Camp Examination

One of my most embarassing exams came when I was at summer camp when I was 14 years old. The camp was located way out in the woods -- it was miles from the closest hospital or doctor. We did, however, have a camp nurse. She spent most of her time passing out medicine or cleaning cuts and scrapes and putting bandages on them. She was a young nurse, and had only been out of nursing school for a year or two.

One afternoon my stomach started to hurt. At first, I didn't want to stop our activities, but after a while I guess I must have looked a bit ill, beacuse my counselor asked me what was wrong. I told him my stomach hurt, so he sent me to the nurse.

No one else was there in the office except for the nurse. She asked me what was wrong and then had me sit down and she checked my temperature (under my tongue) and my blood pressure. Then she got out this medical book and looked up a section that said 'abdominal pain.' She read it for about five minutes while i just sat there. Then she said she needed to check me for problems like appendicitis. She had me lie down on her bed, and she unfastened my belt, unsnapped my pants and unzipped the zipper as far as it would go. Then she folded the edges of my jeans down so the front of my underwear was showing. Then she put her stethoscope on and listend all around my stomach. Next she thumped all over my stomach and even over my underwear. Then she started feeling all over my stomach. First she started up at the top, near my ribs. Then, she kept feeling lower and lower. I remember she was rubbing her fingers in little circles on my stomach and it tickled a little bit.

She worked her way down to the point that she was feeling right above the waistband on my underwear and I was wondering what she was going to do next. I didn't have to wonder to long. She took her left hand and lifted up the waistband on my underwear so she could start feeling underneath them. She started up right at the waistband, but kept moving her fingers lower and lower, and she kept pulling the front of my underwear down lower as she went. I was embarassed to begin with, because she was seeing my underwear -- at least the top of the front of them -- and, now because she was starting to pull them down. The embarassment plus the tickling made my penis start to come to life. I was so worried that she would be able to see it. She kept feeling my stomach lower and lower and I could soon feel her fingers touching my pubic hair. That really made me start to get erect, but my penis was tucked down in my briefs and my pants were still on. I lifted my head up off the bed to see if my pubic hair was showing (it was, but just a little) and she said oh no, you need to keep your head down and your stomach muscles relaxed.

So she finished with my stomach and went back to her book. She read for another minute or two and then said, "well, since there is no doctor near by, I'm going to have to check and make sure you don't have a hernia causing your pain in your stomach." So I said, OK, but I didn't know what she was going to do. She got up and locked the door and pulled the blind down on the window and I was just watching her and wondering why she was doing that. Then she came back to me and said, "OK, why do you go ahead and take your pants off." I just looked at her for a second, but I thought, 'she's the nurse; I have to do what she says.' So I took my pants off. I was so embarassed because I was still like half way erect, but my penis was still tucked down, but it did make a lump in my underwear. I remember thinking I hope she doesn't notice. Then I laid down on her bed on my back. She said, "I don't want you to feel embarassed, but I need your underpants off too -- I have to check for a herina."

I was so embarassed I guess I just froze for a second. No girl or woman had ever even seen me even in my underwear before. So since I wasn't doing anything she bent over me and said "lift up your bottom" and she pulled my underwear all the way down and took them off. As soon as the cool air hit my penis when she pulled my underwear down, it started coming more to life. It was so embarassing because with each heart beat it got just a little bit more erect. First it just got longer, and then it started to swing around to the left and it was like a clock, tick-tocking around in a half-circle with each heartbeat. She was trying to talk to me, but I could tell she couldn't help but stare at it while it was becoming erect. In less than half a minute it was completely hard and bobbing up in the air over my stomach. I could tell she was totally surprised that happened. I think she didn't realize that I had started puberty a couple of years earlier and was pretty developed. she felt my testicles while I was lying down and then said I had to stand up to check for a hernia.

So I did, and that made my penis stand straight out from my body and up at like a 30 degree angle. I was so erect, even the head was swollen up. She put her finger into my balls and made me cough a few times. When I coughed a few drops of pre-cum appeared at the tip of my penis. She handed me a tissue and said I could wipe myself off.

After that she said I could get dressed and she had me lay down in her office for a couple of hours, then I felt better.

My stomach didn't bother me any more the rest of the week, but I got very embarassed every time I saw the nurse while I was there.

