Thoughts before and during examination

My main concern in the waiting room and while being examined is whether I will get any injections and, if so, where.

To be truthful when I am in the waiting room I am consumed with a moderate amount of stress concerning my own fate once my name is called and I am ushered to the exam room. Even after several years of familiar faces and fostering a good doctor/patient relationship I still feel a little stressed. The worst thing that has happened to me upon leaving was having my leg in a cast or the muscle soreness from a tetanus booster or a flu inoculation. It is minor and somewhat stupid anxiety but nobody is perfect.

Absolutely, my primary concern is always for my own health. What will the doctor find? What new prescriptions will she write for me? How long will it take for me to get over my latest problem? When visiting a real doctor, those are always the most important things.

But it does depend on the reason for a visit. If I'm there for some acute illness, and I'm in pain, or not feeling well -- then my mind doesn't really switch to medfet mode very often. I'm too concerned with my own health. But if I'm there for a routine follow-up appointment, or better yet, a full head-to-toe physical exam, then I'm certainly in medfet mode. At that point I'm trying to take it all in -- trying to record everything that happens, every word that the nurse or my doctor says -- trying to remember everything so I can play it back in my head later for my own enjoyment. My thoughts are also around things like will I need to undress, and if so, how much.

My main concern in the waiting room is - does my hair look ok? Did I smear my eyeliner when i rubbed my eye? Do I have any boogers sticking out? Oh god! Did they just say my name? What? Oh Jessica Smith, not me. Alright. Lmao!!!!!

My main concern in the waiting room is - does my hair look ok? Did I smear my eyeliner when i rubbed my eye? Do I have any boogers sticking out? Oh god! Did they just say my name?

GG, LOL! 😁

I have countless thoughts on my mind while waiting to be seen. As for what those thoughts are, it depends on why I am there and if anyone is with me, or if I am there to give support etc for another person I am accompanying to their appointment.

I am finally past the thought of "injections" not scared about them anymore. After the accident and on my follow up exams my only concern and thoughts will be i m doing okay or not.

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How I got totally fucking cheated during my teen years by never having a good looking lady doctor ( just kidding- sort of ) .

My main thought is getting outta there ASAP so I can get back to getting my '75 Corvette Stingray road ready.

I must say I'm always a bit curious about my fellow patients in the waiting room wondering what they are waiting to see their GP about, trying to diagnose their complaint helps to past the time.

As Andie said

I have countless thoughts on my mind while waiting to be seen. As for what those thoughts are, it depends on why I am there and if anyone is with me, or if I am there to give support etc for another person I am accompanying to their appointment.

As far as during the actual consultation and exam my actual thoughts are primary concerned with establishing a good rapport with the doctor and working towards treating the illness or alleviating the present symptoms especially if its a new doctor that I'm seeing for the first time.

My main thoughts at the minute are 'hoping the results show I'm well enough to stop the three times daily nurses visits and the home IVs that I've been receiving for the last 6 weeks.'

p>In general I sit wondering why others are visiting the Dr, how long the wait is going to be , I also like to just sit and listen to the other people talking in the waiting room. I try not to think about why I'm there as it adds to my anxiety levels.

Before: what time do I leave so I'm early but not TOO early for the appointment.

In waiting room: 1. Boy these magazines are like three months out of date. 2. I wonder what that guy/gal is in for? 3. Let's check Facebook and see what's happening while I wait.

During exam: Ramble on to the doctor about random stuff that happens daily, as he does his thing. Most people are surprised at what I do, other than my real job, and that creates lovely conversations.

Hope they dont find anything serious.

I'm going to the dermatologist this afternoon for an annual skin check. haven't had one since I was 18. new doctor, so I'm wondering if I'll have a gown, if I'll have to get completely undressed, what the intimate parts of the examination will feel like.

This thread proves just because you are educated does not mean you learned anything. Some Doctor friends of mine and I have this discussion every now and again....they agree with what I just said. I am not a Doctor but rather a PE.

When I am in the waiting room I am noticing the other men who are waiting and wondering if they are also there for physicals. The more relaxed and nonchalant they appear, the more nervous I become. I wonder how they, and I, will be ordered to strip. Sometimes it is possible to tell by their conversations with the front office staff whether they have been there before. If they have, I presume they know what their fate is and what mine is. I focus on trying to appear calm and relaxed but my palms are sweaty and I am beginning to feel myself tremble. Once I get to the exam room, I wonder if patients waiting in adjacent rooms can hear what is said in my room. It would increase my embarrassment if I knew a guy next door could tell when my shorts went down. I also look around the room and make a guess where I will be standing when my shorts go down and wonder about all the men who have stood there and revealed their genitalia.

Before hand I may fantasise a bit about being seen nude but during gtgr exam I'm focused on the doctors questions and comments. In the end, it's all over too quickly.

With a doctor that I have seen before, I am not thinking about the exam itself, other than wanting everything health-wise to be ok. With a new doctor that I haven't had a physical with before, there is always a question about how this doctor does the exam, how much I will be undressed in the beginning, and whether I will like the doctor. I've had enough exams that there aren't many surprises anymore. I had a physical a long time ago where I had to take the exam checklist and instructions sheet to a doctor that I didn't know. I read it over before the visit and wondered if the doctor would follow the instructions and checklist or just do whatever he usually did.

I used to be really nervous before and during my exams with my pediatrician so the only thought going through my head was how quickly can we get this done and over with. Now that I transferred to a family doctor she has made me feel more comfortable than nervous so my only thought now is how can I get the best exam possible and hope that she doesn't find anything abnormal.

I'm just concentrating on not getting an erection!

