Ultrasound experiences

Anyone have any abdominal or heart ultrasound experiences they'd like to share? I've only had one ultrasound on my kidneys but it was actually a bit arousing! Anyone else get excited about imagining their heart or abdominal organs being probed by and ultrasound and watching your organs on the screen?

I remember getting an abdominal ultrasound when I was really young actually, maybe 5 or 6? I just remember the feeling of the cold gel and not really what was on the screen. I can't for the life of me remember why I had it done though. I might need to ask my mother about it.

I had an ultrasound on my heart two weeks ago. It was completely amazing getting to see my heart beating on the screen. And then hearing it when the Doppler was on... I loved the feeling of the gel on my skin. They must have had something to keep the gel warm though. It felt really nice! I was even hooked up to a heart monitor while the ultrasound was done.

I've had echo cardiography and various ultrasound examinations of my abdomen. Mostly I find them annoying, especially the abdominal exam - fasting with full bladder.

I cannot count how often I had abdominal ultrasound exams in my life, most of all I had those in my teenaged time when I had to see regularly the gastroenterologist in the Childrens Clinic and when I had to stay at the Clinic because of my abdominal problems with diarrhea and vomiting. At the Clinic I also had some ultrasound exams of heart and genital organs, too. At the first times, I hated these abdominal ultrasound exams, because it last a long time and I hated it when I was ordered to blow up my tummy, too, and when the doctor put that thing everywhere on my tummy with some pressure and moved it everywhere above my tummy (most of all when he put it on and around my gnarly protruding outie navel), but after a while it became like a kind of routine for me.

I have had an abdominal ultrasound and kidney ultrasound when I was a teenager. During one of my sports physicals, a quite stupid doctor said that since I had too high a blood pressure I had to take those tests, but the high blood pressure was just a white coat effect. A couple of years ago, I also had an inguinal ultrasound. This was because I had a lot of pain in my groin area and rushed to the ER. At first a testicular torsion was expected, but when this was ruled out the doctor decided to do an ultrasound, which showed everything was normal. Eventually he diagnosed me with epididymitis, which is an inflammation of the epididymis. I swear that is the most painful thing you could ever experience.

I had a exam whith ultrasounds during an urological check-up. For the kidneys I had to hold my breath for a long time, it was unpleasant.

The doctor asked me to down my boxer briefs at the beginning and not only for the examination of the penis and testicles. They were exposed for more as 10 minutes.

I had an abdominal ultrasound in ER, I had serve abdominal pain and it was suspected to be gallstones. There was nothing exciting or arousal about the ultrasound. When the technician pressed firmly on my abdomen with the transducer it was very painful. I was diagnosed with gallstones and had a Cholecystectomy Laparoscopic done.

Recently I have had a few abdominal ultrasounds.They actually hurt sometimes when they probe deep and apply some pressure. Mostly I am clothed and I just have to lift my top upto my bra .The sonographer sometimes got me to pull my underwear and trousers down to my pubic area and they then tucked a tissue in the top to protect my clothes. I've had a few done in pyjamas or a gown as an inpatient too. I always lay on my back to start with and then when it's kidneys they are scanning they get me to turn on my side . I've never got pleasure from one as they hurt too much.

I had my groin area sounded for hernia like pain in my groin. The female tech that called my name in the waiting room had such a soft gentle voice she had to repeat herself several times. I walk up to her and ask if she called my name, she looks at her paperwork and tells me that yes I was next. She takes me into the small room and instructs me to remove or drop my pants down and lay on the bed with the white paper sheet across my lap. She comes back in and tells me that she will readjust the drape before she begins the ultrasound.

She fiddles around with the equipment and then looks at me and says she is going to adjust the sheet so she can get to the part of my body the doctor requested to scan. She moved the thing about ten times before I told her we can drop the sheet if that helps her. She bites back with, "thats not necessary!" She continued to attempt to tuck the sheet in to prevent it from falling. I reached up to my stomach area offering her help to hold it in place when she says that its fine, we can get rid of the sheet. She did my scan with a few glances away from her screen.

I told her we can drop the sheet if that helps her. She bites back with, "thats not necessary!"

