Uncomfortable exam?

What was the most embarassing exam or most painful exam you have ever had?

For me it was my very first proctoscope exam. It was extremely embarrasing because of the vulnerable and exposed feelimg. It was also a bit painful because I was so nervous. Subsequent exams were and are still embarrasing but not painful since I now know to relax. In fact I like having my sphincter stretched a bit.

I've had digital rectal and sigmoidoscopic exams many times without any real discomfort. However, when the probe was inserted for prostate biopsy, I wanted to get off the table. Wow!, was that an experience!

Probably a cystoscopy while awake they put lidocain jel in first for about 10 minutes and at first I thought it had worked great but when the scope passed through the prostate or maybe the neck of the bladder it felt like a knife had been twisted inside. Wow did that hurt for a few seconds. Don't know if I want to be awake if I ever have that done again. Not a pleasant experience!

I would have to say when I was pregnant with my first child and in labor...it would have to be when my doctor was checking me for dilation. I was already terribly tense and in pain from the contractions which made the dilation check extrememly painful for me. I also had to have this instrument put in to measure the power of my contractions - that was not fun either!

When I was 12 and having terrible stomach aches I had a female doc give me a rectal exam. It was more or less the embarrassment of it all that made it uncomfortable. I remember getting into something like the sims position and not being warned a finger was commming... She just kind of went for it... I cried and she actually said something like be a big kid.

I agree with GermanGoddess about checking the cervix during labor! Until you're progressed quite a bit further (and I didn't calm down so for me it didn't get better until after the drugs kicked in) that is really uncomfortable!

Without doubt, the most embarrassing exam I ever had was when I went to the urologist as a kid (blood in my urine) and had to urinate into a jar in front of the doctor, the nurse and my parents.

The most painful thing, however, had to be when they did an allergy test on my back (I'm allergic to many things). Basically, they stuck needles in my back with things that I was allergic to until my back was swollen, painful and sensitive, and then they went back and did it again. I was a teenager, but I cried through the last half of the test. It was as close to torture as I ever want to come...

For me it's just the standard smear test. I've been single for quite sometime so it's uncomfortable for me to have the test done. The last two-three times I've had it done, the nurse has had to use about three different speculums to find a size she can use. The small speculum isn't long enough for her to reach it and the medium is too wide for me. It's painful to use and my body keeps pushing it out so she has to push it back in. She can't open it very wide either. Also she can never get at the cervix. She always has to poke around in there for ages. I have to put my hands under my bottom to rasie it so she can reach it. Always sore for a day or two afterwards. It takes forever for her to do it.

I recently went to the nurse for an internal. she inserted the speclum then as she used the thumbscrew caught the hood of my clit just a little in the thread somehow, it smarted, i was too embarassed to say anything,or maybe i quite liked it!i often think of it now

The other day I had a dull pain behind my testicles. I went to a walk in clinic, and was briefly examined and then sent to the radiology room for a testicular ultrasound. Not very uncomfortable, but extremely embarassing. Naked from the waste down with nothing but a little towel, and the nurse and female technician in the room as well as my wife. Took about 20 mins, and the technician kept asking me to hold my penis so it didn't get in the way. My wife kept giggling.

I now have an appoinment with a urologist in 2 weeks, I'm sure that will be interesting...

When I was about 12 I cut my ear from a fall and had to get it stitched up without any pain medicine. Man that hurt.

I always find the parts of the exam with my briefs down to be the worst. The rectal is the most painful, but the genital and hernia exams are the most embarrassing.

Age 16, rectal exam to check for appendicitis - absolute agony... and embarrassing too. It was decided that I did indeed have an apendix fit to burst, and was rushed into surgery just a short while later. Before that a nurse came along to shave me and commented (curtains drawn around the bed but my parents and the rest of the ward undoubtedly heard her say it) "This won't take long love, there's not much for me to shave".

DRE..... 😳 Flowers, Nope, Card, NOPE, phone call the next morning, NADA. Here I sit sore ass and with a broken heart, virgin no more. Did he really care? >😢

I had a colonoscopy and asked to watch, but they told me that the sedation would make it hard for me to watch. I don't sedate easily and watched most of the procedure, when the pain was unbearable. I asked for more pain meds and but the doctor said push through it. Very uncomfortable. I won't be awake for the next one..

My worst and most embarrassing was when I was about twelve. The doc checked me for a hernia but left my mother in the room. I was there in the middle of the office with the nurse, the doc, and mom standing and looking at me and my dick while my pants were pulled down to my ankles. It's a terrible memory. Didn't hurt, but I sure felt embarrassed.

