Age of First Physical Exam

When was the first time that you guys can remember having a FULL physical?

I remember the first time like it was yesterday...

i was 12 years old and my mom told me i have a doctor's appointment in a week. i thought it was going to be just a regular check-up. boy was i wrong. as we pulled into the parking lot of the doctor's office i got kind of excited. (i always liked going to the doctor) when we entered the reception area my mom went and checked me in saying i was there. no longer than 3 minutes later the nurse comes and calls me in. it was a bit weird that my mom stayed in the waiting room, as though she always came in with me. so as i go in the nurse says that it's about time that i have my first physical exam. I had no idea what that was at that time. i was quite weirded out when she told me to take off all my clothes and get into this gown that she handed me. as i did so i started to get a little prick-up down there.

when the Doctor came in he started out with the basic stuff like checking my BP and pulse. He then asked me to lay down and he started feeling my chest, by this time in pitching a full out tent, which i think he noticed. he than moved down to my abdomen, where he started prodding and poking at various parts. Next thing i know he's walking away leaving me there and as i try to see what he's doing, i hear the snap of the rubber gloves, and as he's walking back over, he says that he is going to check my penis and testicles for development and see if everything is alright down there. automatically i got even more weirded out. next thing i know, he's pulling my underwear down and revealing my rock hard penis, he gives me a look of re-assurance and says that, that is perfectly normal for someone your age. Now he starts feeling my penis head and turning and toying with my penis, then he opens up my penis head and inspects that. next thing i know he starts, what feels like, massaging my testicles. by this time i've got pre-cum oozing out of my penis.

Now he says that he has to take a rectal temperature to ensure the most accurate temperature. and i start freaking out, the last time i had a rectal temperature taken was about 7-8 years ago. this was completely embarrassing. he grabbed his thermometer and the K-Y jelly and he puts some of the lube on his fore-finger. then he sticks his finger up my bum. As he takes his finger out, he grabs his thermometer and sticks it in there. he says that it will take about 2-3 minutes to get an accurate temperature so just sit still while that's going. I was so embarrassed, laying there completely nude in front of this guy and i've got a thermometer sticking out of my ass. after 3 minutes pass, he takes it out and says the my temperature is perfectly normal. he says that he has just one final part of the exam left, The rectal exam. So, he lubes up again and boom sticks his finger back up my bum, i can feel him poking at my insides and next thing i know i ejaculate all over the exam table. i was so embarrassed. he pulled his finger out of my bum and says that that is a perfectly normal reaction for boys my age. He cleans up the mess and says that my exam is all done and says that i can get changed.

As I'm getting changed i can tell he went out and told my mom exactly what he did and what happened and that was the quietest and most awkward car-ride home that i've ever been in.

I suppose, depending upon the definition, I've either never had a "full physical" or had one at every visit to the doctor.

Growing up, the terms were always used interchangeably. Unless I was sick, if I was going to the doctor, we called it a "checkup" -- even if I had a "physical exam" form to be signed for school or sports. Similarly, every visit covered roughly the same things, even if it was done in a slightly different way by different doctors and at different visits.

I say that I've possibly never had a "full physical" because I've never been subjected to a rectal exam as you described in your account. And I'm ok with that.

WHere are those doctors now?? Wish I had that happen to me...

I remember switing from the ped when I was in 6th grade. The first doctor I went to after the ped was thorough, but not totally thorough. My jr year of HS, my reg doc was away and there was a different doctor standing in for him.

He gave me a very adult physical.

I remember my father taking me, but waiting in the waiting room. After the exam he checked in wiht my father, and it was an awkward car ride home.

I think full physical is undergoing a complete body exam that is age appropriate. I cannot imagine a doctor performing a rectal exam on preteens or teenagers. I view the "full physical" beginning at the time when a boy graduates from the child exam where, in my experience, the doctor danced around the embarrassing body parts, to experience his first taste of manhood when the undershorts came down or off to have the full genital exam. This came for me at age 11 when the pediatrician slipped down my white briefs to give me the first experience of a full visual exam and palpating of the penis and testicles. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was lying on my back, the abdominal exam had been done, and I got the shock of the doctor slipping down my briefs without any verbal warning. I was actually glad he didn't say anything since my mother was in a small anteroom, outside the exam room, but with no door separating it, so she didn't know what had happened to me. I would have been mortified for her to know that I had just had a genital exam. I was at the Tanner II development stage, so my penis had grown and my testes were hanging down, but I had no pubic hair. I remember that he lifted my penis, which was lying on my lower abdomen, checked the head and the meatus, and then moved to the testes. He lifted each testicle and palpated it carefully. He then pulled my briefs back up. This was the exam that taught me the thrill of being thoroughly embarrassed by having a doctor I spect my genitals.

