Abdominal exam

I've been into heart exams and heart sounds for years, but I recently have gotten much more interested in abdominal exams. I've never done play exams before, but I think it would be so awesome for someone to give me a really thorough auscultation and palpation. I'd also be really interested in giving thorough abdominal exams to people of different body types, from fit and muscular to soft and flabby to hard round beer bellies so I could really feel the difference. Anyone else have this interest? Or, has anyone lost or gained a lot of weight and been on the receiving end of abdominal exams where you've been both fat and thin? Does it feel much different as a patient?

Abdominal exams are my thing, so interesting to feel what's inside. The soft inner workings of the body.

I like all the steps of a complete physical exam, but I think that abdominal exam is One of the most arousing phase: heart and lung exam is a perfect beginning, then a careful abdominal exam, with the patient in my usual scheme completely naked, grows the arousal to the last part of the exam with genital and rectal examination. Even as a patient in my childhood I liked when my pediatrician used to palpate and percussed my belly for a long time, with my briefs off or at least down under the knees or at the ankles, followed by a careful genital evaluation

Twice my doctor tickled my navel at the end of the exam. The frst time I was 5, and I giggled slightly. The second time I was 12, and I remember it tingled with a light vibration down to my groin. Looking back, I can see why they did it--the docs most likely were performing a sensation/nerve test (the umbilical cord is entwined in the nerves that go into the genitals).

I have always enjoyed abdominal exams in my real physicals. I especially love it when the doctor moves my underwear down just slightly to palpate my groin without exposing my penis. I would love to have a play exam and have the doctor take his time on the abdominal exam. I know what is after that, which makes it very arousing.

I got so many abdominal exams in my youth and teenaged time because I had lots of tummy troubles (colitis, appendix surgery, meckel diverticle, irritated bowel syndrome) and was so underweight. I mostly hated these thorough and long abdominal exams and sometimes I felt like the doctor would like to examine my stomach extra long, so that I didn´t like these doctors at all (for example my earlier paediatrician and the gastro-enterologist, who always examined my navel so long and thoroughly, too, because it´s outie and a little hernia). For me it was mostly bad because I felt often so nausea and bad in my stomach and sometimes it hurt alot (mostly by the bellybutton exam). So, I would like to share experiences to others who had similar exams.

Abdominal exams are definitely one of my favorite parts of the complete physical!

I've never really been thin so couldn't compare the two. They've always been done quite quickly between the breast exam and pelvic.

My gown's tied back up around my neck after the breast exam and pulled up just below my chest. I'm naked underneath, so there's a drape or sheet that's covering me. It's usually positioned just where my pubic hair starts. Lying like that always makes me feel very aware of my weight in a way that I don't enjoy.

Doctor listens in a few places with the stethoscope and has a bit of a feel for organs but doesn't seem to go into too much detail. Maybe they can't feel it so easily on a patient who isn't so thin so don't spend time trying unless something's wrong?

I've seen clips where a doctor will press under where the sheet is but that's never happened to me. If they're going to feel my lymph nodes or femoral pulse then that's usually done as part of the pelvic, when they're between my legs. I've had my femoral pulse felt by a doctor putting their hand in my waistband, but not as part of a abdominal exam.

To me, the abdominal part of a physical exam is like hearing that song on the album that comes right before your favorite song.

I used to tense up during the abdominal exam but I have gotten much better about it over the years. My doctor really did some deep palpations a few weeks ago. Gotta face it again soon.

I enjoy the abdominal exam in my physicals just as much as he other sections. It occurs following the lung and heart exam, and I starts with my being asked to lie down on my back on the exam table. It always makes me feel vulnerable lying there in my boxers knowing what's coming up before too much longer.

They'll start by auscultating just above my bellybutton listening for any bruits, and then going from side to side across my abs listening for bowel sounds, ultimately ending up lowering my boxers slightly to listen just above my groin. Hopefully the stethoscope won't have warmed up too much as if it's still cold I enjoy the slight shiver and the sinking feeling in my stomach.

I'll then be palpated all over my various organs, with them pressing quite deeply at times, and asking if I feel any tenderness anywhere.

It's a great part of the exam for me as I start to think of what's about to come up and being asked to remove my boxers. 😃