What is it like in Stirrups?

Ladies, when you enter the exam room, are the stirrups usually already extended? My guess is that it varies depending on which doctor you are seeing. A GP is likely to have them stowed whereas a gynecologist is likely to have them already extended to save time. I'm curious as to whether this correct. Also, when the exam is over, have you ever had the doctor stow the stirrpus? Thanks so much.

Never tried it, but honestly it's my dream, is there a play Doctor who owns a gyno table? 🤩

I think it’s like to get totally open and exposed in front of a stranger. Sometimes you can feel labias spreading… I think the frog leg position is a position that makes you completely vulnerable

I have never been in stirrups, but would sure love to try if given the opportunity. Seems like to would be just so embarrassingly erotic! Exposed and having you open to all. Seems like a prostate exam like that would be so mind blowing!

It's humiliating and vulnerable, yet exciting at the same time.

I have never been in stirups.

I think I would feel uncomfortable, panicked and humiliated if I was told to experiment them in a medical exam.

But, due to my strong rectal temperature fetish, my ultimate fantasy would be to have an attractive female doctor insert an old fashion glass thermometer in my rectum while in the sterups. She would hold my hand and look into my eyes as the thermometer ( slowly) registers

Well normally the stirrups are not the most uncomfortable aspect about the procedure. Despite my doctor being really gentle during the examination … well call me a whimp … but sometimes it hurts anyway. That‘s much more uncomfortable believe me.

As a horseman and cowboy, I can tell you it’s easier to stay on a bucking horse if you can keep both feet it the stirrups.

Reading this thread brings to my mind a favorite comedy bit about men, stirrups and vasectomies. Enjoy!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs4R0FyFUK0

I went to the gyn today and I can tell you it's fairly quick and it's over before you know it.

I went to the gyn today and I can tell you it's fairly quick and it's over before you know it.

@female_patient , see here!

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LOL!

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@DrFn hahahaha! Yup!

I was in stirrups for a small cyst removal which was exactly where me leg meets my torso , literally right next to my scrotum. It was weird at first but got comfortable until the Dr came in who was a younger female, and then her assistant who looked like she just graduated. I was in full view by both for 20 min.

I saw surgery online for a prolapse of a woman's colon. Now there is an odd position for treatment.

I've been in stirrups a few times, much to my joy. Men dont need to be in stirrups for a vasectomy, tho… the vas are on each side of the scrotum, and lying flat is all they need. However, it is rare for men to be in stirrups, altho I did get a urological exam by a female NP some years ago, and when they sat me in the room, on an old style table, in between stirrups that were ready and spread, I was thrilled… and she said this was the only PROPER way to get a thorough genitalia exam done… and I have to agree… it was wild being there, with her sitting on a stool, between my legs, managing me. I wont forget it, but have yet to be able to repeat it, as its not the standard. The standard is bend over and spread em. Yes, i did have a laser cysto a few years ago and was in leg supports, but the friggin pre-op medication did its job, and i was out cold before they wheeled me into the room… NEXT TIME, i will ask for a spinal, so i can watch and help.

I have been in stirrups once … at 14 I had to go and see a urologist. I went there with my mother, but luckily she stayed in his office while the doctor and I went into his examination room. It felt really weird having to take off trousers and underwear in the presence of the doctor at that age. I needed to provide a urine sample, but I failed. I had just been to the loo before going to the doctor. And then ,for the examination, I had to sit in the chair, legs in stirrups while he examined my scrotum. It felt very weird, but the memory has stayed in my mind ever since. Would mind another examination like that !

I saw surgery online for a prolapse of a woman's colon. Now there is an odd position for treatment.

probably a prolapsed rectum.

Most of my appointments the stirrups are pulled out after I get on the table, some doctors in the past have them already out but off to the sides. I have had over 50 pelvic exams.

Normally they are not very high, as in my feet are less than a foot above the table.

Now for play exams, I do like the frog position opening me wider with everything on display.

My current GYN has his MA pull them out while he is gloving up for my pelvic exam. They're still folded up inside the table until that point, because he does an abdominal exam after my breast exam. The MA pulls them out and helps me get my feet into them, then slides the table extension back into the table and has me slide down.

It's pretty routine at my age, after so many pelvics, but there's always a feeling of vulnerability and basically complete exposure. And then there's the sensation that I'm going to slide right off the end of the table! LOL

While never experiencing exam table stirrups, I’ve experienced padded leg rests a few too many times- due to kidney stones and complications. Seeing one’s own draped knees up in the air in a room with a half dozen strangers gives a feeling of exposure and vulnerability like nothing else possibly could. Due to my “strangely shaped and enlarged prostate,” the doctor helps guide the cystoscope with his fingers in my rectum, so I really could not be more exposed.

