Physical exam items laid out

What experiences have you had with arriving in the exam room to find that the doctor's office has already laid out the things to be used in your physical exam? Male or female?

The exam room was a normal exam room. I remember as a teenager in the corner of the exam room was a metal cart that was covered. Since I had issues with pre-mature ejaculation, the doctor had the nurse roll the cart over and it was an electrostimulation device that he hooked up to my penis.

The device made me get an erection and in moments I ejaculated 😃

When I'm having a physical, I'm used to seeing exam gloves and lubricating gel for my rectal, along with a test kit for occult blood. More recently I get the anoscope and that is there as well.

My doc does a lot of pelvic exams and there is always a tray set up for the ladies.

Yes, usually the gloves, lube and Hemocult kit are set out on the counter. My favorite is the urologist. All kinds of cool stuff to look at while I wait.

Yes, having everything out means they are prepared for what they have planned.

I only remember a few times when I arrived in an exam room for a physical and realized that the nursing staff had already laid out the things for my exam. I would see the exam gown folded and lying on the exam table and the tube of lube and the latex glove sitting on a paper towel in the middle of the counter. I thought that those were obvious signs of what was about to happen and I wasn't wrong.

At the practice my wife and I go to the only thing that is out for our physical exams is a tube of lube which is on a table with other items like tongue depressors. After the nurse does the preliminary items like blood pressure and it is time to get undressed, she reaches into a side drawer on the exam table and takes out a cloth gown and drape. The gloves are mounted on the wall in various sizes and when it comes time for a speculum, the doctor opens a drawer at the foot of the exam table and removes a plastic one and hooks a light up to it.

Unless a doctor's office uses one exam rooms just for physical exams only, there may not be anything set out for a doctor to conduct a physical on the next patient. Only two or three times do I remember an exam gown already laying on the exam table when I was taken back to a room for a physical and both times I was told to strip completely and put the gown on. Most of my physicals have been done with me in my underpants only so wearing an exam gown is unusual. An exam gown already laying out is a good clue for how the doctor performs physicals although I guess that most doctors would always use an exam gown for female patients and might not use them for male patients.

That tube of lube on the counter is there for a reason but it is no guarantee until you get to be a certain age that it is going to get used on you.

I had a sigmoidoscopy in a doctor's office years ago and a tray was already sitting there with the various instruments that the doctor was going to use when I was taken back to the exam room. The instruments were covered with a paper sheet so I couldn't see what they were, but I didn't have to imagine much.

My gyn has the thin prep container and a brush on the counter for my pap. The speculum is removed from a drawer unseen by me, when he sits down to do the exam. I have had a couple endometrial biopsies done and the tools for that, although I cant remember exactly what they were, were laid out beforehand.

When I go to my doctors office for a physical exam and I walk into the exam room I see the cloth exam gown and paper sheet on the exam table and on the counter there usually is the tube of lube next to the paper towel that has 2 exam gloves on top.

The only items laid out for the doctor when I have been led into an exam room for a physical have been gloves and lubricant. I find it extremely exciting to see those gloves and think about how they will soon be touching my scrotum and, hopefully, my penis and anus. I also begin wondering exactly what the doctor will say to me to instruct me to get into position for the genital, hernia, and rectal exams. A couple of times I have retrieved the used gloves from the trash to use while I masturbate at home thinking about the exam experience.

I did once, everything was laid out on a metal rolling tray/table, but they were covered with a sterile sheet so I couldn't see them untill the doctor pulled it away.

When I have gone to have a procedure of some sort done, the room is set up ahead of time with instruments on trays and draped. For routine exams, the nurse takes me to the room and pulls a gown or sheet out of a drawer and sets on the table and tells me to undress and put the gown on. The nurse comes back once the exam has progressed a bit and she prepares lubricant, gloves, and occult blood test kit.

Not at the doctors but one time at I was getting a colonic and walked into the room and there was a tray laid out. it had lube, gloves, different nozzels, different hoses, and a stethoscope laid on it. the lube and gloves are obvious. the different nozzles were to try out since i was new to the clinic and they didn't know which size to use, they got it on the second try. the different tubes were depending on how much "stuff" they thought was going to come out. the stethoscope was surprising, near the end of my treatment they used it to listen to my belly to make sure all the water and stuff was out.

After the nurse does the preliminaries (weight, BP, etc), she puts out an exam glove and lube then leaves the room.

