Speculum passing into the vagina

For me it feels nice, you can feel the speculum going inside and then all kinds of pressure on your vagina walls and you can feel yourself being slightly stretched open, I loved the way it felt when my gynecologist did my exams this year, can't wait to feel him opening me with a speculum again next year 😃

I love the feeling of a speculum being inside me both in private and at the doctors.....think because my doctor will open it wider than my partner will, shame really as I love the being stretched wide open...just the look of a metal speculum makes my tummy turnover and my pussy tingle

In my experience I have never seen a patient become aroused when the speculum I'd inserted. Most women seem to find it uncomfortable. On the other hand I haven't been a woman and felt the sensation. Isn't it wonderful that no one can read our minds.

^^^^ That's because the context makes a big difference in people's minds even though the act is the same. Their partner opening a speculum for a play exam is exciting, you doing it to a patient in the hospital isn't.

It's the same thing with sexual intercourse. When they do it with their partner, they like it. When they are raped, they don't.

It's my understanding that it is becoming more common to use lube (as opposed to perhaps warm water) to ease the insertion of the speculum. For the ladies that have experienced it both lubed and unlubed, is there much of a difference? I would love to hear your experiences.

It's...strange. Not necessarily an unpleasant strange, but strange. It's completely unlike playing with a toy sexually -- or having someone else use a toy on you. There's a certain sort of ease and expertise as the doctor positions it and inserts it (after all, they've surely done it again and again and again...). Personally, I prefer metal over plastic -- I think the metal is more vaginal friendly in the ergonomic sense of things 😉

I've had the pleasure over the past few years of doctors apparently thinking my vagina is tiny and using a very small plastic speculum on me. My latest appt, they used a larger one on me. He used lots of lube (preferable to water in terms of ease of insertion), but it was probably one of the longest insertions I've ever experienced. He inserted it a bit and paused. Pushed it in a bit further and paused. Inserted it all the way to the cervix and paused again before opening the bills. It didn't hurt, but I felt very, very full. Very vulnerable. I know I continued to spread my legs as he pushed it in deeper.

And then there was the bimanual exam but that's a story for a different topic.

Well I would not say I like it all that much because the practice nurses who did my 2 cervical smears were a bit rough with me when they inserted the speculums. My male private gynecologist who I went to see in September was gentle inserting it and I felt it stretching me open but I thought it was neither pleasant or unpleasant really. I got more excited later when I thought about it than I did at the time it was put in.

Every one of the 3 times I have had a speculum in it has been a plastic one. I hear the metal ones feel cold and I can believe that would be true even if it had been under warm water first.

Amethyst I warm the speculum in warm water before I insert it. It feels nicely warm to the touch. I don't care for plastic ones even though they are kept in a warming drawer. The metal ones are infinitely adjustable so there's no pinching as can happen with the plastic ones. However I haven't been on the other end so I'll defer to those who have been.

Liquidsky I think you are thoughtful to warm it first. I spoke with my mum who told me she had the metal ones years ago and found them icy cold but she can't remember if the doctors tried very hard to warm them first.

I would have thought the metal ones would pinch more but I do not have experience of them or have ever seen one for myself so you would know a lot better than me.

Are the bills of the metal ones a different shape or is it just that they are better made?

The blades are a different shape and I think they're more ergonomic. Also from my point of view, the translucent nature of the plastic ones is a problem. Light shines through them and the resulting glare of the vaginal walls is distracting. There was a real GYN on here six months ago who said it was absolutely not a problem to her.

Oh I get it. Light will shine through the plastic ones and I see what you mean. Maybe they need to make the plastic blades the same shape as the metal ones and make them from plastic that is not translucent or shiny.

I thought the metal blades would be distracting too because they are shiny. I think maybe doctors prefer different things.

I think the plastic ones are the shape they are for strength purposes. The metal, having greater tensile strength, can be more conforming to the introitus and vaginal walls.

Oh I see. Yeah the metal ones will be stronger than the plastic. It makes me think and I am wondering if the part that holds the plastic speculum open is also plastic and weaker than the metal part that holds the metal one open. Is it metal? I do not think it could do any good to have a speculum break and shut when it was in.

Are the plastic ones completely disposed of? I mean is is cheaper to just buy brand new plastic ones that just get used once? I wonder if it costs too much to sterilise the metal ones again after they have been used.

It is certainly the case that few UK GP practise's or clinics have the facility to sterilise instruments and as such everything has to be sent away, incurring cost.

Couple that with the fact that the BMA now recommend that a plastic disposable speculum is used and you will see why they are now so common.

Amethyst the reason why plastic speculum are being used more and more nowadays is the fact of cost.They are indeed single use and as such disposable. In the UK the majority of GPs Surgeries are moving towards plastic due to the cost in autoclaving (sterilizing) the metal ones. Traditionally the GPs would send the used speculums to be autoclaved at the nearest hospital's Central Sterile Services Department (CSSD) and be billed accordingly. The cost of which is on the rise year after year, while the cost of producing plastic speculums have been failing to the point where it is more economically viable to used them when compared to metal..