I had a experience at camp. They had what was called a ropes course and in doing them I slipped but didn't fall because your feet are secure but what happened was that my legs got pulled apart wishbone style and I pulled a groin muscle so bad I could barely walk. The camp nurse had me drop my shorts so I was just in my underwear. I was 13 at the time. She started to feel up the inside of my leg to see where the problem was, of course for a horny 13 year old I started to get an erction. She said I should also check for a hernia and to make sure you did not do any harm to your testicles. Without even warning me she just pulled me underwear down leaving me standing there erection and all while she checked me for a hernia and rolled my testicle between her fingers. This was my first experience being examined by someone of the opposite sex.

WOW! My stomach is bad - is the nurse in???

Wow, my camp examinations were never that intense. It was really just a quick check to make sure I didn't have some ridiculous contagious disease, and then I was off to play kickball.

I wonder why some doctors do such a complete exam and others dont.

All the summer camps I have been to the medic was an old woman so nobody wanted to see her

When I was at camp one year my counselor took me to the nurse because I had a small rash on my inner thigh. My counselor stood with my while the nurse examined it, and to my surprise, she pulled down my panties! I just laid there, in embarassment, as she examined my private parts for a rash, even though I didn't have one there.

The rest of my time at camp I couldn't look my counselor in the eye, knowing that she'd seen my privates.

I attended an all boys summer camp when I was 12. It was a summer sports activity camp that was several weeks long.

I remember going to my private pediatrician with my mom, as the camp required a physical exam form and medical history form submitted prior to attending the camp. It has been more than a year since I had a physical, so it kinda worked out well.

My mom didn't come in with me, and she waited out in the waiting area. I went in, and the nurse told me to take off everything except my underpants.

The exam was routine, and included a hernia, and testicle exam. Being uncut, she did ask me if my foreskin gave me any problems, and I said no. She never retracted my foreskin. But after that I was allowed to get dressed.

The medical history and physical exam form was submitted to the camp, and during the first week of camp, I was notified by the counselor to go to the nurse's cabin at a certain time. I found out that all campers will have an another physical exam by the camp nurse, even though every camper had to submit a medical history form and have a physical by their own pediatrician prior to attending the camp.

The exams were done in private, but I was told by the nurse to take off my shirt and shoes when I saw her. She just got my weight and height, and then told me to sit down on the small exam table. She checked my ears and nose, then she listened to my heart and lungs, and then told me to lie down, and checked my abdomen. It was routine..

Then she told me to stand up, and told me to drop my sports shorts and underpants. I did, but she pulled it down when I didn't pull it down far enough. She checked for hernia, telling me to cough, and then she checked the testicles to see if they came down. She told me that I was uncircumcised, and then rolled my foreskin back, and asked me if it hurts.

I answered no, and then she told me to turn around, and touch my toes, while my shorts and underpants are still at my knees. I felt her part my buttocks briefly, and then she told me to get dressed, and go back to activities.

I knew everyone got this kind of exam, and what I didn't understand was, why do they need to perform a physical again when they require it prior to attending the camp in the first place? (By own pediatrician or doctor)

My mom knew about the physical, but she just said that it is good since they wanted to make sure that the campers are healthy.

It was a topic of conversation for a moment between the other campers, and I remember a good number of the other guys saying that it was unnecessary since they already visited a pediatrician just months before....

I also attended other camps when I was younger, and I know that the other camps required a physical prior to attending the camp by your own doctor, but never did a physical again at the camp.

Yeah, I know what you mean, I've felt the same way. I went to sleep away camp for a two week period back when I was 13ish. We did all get an exam from the nurse, but not too in depth, just height/weight and any new injuries and allergies that the doctor didn't write down at the last physical. I guess they just really needed updated stuff on everyone, and since you said yours spanned several weeks and it sounded like you might be doing rigorous sports and activities they probably thought it was better to me safe then sorry.

Yea most camps especially sleep away camps require physicals. ITs like when going out for a sports team, you need a physical exam, They need to be sure that your healthy so you dont drop dead. Their insurance companies require this.

I went to summer camp every summer as kid and I never had anything like that. All the camps I went to were short staffed and didn't have an actual nurse they had a EMT that was just there if someone got hurt and to give out medicine.