I cannot imagine a doctor performing a rectal exam on preteens or teenagers.

I had once when I was 14.

I had more than one DRE as a teenager in the 1960's. Pretty freaked out by the first two, but after that it became kind of routine.

I don't think it is the norm, but as I look back I am glad that I had the experience at a young age.

My son has experienced a DRE as a teenager as well. I can't say he was thrilled about it.in any way..

I had more than one DRE as a teenager in the 1960's. Pretty freaked out by the first two, but after that it became kind of routine.

I don't think it is the norm, but as I look back I am glad that I had the experience at a young age.

My son has experienced a DRE as a teenager as well. I can't say he was thrilled about it.in any way..

I cannot imagine why a teenager would need a rectal exam in a routine physical. What is the doctor checking for, colon or prostate cancer?

Never had that kind of, um, thorough experience at such a young age, and am still waiting for my first rectal exam outside of a play exam.

I do remember, though, that at some point in late grade school I was told I was going to the doctor for a "physical", similar to what another poster mentions below. Until then it had always been a "check-up".... I remember asking what it meant, being worried that it was going to be painful or something (I was too young to realize what some of the procedures were that may feature in later exams.) I don't remember it being any different than the old "check-up", except maybe the doctor did a quick genital exam, which amounted to pulling my underpants back for a quick look. I think it may have also been the first time I remember having blood taken at the doctor's office and having to bring in a urine sample. But by any measure more tame than the beginning of this thread.

I cannot imagine a doctor performing a rectal exam on preteens or teenagers.

Maybe it was done for other than strictly medical reasons. Could be the doc just liked doing it or thought it a useful experience for the patient. Or maybe he thought it was necessary to check for possible anal masturbatory abuse or such. Might have been an obsession, you can never tell. Doctors have their own personal quacks too ..

In any case, when still in grade school in the US - in 5th grade I think - I remember being part of a group at lunch break that was attentively and gigglingly listening to a fellow student telling about his latest medical checkup. And one of the things that drew my attention, made me turn red in the face and also piqued my interest in this kind of goings-on ever since, was his description of a genital and a rectal exam. The idea alone that a doctor would do something like that flabbergasted me to no end. It was a dread to contemplate actually happening and a pleasure to ruminate and think about. The rectal exam was to me then the most shocking part.

So I can say that I have heard of it being done. Can't say if there was any valid reason for it, other than the doctor wanted it done and you never talked back to a doctor in those days.

If the story is not a fantasy then it is suspicious.

I know all doctors are different, but the only time any of my children have had a DRE by a doctor was when one of them had puss and blood in their stools. Part of the exam was a DRE but it also included stool samples, blood work and a referral to a surgeon. Let me tell you there was nothing erotic or exciting about this or remembering this as I was very scared not knowing what this was or the scary thoughts of what someone might have done to my child or what he might have done to himself to cause this. I also confess that given the paranoia of today's society I was worried they would blame me for abusing him. After all I admit I have medical fetishes, but even if some of those thoughts involve children or my childhood. I would never hurt a child to fulfill them. Turns out it was a simple infected fissure caused by hard stools. A change in diet, an enema, some stool softeners and some systemic antibiotics and it was all forgotten.

That's the problem with medical fetishes. Most of the really embarrassing things get done to you when you are too scared about what is wrong with your body to enjoy them. That's why I am glad a DRE is part of my healthy checkup. If you are not a male over 40 a DRE is unnecessary unless there is a specific complaint. If you say you are getting one then either you are full of crap (i.e. lying) or full of crap (hard stools causing a fissure). I know bad joke.

After the first physical exam, every time i had one done he did a rectal exam.

he may have just been checking to see if everything is all right, or if there were any stool problems, but all that i know is that it happened.

I cannot imagine a doctor performing a rectal exam on preteens or teenagers.

While probably not typical, some doctors may do a DRE while doing an exam upon reaching puberty because the prostate, like the rest of the reproductive system, does grow and undergo changes at that time. It is not out of the realm of possibility, and not really considered inappropriate, especially back in the 60's and 70's.

Also, in my family, the terms "check-up" and "Physical" were synonymous.

As for me, since I am uncircumcised, I always had the doc pull back my foreskin, but the first time I got the whole exam, my doctor wasn't even in town. I was about 10 or so, and I needed an exam. I think I had strep throat or something. (It was long ago.) Anyway, there was a husband and wife, both pediatricians, covering for my doctor. I got the wife.

Since she had never seen me before, she said she wanted to do a full check up. The office had a regular office with just desk, chair, ect, then next to it, separated by a sliding door, was the exam room. My mother stayed out in the consultation room, but told me, in no uncertain terms that I was to do what the doctor told me without fuss.