The tensile strength of the plastic speculums are sufficient to withstand being open in a vagina, but that clicking sound can be a bit off-putting to some women. I have informed by a few women that the plastic can "pinch" a bit and feel a bit "rough around the edges" but these are mostly likely due to manufacturing rather than the plastic itself. Metal speculums tend to glide in more easily with less resistance according to some professionals, again its rather subjective.

Plastic speculums allow better visualization of the vaginal walls and structures even taking into consideration the reflection of the light. With metal speculums you have to physically move, manoeuver and adjust the speculum to see the walls in its entirety , which some women find a bit uncomfortable.

Some speculum sizes and shapes are available only in metal, so providers using plastic should also have a few metal speculae with these characteristics.

Finally although as previously stated running the metal speculum under the hot water tap can ease a bit of the "cold " feeling associated with the metal speculum, some women rather enjoy this feeling, again its all subjective and individualized.

Thank you RN1993. I have learned a few things today from you and liquidsky.

You are welcome Amethyst, I dare say soon you will be an expert lol. Its always good to learn about thing and have a greater understanding and thus be in a better position to make an informed decision.

Once you've experienced the use of both Amethyst you generally get a preference. There's nothing I love more than a nice shiny cold metal speculum being inserted . I find entrance is quicker and more comfortable with the metal ones.

I find the plastic ones pinch and creek a bit as they are opened wider .

I have a selection of metal speculums here at home I use for play . I did purchase some disposable plastic ones in the hope I'd get used to them , but. I never did .

My GP only ever used metal until the last 12mnths now it's plastic always . In the hospital I've had both but mostly metal . My urologist knows I hate plastic ones as I've told him numerous times . He always tries to have a metal one available when needed .

Nikki

Thank you Nikki. Yeah I know what you mean about the creaking but I have not felt the pinching, not so much that I can remember it anyway.

I do not know if I would get the choice of a metal speculum with my gynecologist and I wonder if it would be okay for me to ask next September when I go again.

Oh by the way, you take it easy now that you are home. I think it is wonderful you are out of hospital now but please do not give yourself any setback.

x

My lubes it up a lot so when she inserts it its very slippery. then when she rotates it to open up the bills there is a lot of pressure. Sometimes it hurts a lot depending on the size of the speculum then other times not so much. Like the other ladies said you do get a slight pinching. For me its kind of a turn on because i'm already really wet and the motion of it being inserted but makes me even wetter.

I enjoy having a metel speculum in me the feeling if metal in you is enjoyable.

I also prefer the metal speculum. It is an amazing feeling to be so open and my doc does so effortlessly and with no pain or disturbance.

In my position what I loved the most is pushing the speculum inside a women.. It´s delicious the felling of pressure and thigness when it enters!

Someone commented on whether the plastic speculum mechanism to keep it open is as strong as plastic. Several years I was using a plastic one on a partner and was rubbing her clit to give her an organism. The plastic speculum collapsed during her organism.

Someone commented on whether the plastic speculum mechanism to keep it open is as strong as plastic. Several years I was using a plastic one on a partner and was rubbing her clit to give her an organism. The plastic speculum collapsed during her organism.

It's called an ORGASM.

You called it an organism in several of your other posts as well.

It depends on the doctor and the speculum. It feels more sensual when it is inserted slowly versus being shoved in. Also, the cold metal sends chills up my spine. The opening part feels like a gradual stretch. Once open it does not feel all that special. As with probably others, I get some cramps with the smear. Most of the Drs I have had take it out fast, so hard to describe.

Someone commented on whether the plastic speculum mechanism to keep it open is as strong as plastic. Several years I was using a plastic one on a partner and was rubbing her clit to give her an organism. The plastic speculum collapsed during her organism.

Yeah it was me who said that. I must tell my husband I want him to give me an organism tonight and see how he looks at me. Hahaha

Depends on the amount of retraction of thighs in the position. if less retracted then it can pass bit roughly. if thighs retracted well and slight relaxation of PC muscle and vaginal canal, then passing is very pleasureful. exhaling loudly from mouth eases the sliding deep

When I first had one put in there was a lot of pressure and did not fill the best, but now I have had a few place in it is not to bad. I still fill a little pressure when the doctor pleases it but not as bad as the first time.

Over time and repeated experiences, it isn't so terrible anymore. The key is to be mentally ready and trust that the doctor is gentle and not there for a field trip! It is a unique sensation when it is pressed in and then opened. I don't find much comparison to having a finger or two there. Certainly, the recto/vag exam is another unique sensation. Overall, there may be a tiny bit of cramping during speculum exam but never enough to make me wish to avoid the procedure. Have no clue what it's like to have an anal speculum done? Anyone?