It starts with a trip to the restroom to per in a cup.Then a nurse asks me all sorts of fun questions.Then they take my blood if it’s needed.Then I go to the exam room to undress.My doctor comes in and asks more questions.She listens to my heart and lungs.I open the gown and she does a breast examNext comes abdominal.Then out comes the speculum.Then she hits me with her fingers.And if anything has to go into my ass it goes I at this point.The nurse comes back I if I’m getting shot.
At my recent exam I was called into the exam room by the doctor. Started off talking / asking questions about my last smear / last period. Then I was asked to undress from waist down behind a curtain and lie on the couch. I wasn’t given a sheet so just laid down naked from waist down and waited while the doctor gathered all the equipment. There were no stirrups so my legs were in diamond shape. I was asked to bend my knees and drop them to the side to open up my legs. Then I was examined internally with 2 gloved fingers to check the position of my cervix. Next a speculum was inserted and opened, and the smear taken. I didn’t have a recital exam.
At my recent exam I was called into the exam room by the doctor. Started off talking / asking questions about my last smear / last period. Then I was asked to undress from waist down behind a curtain and lie on the couch. I wasn’t given a sheet so just laid down naked from waist down and waited while the doctor gathered all the equipment. There were no stirrups so my legs were in diamond shape. I was asked to bend my knees and drop them to the side to open up my legs. Then I was examined internally with 2 gloved fingers to check the position of my cervix. Next a speculum was inserted and opened, and the smear taken. I didn’t have a recital exam.This is very typical of the UK procedure. Personally I like to see the patient in the frog leg position.
From all I have heard and read, exams are pretty much textbook in sequence, BP, temp, questions, heart, eyes, ears, breast, pap, pelvic exam, and a rectovaginal exam. There may be slight variations.. but only slight.
I think the sequence in the US and Europe are a bit different. I have read about the US exams that female wait in gown for the doctor.In Europe you have a chat with the doctor first after which he order you to undress in a cabine or behind a screen. In my country your do.t get a gown and you have to walk back undressed.Thereafter it was general exam, take weight, some general checks, sitting on exam chair, breast exam, spreading the legs, he opens your lips, speculum exam and thereafter bimanual exam
In Europe you have a chat with the doctor first after which he order you to undress in a cabine or behind a screen. In my country your do.t get a gown and you have to walk back undressed.Thereafter it was general exam, take weight, some general checks, sitting on exam chair, breast exam, spreading the legs, he opens your lips, speculum exam and thereafter bimanual examThe rectovaginal exam wasn't It part of the your general exam?
Till now I have never had pap. I am 26My order is: Breast...Speculum...BimanualWhat does the doctor do during the speculum exam if not taking a pap?N.
What does the doctor do during the speculum exam if not taking a pap?N.She just looks inside with torch. Even I don't understand. I asked, what's the reason, she says till 30 it's ok to not have a smear unless specific symptoms are there.