Testicular and Hernia Exams

I've never had my penis held during the exam, any only once has my testicles felt up after the "cough".

I do wish that happen a bit more 😉

I feel as though hernia exams different with each doctor. Some press much harder than others...agreed?

I prefer to have my penis held out of the way, but that usally does'nt happen

My doctor holds my penis out of the wya while he examines my testicles. I find it arousing.

My female Doc always holds my Penis out of the way with one hand and examines my testicles with her other hand, ultimately finishing by gently squeezing the head of my Penis looking for discharge.

My female doctor usually does not hold the penis while doing the scrotum/testicle exam. I preffer her holding the penis. If she did I probably would be partially erect.

For the hernia exam. She usually checks both kinds of hernia's. I preffer the finger being inserted deep inside of the scrotum.

By the end of my genital exam I am usually erect.

Last time I had one, the doc squeezed the bottom of my scrotum and pushed each testicle up toward my pelvis and made me cough; it was the only time I had it done this way before.

Have you ever received a hernia check? I have never received one, and most people here haven't either. Do men in your countries receive it systematically when they go to the doctor's?

Here in the U.S., I think a hernia exam for males is a standard part of the exam. Personally, I've received a hernia exam in almost every physical that I've ever had. That includes pediatric exams when I was a child, group sports exams that I received in school and also from my physician or nurse practitioner as an adult. They always seem to include it for me. And I certainly don't mind.

Oh yes, the hernia check is performed on every male at every physical.

I've had them done at every physical as well, unless it was a physical because of a specific problem that I had

I've been checked for hernias and good thing, a small one was found that was repaired!

Every full medical examination I've received has included a hernia check.

Every year at my physical.

I have had one at every physical since high school. The doctor feels my balls and then tells me to cough.

I have a hernia check at every physical. About a year ago I was sick and at the doctor's office for the sickness and had been having some pain in my groin. I asked him to check me for a hernia and sure enough I had one on both sides. I had surgery a couple of weeks later and it was not a big deal. The surgeon used a laproscope, 3 little incisions, and I was home the same day. The worst part was the constipation from the pain pills. The surgeon told me to take a laxative and I did and it was awful. I finally did some enemas and it solved the problem. I will never take a laxative again.

This is my favorite part of an exam on a guy. I love to make them turn their head and cough. Some guys give the weak timid cough and others will give a loud and strong cough. Which do you give the doctor?

I always give a weak one, so the doctor then asks for me to cough again, which lengthens that part of the exam.

I always try and give a strong cough out. I've always had a hernia check at my physicals.

I developed four hernias in 2008 when I was 48. I had an umbilical hernia which was a re-occurance from a previous one at age 2. I also developed an inguinal hernia on each side and a femoral hernia which almost caused problems with the femoral artery. The surgeon did a laproscopic procedure with points of insertion on each side of my upper abdomen where he pulled and sutured the hernia points. i was out of work for 6 weeks collecting disability since part of the injuries were work related.

I think I've had one for every annual physical I've had as long as I can remember.

They also do them for all sports physicals, but there's some conversation that they're really not necessary for that, nor that there are many positive findings.

Yes I've had one at most of my physicals.

I never receive a hernia check during my school physicals - only palpation of the testicles and penis.

I was under the impression that the "cough" was a mandatory part of the hernia check. I had some concerns about not being checked for hernias during my annual physical (I was always checked growing up). My doctor assured me that when she checks my testicles every year, she is also checking for a hernia - even though she doesn't ask me to cough.

It's odd that I don't recall her doing this, though. Normally, she just rolls my balls in her hand for a little while, and that's it.

Anyway, I guess it's possible to be checked for a hernia without even realizing it?

My current doctor has me standing naked and then he milks my penis in order to check for any discharge. By that time I am boned up somewhat before he feels my testicles. My penis usually just hangs draped over my testicles as I turn my head each way and cough!

It's a very easy exam, just drop your pants, turn your head and cough. Over in 30 seconds,

I have never heard of a doctor checking a hernia without having the male cough, as Humble Patient says below. I have always had to cough from boyhood to now.

For group physical exams, the coughing was the part that told everyone else exactly what was happening to the boys ahead of us in line. And that was the part that we made the most fun of, too. Even the girls when I was in school teased the boys about their sports physicals by saying something like, "how was your physical today, cough, cough." For the younger guys, like when I was a freshman in high school, the idea that some of the girls knew what happened during our exams was embarrassing. I'm not sure why but maybe because I thought that they knew more about what happened during our exams than we knew about theirs, which was true. I knew nothing about a girl's exam when I was in high school. The girls didn't have group physicals that I ever heard about, but everyone knew that the boys had them every year. The girls with brothers may have seen or heard about boys physicals and the hernia check. Some of the older high school girls could be explicit just to embarrass a freshman boy.

The usual procedure is that you drop trow and stand with your legs slightly spread. The doc will usually sit on a stool in front of you, run his/her finger along the side of the scrotum to the entrant of the inguinal ring. They he/she will have you cough or bear down like you are going to move your bowels. If he/dhe feels something drop and hit the finger, chances are you have a hernia?

If you even suspect you might have one, get checked out immediately! If the hernia becomes strangulated, it can be lethal.

I had a double hernia as a 13 yr old boy. Everytime I was examined from the first visit to my gp to being admitted to hospital I had to cough as the dr pressed against my groin area. I dont remember them pressing my scrotum though.

He normally does it when I am lead down