Some years ago I had a testicular ultrasound to check out a nodule. It turned out to be nothing, but I also noticed that both nurse and doctor (both female in my case) were, if not apprehensive beforehand, maybe also a bit defensive or proactive in sending out signals like disapproving frowns and short, drill-sergeant-like instructions in how to undress and lay on the exam table.

Once the exam got going though and they found the nodule I was sent in for - and most importantly I think - when I didn't develop an erection or say anything silly or suggestive, the doctor and nurse relaxed and seemed to take me more seriously. I wondered if they thought I was perhaps leading them on, or was about to start acting like a silly strutting male or something like that. Because they were initially somewhat apprehensive .... but I guess after I showed them I knew how to behave, their attitude changed.

Also, the fact that there was absolutely nothing arousing or erotic about the whole thing helped ...

Back in 2008 when I had an IUD they needed to do an ultrasound on me to make sure the IUD was in the proper place, they had me drink 32 oz of water, it was pretty cool to see what everything looked like on the screen

I have had several different types of ultra sound exams. I had an abdominal exam which included checking out my liver, pancreas, gall bladder, and kidneys. I was in a gown with my panties on. The tech has you lay on different sides and on your back in order to get to everything.

I had an ultrasound if my heart which I found interesting because of the different angles they have to check from to reach all the different areas of the heart.

I have also had two ultrasounds on my prostate. These are done through the rectum and that was an interesting experience. Not as uncomfortable as you might think.

My urologist routinely checks my bladder emptying with a quick ultrasound. I have to come in with full bladder and they measure how much I void, then I go to the exam room and lay on the table and undo my pants. The nurse pulls the top of my undies down and does a quick check on how much liquid is left in the bladder.

Probably the longest ultrasound exam was on the veins in my legs looking for the blockage causing my varicose veins. They started at my groin and worked all the way down to my ankles on both legs. They trace out all the superficial veins.

Had a full abdominal and testicular ultrasound recently. Abdominal was ok. but The testicular exam was not at all arousing though quite interesting.

I guess i was concerned with fact that it confirmed hydrocel, which i am still suffering from.

Weird thing was a male doc came in to assist the testicular exam. What were they thinking??

A long time ago, I had an echocardiogram.

I remember having had an external abdominal ultrasound. I was having some digestive problems and nothing showed up on the colonoscopy. A very sweet technician, unzipped my jeans and rubbed the jelly over my abdomen. She took her time with the probe, looking at the screen and then back at me several times. She rubbed off some of the jelly before handing me the towel to finish. As it turned out, all that was reported was some fatty deposits on my liver.

Yes I have had a pelvic ultrasound and a ultrasound for my gall bladder its great seeing my organs on screen. I like it. I dont mind the cold gel on my abdomen.

