Breast exams in adolescence

What age and bra size were you the first time the doctor examined your breasts?

Male or female doctor. Did the doctor examine your breasts or just listen to your heart?

Probably 7 or 8 was the first time I remember having them looked at, much later though for an actual examination / training on how to do a self exam right about college freshman year I think.

As far back as I remember even before had any actual breasts they were looked at but proper breast palpating was from around 11 ish at the "budding" stage and was told about importance if self exams and how to at 14/15.

Has been the essentially the same for my family. They tend to at least visually inspect as part of tanner staging.

My first one was probably around age 14 or 15 (can't exactly remember). I was probably a 34B at the time and just had to take my bra off and the doctor did a quick exam

I was 12 the first time I had a breast exam, or at least the first time the doctor specifically focused on that area. My breasts were starting to develop, but still not much there. The female doctor looked at my budding breasts, just a visual check of my development I guess and also commented that they were starting to develop. At 13 I got my first breast exam with the doctor palpating my now more developed A cup size breasts. The breast exams I got from her at 13 and 14 were brief in comparison to the exam I received later at the gynecologist and since.

I was 13 and I think a 28B

I was 14 and a 32AA.

I was 16 and a 32B. The doctor took a long time examining my breasts. My nipples got hard as soon as he touched me. He must have assumed I liked being touched and continued on for several minutes. He was right; I liked his touch.

Visually: Like 10 or so with no development

Touch: 18 and 34A

By the time I was 12 and beginning to develop, albeit an A cup, the exam included an inspection and feeling of my developing tissue. By 14, I was more fully developing and the exam was very much the same regardless of my increasing cup size.

Visual, every time, as I was always in just my underpants. touch, once my breasts started to develop. I think I was 15 or so. Late bloomer I am. Not really breasts yet, was just budding, but still, was rather embarrassing having my doctor touching my breasts for the first time.

Age 11, just visual, wore a nonpadded training bra so probably 30AA if I remember correctly. Touch, in my 20s, 36B.

11 but it was only a look and I was quite flat still. I was wearing a sports bra.

I was 14 when I first took off my bra for the doctor. I was referred to him because I had not yet had my period.

The nurse told me to undress and put on a gown. But I did not understand and left my bra and panties on. When the doctor (male) entered he seemed angry that I was not completely undressed. As I slowly removed my underwear, because of embarrassment, he told me to hurry up because he had other patients waiting. Then he roughly examined my breasts and genitals, which hurt, and asked all sorts of embarrassing questions. That was my first and last visit.

I was 28 when this happened because it was part of my first check up with my gynecologist. I was undressed and I just had the gown on. I needed to drop that down for when he listened to my heart at the front and for my breast exam.

I was about 12 when I wore a proper bra and always had to take it off at the start of exams were there was visual check of breasts I guess to assess development but no proper breast exam until I was 14.

When I first started "budding" my chest was quite sore and I told mom who felt little bud and made appointment to see dr to make sure that's all it was. This was pre Internet and netmums so wanted to just be sure nothing untoward but at that exam I didn't really have breasts so I don't count it as proper exam.

I was around 13. It was a simple exam because I had not started budding yet and I was so worried. I was always seeing my sister and her friends who were already growing well. She and her friends were two years older than me. Plus my best briend had started growing. It was basically to make me feel better. It wasn't a specially scheduled appoiuntment. It was just the yearly physical we had.

My first breast exam was actually a rather frightening experience. I was 16 years old, a junior in high school. One morning while in the shower I noticed an unusual hardness against one of my breasts. Upon further exploration, I could feel a very large lump in that breast. I have no idea how long it might have been there, but for how large it was, it must have been some time. I remember worrying about it all day at school, and then crying as I walked home from school, convinced that with a lump that big it must be cancer and afraid that I would die.

Embarrassed and terrified, I told my mom about the lump that evening when she got home from work. I think she was surprised at how big it was when she felt it herself, but she did try to relieve some of my fears by reassuring me that at my age it was most likely a benign condition. She got me an appointment with her gynecologist very quickly, and so my first actual breast exam, rather than a proactive step in developmentally appropriate exams for me, was the reactive first step in determining what this lump was and what to do about it.

