Ultrasound experiences

I just had a pelvis ultrasound which was externally from abdominal as well as internally about 2 weeks ago. I do love the test so much 😃

Just had an abdominal ultrasound, spleen, liver, kidneys, aorta. Took a long time.

I love Ultrasounds, it’s interesting and my gynecologist does a Vaginal Ultrasound every 6 Months during the checkup

I've had several transabdominal ultrasounds for a variety of reasons. I've also had my share of transvaginal ultrasounds, a perineal/pelvic floor ultrasound, and several ultrasounds of my legs.

Somehow, all of the techs have been female.

I forgot that I’ve had upper body ultrasounds twice. My doctor wants me to come in this week for his annual health fair and have ultrasounds and bloodwork done again.

They scan aorta, pancreas, liver, gallbladder, spleen, kidneys, down by my ankles and thyroid. During the ultrasounds two years ago (not last year due to COVID) the tech was scanning my heart and turned on the audio to listen to the pulse. I joked it sounded like I was pregnant since it sounded like two heart beats. During the first thyroid ultrasound the tech told me my thyroid didn’t look too good. Said they want to see a “smooth” thyroid but mine was lumpy. She showed me on the screen. Report came back “normal thyroid“ and I mentioned it to my doctor. He sent me to the radiology clinic for second opinion and sure enough “borderline enlarged thyroid glands goiters/nodules present“. Glad my doc followed up on it! Bloodwork always comes back fine so he said its nothing to worry about for now.

Might call tomorrow about going for the ultrasounds this week.

Actually had an echo today - really weird and really cool to watch!

Had to get another ultrasound on my right leg today, which involved the tech scanning the full length of it starting at my groin. They had heated jelly too which felt rather nice, lol.

Ultrasound of lower abdomen area with warm gel and a room with lights turned down about 50%. Very relaxing.

In 1988, approaching the 20 year mark of my military career, I had an episode that mimicked a heart attack - chest pain, shortness of breath and a couple other symptoms. Rushed to the ER, nothing abnormal with heart. Next step was a neurosurgeon who ordered up an ultrasound of the old ticker.

No discomfort, no angst, just laid on the table and watched the monitor. MOST amazing thing I've ever seen. Absolute vivid detail of the insides of MY heart pumping away. 😲

Prostate biopsy is typically done with an ultrasound probe in the rectum. I've had this done.

Never had any of these but I once had a scrotal ultrasound done by a female technician. I was embarrassed when she told me to take everything off from the waste down, lay on the table and cover my penis with the cloth. Oh and told me to leave my testicles exposed as she left the room.

I have had a number of ultrasound scans, usually on my kidneys. The latest one confirmed that I have grown some more kidney stones.

Just 2 localized breast ultrasounds. Not exactly arousing or fun as it was to rule out cancer.

I've had several abdominal ultrasounds, two transvaginal ultrasounds and numerous left breast ultrasounds. The abdominals were not as embarrassing but more painful due to having a full bladder. All of my ultrasounds were with female techs and sometimes two were in the room.

The transvaginals were kind of strange having someone moving something around inside of me. I don't remember how long they lasted but was glad when they were over Though I wonder how it would have felt if I still had a cervix.

The breast ultrasounds are always nice because of the warm gel in the freezing cold room. My fibroadenoma is not directly under my left nipple but the techs spend a lot of time moving the transducer over and over it. I'm sort of disappointed my last one didn't last as long but I know they're busy.

I would love to see an ultrasound of my heart. I couldn't see the screen during my left breast ultrasound but I wonder if my beating heart could be seen. I fortunately don't have any heart problems but it would be great if it was part of a routine exam that was done every few years.

When I was 16 I had to get a abdominal + bladder + kidney ultrasound. The day of my ultrasound I had to take diuretics to make my bladder fill faster and get my kidneys working harder. 1 Hour before my ultrasound I had to drink at least 1.5 liters of water and not pee. I drank almost two litres and I was extremely desperate to pee by the time I was being scanned, the ultrasound tech was pressing hard on me and I thought I would pee myself.

I've had several ultrasounds of testicles, seems like that's how the urology practice pays their bills by having me have one each time I go there. I have a spermatocele, not a big deal.

