual pain

I went when I was 16 years old.

As mentioned under other posts my first pelvic exam was not with a gynecologist but with the family dr I had been seeing since double figures.

But having had a checkup at 14 he proceeded to perform a speculum exam and a bimanual exam at the end.

Whilst I would not have let that happen to my family at that age back then it was not unheard of and modern clinical practice cannot be applied to how things were decades ago.

He was a great dr, I never felt like it was abusive at the time or since then.

Age 11... extreme pain with menarche. Embarrassing, heck ya! Went back after first cycle for follow up. Met Mr Speculum, he was metal and cold like ice. I was hooked on these exams for sure after this!

I had my first one when I was 17. I was at boarding school and since I was underage the school nurse was required to be in the room with me during my exam. When it was time for the pelvic exam I felt the doctor spread my labia, I glanced over at the school nurse who was also staring right at my vagina. I remember feeling so embarrassed to be exposed like that in front of two adults, one of whom I saw on a regular basis at school.

I was 18, the summer before I started college. I don't remember it being a bad experience. I do remember there being some pain when the speculum was opened and a little bleeding afterwards. I was still a virgin at that time, so that may have contributed to those two things. The next summer's exam wasn't painful and there was no bleeding, but I had been having sex steadily with my boyfriend since October by then, if that made a difference.

I was 16, and Mom told me I had a doctor's appointment. What she didn't tell me until we were on the way is that it was HER doctor.

He was old, his nurse was even older, and it wasn't a good experience.The vaginal exam I expected, but NOBODY had even told me there was a possibility there would be a finger anywhere else. OMG, I was shocked!

But now, it's part of the exam, and I don't mind them at all !

I was 16, and Mom told me I had a doctor's appointment. What she didn't tell me until we were on the way is that it was HER doctor.

He was old, his nurse was even older, and it wasn't a good experience. The vaginal, I expected, but NOBODY had even told me there was a possibility there would be a finger anywhere else. OMG, I was shocked!

But now, it's part of the exam, and I don't mind them at all!

@DrDeb Welcome to Zity, Dr. Deb !

I was 16 years old. My mother told me that she had a chat with our local doctor during my hockey game where he recommended to her it was time for my first full exam. 2 weeks later I was on his exam chair. It always intrigued me if he made this recommendation for purely medical reasons or that he looked for an excuse to examine me. That made me shy, embarrassed and bit excited at same time that was the start of my interest in this subject !

I was so young that the dr did it through my rectum. Because I found ou later I was too small to be checked through my vagina. Now I know why I want my bum checked.

I was about 9. Didn't know the reason at the time, but later would learn that my mother thought I had an imperforate hymen, for whatever reason, and decided to take me to get that checked out before I started menstruating. The exam was actually pretty quick and barebones, which I know might disappoint some of you, but basically my mother undressed me below the waist and I was put into frog legs. The doctor poked around, then put a finger inside while I sobbed like a baby before essentially going "There, problem solved!" I'm exaggerating a bit, of course, but that was basically how it went down. I vividly remember it being two fingers, but as an adult this seems a little unrealistic, probably just something my scared-shitless mind made up. Either way, not a fun experience at all, but a very formative one.

I was 16. Was having heavy periods and went to get it checked out. He was my mom's doctor, and Ironically, also my future Mother-in-law's doctor. He inserted 2 fingers and checked my ovaries. Then sent me for a Sonogram.

I was around 14 when I first experienced an internal examination. I was examined by the GP as my mother had taken me when I had bad period pain.

I remember undressing behind a curtain and lying flat on a couch under a sheet. It started with an abdominal examination - pressing my tummy, and then the doctor pushed the sheet up so it was lying crinkled up across my tummy and said she needed to check me internally. I was asked to bend my knees and flop my legs to the side. I had no idea such a thing as an “internal examination” even existed. I remember wondering what the doctor could see and what I looked like from that angle. (I may have had a look in a mirror later to see...)

My mother was waiting behind the curtain. The GP put on gloves and squeezed gel onto her fingers and slid one, then two fingers in very gently and moved them around and in and out quite a lot and pressed on my abdomen again.

No speculum was used. She said everything felt fine.

I remember talking to a friend about it afterwards and she said her mother had been to a doctor at the hospital - who “strapped her legs up out of the way” so they could check her down there. I was curious how that would work and started looking up medical text books. I saw a diagram of candy cane stirrups which apparent are or were used for certain procedures.

I then discovered what lay in store for me in the future - speculum, smear and stirrups. Although despite what it said in the textbook, I was never examined in any kind stirrups or leg holders. I’ve always been examined in frog leg position.

I’ve since had many gynaecologist check ups, I always keep up to date with my smears on the NHS every 3 years (taken by a nurse) and I have also had pelvic ultrasounds and private gynaecologist check ups.

I think is unnecessary and completely unuseful this kind of full examination in healthy teenage girls. This intimate first full examination have to be considered more an important rite of passage to adulthood and life as a woman that a medical procedure. This first full gyno exam is a sexual initiation ritual for young girls, a worship, and the professional and thorough doctors, who certainly leave no stone unturned, "The Priests".

Mid 20's.

I was 21. I had a great dr at the time that made it an overall good experience.