My most uncomfortable and embarrassing exam was having a cystoscopy in the hospital awhile ago because the doctors thought the abdominal pain I had was a bladder or kidney issue. I was wheeled into a room and only wearing a Johnny and 2 nurses were waiting and told me to slide onto the table. One asked if the test was explained to me as the other lifted my gown and said she had to sterilize my penis. She pulled my foreskin back and began cleaning my entire penis. She finished and they left saying not to touch my genital area and to remain exposed to prevent infection. I had to lie there completely exposed for quite awhile. At some point a different woman poked her head in and said the doctor is on her way down and asked if I was ok? I nodded and she left. The doctor was a somewhat attractive black woman around 35 and her assistant was a heavier white woman. The doctor explained the cystoscopy procedure while her assistant got everything ready and then retracted my foreskin and injected some lubricant into my penis that nearly jolted me off the table. She said she had to hold my penis tight for a bit to keep the gel from leaking out. She kept my foreskin retracted as she squeezed my penis tightly for several minutes. Then the doctor stepped over and said ok breathe normally as grabbed my penis and retracted the foreskin again and inserted the scope. It felt like my penis on fire it hurt from the moment she put it in. The assistant held my hand and asked how I was doing? I looked at her like how do you think? Then the doctor slowly pulled the scope out and she said my bladder looked healthy. My face was very red as she wiped the gel off my genitals.

I had an anaesthetic for that!

I dream of doing a urodynamics test.

I had a Barium Enema About 30 years ago, While it was definitely uncomfortable it was far more embarrassing. Back then they didn’t give you the option of refusing to have students watch. I had several onlookers mostly females around my age. And a couple of male students. I could hear them off to the side whispering, but I couldn’t hear what they were saying, which added to my embarrassment.

The most uncomfortable were probably the two colonoscopys the first one was embarrassing not very painful I thought. I have never been sedated so I elected not to be I didn't know what to expect so I just did it I didn't know there would be that many people involved the Dr and three nurses he was very patient and explained everything it wasn't to painful but when they rolled me on my side and he stuck his finger up my butt with the nurses watching.i should have known it was going to get worse by the time he couldn't go in any further and had to roll me on my back with my knees bent and the drape had fallen off and everything was exposed two of nurse who were watching the monitor didn't see much but the one at the end of table had a perfect view of the scope being worked in and out of my ass and the one nurse watching the monitor was patting my shoulder asking how I was doing by now I felt so full it is a feeling like no other she pats my shoulder and asked if it feels like I need to poop really bad all could was say yes it was definitely embarrassing and yes a little uncomfortable but you know I've never been known to catch on to quick I elected to have my second one done awake and it was painful but fast from the time she stuck the scope in me she was done twenty five minutes later. I'm do again in five years I imagine I will be awake for the next one. I think it is a interesting experience the embarrassment and pain is not that bad.

Prostate biopsy. The ultrasound probe inserted into the rectum (cigar-tube sized, not a big deal and hardly noticeable given the numbing lube being used. Once the probe is in position, the biopsy needle is fired through the rectal wall into the prostate. Pain is like being kicked in the balls! 12 times! About 10 or 15 seconds apart. NOT FUN!

At the age of 10 in a children's hospital. I had several rectal examinations and rectoscopies in the presence of female students.

I was scheduled to go to hospital for a colonoscopy. When I got there everything was chaos and it was hours before I was seen. I was told that they had requested that I should have an endoscopy also. Thing was, I had driven there, so in order for me to be able to drive home I needed to have both procedures without any form of sedative. I was totally awake. I shudder at the film Alien.

Quite some time ago now there was a lot of talk on tv, radio , papers etc, about prostate cancer and needing ro go to your dr and get it checked out , so i made an appointment and in i went to find it was a female dr, now im very much into anal stuff, and many have had a finger up me, with no issues, but this woman went at it a little hard, and boy did it hurt, no need for that much pain.

Definitely when I had appendicitis.

Cystoscopy with possible extraction and stent placement for kidney stones. Male urologist, but female nurse for prep and cleanup. She squirted a good bit of lube up my urethra, squeezed my penis closed at the frenulum and applied a clamp. I don't think they used anything numbing, but there was no pain. Just the usual feeling as the instrument went past the prostate (I've catheter played in the past). They looked and looked but wound up not finding a stone and not placing any stents. After they extracted the scope, my bladder was very crampy and I eventually couldn't control the release of the fluid they had put up there. The doctor had left the room by then. I apologized to the nurse and said I made a mess, but she said not to worry about it.

For me it was the unexpected rectal exam, recently. I am 31 years old and with us in Germany it is not quite usual getting a rectal exam at my age. I know that it is different in the US from own experience during my studies at an American college. I visited the doc only for a testicle check and he suggested simply for my security also a more detailed check of the genitals and of the anus resp. rectum. It was not only embarassing due to the position during the exam but also painful due to the digital exam with finally two fingers. Therefore I didn't allow the suggested ultrasonography exam in the rectum thereafter.

Foreskin exam when i was young .