Prostate Exam Positions

Bend over tsble and legs apart mostly

My first exam was at the age of 40. Prostate cancer runs in the family. I have always been examined bent over the table.

Always had mine in the Sims position

My doctor has me strip down, then I lay onto the exam table, knees flexed to chest spreadeagled. Then I feel his hand lifting my sac and his other hand are 2 well lubed fingers. Then I'm in heaven. I see him once every other month for the same exam. Oh! He's 74 y.o. nice guy n a great doc.

First one at age 33, bent over the table with my chest down on the exam table.

I only ever had one rectal prostate exam in my entire life at an army medical, and that was on all fours. I found it pretty weird, and said so to the doc afterwards. He said it was the best position to feel it in but agreed that it was maybe a little weird for the patient. I said "A litte ??" and he laughed.

Prostate exams are pretty rare here and not part of any doctor visit unless of course there is something the matter with the prostate. However since a few years they do check the prostate with ultrasound simply while laying on your back with your underwear still on.

My first was at the age of 26 and I was on all fours.

I have had a few, the male doctors for the most part have me bend over the exam table, and have me spread my cheeks and they insert finger.

When i see my proctologist, he always has me lay on my left side, checks the prostate first, then speculums for a better look.

The two female doctors had me on my left side, spread my checks and searched. On one occasion there was a 3rd year medical student and the Dr asked if it would be ok for her to do it too. "Sure, i don't have anything you haven't seen before" was my reply.

I have only had one at my not real doctor. I have to lay on my back and he lifts my legs into the air some then asks me to open them.

Never have had a prostate exam myself, but during role plays I love to have my patients on all fours.

Always leaning over the end of the exam table, like the OP described.

Last fall, I had my first exam (I was 64 at the time), on the table, lying on my left side. It was a little embarrassing when the pressure on the prostate pushed out a dollop of fluid that dripped onto my thigh, and my whole body jerked just a bit when his finger hit the "button". This was the first time that anyone had ever done this to me. The doctor just smiled and handed me a tissue. I have now added prostate stimulation to my list of pleasurable activities. I am also wondering if I will give the doctor an involuntary "short arm salute" the next time I get this exam!

I've had on stirrups once which was by far the sexiest ever!

Being there, legs wide open and spread out, so exposed was very very hot!

I've had bending over the table, standing up, elbows on the table and that one was not fun.

My second favorite was laying on my side, not as good as stirrups but good.

The stirrups was done outside of the US, but no doctor in the US has ever done or offered to do in stirrups.

Would it be weird to ask?

The first set that i've had, mainly annual company physicals, I stood up at the end of the exam table and leaned over onto it. The last few i've had were lying on the exam table, roll to my left (Sims).

Which was like the most recent time this past Spring. When she said she could only reach the bottom third, i suggested to try another position. Her reply was, "There IS no other position."

Um, oookaaay.....

Her reply was, "There IS no other position."

Hmmm. It sounds like your doctor isn't willing to accommodate the patient's needs. Next time, when they tell you to get into a position you don't like, just climb onto the exam table and get on your knees. Then lower your upper body so you're resting on your elbows or forearms. Then rest your head on the table or your arms with your ass up in the air. I've found that is by far the best position (at least for me). Most comfortable, and (more importantly) the most fun!

If they question why you're in that position, just tell them that you've found in the past that it's the most comfortable for you. Also mention that a previous doctor used that position and found that it was easier to reach more of your prostate.

I prefer the up on all fours on the exam table position JJ mentions for any kind of rectal exam. I've also once had a prostate exam on my back with knees drawn up to my chest which was quite fun.

Next time, when they tell you to get into a position you don't like, just....

Jimmy, the first thing I need to focus on with my primary care, is losing the gown. We're new to each other, and it's important that she become comfortable with me. I need to reach the same point with her that i am currently at with my dermatologist. And that is, being examined while wearing nothing but a jockstrap.

As for climbing around on the exam table...... that's down the road 😉

I'll take the unpopular position that you shouldn't push a gownless exam on your doctor. I am fully supportive of patients taking charge of their own health and asking questions throughout medical processes and procedures, but if you're asked to change into a gown, I think you should. The doctor has a right to preserve her own comfort.

As far as I am aware, gowns came into the picture from the past standard of male patients being examined, undressed except for their underwear, because of presumed concerns about patient, not doctor, modesty. Briefs, boxers, a jock covers the genital area. Were a doctor concerned, he/she could bring in a staff member, but since how things were done allows for thorough sight exams, better to not put on the gown. Not every male patient sees a dermatologist.