When I go to my employment physical, I am usually concerned about my blood pressure. A bad exam can cost me my job and as a result, I can get uptight causing my blood pressure to spike unnecessarily. Very frustrating for me.

Had to get my penis examined earlier as there was a hard lump inside the shaft plus a strange tingle in tip. Made an appointment with female doc and while waiting was worried a little about getting an erection but never happened. Had swab from inside taken and going back for another doc to get a second opinion, on female docs request. Also a BP & blood test next week before discussing with doc a week after.

I don't now if it's just me but I'd rather be examined by a female doc, don't have any problems dropping trousers there, feel a bit embarrassed doing it for a male doc.

Hoping it's nothing serious.

For me, the anticipation leading up to an appointment for a physical is a mix of nervousness and arousal, the latter occurring at home, and knowing that I will have to be undressed and probed. I dont so much worry about a shot but clearly don't like hearing its necessary. During an exam, I wonder how the nurse and doctor feel seeing me bare and my nipples reactng. When I am spread for a swab, I hope that she is gentle and that during the probing with her fingers is slow and thoughtful. I may be damp by then but it's natural and she won't comment. When she does a rectal, I just wish it done lying on my side rather than leaning over.

For me its the anticipation and the waiting and filling out forms in the lobby about what is going to happen during the exam

While it does greatly depend on the nature of the visit there's always a bit of anticipation regarding what the doctor will say concerning my weight and key vitals. I've been struggling with my weight for a while now and it's always a topic that makes me feel a tad ashamed because I know I can do better. That's not to say my doctor is fat shaming me (if he did I wouldn't be going there), I've just been hard on myself because I'm the heaviest I've ever been. It triggers some anxiety during the exam and it's probably all over my face that I'm upset about when it comes up.

Before the exam its usually anticipation, concern and a whole lot of fantasizing. During the exam its just anticipaation and apprehension. Also I tend to try to figure out what the doctor is looking for.

Oh, I think, I could write a book about that questions! I had so many thoughts, which depended on which doctor and which exam I had to go to and also on my age and the situation. In my teenaged time my mom took me to many exams because I was ill so often with ybdominal problems and so I had to see the paediatrician and also a gastro-doc in the clinic very often. My main thoughts were "hopefully, I need not come into the hospital" or "hopefully I need to have to stay in the hospital", because my mom sometimes said infromnt of an exam "maybe you will come into the hospital" or "maybe you will have to stay there (again)". o, that this would not happen, another thought was "hopefully I will not vomit during the exam", because mostly I felt so bad and nausea in my tummy before an exam, because I knew, the doctor always would poke and palpate so long and deep on my abdomen and it happened sometimes before, that I got so nausea and sometimes that I vomited. And I normally thought "hopefully he won´t poke, press, squeeze and pull so long and hard on my navel again", because I have such a gnarly outie navel (hernia), because it really hurt every time then and i felt the pain for some days after, too!

Of course, I thoughtt about what I have to undress, but I knew that I normally had to undress everything and had to stay completely nude during the exams. And, yes, when the doctors examined my genital area (they did it normally, because I had surgery of an undescended testicle when i was 6, phimosis in my teenaged time and was still not at puberty with 15 and 16), my hope was not to get an erection. This was also my main fear by the dermatologist exams, to which my mom had to take me all three months because of my (very many) dysplastic nevi (syndrome), because she always examined my genital and anal area, too, because i have some moles on my penis and glans, too. When I had my very first appointment there (when I was 13), it was my very first time ever, that my penis got erected! It was soooo shameful for me! One more thought by the dermatologist was "hopefully, she would not let done the photographic documentation of my many moles everywhere", because it was also totally embarrassing for me. So, you see, I could really write a book about all my thougths...

When I was young I would be very apprehensive about having a doctor's appointment. Racing heartbeat, tension, tightening of the chest.

But these last years it's all gone. I usually bring a book of my own along to read because in all honesty the waiting room magazines put out in hospitals or doctors offices are totally crappy, except for our family doctor who puts his old copies of the New Yorker in the waiting room - the cartoons are good for chuckles and fellow patients waiting don't seem to understand that one can laugh in a waiting room.

So some of my thoughts are, lighten up or learn to bring along your own reading matter instead of sighing and fidgeting around so much ... 😃

I used to worry about my exams a lot. Then I met this great doctor and she is wonderful. She not only takes great care of me but jokes around as well. Only problem, I get a lot of shots! She knows I don't heal well and definitely don't get rid of things well either. Now, I don't worry about it.... I just deal with it when it comes.

My legit concerns are typically blood pressure and the "you could lose 20 pounds" lecture.

The medical fetishist in me is just concerned that I will get the longest possible exams on my abdomen, genitals and anus/rectum.

I'm certainly glad I don't have the time to waste doing a long unnecessary exam. I would want to scream! I'm glad you enjoy such things but don't breath a word of it to me when as a physician I examine you. You don't have a clue the unpleasant machinations which I can suggest for such situations.

No offense, liquidsky, but sometimes I wonder if you even realize this is a medical FETISH site. If I wanted actual medical advice or to discuss what I should expect from a medical procedure, then I would've gotten an account at WebMD instead of this site.

Of course I would never ask a legitimate physician to prolong an examination for my sexual enjoyment. But that's what I'm thinking to myself. And what I think about before the exam . . . and afterwards.

We know doctors don't exist to bend us over their knees and give us rectal temperatures or tie us down to an exam table and tease us with wartenberg wheels on our scrotums as they slowly remove our underwear. But what is it to you if we fantasize about that and share our thoughts here anyway?