Digital Prostate Exams Gone!?

Just ask for it. Any physician will oblige you. Just don't expect more than a ten second exam!

A real physician on a medfet site? With all due respect, you see no professional conflict of interest? Do your patients & employers (non physician board administrators, not your fellow doctors who will cover up for you) know about your extracurricular activities? How might they feel if they knew?

I know it could be said it works both ways, that medfet patients can take advantage of physicians. Yet they aren't the bullies making up all the rules are they? You show me a patient with a medical fetish, 7-10 times, I'll show you a childhood victim of a doctor with a medical fetish! I have seen many of your posts. & you are always reassuring people doctors derive no gratification from going DREs & all of you are objective, but your medfet interest is "assplay"? I misunderstand,? No incongruity?

I'm 60 years old now and I have had a DRE exactly once, when I went to the ER for a suspected kidney infection. It was quite an interesting experience, especially considering that prostate massage is one of my favorite activities with other guys. The doctor who did it was very nice looking, the male PA even more so. And I got the feeling that the doctor was somewhat inexperienced, because the PA was giving him some tips about how to do it. It was in a low voice, but I still knew what was going on. I should have offered the PA a chance to do a more detailed exam of his own one of these days, though I'm usually not on the receiving end of such things...

My own doctor, who is also gay and a long-time friend, has never done any exam that was the least bit invasive. He feels that the PSA blood test is more indicative of problems. The most intimate thing I've ever done in his office is to drop my pants a little for an IM injection. I don't know if he feels that anything beyond that would make me uncomfortable, though I have tried to tell him that I trust him completely and he should do whatever he feels is necessary during exams.

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A real physician on a medfet site? With all due respect, you see no professional conflict of interest? Do your patients & employers (non physician board administrators, not your fellow doctors who will cover up for you) know about your extracurricular activities? How might they feel if they knew?

I know it could be said it works both ways, that medfet patients can take advantage of physicians. Yet they aren't the bullies making up all the rules are they? You show me a patient with a medical fetish, 7-10 times, I'll show you a childhood victim of a doctor with a medical fetish! I have seen many of your posts. & you are always reassuring people doctors derive no gratification from going DREs & all of you are objective, but your medfet interest is "assplay"? I misunderstand,? No incongruity?

This has been discussed in other threads, and since you have read them I shouldn't need to say much. I will speak for my self and several others who are welcomed to add to what I say here: WORK IS WORK AND PLAY IS PLAY.

Sorry to everyone who has heard this line before, but "we get about as excited doing a pelvic exam as your mother gets squeezing fruit in the food store to see if it is ripe, or as another physician has said, "We look at your penis with as much interest as a fry cook flipping burgers."

That pretty much sums it up.

The member is pending deletion but since I've been quoted by him I feel compelled to respond. You make a lot of assumptions without knowing very much. More will follow.

Not my Doc. I went yesterday for my annual physical and for as long as I can remember, I always had to assume the position. He first asks me to drop my shorts to my knees and checks out the penis and scrotum, and also the "turn your head and cough" routine. Then he says lay over the table with your forearms on the table, feet on the floor. I have done this so many times, that I consider it no big deal. He also prepares a "blood occult" test card, in which after the prostate exam, dabs his finger on the test card and then applies a chemical liquid to see if there is any blood in the stool. Again, no big deal. He also does a PSA as part of my blood work too. The chances of men getting prostate cancer is very high as we get up there in age. If I am going to get it, I want to deal with earlier than later...

My Doc is retiring next month and am on the search for a new doctor. Going to be interesting, as I have been going to the guy for at least 25 years. I guess I will need to make sure that he or she does the same type of exam.

It seems like they are gone. At my physical a few months ago the doctor did the hernia and testicular cancer check, but no DRE.

My new doctor still does them with me on hands and knees, and it's anything but a quick in and out.

I have had a DRE EVERY YEAR since I turned 35 and for all you guys here that made comments regarding a PSA test - guess what fellas - it's a simple BLOOD TEST - nothing more than that - no undressing at all! Perhaps some of you are confusing the very simple PSA blood test with the FECAL OCCULT TEST -- which simply looks for issues of blood in your digestive tract!

These are serious and IMPORTANT issues guys - and nothing to joke about!

I'll go one step further - when I turned 42 I started taking Testosterone Replacemnrt Therapy - now my REAL DOCTOR likes to do a full testicular and prostate exam every 6 months - and I never say no!

BTW - I bend over the table for my prostate exams - but when my back is bothering me I have been placed in stirrups and spread eagle on my back - and trust me I enjoy that position more than my doctor knows!!!!

The DRE should not be gone. PSA has a significant rate of false negative results. So the combination of PSA and DRE is best.

I went for my dre exam and my urologist said that I had a low psa of .4. Did the dre and said the nodule she has been watching for about six years has grown. Had another psa test and came back lower than before. She is having me get a prostate mri and go from there. So I think both benefical to ones medical state.

She is having me get a prostate mri and go from there. So I think both benefical to ones medical state.

Please write up your prostate MRI after it happens. I hear it can be - interesting.

This does not sound right. I always get a DRE even though my PSA is normal. Two years ago, my doctor felt something during the DRE and she told me not to be alarmed, that it might just be an inflamed blood vessel and told me to come back in 6 months. She rechecked and everything was fine..

No, they are required at age 55 and up