Most embarrassing auscultation experience

My most embarrassing experience would probably be the last time I went to the doctors with my family present when I was 12. I'd moaned to my mother about her and my big brother coming with me as my brother being older than me already went by himself. I was told I wasn't old enough yet, and not to be silly as they wouldn't see anything they hadn't seen before. After I'd went in and the doc asked me to strip to my underwear, my brother smirked at me and I then took my clothes off and sat on the edge of the table in my boxers. I felt self conscious as the doc asked me to take deep breaths in and out as he listened to my breathing and my heart as he placed his stethoscope all over my chest and back and then got me to lie down and said “I'm just going to have a listen to your tummy now Scott” which sounded really childish to me at that age. All the time my brother had a silly grin on his face and my mother looked at me which made me feel embarrassed.

My most embarrassing auscultation was during the exam of my hurting throat, when I was 18 years old. Ever since I was little kid, whenever I go to the doctor or have school physical and whenever doctor listens to my heart, my heart starts pounding and beats very fast. This time, I didn't even know that the doctor was going to listen to my heart, so I wasn't nervous until I walked into the office and saw the stethoscope and blood pressure cuff. My heart started beating very fast at the same moment. After a few questions from the doctor, he first took my blood pressure. He put the stethoscope head on my arm and pump the cuff. My heart was pounding in that moment. When he did finish that he asked me "Why is your heart beating so fast?" I told him that my heart is completely healthy, but that it usually beats a little faster at the doctor, but he didn't take me seriously.

He wrote down my blood pressure, and said “Your blood pressure is really high, I don’t know why, you are young..” (it was quite high - 135/98 I think ) and told me to take off my shirt. “Take off your shirt, I want to listen to your heartbeat cus it is really fast” I thought my heart couldn't beat any faster until that moment. He first put his whole hand right against my left chest, on my pounding heart and said “Your heart is In very bad condition If this is your rest rate.. You are young boy only 18 years old and your heart is pumping this fast in rest… I must listen your heart now” I thought my heart was going to jump out of my chest. He put the stethoscope in his ears and the diaphragm right next to my left nipple close to middle of my chest, i think tricuspid valve. When the stethoscope touched my chest I saw that head of it is moving with the force of my pounding heart. When the cold stethoscope touched my chest I thought my heart would explode from how fast it was beating. The doctor was looking at his watch as he listened to my heartbeat, he wanted to took my pulse. During examinations in the past, when the doctors heard that my heart was beating fast, they would just tell me to relax and that there was no need to be nervous, but this time it was different. Knowing that in a few seconds my pounding heart is going to be exposed and I would know exactly my pulse rate and that it would be in my medical card right next to my really high BP made my heart beat even faster. I was hoping my heart wouldn't start to skip a beat from the speed, but luckily it didn't. He finished auscultation and said to me with deep serious voice: "This is a strong tachycardia," he said, "Your heart is beating so fast, I can't even count your heartbeats properly, but right now your heart rate is over 130 beats per minute. Do you know what tachycardia is?" He asked me, I said I knew and I said it is a fast heartbeat. “You must go to cardiologist, this is a very high pulse for resting. I count about 68 beats in only 30 seconds, in full minute there will be more than 140 beats I am pretty sure. Thats very bad for your young heart. You had tachycardia, strong tachycardia and must visit cardiologist.” After that, we talked a little more about my heart and I felt that my heart rate slows down, but I didn't want to tell him to check my heart rate again, so that my heart wouldn't start skipping and beating very fast again. I wasn’t at the doctor office after that but my heart start to pump really hard every tim I remember this story…

What I feel like a lot of people (not all, but a lot) are saying is their most embarrassing auscultation moments are when family members are watching. That's awesome because I have always felt like an awful daughter for HATING going to the doctor and having my mom present. She would comment, ask questions watch intently as i was getting the exam. I guess I don't get it because I'm not a parent, but it was pretty embarrassing. My mom always seemed to find these strict, judgemental types too.