After his clinical breast exam, the doctor sent me for a mammogram and an ultrasound, the results of which indicated that it was a solid mass rather than a cyst. My second breast exam was then done by the surgeon who decided that it was best to remove the entire lump, which was done during outpatient surgery under only local anesthesia. Fortunately, the pathology report indicated that it was a benign, fibrocystic mass, and although warned that I was likely to have others in the future, I have not had another one in the almost 30 years since.

I haven't thought about this experience in years. Looking back on it, not only was this my first breast exam, but it involved many other medical firsts for me: First appointment with a gynecologist (although my first pelvic exam was several years later), first mammogram, first ultrasound, first time in a hospital as a patient (thus, first hospital identification bracelet, which seemed like a big thing when I was 16), first surgery, and first stitches and first real scar (pretty lucky to make it to 16 without either of these).

I was just in highschool, it was completely unexpected and i had no warning whatsoever! The nurse practitioner just pulled my bra and shirt up and asked me to put my arms above my head. (I wrote about it in my page here.). At the time, I didn't even know that breasts were examined that way. size was B cup.

I don’t remember exactly how old I was, but I know I was in middle school, so somewhere around 12-14. My period was rather irregular and my symptoms were strong so my mom took me to her gynecologist. it was just supposed to be a talk (no exam) to decide if it seemed like there was anything to worry about. After talking with me though the Dr asked if I’d be willing to let her do a breast exam. I didn’t necessarily want to do it, but she promised not to do anything bad or scary so I agreed and my mom and I were escorted to an exam room. I undressed from the waist up and put on a paper gown. First the Dr examined my breasts while I was sitting up and then she repeated the exam while I laid down. She then moved her hands a little lower and did a quick abdominal exam.

I started having breast exams when I was about 12, I guess. I was developing and probably a 36B maybe. That was a long time ago. LOL

I think I was about 13 and there really wasn't much there but buds and puffy nipples. Certainly was embarrassing at the time.

My first breast exam happened as part of my gyno exam when I was 14. The doctor examined my breasts and showed me how to do it myself. My breasts were still quite small then (and still are). Around an A cup back then.

Age 11, right after menarche…. age 11.

My first one was at 14 at the first gynecologist visit

Hi,

I remember at a UK boarding school having basic exams height and weight and a visual look inside our panties and tops from age 11. So embarrassing as it was done in small groups not alone and the Dr was a male (plus the school nurse female). Then from 13 we were told to take tops off for a breast exam (thankfully solo) though at that age I was only just budding so a bit pointless but embarrassing. It was all very regimented. Done after PE lessons in our blue PE knickers and white cotton tops. Love to hear from others. Jodi X

I am particularly amazed at this question.

What could be the reason why a practitioner might examine a young girl's breast?

Even if the family history suggests a risk of genetic transmission of breast cancer, it is not imaginable to start prevention before access to the gynecological consultation.

The adolescent is undergoing a hormonal change and it is universally accepted that the gynecological consultation must be initiated by the first sexual intercourse.

This is true for the placement of the screening smears but not for the examination of the breast.

As far as I am concerned, I consider that the first pregnancy can be the opportunity to practice a palpation, otherwise we can admit that there is no point in considering the prevention of senological problems before 30 years.

This is the age at which patients should be introduced to the practice of monthly self-examination.

As for the doctor, he will palpate the chest during each gynecological consultation.

Then, in your forties, when you start thinking about pre-menopause, you will start mammography every 2 years. For breasts that are still dense, we prefer a more suitable ultrasound.

In conclusion, examining adolescent breasts is unnecessary and unsuitable for gynecological practice in general.

I don't agree @Franklin58200.

Firstly a gynecology consultation doesn't have to be reserved until sexually active; it should be whenever an issues first arises. Virgins do present with gynecological complaints also from benign to malignant conditions.

Whilst thankfully breast cancer is extremely low in young age group there are benign conditions that are detected.

Many moons ago my eldest grand daughter had a fibroadenoma picked up routinely and investigated.

A visual inspection is done to assess development mile stones and examining and promoting idea of self exams and getting to know your breasts is considered best practice.

I don't understand what you draw your conclusion from.

This was my first time both at this clinic and with this provider, and i never went back. But after this experience i started to anticipate it happening every time.

15, I think i was a 28B then.