My experience, which also fits on the topic "Seen naked at a Hospital or clinic by non medical personel" (in this case a painter) happened when I was aged 17, I had a little disconfort on the left side of my groin and testicle, but I couldn't tell where the pain was exactly located, so I went to the Doctor, he examined me (another story) and he said I needed both testicular and inguinal ultrasound. Made an appointment and went home. The day arrived so I made it to the Hospital, waited for about 15 minutes and they called my name. The guy that opened the door turned out to be the Male Technician who was about to perform the ultrasound. He was with another male, another technician I assumed, both in their mid 30's and dressed in white as almost all doctors do. He asked if I have had any other ultrasound before, I said "No, it's the first one ever" and he replied "Relax, its very simple and no painful at all" he explained me the upcoming steps and all about the cold gel as well. Before starting he asked me why the Doctor wanted that exam on me, and I said "because I have a pain on my scrotum and/or my groin", then he told me "well, drop your pants and underwear down to your knees, lay down on this exam table and we shall begin", I did so with a bit of embarrasment because both guys kept staring right at me all the time while I was getting half naked. Then I layed on the table, he sat on a chair next to me, facing the monitor and the other guy sat on a stool right at his back almost in between the technician and me, so he could check the monitor as well but by looking over the tech's shoulder.When I was in position he asked, "where is the pain located?" "I think it's around here" I replied pointing with my finger. He said "you mean here and here?" (and he actually touched my groin and testicle with his index finger while he was asking that). "Well just relax while I'm doing this, ok?". At first he put some gel on both sides of my pubes (really felt cold!) in the inguinal area, over my pubic hair (which later on was a mess to clean it properly, All my hair got sticky, had to shower afterwards) It took about 5 to 8 minutes on the groin, and then he said "Ready! Now let's move to the testicles".He put some gel on and started rubbing the probe gently over the left testicle. While he moved it my penis bend to the left side getting on its way, so he grabbed it with 2 of his fingers and said "could you hold this upwards please?". I did so and realize that the touch of his fingers plus the movement of the probe was making some (unwanted) effect on me: I started getting stiffy!Luckily I was holding the penis upwards with my hand so I moved it and could slightly cover it, so no one can notice my semi. At that moment there was 2 knocks at the back door of the room, it was located right at "my feet", meaning on one end of the exam table. (Apparently this door leaded to another areas of that place- and if somebody opened it, could have a nice full view of the exam perfomed there). So It got open and another doctor or colleague of the other 2 guys entered the room, looked over my half naked body and then remain standing between the two of them. "what are you guys doing?" he said and watched at the screen, the technician perfoming the ultrasound murmured something and pointed to the screen saying "see?, this... and this.." I started getting a bit worried because they seem to be watching something strange on the monitor. That guy remained in the room for the rest of the exam too. It was a very thorough one, and it lasted about 20 minutes. When he was done with the left one, he moved to the right testicle, I thought "why is he doing that? The left is the one that's aching!" Then again the back door opened without knocking on it, and another man poke his face, saw me (and my balls) being probed and examined, and shut the door, but 2 or 3 minutes later he opened it again and entered the room, saying "Hi guys!" (he was wearing a blue suit so I can't tell if he was a doctor or a technician, but the other guys seem to know him pretty well, because they didn't say anything about his presence in there) they exchanged a few words and after that he stood at one side of the exam table, next to my feet and remained there for the rest of the ultrasound performance (which was a few minutes left to end). So at this point there was 4 men(!) in the room with me, witnessing the exam, it was a bit weird and couldn't understand why I suddenly became a kind of "show" to watch! =O By this time my erection have gone and my dick started shrinking a little, still hold it under my left hand, and I started feeling embarrased again because of this "crowd" watching me naked waist down.Then the tech guy said "Ok , we're done! Wipe all that gel from your nuts" so the blue suited guy who entered the room last, riped and handed me a bunch of towel papers. Then I started wiping all my balls, and pubic hair but it was quite difficult, so the guy gave me more and more towel papers untill I finally could get rid of (most of) that gel. And suddenly, to top it all, the door opened again, and there was a painter (I can tell he was, because of his filthy outfit plenty of paint blotches) standing there looking at me for about 10 seconds, while I was trying to clean my balls. He took a good look at me and after that he asked a question to the male technician who replied something I couldn't understand (I was busy enough trying to wipe and cover myself asap!) and then he left, luckily shutting the door (didn't want more "audience" to come in, that day!) After some cleansing put my pants back on and right after the tech said he find a few cysts or nodules in my left testicle, and that perhaps they caused the little pain, but they were so small, they were really not important, nothing to worry about as long as they stayed the same size.(fortunately they did) some years later I underwent some other testis ultrasounds as a control of these small cysts, but they were normal "one on one procedures" meaning one and only man perfoming the exam. But I won't forget this one, which was the first and weirdest I've ever had!

Very interesting exam Gonzalez, where exactly did you have this procedure?

I have only had rectal ultrasounds three times

I've had two ultrasounds (I have some recurring variocele / hydrocele issues) once about 6 years ago and another a year ago

Both time I had female technicians. First time not very attractive , the last time more attractive but gave off a bit of a tough demeanor almost sort of a biker chick vibe. before I had my penis sort of taped down with paper drape and I think some tape , this time she gave my a folded up sheet & said to place over your penis. She applied the warm gel on my balls and I got hard right away.. Even though the sheet was folded there was still nothing holding it down so I put my hands on my lower belly over the sheet and was able to press down a little to help sustain my erection somewhat. It was tough to hold back.. so much in fact that once the procedure was over and she left the room, i scooped up some excess gel from by balls and masturbated, coming in about 30 seconds.. I had to clean up quick and get dressed and meet her outside.

Thats the first time I ever did something like that but it just seemed like the moment to do it.

