Tickled /Ticklish during exams

Does anyone have difficulties with their ticklishness interfering with exams?

I mostly have problems when my abdomen is being palpated, but I also have difficulty keeping a straight face while my breasts are being examined. It's really embarrassing, because it tickles a lot but also feels pleasant, and it's awkward because I'm sure the doctor knows.

The worst part to admit is I am ticklish between the legs, so sometimes when the doctor is performing an external exam of my vulva, I have to try not to squirm or laugh. Thing is, it doesn't always happen, but when it does, it's usually when the doctor first touches me there to spread open my labia.

Please tell me I'm not the only one.

I enjoy incorporating it into my play exams.

In what ways do you incorporate it into play exams?

I like to take a ballpoint pen and draw it (with the cap on) across the sole of the patient's foot to test her plantar reflex, and when she acts ticklish, I make a note of it and say "interesting, may have to revisit that later". The revisiting consists of restraining the feet helpless and testing the "response" to extended tickling with various items, some soft, some sharp. Other parts of the body will be tickled as well.

@trickeycat

Are you referring to play or RL? In RL, the examiner should simply apply a firmer touch.

I have never been a ticklish person, so it has never been a problem for me in any exam whether it is a real exam or a play exam. However, it is fun to discover that a patient is ticklish in a play exam, as it makes the exam all the more fun to do.

Have you ever laughed during a physical exam ??

Where upon your body do you hate when the doctor toches??

I used to a lot as a kid, during the abdominal palpation. It tickled a lot when he would push on my tummy.

Recently I had an abdominal exam. The doctor had just started palpating my stomach and I shook a little. The doctor guessed it rightly...What happened....you are ticklish?...and smiled.

I nodded my head and smiled back.

The two places that get me are my armpits and inner thighs.

I don't hate it but I'm pretty ticklish on the bottom of my foot. When they test foot reflex it definitely makes me ticklish!

Fortunately, my brothers tickled me so badly when I was young, I am not ticklish anymore. It is very rare to have anyone tickle me. I suppose if I had to worry about it, it would be my neck. That seems to be the only place that EVER tickles.

I am very ticklish on the inner thighs and feet and have giggled once or twice on an exam. It could be because i am nervous and a little more sensitive in those situations.

I am very ticklish and often squirm at a doctor's touch. My neck and the soles of my feet seem to be the most susceptible parts of my body to tickling.

I can very much relate to this as I had an exam today itself.

I had bad cramps so was referred to neurologist

At one point during the exam she had my eyes closed and touched something on my thigh and then my calf. I started laughing because of ticklish feeling.

She was checking sensation in my thigh and calf.

Actually I am very ticklish in feet legs lower abdomen neck and underarms. If I am touched there I can't stop laughing

I once laughed when the doctor told me he caught his wife with the gardener.

Babinski Reflex

Where upon your body do you hate when the doctor toches??

I don't hate the doctor touching anywhere, but I am ticklish on both the soles of my feet and my abdomen so I do start smiling when they examine my feet and palapating my belly and tickle my happy trail.

Only some kind of neurological test where he ran a pointed tip that was on the opposited end of the rubber mallet from the heal to bottom of my toes. I laughed involuntarly and I hated that test.

Yes, im pretty sensitive

It's embarrassing that as an adult, I still squirm when she checks my lower abdomen and femoral pulses.

With the Babinski, I just have the normal reflex.

I don't think I've really laughed at anything that has been done during a physical exam as an adult. I think when younger I did react with surprise or recoil at some new things, like running something along the soles of my feet.

But, at the first physical I can remember, a school physical when I was probably six, I was undressed to just my briefs. The doctor had me lay on the exam table. After assessing me all over, she then pulled down the front of my briefs, slid her hand in and felt around my penis and under my scrotum. I must have moved around a bit because I remember her asking did that tickle? I, a little embarrassed, said that it did. I don't really remember another genital check which caused me to squirm around, but I think that one was a bit of a surprise, most other times since I've been told it was about to happen.

I am very ticklish and had to laugh when the doctor tested my Babinski Reflex.

Two weeks ago I had abdominal surgery, yesterday was my follow-up exam with the surgeon. During surgery they placed steristrips over the skin instead of stitches and told me leave them on until they fall off. Well, they never fell off, so the surgeon took them off yesterday after wiping them down with alcohol. He had an alcohol soaked pad in one hand wiping each strip down, then used his other hand to pull it off. He was very quick and efficient doing that with only the occasional pain here and there. I had 3 laparoscopic incisions, about a 2" incision at my belly button, and about a 5" incision just above my groin. So I had a lot of strips. I am very ticklish and was constantly squirming and grimacing. At first the surgeon thought I was in extreme pain, then quickly figured out I'm just really jumpy.

I'm pretty ticklish pretty much all over my body but more sensitive in my abodomianl area. There's been times when getting examined that I tense my muscles and the doctor has to ask me multiple times to relax. After a few times, I usually relax my muscles and the doctor can finish the exam!

I’m always ticklish. I get especially ticklish during the abdominal exam and the exam of my feet when my doctor strokes my soles wit the handle of the reflex hammer.

When I was younger I was very ticklish during exams it was very odd to say the least especially during the abdominal exam

You and me both, Josh. I’ve always been ticklish during exams, although I also admit I would love to utilize my keenly sensitive long artist’s fingers to carefully examine a ticklish boy patient like you. You can always eMail me at stephenjude23@mac.com if that would “tickle you”.

I only remember an exam tickling when I was little. My pediatrician was a really nice and kind man. He would, just for fun when he was done poking and prodding on my belly, just go ahead and tickle me. He knew me well and my mom was in the room. I think I was in his office at least twice a month! I always had ear infections or something going on with me!

God, everything is ticklish when I'm at the doctors, probably because it's kind of a foreign and stressful situation. I squirm when they press their hearing thing on my belly.