I have found instruments and other items laid out on the counter or a tray in the examininng room several times over the years. Being stripped down to my shorts and sitting on the table alone in the room, waiting for the doctor, while staring at a long, shiny proctoscope with its black inflation ball and tubes laying there next to latex gloves and a tube of KY Jelly. The thought got my mind racing in anticipation. Same happened during a sygmoidoscope and colonoscopy exam.

The thing I most feared seeing in my youth and adolescence was an injection, but I never actually saw it because always I had to pull down my pants and bend over (or roll over in bed on house calls) before it was prepared.

Everything for my exam is kept in the drawers of the exam table until needed. The speculum, lube, and thin prep specimen jars are kept in the front bottom of the table. The paper vest and drape are stored in a drawer on the side.

I don't recall a case where anything was laid out specifically for me. It seems that the exam rooms tend to be well-stocked with the basics and they are retrieved as needed. I still haven't gotten a rectal exam at the doctor's office, but there are always tubes of lube and boxes of different sized gloves in the room.

I do like looking around to see what is stocked and to see labels on drawers and cabinets, though. And I have pulled open a drawer or two. :-)

When I do play exams I make sure that there is a lot of equipment in plain sight and like to see he same when I'm the patient. Lots of anticipation builds when you're waiting for the doctor and see all kinds of supplies in view.

Mine is the same as esallost, with the speculum, pap supplies and lube kept in the drawer at the end of the table which the doctor accesses during my pelvic exam. The gloves are in a box on the wall near the end of the table and within reach of the doctor sitting on the stool. Both my gyn and family practice doctor keep the gown and drape sheet in a drawer on the side of the table. At the gyn the paper vest and drape sheet are sometimes set out on top of the exam table when I walk into the room and other times the medical assistant will take them out and place on the table as she gives the instructions to disrobe. At my family doctor she always pulls them out and sets on the table with instructions for undressing just before she leaves.

From my experience, most of the required items are laid out when i enter the room. it's only when I need other examinations or treatment like injections where they will get it from the drawer or send their nurse to get it.

When doing an exam I rarely lay things out in advance. It tends to only cause more patient anxiety from being seen prematurely. Only in the case where I am performing a scheduled, perhaps more involved ¨procedure or treatment¨ will things be laid out in advance. Of course routine items that are always used are visible; steth, otoscope, thermometer, etc.

I just had a physical, and yes, items were laid out. I don't think it was going to cause me any discomfort to see items.

I have been in situations when the items were waiting and also when the nurse got them out of the drawer and arranged then on the table.. It is always a thrill to imagine what each instrument is for and how it feels,,, The speculum is my favorite fantasy item.. I just love how it feels sliding home and then when it opens up... I wish I could be a little fly on the wall so I could see what the doctor and nurse sees/

My wife asked me to go with her once to a gyno dr. He was also a neighbor so we knew him pretty well which is why she was nervous. Anyway when we entered he had what looked like a dildo connected to a computer sitting next to the exam table all ready to go. Of course it was an internal sonogram. I knew my wife was immediately affected by this visual. She undressed in front of me while the nurse and doctor left the room. She was sooooo wet. It really got me turned on too. I have to say that was one interesting visit having my neighbor inserting a huge dildo(I mean sonogram) into my wife right in front of me. I loved the conversation we had after than as well. She was truly humiliated.

There often isn't anything laid out beforehand with UK exams. More often than not for certain procedures the GP/Nurse will put items on a trolley on wheels and cover up the items before use. In GP surgeries only the very basics are on show most of the time i.e. BP monitor/Stethoscope, everything else is out of sight until it is required. Plus also some surgeries over here have a separate consulting room and an examination room adjoining it, so you dont get to see anything when you are in the consulting room anyway.

Enhances the anticipation I think 🙄

Usually have all items I intend to use laid out but covered Can be viewed by patient if they wish but chat beforehand and during exam adds to the experience anticipation too

At my last exam, the nursing assistant took out the equipment for the rectal and laid it on the counter on a paper towel before the doctor came in. Never got a rectal though since I had a colonoscopy a few months prior.

Has any male ever been escorted into an exam room where an exam gown is already out and on the exam table only to have the nurse put it away and tell him to strip to his underpants? That happened to me once and I assumed that gowns were only for female patients.

For regular office visits stuff is just pulled out as needed. When I went for an HSG the assistant was pulling stuff out and preparing everything while we were waiting for the doctor, but then she left and I was left staring at the big tray of assorted "toys" trying to figure out what I should be worried about and what I should look forward to!