Sims position

My female doctor usually will ask me to bend over the exam table for my prostate exam.

When I'm examining a guy, I prefer to have the guy either flat on his back with his knees up to chest and spread open OR bent over the end of the table, feet spread wide, and holding his buttocks apart. Those gives a very good view of all his "private parts" and inflicts a bit more embarrassment/humiliation for him, which usually causes an adrenaline rush through is body.

My first was when I was 15. Proctologist had me up on the exam table on my elbows and knees with legs spread apart. who used his finger full of lube and then a long silver tube.

As I got older my regular doctor and my Urologist have me bend over the exam table with my legs spread apart.

Like "MijockDoc " has told it before in the discussion, I think that the more convenient position to let the doctor proceed easily is to be flat on your back with knees up to chest and spread open or still better but less comfortable for the patient if he is shy towards nudity to be bending over the edge of the table on elbows and knees, feet spread wide and holding the buttocks lifted on the air wide apart .

The last one was the position always chosen by military doctors to practice a DRE at draft physicals and induction examination .

After that at my first job physical, a woman doctor let me choose between the two positions and I chose the last one because I have already been examined in that oposition.

And later at a year check up on a medical clinic, my regular doctor, a woman doctor who saw me regularly one time by year and was more aged than me chose rather the first position but it was depending on when she decided to perform this check of prostate issue during all the examination, if I was standing or lying on the exam table.

Now my urologist asked me to bend on the side of the exam table and to spread my butts, it is less embarrassing for me but certainly less easy for him

For me all these exams were on knee chest or the usual bend-over position.

My prostate has been removed, but my female urologist still checks the area it occupied, after she completes my cystoscopy. Generally she has me roll onto my left side. She does a very through probing, and, since some of the nerves remain, it is a pleasurable exam.

I usually am asked to stand and bend over the table for my dre. I also have been told to lay on my left side, which I hate doing.

My last dre, I previously have posted elsewhere, was my choice as I did not give her an option to instruct me on how to prepare for her examination.

She had me in to go over the results of my last procedure. I informed her i still had pain issues in the groin. She quickly stated she wanted to examine me. I hopped up and dropped my pants. She continued on telling me stuff and asking more questions while I stood there naked from the waist to my ankles. She spent a bit of time examining my meatus and shaft. She then went on and examined my testicles. She had me turn my head and cough, several times. She went back to my testicles and told me she thought my right testicle was higherthan my left one.

She then said she would like to do a dre on me , and motioned for me to turn around. When I faced the exam table draped with the white paper, I noticed it was very low to the ground. I knew I had to move quickly. I climbed up on my knees. I bent over and hard her changing gloves. She then opened the tube of lube and I heard the top fall on the floor. She said it was a brand new tube and she needed the top to pierce the tube. I turned my head and saw her squat closer to the floor and search for the screw top. She found it and continued. She told me she would enter her finger and for me to bear down. I did so while lowering my head and shoulders to the table.

She felt around a bit and declared my prostate healthy. I thought she was done. However, she curled her finger to my leftside. An area I had not mentioned but thought there might be something there (aka a mass). She felt that area for about four swipes of her finger. She withdrew her finger and told me I could stand up. So I did. She began to talk to me with my pants still wrapped around my ankles. She realized this and told me to get dressed.

Should I go back and ask her what she was feeling for there on my left side? I did not bring it up, and I should have.

For DREs I've had stand and bend and lay on side. I don't really care - whatever allows the doctor to give the most complete exam. Other than a bit of embarrassment (which happens no matter what position) I put it in the "big whoop" category - a much bigger deal when it's a murky fear than when it actually happens. Everyone who has given me one so far has been skilled enough at insertion and gentle enough that it hasn't been a big deal.

I imagine it might be a bit more embarrassing if you get an erection, especially if things are hanging out in the breeze, but so far I've been in enough discomfort before the DRE to where that hasn't been anything close to an issue. Even so if the doctor was able to do a better exam with my feet in the stirrups than I'd go ahead and put them in the stirrups. I'm there to have my health taken care of after all.

It's never been part of a normal exam for me, but when I've had a particular problem that required it, my PCP has just had me drop trou and lean over the exam table with my elbows on it. I don't think his tables are wide enough to support anything else, unless I got up in stirrups.

When I've been to a colorectal doc, he's had me bend over the table for a quick check, but he's also had me get up on a table on my left side totally nude and raise my right leg up to my chest. That was for a more thorough exam, which included a digital exam and an anuscope for quite some time.

As I've said, I find it much easier to be on my hands and knees since it opens the area to be examined without a spread your cheeks request.