She did the whole EENT, scoliosis check, range of motion, ect. I was nervous because I expected her to peek into my briefs and pull back the foreskin like my regular doctor did and, as I said, she was a woman. Well, she pulled my briefs past my knees, did a hernia check, squeezed my scrotum, then rolled each testicle individually. I was still standing in front of her with my privates close to eye level, she moved my penis first right, then left out of the way so she could get a good look at my scrotum. She then skinned back my foreskin and complimented me on my good hygiene. She did a visual inspection of my butt, but no DRE or anything like that. When she was done, she told me to pull up my shorts and have a seat on the table, as the nurse had to give me an injection. In comes the nurse with a syringe of penicillin, tells me to lie on my side facing the wall. My undies were pulled down again (not so far this time) and I got a shot in the butt. She pulled up my shorts and told me to get dressed.

The first time that I had a DRE was a few years later, when I went to the ER. I was having bellyaches, and my sister just had her appendix out, so my folks brought me in. It turned out to be a bad case of constipation, but they didn't want to take any chances.

I think full physical is undergoing a complete body exam that is age appropriate. I cannot imagine a doctor performing a rectal exam on preteens or teenagers. I view the "full physical" beginning at the time when a boy graduates from the child exam where, in my experience, the doctor danced around the embarrassing body parts, to experience his first taste of manhood when the undershorts came down or off to have the full genital exam.

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This contrasts with the full physicals I had when I was a boy. The earliest exam I had with him was when I was about five or six, and I was lying on my back in my little white briefs and he pulled down the front of them for a few seconds to take a quick look at my penis. He didn't do the hernia exam (the old "turn you head and cough" thing) that time, but my next physical with him was when I was about eight, and he did the "adult style" hernia exam. So my doctor didn't dance around or skip the embarrassing parts.

I think the term "full physical" leaves a lot to individual interpretation. Does a sports physical one might receive as a youth count as a full physical? What about a pre-employment or pre-operative exam? Is blood work required or an ECG? Does it require you to receive a rectal, genital, pelvic, or breast exam? All of the above? What about a complete medical history review? Family history?

I think full physical is undergoing a complete body exam that is age appropriate.

This is the best definition of full physical so far in this thread. But even this has a lot of gray area and is based on personal opinions. Does every body part or orifice need to be looked at, touched, or penetrated? Maybe for someone who's 55, but what about someone who's 25, 15, or 5?

I suppose, depending upon the definition, I've either never had a "full physical" or had one at every visit to the doctor.

I think this quote sums it up perfectly.

It's a good point that a lot of this is up to individual interpretation. I had a response typed, then erased it.

At first I'd say it was the first time your genitals were examined as part of a physical -- but I think when I was young and it was a quick glance, that didn't count or didn't have an effect on me.

But in my case, I think it was 14, and I was used to an exam that didn't include anything below the belt. To be honest I didn't go that often, usually only with sick. I thought I knew what was going to happen. In this case, it was a full exam because I had my temp, blood pressure, ENT checked along with a stethoscope. Usually that was it, but this time the doctor had me do some walks across the room. Which I thought was weird. Then he had me stand next to the exam table while he grabbed a glove. He rolled over in his chair, put on the glove, and told me to lower my basketball shorts and underwear. The shock of that realization of authority and subsequent exposure and handling of my genitals. That feeling, for me, clearly defines my first physical exam.

For me a FULL physical should include an auscultation, an exam of the genitals and a DRE. I had only one, I was 55 years old. All other examens didn’t include all of this at the same time from the same doctor.

I think I probably had physicals with our family doctor before I can remember now, but the earliest ones I do remember were school physicals from when I was 6-8 probably.

They had a mobile medical unit, either an RV or a trailer, which was brought to the parking lot outside the school, and it was there for several days as they gave physicals to students in different grades.

They would have small groups of us, three or four, and both boys and girls, (I think it was done alphabetically,) be led from our classroom to the medical unit. Inside it was divided into two sections, the waiting room and the exam room, with a fairly thin wall of cheap fake wood paneling between. We always had to wait at least several minutes in the waiting room while they finished with the exam before. I always liked the toys they had in the waiting room, but it was only the first year where I played with the toys innocently. That time I didn't really know what was about to happen, the other times I was preoccupied with nervous thoughts about what would happen once I went into the exam room, and also thinking about what was being done to my classmates who were in there just before me.

