Question about upcoming Physical

On Wednesday I go in for my Yearly Physical with my female Nurse Practitioner.She's very thorough,but doesn't spend much time examining my penis,but does spend time checking my testicles.Does anyone have an idea of how I can get her to spend more time checking my penis?Any advice would be appreciated!

How, exactly, has she been examining your penis? Does she retract foreskin if you have it? Does she spread open urethra with her thumbs or pinch it open between thumb & index finger? You could explain to her it hurts when you use sounding tools and when you self-cath yourself...she may spend additional time on it then. Best of luck...keep us posted!

I share your desire to have thorough examination of my penis. In the majority of my exams, the doctor does not handle my penis and just, presumably, gives it a glance when my underpants are dropped for the testicular and hernia exams. The only handling of the penis I ever get is when the examiner checks the meatus by quickly spreading it open. Though I have never been bold enough to say anything to cause the examiner to do a more detailed penile exam here are a couple of thoughts. If you are not circumcised, you could complain about tightness of the foreskin with retraction or irritation or tearing of the foreskin with sex. If you are circumcised, you could say something about irritation of the frenulum or the head of the penis from the friction of sex. Regardless of your circumcision status, you could complain that you have noticed curvature of erection. There is a condition called Peyronie disease that causes scar tissue formation in the shaft which requires palpation for confirmation.

Please give some follow up on this physical.

A nurse practitioner doesn't have a great deal of training in the penis department. If you complain of a problem she will take a quick look and refer you to a Urologist.

Thanks all for the info.Basically,she just looks and asks questions about my penis,but she does pick it up and looks for a,second.That's the most contact she has with it.I am circumsized,so no need to retract foreskin.Guess I'll have to think of something else...

I'd assume a detailed examination of the penis isn't part of most standard physical exams because there's not much that the doctor could detect from such an exam that the patient wouldn't immediately recognize on his own.

Just say ou have some kind of concern with your erections, that should be interesting

I would agree with other posts... Penis exams, especially for circumcised fellas, is the domain of play exams and urologists' offices. Let us know how your exam goes.

I'd assume a detailed examination of the penis isn't part of most standard physical exams because there's not much that the doctor could detect from such an exam that the patient wouldn't immediately recognize on his own.

I agree that there is very little which an examiner could identify in an examination of the penis which the patient could not identify himself. This is exactly why I would prefer to have some, limited, examination of the penis be included in every man's exam. The lack of true necessity adds to the embarrassment and promotes the patient's feelings that he is being inspected. Maybe a reasonable topic would be group members' concepts about the ideal exam of the penis.

Of all the exams in my 40+ years I'll bet the dr has spent 10 minutes total on ym penis. Always more on the testes as that's where there is more problem potential

You may try to act as if her touch feels strange

You may think about asking about genital warts. Often times when a woman's pap smear comes back with a false positive it is due to the HPV virus (human papiloma virus) which causes genital warts. A simple mention that your wife recently had an abnormal pap smear which turned out to be HPV resulted in her doctor recommending that her partner be examined for HPV is all it should take for a thorough exam.