Female urology physical examination

I would like to know if you women have ever went to a urology physical examination and I would like that you describe how it was and why did you go to this professional.

Did you had to undress all your clothes?What kind of procedures were taken?

Thanks!!

Your question needs to be more specific. Examination for what issue? The exams and procedures are rather driven by the complaint.

An exam for kidney stones is different from one for a UTI or stress incontinence or sexual dysfunction.

I have and can answer but I'm just going out to an appointment so will answer your questions later .

For 12+ months I'd had recurring UTI's and kidney infections . Most of these had been diagnosed via my GP and antibiotics given . A particular nasty one in May/June last year left me hospitalised.

One day whilst an inpatient I went into urinary retention. The nurse that was on duty didn't listen to me at first when I told her that I'd been trying to pee since 10:30am that morning. It was now 10:30pm . I'd drank excessive amounts of fluid like I was told to do and I still couldn't go. Finally after having to crawl across the hospital ward floor trying to get to the bathroom did a nurse come . I was helped back to bed . A Dr was called and over 4 litres of urine was drained from my bladder . A Foley catheter was inserted and I was discharged with that in situ.

Appointments were then made for the following days to come and see a urologist, have a cystoscopy , urodynamics testing and eventually after 3 weeks a urology nurse to be taught how to self catheterise.

The first test was a cystoscopy the day after discharge. I was told to take my dressing gown and slippers, on arrival I was met by a nurse , asked lots of questions and was told to remove everything but my bra and put on a gown. I was told to leave it open at the back and put my dressing gown on , over the top .

I met with the surgeon ( male ) , who explained the procedure. I signed the consent form and followed him into the room. There were two female nurses and the surgeon . I took off my dressing gown and lay on the exam bed as I was told to do. I then placed my legs in the stirrups.

First they removed my Foley catheter . I was then cleaned with Chlorohexidine . Then a syringe full of Instillagel was used to supposedly numb the urethera. This had no effect whatsoever . Then I was told to relax as the cystoscope was inserted.

I was sore anyway from the foley cath being in place , this just hurt a bit more . I watched the whole exam. The only time it was really uncomfortable was when he took some biopsies from the sores on my bladder walls . After about 15 - 20 minutes he removed the cystoscope.

Whilst I was still in the stirrups he then asked if he could give me a pelvic exam . I said " yes " , so he did .

Everything felt ok , so he then inserted a new Foley catheter and I was told to go and shower if I wished and dress . He then said to wait in the waiting area and he'd call me back in to discuss his findings.

I showered and dressed and went back in to see him. He said that I had a very large bladder , with other issues going on and that urodynamics testing the next day would find any other issues .

I have posted previously at length regarding all other urodynamics testing I've had.

I'm sure it's titled " A visit to a Uro Gynae . It will come up with a search .

I wish you the best Nik.

I have seen both a urogynecologist for stress incontinence following a hysterectomy and a urologist for idiopathic cystitis. I've had urodynamics testing, which was all performed by a nurse. It's been a few years, but I recall being instructed to undress from the waist down and lie first on my side on the table so she could place a sensor in my rectum and then on my back in stirrups for her to place the urinary catheter and sensors. The testing took place with me seated on a portable toilet, with the nurse asking my perception of pressure and need to urinate as she allowed varying amounts of sterile saline to flow into my bladder. When she was finished, she again had me lie on my back in the stirrups to remove the urinary catheter and on my side to withdraw the rectal sensor.

At the urologist, I undressed (waist down again) in a bathroom adjoining the exam room, entered the exam room, and sat waiting on the table with a paper drape for the nurse and the doctor. I was positioned on the table with my feet in stirrups while the doctor did a pelvic and a rectal exam, then he used lidocaine lube and placed a catheter to drain my bladder. He then used a cystoscope to examine the lining of my bladder. I don't remember the sequence, but he distended my bladder for the exam and took biopsies of the lining and also instilled a solution of, I believe, KCl. It was all excruciatingly painful both during the process and for quite some time afterward. The doctor seemed very surprised that I was in so much pain even after I was dressed and in his office to discuss the results. I would not ever undergo the procedure again.

I've gone for a cystoscopy due to blood in my urine. Cut to the chase, it turn d out to be small stones but I was first examined to rule out a bladder infection, a yeastie, STD etc. when they all came up negative and I DID test positive for crystals they scheduled the cysto to rule out anything worse (like cancer).

I had to undress from the waist down. No drape. Got on table and feet in stirrups. The different part was the doctor raised the table way up. Like to his standing shoulder level. He stood for the procedure. Slipped in the flexible cystoscope- hurt for a second, filled me with water and did the exam in seconds. Seriously the prep of sterilizing the area etc took longer than the procedure. No cancer and a med change - no more Topamax.