I've had abdominal and bladder scanned as well, that's difficult because they make you fill your bladder first and ya gotta go.

In addition, I've had cardiac eccho, also a kind of ultrasound. Legs to check for DVT, and chest to rule out brest cancer (yes I'm a guy). I've written about all these in other posts.

Fun times.

Have had a few one abdominal to check my liver, l have had three done for my heart they are interesting to watch and listen to. And one testicular ultrasound on my right testicle. That one was by far the most embarrassing. The tech was a younger very good looking blonde gal and to have her put warm lubricating jelly on my testicle and then move the transducer all around it, as she kept accidentally bumping my penis with her hand. It was embarrassing and I was worried about becoming physical aroused.

I had an ultrasound once. I woke up one morning to feel a tender and painful growth on one of my testicles, I left it a few days thinking it would disappear. However it didn't, so I went to my GP, she examined it after I carefully shrouded myself carefully so she could only examine that area. Which she did, she then stated an ultrasound would have to be done to investigate, as in all medical issues I read as much on the symptoms and came to my own opinion that it was one of two things a varicocele or a hydrocele.

So thinking back I knew I had a friend, a girl friend who was an imaging specialist, I called her, as I only wanted her to do the scan. I called her up and she told me what paperwork I would need from my GP to get the scan done. So I got that done made an appointment and went to the imaging place, I wasn't nervous as me and her had frolicked around previously and she knew the lay of the land literally and my body.

I went in exposed the area, she was completely professional as always, we chatted and caught up, I told her my hunches about the condition, she scanned and affirmed professionally that based on her experience it was a hydrocele and not something to worry about, then there was a knock at the door and someone entered, I covered myself up immediately just in time. Then some middle aged officious woman came in, grabbed gloves and informed me she was going to inspect the area as she was the Chief Radiographer. I told her firmly, "You are not examining me at all and please leave". She then carried on putting on gloves, and said that the imaging tech cannot make a diagnosis, I told her I didn't care, and again told her that she would not be examining me at all, and that she needed to leave the room.

I explained to her, that I have rights to my body, and that I have the final word. She took off the gloves that she was now wearing and threw them in the container provided and stormed out. The girl doing my scan was saying, "Oh no, she's gonna be mad now”. I said I didn't care, I 'd already read up on how to get rid of a hydrocele using homeopathic methods, I wasn't going to any surgery or anything invasive unless absolutely necessary. So I got up, cleaned off the goo from my scan and left.

I went and bought Butchers Broom, Witch Hazel and Saw Palmetto. Within 5-6 days it was gone. I'll allow someone who knows me and trust to deal with me, but barging in unannounced and feeling you have a sense of power to do as you like, will never happen to me while I am in control.

I've had two trans-rectal ultrasounds to check for enlarged prostate. The first one was quite interesting, as I didn't know what to expect other than probing inside my rectum. The technician was a very sweet blonde young woman, and I found it quite exciting to think that she was inserting this probe into my rectum. Although somewhat uncomfortable, I was pleasantly surprised and happy with the overall "experience".

The second one, a couple of years later was performed (much to my disappointment) by a rather burly guy who wasn't at all gentle with the "probing" and seemed rather annoyed to be there. This was the first appointment of the day, and there had been a major accident on the nearby highway, making him late for this appointment.

Before and after a cystoscopy at two different appointments to check how empty my bladder was after voiding.

I was hospitalized at age 11 after developing walking pneumonia. I was admitted a few days before Christmas. Talk about bad timing. I had all kinds of tests including pulmonary and cardiac ultrasounds. It was interesting to my inquisitive young mind. The technician demonstrated how it worked and what my heart and lungs were doing. I was very fortunate to have access to one of the most reputable pediatric hospitals in the world.

I had a kidney ultrasound a couple days ago. I had to take diuretics before my scan and drink lots of water right before my scan so that my kidneys would be working during the ultrasound. It was cool to see.

I've had two ultrasounds. One was a rather unexciting lower abdominal ultrasound to assess two hernias. She scanned right above the waistband of my underwear, but didn't need me to lower or remove them. I was rather surprised this one wasn't more invasive.

