What do you fear during exams?

... not in terms of the doctor diagnosing some horrendous disease etc (which I'm sure we all fear) but in terms of painful and/or embarrassing parts of the exam?For me I fear being examined with an anoscope or similar. Very uncomfortable (during exam and for a couple of days after) in my experience and embarrassing to be positioned in such an exposed position during the exam. I also have a fear that painful injections may be required and as well I fear that I might develop an uncontrollable erection in full view of the doctor. What do you fear?

I have no fear beyond surgery or bad news.

This may sound a little ironic, but everything. I'm terrified of medical settings in real life (the only place medically-oriented that I can go and not feel on the verge of passing out from fright is the dentist. The dentist is kind of relaxing to me), and only feel safe and aroused by doctor's offices and tools during play sessions/RPs. Whenever I have a doctor's appointment for any reason, I usually need a few hours to gather my courage. I often drink a lot of warm tea beforehand in an attempt to put myself in a more relaxed state. It sometimes works, other times it doesn't.

I am thinking about seeing a therapist about this fear though (I have generalized anxiety and depression as well, so might as well reap all the benefits of talking to a professional confidant), as I feel extremely uncomfortable with a stranger seeing and touching my body if I don't know them on a very personal level, or if it's a non-professional play exam. I obviously can't go through life boycotting doctors, so I need to address this.

I'm in the Jds4Med camp and really don't fear anything except for some really bad news. I generally enjoy the entire experience, even more so if it's embarrassing. I don't like things that are painful, but that doesn't happen very often -- maybe a shot once in a while, that's all. Normal exam procedures, including things like a rectal and prostate exam don't bother me. They might be uncomfortable, but certainly not painful.

Another topic previously covered. Like most people I worry about getting bad news

This has been discussed before on another thread. I only fear bad news.

Throughout my youth (especially adolescence) my greatest fear was what came after the examination - pulling everything down to my ankles and bending over the receptionist's lap for her to watch me injected in my bare bottom (penicillin when ill and booster shots when I wasn't).

I only generally fear really bad news , surgery and NG tubes . Other than that I've experienced many different exams , injections and procedures so know what hurts the most and things that are tolerable.

It suppose it really depends on the complaint as to what investigations or interventions are needed. As with most people any painful procedure I don't really like or enjoy, I for one would not be happy to have a lumbar puncture, chest drain insertion or biopsies. But things live CT or MRI I don't mind ( I'm not claustrophobic ).

I haven´t had bad experiences at examinations, so my only fear is to get a bad diagnosis

Being diagnosed with a serious or chronic health condition.

It suppose it really depends on the complaint as to what investigations or interventions are needed. As with most people any painful procedure I don't really like or enjoy, I for one would not be happy to have a lumbar puncture, chest drain insertion or biopsies. But things live CT or MRI I don't mind ( I'm not claustrophobic ).

The only thing I fear is bad news. I can handle pain. I've endured natural childbirth!

I love being blindfolded and restrained, so MRI's are no problem. For the last 20+ years. CT's resemble big doughnuts or tractor tires more than tunnels like MRI's.

I had an MRI of my knee about ten years ago after I hurt it playing tennis. They kept telling me during the set-up to hold still. I told them to tape me how they wanted me to a cushion!

During these follow up exams after surgeries . I was really scared that they shouldn't order any of the biopsy again. I am a chicken when it comes to pain. I already had chest drains , NG tubes , Bone Marrow Biopsy, Liver and kidney Biopsy. Placing central thorasic line , and other procedures during the past few months , I seriously Dread going to hospital ! I have to go for weekly dialysis and I also end up having Blood work for liver profile and other issues. Not fearful of blood draw but of the result.

Injections and anoscopes for me. Not the small boosters... But the larger antibiotic ones... I have had several due to chronic step as a teen and I still hate the thought... Anoscopes because I have a very sensitive rosebud

Fear? Nothing really. If something comes up, we'll deal with it.

I don't like to hear bad news. "We found ______ and that means you might have _____." I absolutely hated getting shots when I was a child, so even as an adult I'm anxious whenever I go into the doctor's office. Even for a routine physical! It starts in the lobby/waiting room, a sense of dread. By the time my doctor sees me to take heart rate and blood pressure, my vitals are way off whack.

Of course I had a lot of fears during my many exams in my teenaged time. I didn´t knew much about the badness of diagnosis, my greatest fear was always about the abdominal exams, which last so long and I was feared about abdominal pain and most of all of the nausea and that I had to vomit maybe, what happened sometimes. And what I didn´t like at all was the navel (hernia) exam, because I have an outie bellybutton, that it is caused by a small navel hernia, so my fear was mostly if the doctor will examine my outie bellybutton again, too, because that was mostly ao painful and uncomfortable, that I felt that pain for the next one to two days, either. And of course, I was always feared about the most embarrassing part of the genital exams of getting an erection or that someone else could see me naked...

While like others I do fear bad news, but otherwise I am not keen on cold instruments no matter where they go. The other thing is when I give blood and they stick that little thing on your finger to get a drop. That is far worse than the needle in my vein taking a full pint.

I fear gyn exams the most because of the difficulty to get the speculum inside.

I'm always so nervous when it comes tot that part

I don't fear them but I don't really like the thought of ever getting injections. It seems that the most painful and most feared by me is the tetanus shot I am required to get every five years due to my job. I also dislike the thought of blood draws for testing purposes. This fear keeps me from donating blood on some occasions.

My main worry is that I'll be visibly aroused. As long as I know nothing's too seriously wrong then I tend to get at least some enjoyment from most procedures - but I wouldn't want the doctor to know!

I fear shots in the butt or that she will find out that I need a gyno exam (I don't want one!).

At the age of 12 my mother took me to the doctor to have the tip of my foreskin "snipped" (circumcised). Fortunately, it did not happen. That fall I entered the seventh grade and gym class with mandatory showers. I soon realized that I was the only male in my class that sported a foreskin. I became very self conscious of this and soon developed a phobia with regards to circumcision. I developed a fear that I would also have to be circumcised. Annual physical exams were mandatory. I feared that the doctor would see that I still had my foreskin and circumcise it right then and there. I was not aware that circumcision required "informed consent". Most doctors merely pulled back my foreskin, examined the glans, spread my urethral meatus (pee slit) and looked in. At age 15 my mother took me to a different doctor. I had been told that this doctor had a reputation for circumcising foreskins. Before going to see the doctor, I pulled back my foreskin so that I would look circumcised. When the doctor asked me to "drop my drawers" I eagerly complied to show that I was circumcised. Unfortunately, my foreskin decided to slid forward covering my glans at just that moment. I was embarrassed - would the doctor circumcises my foreskin? The doctor proceeded to have me cough twice, checked my testicles, and then retracted my foreskin. I did not discover until I was in my 30s that circumcision was a procedure that required "informed consent" and have outgrown my fear.

I fear something unexpected. Something that I'm not mentally prepared for.

If not for the doctor diagnosing something bad I guess I have no fear at all.

Undressing for an exam or any procedures. I am kept shaved from the neck down. A number of doctor's, PA's, and nurses have done some double takes and even turned away to chuckle; I am sure!

Exams are always ok with me. It's the shots or blood draw that effects me the most. I have no tolerance for needles. I can tolerate and even look forward to most anything else, but the needle. So I'm a big baby, So What!!

I'm afraid of getting turned on and embarrassing myself. It happened to me when I was younger.

Needles, needles, and more needles, Gives me the creeps just looking at them to the point of cold sweats. Is a trauma I cant shake off.

Height/weight scale! Ugh!