Today, I'm incredibly anxious all the time going to a doctor's office, but I still suck it up for the birth control pills. Also, preventative care is cheaper than fighting major diseases.

As a cardiophile I’ve kind of known that I have a small heart murmur for a while. But no doctor has ever commented on it. Until yesterday. 🙈

Had a physical. Doctor was taking a while listening to my chest which surprised me. Then when he stops listening he tells me I have the tiniest heart murmur and he wasn’t sure what to make of it. 🤐 I don’t know why but that moment was the most embarrassed I’ve felt as a cardiophile in a doctor’s office. I couldn’t be like “I KNOW, I’VE HEARD IT”. 😂 Hahahaha.

But yeah - he said it’s nothing to be concerned about yet. And then he told me he also has a murmur like it……….so of course I haven’t stopped thinking about that. 😶

What a day. 🤣

@john77 bad for you that you have a «resting-rate» on 140 beat.

An awful doctor you have. He was not nice with you. He listen carefully on your heart, but no listening to what you say.

He finished auscultation and said to me with deep serious voice: "This is a strong tachycardia," he said, "Your heart is beating so fast, I can't even count your heartbeats properly, but right now your heart rate is over 130 beats per minute. Do you know what tachycardia “You must go to cardiologist, this is a very high pulse for resting. I count about 68 beats in only 30 seconds, in full minute there will be more than 140 beats I am pretty sure. Thats very bad for your young heart. You had tachycardia, strong tachycardia and must visit cardiologist.”

@john77 John can you tell us what happened at the cardiologist?

@john77 bad for you that you have a «resting-rate» on 140 beat.

An awful doctor you have. He was not nice with you. He listen carefully on your heart, but no listening to what you say.

Yes, he was very unpleasant. I know 140 beats per minute is very fast for resting, but he shouldn't have behaved like that. He made my heart beat even faster.

After the examination , my heart was beating very fast for another 45 minutes, but after that everything was fine.

@Heartexam

@john77 John can you tell us what happened at the cardiologist?

After that examination I didn't go to the cardiologist because I thought my heart was healthy, as it is.

It was his recommendation because he probably thought that my heart often beats so fast, but it is only pounding at doctor office, but since that time my heart wasn’t stethed at doctor. It was two years ago..

@Medluve84

One of the most embarrassing moments I've ever encountered was coming home from working out and walking in on my ex who is a Nurse auscultating a female friend who was topless. I turned around to head back out and my ex said wait, your next… her friend who had a heart murmur wasn't bashful stood there and said yes “your next” so she had me take off my shirt she listened to my heart and lungs while her friend stood by. It was embarrassing

And in my opinion, this is a very cool thing that happened to you. I would like a girl to listen to me and another to watch it.

@wfa But i think you are happy that it happend to you? Or would you like it to not be a part of your experience?

@wfa sounds amazing to me. I would have loved that

@wfa embarrassing and yet I would have loved that and my heart would have bounding out of my chest beating so fast at that.

Wfa,

Amazing your girlfriend would be up to that being what she does for a living; since I don’t want to do anything that reminds me of work when I get home.

For me personally, my most embarrassing experience with auscultation was in high school. Our physicals/sports physicals were done in stations for each part of the exam, and for the auscultation section, it consisted of about 3 rows of wooden benches in the auditorium. We had to sit down and wait for the nurse ( there were only 2 at the station as opposed to around 30 of us ) to come over.

The embarrassing part is that, in order to auscultate, the nurse had to lift both my shirt and bra up in front of my fellow students, as well as lift my left breast for the stething. She wasn't a very considerate nurse, to say the least.

@Erty2 were there any other situations where a nurse or some school official forced you to expose your breast in front of everyone. I know you also mentioned a scoliosis exam at some point, but besides these were there other situations

@Yesbutno1 the ECG was a time where it was required along with other group examinations but apart from that not much

@Erty2 what was the most embarrassing topless, braless moment for you, and why was it?

@Yesbutno1 probably having an ECG, it was the longest one and I found it the most humiliating

@Erty2 What was the process for the ECG? Was it being in front if other girls the reason why it was the worst?