I had a testicular ultrasound a few years back that was absolutely amazing. My GP wanted more detail on a cyst I had on my left testicle. 20 minutes on an exam table with a beautiful tech working over my scrotum with warm gel. She was so thorough, measuring everything, showing me bloodflow to the testes, etc. To this day I don't know how I managed to stave off an erection.

Now that the cyst has disappeared, I wonder if another ultrasound is in the cards......

I have had an echocardiogram which is an ultrasound of the heart a few times. Was always kind of nice because the tech was very cute and lots of touching with the probe and warm gel. I’ve also had scrotal ultrasounds a few times. A rather very erotic experience. A very young pretty technician handling my testicles for 30 minutes.

Just had an echocardiogram done last Wednesday. Still waiting on results however! Had that in conjunction with a 24 hour holter because my skipped heartbeats have become quite frequent in the last few months. Used to have them once or twice a day at MAX. Now most days I frequently have them throughout the day.

But anyway, my husband got to accompany me to the heart ultrasound. Honestly the whole thing was super relaxing! Last time I had an echo about 10-ish years ago, I was facing away from the screen so couldn’t see. This time I was facing it and finally got to see my heart beating on screen! Super cool experience especially for me as a life long cardiophile. 🥰 It was also AMAZING knowing my husband was there to experience it with me!!

Had testicular ultrasound. Asked to disrobe below waste and given a towel to cover up. Female tech applied gel and then probe. Didn’t really handle anything just pressed the probe to testicles. Fortunately no problem.

Had one yesterday -- saw my regular dr for a checkup and he wasnt too thrilled with how my leg edema was doing, wanted me to get blood test, and he called back telling me to go to the ER to get tested b/c it came back saying I could possibly have a blood clot....spoiler, thankfully everything was OK, but got wheeled down from the ER to the main hospital's ultrasound room, where this big hunk of a dude closes the curtain and just looks at me and says "Ok, take your pants off..." with kind of a half smile...which I did, and covered myself with the drape, though when he got to scanning each leg, I could tell he pretty much ripped the cover off and could see me easily in my tighty whities. He moved my balls aside to push the probe deep into my groin so he could get a good reading. It was hard not to get a little excited too when he was resting his arm right on my dick as he was moving the probe back and forth along my right leg. Of course I did nothing to hide getting up and getting dressed while he watched too.

I've only had my testicles done

Two years ago I had some pains in my lower abdomen, so I made an appointment at a private doctor's office to have an ultrasound of the complete abdomen. The technician was a female Russian doctor in her 45s who did not speak my language (Italian) very well. It was the middle of summer and I was wearing only a shirt on top, so when the doctor signaled for me to undress the top, I remained shirtless. When I was already on the table, she told me to lower my pants and underpants, so I unbuttoned my jeans, bringing them to thigh level, while my underpants went down only a little. The doctor proceeded to move the device over the upper abdomen, then, when she reached the bladder, she again told me to lower my underwear. I have to say that although I was already over 50 years old, it was the first ultrasound of the abdomen I had ever done, so I did not know how much exposure I should have. Now I know that it was enough to get underwear just to the pubic bone, but at that moment, to the doctor's peremptory request in her poor Italian (she said "cali le mutande," and the verb 'calare' in Italian is usually used to mean dropping them instead of just lowering them a little), I reacted by bringing my briefs down to the point of totally exposing my penis. The doctor said nothing and put a sheet of paper in that area and continued with the ultrasound. I have to admit that in those minutes, a little bit of exhibitionism had leaked out in me, so much so that when I had to get up from the table, I was late in readjusting my underwear. Still, it was a good experience, obviously and mainly because the doctor told me right away that there were no health problems, but also because it was probably the first important moment of my medfet experience.

I did have some ultrasound experiences in the past, such as a transrectal ultrasound when I was about 22.

Seemed that the doc did feel something odd while doing a DRE and she wanted to check with a transrectal.

As this was concluded, the doc decided to also do a genital and lower abdomen ultrasound.

About 3 yrs ago, I did have a light heart attack, which required the placement of a stent and doing a bypass (because the 2nd stent should have to be placed exactly on the split of an artery.

Since that moment, I didn have heart ultrasounds on a yearly basis to check the blood flow of my heart. Seeing that all is really fascinating...