Leg rests are relatively comfortable because you can completely relax your legs, but I doubt very much that stirrups are, or even can be comfortable.

side note: (Depending upon the procedure, sometimes I’m under anesthesia, and sometimes I’m not).

Three years ago, I found an article that stated urologist felt they could feel more of the prostate with the patient in the cross legged lithotomy position. At my 2019 annual physical, I showed the article to the female PA and asked her if she would examine me this way. She agreed and added that she would also like to also examine me bent over the examining table to get her bearings first. I agreed. So, in 2019 and again in 2020 the same female PA examined me first bent over exam table, and then in the cross legged lithotomy position using the stirrups. I posted some pictures that I secretly took from the 2020 physical. Last year I was examined by a new nurse practitioner at the practice. During the initial consultation, I told her that the PA had examined me in lithotomy position. She agreed to examine me this way as well. So I’ve been fortunate to have had my prostate and testicles examined in both the cross legged lithotomy position and the lithotomy position for my last three annual physicals. In a way, it is slightly more embarrassing than having my prostate examined while bent over the exam table. I certainly felt more exposed. but I’m the one who suggested it to the PA.

None of the gynecologists I have seen (4 total over the last 18 years) have had those high up “stirrups”. They have foot rests that extend out. It was a HUGE relief, those look horrifying.

I do hate spreading wide though. The exam room is cold, his medical instruments are cold, I tense up. I am just thrilled I have to only do it once a year. My blood pressure and heart rate also shoot through the roof.

But yeah, glad there are no stirrups.

I'd like to try them stirrups while getting filled up with a cramping enema formula. Wow how vulnerable I'd be while some bad doctor does me in.

I was in stirrups for removal of a bladder tumor, (stirrups a really comfortable style with wide supports for the legs) and my doc used a type of cystoscope to accomplish that. I was awake while she discussed how the proceedure would progress, as her nurse was holding my penis and injecting some numbing gel. But right after the opening formalities, some really good joy juice began to flow and I went blissfully to sleep for the duration. Recovery was brief, and thankfully never have had a reoccurrence. I look forward to my yearly cysto to be certain everything looks good!

Although I've only been in stirrups once, I greatly enjoyed it. I'd gone for a series of three colonics spread over a couple of weeks in south east London a few years ago, and half way through my second session, I asked the ‘doctor’ if I could lay on my back and put my legs into the stirrups which were there. When I'm relaxed, I love the feeling of exposing the most intimate parts of my anatomy to the person I'm playing with or who is looking after me. The thought of them being able to view those parts of me that many others do not, is big turn on. I think I did write something similar in a post a few years ago.

@Boa What was the reason for the urologist appointment at age 14?

@Exam90

At the school medical examination, the doctor had found a “varicocele” in my scrotum. I first went to my own doctor and he referred me to a urologist. So apart from the school examination I had to drop my trousers and briefs for my own doctor and the urologist. At my own doctor's my mother was present during the examination. The urologist examined me in a separate examination room.

@Exam90

At the school medical examination, the doctor had found a “varicocele” in my scrotum. I first went to my own doctor and he referred me to a urologist. So apart from the school examination I had to drop my trousers and briefs for my own doctor and the urologist. At my own doctor's my mother was present during the examination. The urologist examined me in a separate examination room.

Did you have surgery? Odd that he examined you in stirrups but I bet it was quite the experience!

No, I didn't have any surgery.

It was an experience I will always remember … taking down trousers and briefs and lying on the chair with my legs in the stirrups ! And a strange doctor looking at my scrotum and feeling my balls ! I was glad it was over quickly, but I wouldn't mind another go !

After a serious surgery in 1981, I was treated post-op by a female oncologist who was also a gynecologist. My first visits were to her temporary office at the clinic, which doubled for both her oncology and gyno consults. There was a prominently placed somewhat old-fashioned gyno-exam table/chair in the room. The first time I came in my heart skipped a beat because i really didn't know much about what a post-op oncology treatment consisted of, except that observing lymph-nodes was very important and that there were lymph-nodes in the groin.

She didn't put me in the chair, both to my relief and disappointment. I told my wife about her office and she remarked that it was a shame I wasn't put in the chair so I could feel what it was like.

Oh how I wished, but my wife never got that far in figuring that out.