The first year, the nurse or assistant came and called my name, then led me into the exam room where the doctor, always a female, was standing in front of the exam table. She greeted me, talked to me a little about how I was feeling, then said we would get started. That first year, I was told to get undressed, it was always in front of them, everything off except my briefs. The next year it was everything off, including my briefs, but I could leave my socks on. The year after that it was everything off completely. Each time I would get a nervous thought about my classmates being just on the other side of that thin dividing wall. That year when I was just wearing socks left the greatest impression on me, I felt more exposed and naked than I even did the next year when I was totally naked. A few times as an adult I've been undressed to nothing but socks, and it always takes me back to that memory.

They had me step on the scale, measured height, had me walk around so they could check my gait, I think bend over trying to touch toes, and that sort of stuff. Then, I was asked to use the couple of steps up to the exam table and sit down. The doctor listened to my heart, and breathing, checked my throat, ears, and reflexes, and took my temperature orally. The doctor then asked me to lay down on the table, and she felt around my arms, legs, abdomen. She then lifted the waist band to my briefs and pulled them down in front, and felt around my penis and under my scrotum. I must have squirmed around because she asked if that tickled, and I nodded, a bit embarrassed. I probably blushed all over.

The two other years I remember getting off the exam table and standing on the floor while the doctor checked around my penis and scrotum. I didn't have my briefs on, so nothing to pull down, either of those times.

That's about as much in detail as I recall. I would get dressed, and go back out to the waiting room. The first year, maybe two, I waited for whoever in my group hadn't had their physical yet, and I played with the toys. There was a sense of nervousness now, though, as I thought about my classmates being examined, and marveling at what had just happened to me. The last year, I didn't have to wait for the others, I just was sent back to class, with my head spinning over everything.

After that first time, whenever I'd see that mobile medical unit there outside the school, I'd get butterflies, and the anticipation would build. After my last year having a physical, I didn't see the medical unit again, so I guess I'm lucky my class was one of the last to have that experience at our school. I certainly think that was where my Medfet began, as far as I can remember.

Medical test subject's experiences (post 18 just before this one) are very similar to mine which I describe in my postings 1 and 2. Again probably was the start of my medical fetish, great to remember.

Cant remember my first physical exam that I had as I was a newborn. I have gotten a yearly physical ever since.

Had an annual check up/physical with the same female nurse and male pediatrician for nineteen years. Can't recall many details of my earliest childhood exams, except dreading anything that had to do with needles, whether giving blood samples or getting vaccination/booster shots.

The first physical that I can remember was when I was five or six. I'd been unwell and my mother took me to the gp and my older brother came along with us also. The doctor decided that he wanted to do a more general exam of me and told my mother "can you strip him to his underpants only for me?". She helped me undress and so I was in the exam room in front of my mother and my brother in only my briefs. The doctor proceeded to get me to stand on the scales to weigh me, had me stand against the wall to take my height and then sit on the table. They put the torch into my eyes and ears to check them and then put the torch into my throat and got me to say arrr. Next they listened to my heart and lungs and got me to lie down while they palpated and listened to my belly. What I really enjoyed was when they asked me if I wanted a listen myself so I got to hear my heart beating away and the gurgling sounds in my belly which made me laugh. Finally, they did reflex tests and then said I could dress. All the time I was there my mother was in conversation with the doctor discussing how I was developing. I didn't get a genital exam here, and as a kid only did at my teenage exams at school.

I'm sure I had physicals at a earlier age but the first I remember was about five. Polio and getting polio shots was a big thing back then. I didn't like shots.

This was when I rebelled and didn't want to go with Mom and my sister anymore. She was 23 months older than me.

My father took over then and we had physicals together until I was seventeen and he passed. I've written about this in other posts.

I had lots of sports physicals growing up. But I got my first real physical exam when I left my pediatrician when I was 18.

The doctor required something called a new patient physical, and it was separated into two appointments.

The first appointment was with a really attractive nurse and was an hour of history and vital signs.

I thought she was going to be doing the physical two days later, but it was an older man.

The exam was about 60 minutes, and he was nice enough. The problem was that he only gave me a towel or drape like thing to put over my lap. I did not wear underwear because I thought the female nurse was doing the exam.

So I am sitting there with basically a washcloth over my privates for the whole exam.

And when I had to stand up for the exercises he put me through I was completely naked.

So I was fully naked for 15 minutes or so.

I guess the doctor had done tons of physicals. He didn't even act like I was naked and put me through my exercises.

The exam was about 60 minutes, and he was nice enough. The problem was that he only gave me a towel or drape like thing to put over my lap. I did not wear underwear because I thought the female nurse was doing the exam.

So I am sitting there with basically a washcloth over my privates for the whole exam.

And when I had to stand up for the exercises he put me through I was completely naked.

I bet you were gutted when you found out the attractive nurse wasn't going to see you naked! What exercises did the doctor make you perform? Was it embarrassing having to do them with your privates wobbling about in front of the doctor while you did them?