MilitaryDoc The place where I had my first ultrasound was at a Public Hospital in the downtown area of a city called Avellaneda, near to Buenos Aires.and it was for free (as almost everything in our National Health Program) I don't know for sure if the exam room where they made the ultrasound is that crowded every day because it's a public hospital, or if it was just that day (unfortunately for my own embarrasment) The next ones I had as a follow up were in private clinics and I had to pay for each and everyone...

I had a heart ultrasound when i was 12 since I had a little valve disease due to a bacteria infection.

I was so excited and curious to see my little heart in a monitor!!

I get an abdominal ultra sound every 6 months to check on my aortic aneurysm repair. Before that surgery I had an ultra sound of my carotids by a lovely female tech and it was very pleasant. I'd love to have a prostatic ultra sound by a beautiful lady tech.

Ya, I had a heart ultrasound because of chest pain but only happened every once in awhile. I figured out that was due to stressing out, but back to it they put these sticky pads on me & i laid still for a hour, it felt real weird.

I've had two testicular ultrasounds and those are always fun.

On the first one the tech asked me to get an erection so he could look at blood flow so he left and came back a few minutes later and I was erect with the towel covering it up.

Second time there was none of that.

In 2008 I was suffering from really bad flu and terrible congestion. I was given some antibiotics by my general practitioner. I started taking them, I don't know whether it was related, but overnight after the second day of taking them I woke with a huge lump on my left testicle, it was not painful but just didn't feel right.

I left it for a couple of days and it didn't change. On day three I called my Doctor and explained it to my Dr, once I finally got through to her. After explaining what I felt it was based on my own research, she stated it would probably need to have an ultrasound. I really didn't want to go through the embarrassment of having my female Dr, seeing it or even handling it, however I had an ex girlfriend who I knew was a ultrasound tech.

I called her and she explained how she would need a referral from my Dr. So I called her, and she did the necessary. Within 3-4 days I managed to get an appointment with T. My friend who is was located only 10-20 minutes from where I live. I stated that I thought it was a hydrocele, she took me to a room, after a short wait, she left the room and told me to remove my pants and undies and place a blanket over the area. We knew each other intimately so I didn't feel it was somehow difficult for her to see my bits, I trusted her personally and professionally. She returned and placed some cold gooey substance in that area, and began to scan the area concerned only. She showed me the screen and stated yep, its a hydrocele and pointed out how it was not a solid mass etc. She printed off some images.

Then there was a knock at the door, so I completely covered up and some very officious woman stormed in and began putting gloves on and stated how she was the senior radiographer and how she was going to do a secondary exam. I said, "hold on". "You're Not" She then became very stern and argumentative, I stated that I felt it had been confirmed that it wasn't a solid mass and nothing to worry about as it was a hydrocele. She then reaffirmed again that she was the head of the department and was pretty much ignoring me, so I waited until she let me speak and stated, the exam was over, there was going to be no further exam of me and that I was leaving. She took off her gloves, threw them across the room and stormed back out. T stated she was annoyed because if she didn't perform a secondary exam she would lose beacoup money. I just said, well I've read up on what a hydrocele is, and how to get rid of it

I cleaned myself off, got dressed. I went and found the Dr. who still seemed annoyed and just stated, I was happy to be examined by someone who I trust and know, but not prepared to make it a group experience. I know its not the norm, its just my way of dealing with my ability to cope with what only I can cope with. I took some holistic herb, butchers broom, bilberry extract and witch-hazel and the lump went in 4-6 days. Never to come back.

I also get frequent ultra sounds of my bladder, due to inadequate emptying. I slide my Jockeys down to my pubics and the tech. puts the jell on my lower abdomen and scans my bladder. No big deal after having a cystoscopy where everything is showing.

Before my colon cancer surgery, I had a few ultra sounds of my colon, with and without contrast media and CT scans

of the same. I guess these are replacing barium enemas. The worst part was the rad. tech. injecting the contrast via IV from a remote room. They used a drinking straw needle and were terrible at inserting the IV needle. The contrast media used then made me want to vomit and to pee urgently. The new media has stopped that. Now my scrotum feels hot from the contrast media.

Ain't it fun getting old?

In recent years, I've been getting echocardiograms; I had one just last week.

I had testicular ultrasound before and I almost got a semi , as far as kidney and bladder ultrasound I found them very uncomfortable to almost painful...