How old were you when you bought your first stethoscope?

Well it's all in the title..

How long before did you consider it before daring?

I think I was 19 or 20. Saw one in the window of a pharmacy and eventually worked up the courage to buy it, with a cover story about it being for a friend doing medicine.

23yrs old. Na, not scary at all. I bought from an official Littmann dealer. I needed it for classes and on the job. I didn't like the one provided free of charge to me. It sucked!

I bought my first Stethoscope when I started my training as it was an essential component for my course. Must have been around 21 at the time, a bit older than some of my classmates who were 17. It was not an expensive scope, later on bought a Littmann's which I still have and love. So not daring at all.

I was 18 and bought a hot pink sprague from one of the uniform/nursing shops in my city

I was 18. I was working in a hospital over the summer and needed one for my work. One of the surgeons directed me to a nearby medical supply store and he advised me which one I should buy. Not really daring at all.

I was 17 or 18, it was a Black ADC Adscope 609 series, looks very similar to a Littmann Classic SE II. Bought it from Amazon. For me it was pretty daring.

Soon as I could legally drive. Straight to the nearest drug store to buy a BP, stethoscope combo.....How my heart pounded at checkout......Still do much fun purchasing medical equipment. The nervous feeling, heart speeds up😃

I was 28 and it was a navy blue littmann cardiology III, I can remember the excitement.

I think I was 21. I was a sophomore in college and ordered it off of eBay. I was living in the dorms and it came to the college P.O. box. Luckily it didn't look anything like it. When I got to the dorm with it, my roommate wasn't there so I immediately got it out and started listening. It was just a cheap Littmann Classic II knockoff that eventually broke, but it lasted me a long time.

Trying a new steth for the first time is always lots of fun.

Last year when I was 22. Littman cardiology. I've only used it on myself so far and hide it away so my flat mates don't see it. I ordered it online as I didn't want to walk into a shop and pretend to be a med student etc.

I was in my forties when I actually bought one.

I was perhabs 16 or 17 yo. I saved all my pocket money for a long time, because the Stethoscope I wanted to buy ( a KaWe Multiphone with transparent plastic tubes and a red rubber bell chest piece), cost about 60,- DM (30 EUR). I had seen it next to my favorite, a red rubber tube SUPRAPHON by Haselmeier, which was nearly at 100,- DM. It was in the shop window of a medical supply store in a german university city which was next to my place. As often as possible I went there to look at it in the window - with a hard on in my trousers! I imagined stething my GF with it. One day, I had the money and went to buy it - with a pounding heart!

At home, when I was alone, I had my first Stethoscope Orgasm ever with it. And one day, I really had the chance to steth my GF with it. It was amazing.Of course, I'f still got it - and I still use it ("multi-purpose ;-)

RedStethGuy (this name came later, when I owned my first Supraphon).

I was 18, I had considered it for a while by that time though.

I bought mine in my twenties, in Spain. It was amazing to discover them on sale, as it were, literally on the high street. I took it back to work after lunch and never even made it home before I'd managed to have my first, oh so delicious, listen.

I was 18 and was a cheap nurse's one head stethoscope. not much time after I auscultated my first patient a woman of 30's

I got mine from an ex as a present. We used to use it a lot but it stopped after a while.

I got mine from a nurse I was dating 2 years ago. I noticed she had several lying around her home, and I asked her for one -- which she gave me. I haven't used it yet in practice, but I have worn it as a prop with my doctor's outfit to a party.

Had several over the years. Definitely need more

I was 17. My mother was very ill and I spent alot of time in the hospital with her. One of the younger nurses (about 25 I would guess) taught me how to auscultate (among some other things) and I went over to the medical supply store near the hospital (it was connected to a medical school) and I bought one. The clerk looked a bit bemused, but didn't say anything.

17 year old when I joined fire and rescue.

I got my first stethoscope when I was 18 at uni and bought a cheap Sprague-Rappaport style one off Amazon. When it arrived I wanted to listen to myself straight away and found it amazing to listen for the first time since I was a kid and the doc had let me listen with his. Sitting there with my shirt off and touching it on my bare skin, the icy feel as it didn't have a non-chill rim took me back to my exams when I was younger and it made me aroused hearing the sounds of my heart, lungs and tummy as I moved it around my chest and abdomen, and also tucked it under my boxers to hear my femoral pulse.

I was 24. I was walking along a city campus and stumbled on one of the universities book stores. It had an area for medical students. That is when I purchased my first stethoscope. A Littman Classic II. Reminded me of the one my PCP used during my sports physicals.

A couple of years ago so around late 30’s when I met my now wife, I purchased a Littman Cardiology III in plum.

33, joined HBP and they have a "sharing" thing where you stream heart sounds to a chat. I went to an independent central Loncon chemist, put two cheap stethoscopes and an enema bag in my basket. Felt rather tense standing in the queue, having the products scanned at the till, but no questions were asked. I simply payed, may have asked for the products to be double bagged. I've since been back to buy a beefier looking two tube stethoscope for myself, and have bought one for a fellow fetishist who didn't have the guts to shop in person. The shop serves the medical area off Harley street and has many medical instruments up for sale.

I was in early 30s I believe and started putting together a "medical bag".

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Hello and Hey,

I was 11 years old when I bought my first stethoscope. It wasn't a really good stethoscope, more like one you get to play with for kids. Back then I was curious about what my heart sounds like. I only knew my heartbeat from the examinations at the pediatrician or at the pediatric cardiologist.

Later, when I was 19, I bought my first real stethoscope. I had to search a lot in my city until I found a shop. I bought a Littmann stethoscope, which was also very expensive back then. I needed a good stethoscope for a voluntary social year that I did in a hospital.

Today I no longer have this one stethoscope. I either lost it or it broke. But I was very proud that I had a real stethoscope and competed with the doctors in the hospital.

As a child, I took my grandmother's stethoscope. I bought my first personal stethoscope when I was 19 old

I bought my first stethoscope at the age of 18 I had just finished CNA schooling and was getting my first job as a nurses aide so I needed it. I was actually rather happy to buy it. I wasn't nervous at all. I still love taking a manual blood pressure and using it as well as listening to the heart and lungs. 😃

I bought my first stethoscope with 25, it was a Rappaport stethoscope in black. I bought it online on ebay.