Nothing wrong with a little TLC while away at camp, hehe

I've actually worked at a camp from the staff point of view, and was a first aider on the site (the only qualified one other than the nurse!)

She required all of the participants to go through an onsite physical after it came to light that a few peoples doctors were just signing off forms without performing the examination.

I was asked to assist and initially was taking heights and weights together with some preliminary questions. I was only about 3 years older than some of the campers which embarrassed them. The nurse initially requested nude weights, but this was dropped after campers and I felt a little uncomfortable. I did have to sit in on most of the exams as a chaperone and to take notes etc for the nurse. I saw many intimate examinations that week! The nurse was trained for minor surgery, and some of the parents had already requested that their child was circumcised if required as they felt they could recouperate at camp...strange decision but one that the nurse charged extra for! I felt very uncomfortable watching that!

It was an insurance requirement that everyone was examined to ensure they were fit to play sports and undertake the physical activities.

Doing circumcisions at camp? Did I read that correctly? Sorry, but I call BS on that one.

BS x 2.

At least make it believable???

The summer camps I went to, the camp nurse just took care of things like, upset stomachs from the food, sun burns, bee stings, scraped knees etc. We did have to fill out a lot of medical forms when we went, and we had to have had a physical, and medical release before we could come to camp.

I had only some experience of summer camps in France in the last 50's and the first part of the 60's under the age of 15.

I remenber well that we had always at our arrival a mandatory routine exam by the nurse of the camp which she performed alone or with her younger assistant.

It was particularly to check our weight and the pulse, our reflexes and to check the gait and the curvature of the spine and also an inspection of the skin to check if you had not some rushes on our body.

we were undressed until briefs for all the exam and instructed to remove the brief or depending on the years to pull it down when she wanted to check our spine and sometimes if the nurse was more thorough in her exam to look quickly at our genitals and palpate our testicles.

The reason was as it was said in a post above that they were responsible of our health and our fitness for some sports and it was well known that some doctors gave the boys a medical form without any examination, they just signed them.

Whe ni was at camp at the age of 10 11 they had all the boys in the same room to get examined even back then i knew i was either by or straight s oit was hard for me to be in the same room as all these boys knowing what was going to happen next then they told us all to strip down to our underpants and wait for the doctor when the doctor came in he said for all of us to take or underpants off to i was so turned on i had a hardon then to watch him examine all these boys oh boy i was really turned on and he knew it and saved me for last i dont to torture me or was he enjoying seeing me so excited when it came to my time i know he took alot longer with me then the other kids especially when he did the hernia check and the testicle exam so i think he was turned and i didnt care

Yeah, I agree. The 13-15 age is the worst age to have a genital exam for a boy in my opinion. Mostly because of the uncontrollable hormones. Did the boy you examined get an erection?

When I was 12, I went to camp and had'nt had a physical prior to arrival. So I had to see the camp nurse. I was told by her to remove all of my clothing except for my underwear. I remember getting an erection and it did'nt go down the whole time. By the end of the exam, my underpants were off and it was the first time a finger went in my rectum. Her fingers were small thank goodness. And yes I was very embarrassed.

I remember the same thing at my sleep-away camp. After the first couple years my parents just waited and had the exam done at camp since it was done there anyways. I do remember that a male councilor was also in the room as well, but I never minded them being in there myself. But I feel for the kid Ashley had to examine, not much you can do there, but still embarrassing for him.

Circumcisions at camp! I wonder what the insurance carrier thought of that - Think it was Medicaid re-imbursable?

DrLaennec Whirling in disbelief but chuckling none the less

I was in a camp, when I was 10 and the first day the nurse checked everybody's hair!, to make sure it's clean..., nothing more.

When I was 20 years old I worked as a camp counselor. There were 2 sixteen year olds working as assistants for the nurse in the camp infirmary. I came down with a high fever. They ran out of mouth thermomitors and the nurse took my temp rectally. The next day the camp went on an outing to an amusement park. The nurse went as well leaving the 2 sixteen year olds in charge of the infirmary which only had myself and 2 other kids there. They were instructed to take my temp while I was there. Found it very embarrassing having these young assistants take my temp rectally.

I was sick for several days at camp when I was 12 (I posted about the visit to the doctor 'in town' ) and the only memorable part was that the nurse/emt used me as the patient when teaching a first aid class... Great memory even though I was really sick that week.