Most embarrassing age

Prepubescence and adolescence can be very difficult but much of that depends on the doctor. If a teen is visiting a doctor for yearly checkups then it is all about dialog. It is important for the provider to discuss bodily, sexual, psychological and social changes along with what may or not be wrong during this period of growth. My doctor did have those conversations with me. Never treat a patient like a pork chop on a meat rack.

For myself I don't remember getting embarrassed when I was younger, in my teens. When I was in my twenties I was having to go get employment physicals done. This is the age when I started to feel embarrassed about having to be exposed for the doctor.

Mine must have been when I was 12 and was given a gown for the first time and told to strip down to underwear.

Mom was with me and it was very awkward!

Had to be 14 or 15 form me. I was a very late bloomer, I think it had alot to do with how my mother vived me and treated me. I was nerve given any privacy at home, baths accurate temps and the bag were the norm. Some little boys just never grow up

For me, there is no such age as being a late bloomer and questionable in my puberty development, I understand the necessity of it, more so than some others. So, it didn't matter much that I had to fully strip for it at 13, had my balls rolled in doctor's hand, and a few stroke on the penis (to test its responsiveness/sensitivity --- I didn't get hard though).

In general i would say the puberty years. I was late in puberty development so i got very shy, when all my friends started to have changing bodies and mine still looked preteen.

I have felt embarrassed at RL exams at many different ages in my life, as it sort of was due to a particular doctor doing or not doing something or in a particular situation during the exam process. I have written about many of these situations in other posts I have made. However, I think the times during puberty were among the most embarrassing as well as when I received my first prostate exam. I am a great advocate for explaining to children just before they enter puberty as to what will be happening to their bodies before it happens. I truly believe that would help them understand better and might eliminate some of their traumatic embarrassment when it does actually happen and they don't understand what is going on. I wish "the talk" had been given to me before entering puberty so I would have been better prepared as to what would be happening to my body.

I would say between 12-14 when a girl is really starting to develop. That's how it was for me anyway.

Embarrassing for me was not about my age; but about an era - in the 1990 when I was doing full body shaving, and back then men shaving their bodies hadn't become acceptable like it is today. So being seen at the doctor's with my shaved body was very embarrassing.

I would say teen years because my step mother insisted on being present until I turned 16. She even watched the genital exam and hernia check and forced me to go to my step sisters female pediatrician because it was “more convenient” for her.

I would say teen years because my step mother insisted on being present until I turned 16.

@Badgy1 That sounds really awkward for you.

Probably about 14-16

That cusp of puberty was definitely the most embarrassing age for me. I didn't understand my body, certainly couldn't control an erection and never knew whether or not my mom and/or younger siblings would be in the exam room with me.

Plus, it was when my testicular cyst was diagnosed so not only was my pediatrician spending more time down there, but I had three visits with a pediatric urologist.

Although I was not late in puberty, I felt very embarrassed during puberty, especially at the beginning when I started growing pubic hair. I thought at that time that I was a big boy and why I was still treated like a little boy.

I think also that it is between 14 and 16

Kulemh " it is why I presume that the most embarrassing mortifying militzary physical examination that you hd three times was the first at 14 age or the second at 16 age because the set up was not already known by you and you were at the age where it was the most embarrassing( even if it was may be worst as regards modesty or privacy the last time at 18 age ?

"KC patient " do you have your mother or younger siblings present in the exam room at the doctor'office when you were examined between 14 and 16 age ?

"Bagdy 1" you could not complain to your dad about the presence of your step mother in the exam room until 16 age, In my opinion at least in a far past it was quite normal for doctors athat a mother was present but a step mother iis different, she was a little like a stranger

how old was your step sister when you were going to see a female pediatrician with her and your step mother ? how old was the doctor ? Were you examined naked in front of the girl and your step mother with comments of the doctor, while you might go out like it was frequent when it was the time to examin your step sister ? did your step sister teased at you after the exam if she had seen you naked ?

@esaterman , yes, it was a requirement that a child up to 16 was examined in the presence of a parent. For me usually it was my mum or granny or on one occasion when I was 15 it was my dad.

"KC patient" do you have your mother or younger siblings present in the exam room at the doctor'office when you were examined between 14 and 16 age ?

No. By then, the nurses and my mom had a bit more respect for my privacy and I was examined alone.