How did Doc catch you off guard?

How did your Doctor catch you off guard? Here are some things I've heard of: snapped the waist band of briefs overly hard when finishing the stomach or genital exam, tweaked the head of the penis, used a different position for the prostate exam than all of the prior years, kept a nurse in the room when prior exams had been done privately. If one of those would catch you off guard, how would you feel? If none of them would catch you off guard, what would catch you off guard? Please refrain from indicating none of the above or anything else would catch you off guard, since this post focuses on things that do catch us off guard. Thanks!

My female doctor conducts what I consider a fairly thorough physical exam. But if one year she suddenly announced that they needed to give me an enema so she could complete the exam -- yeah, that would surprise me. Or if she wanted to do a rigid sigmoidoscopy -- that would certainly be unexpected. I have had doctors in the past that have brought in another doctor or nurse with them that were in training. My current doctor has never done that, so that might surprise me a little bit. And obviously if my doctor suddenly decided to pay more attention to my male anatomy than is usual for her -- that would certainly get my attention. But that would never happen.

I think any time the doctor lift or lowers something without saying anything would fit that criteria.

Sometimes the receptionist would find an excuse to enter (e.g. bringing in my medical records) while I was bending over with pants down for an injection. The embarrassment of her seeing me like that successfully distracted me from the shot until I actually felt it.

The most caught off guard I've been was when I had a full body skin exam and the dermatologist checked my backside. I was standing in my underwear with a gown open to the back with the doctor standing behind me and she asked if she could take a look at my buttocks. I gave permission and she pulled my underwear down enough to fully expose my butt. She asked me to stand with my legs slightly apart and then she spread my butt cheeks with her bare hands to take a quick look at my anus. I was not expecting that at all and it was a slightly strange sensation.

The first time I had my femoral pulse taken instantly comes to mind. Can't remember the exact age but it was somewhere around puberty.

I'd gone to my doctor with an ongoing leg problem. The issue was with my calf so they'd usually just pull the trouser leg up a bit. That was all I expected.

I was a bit young to be going in myself and my mum couldn't make it so an older relative was with me. He tried not to look but it was embarrassing enough to take my trousers off with him there. Once I was down to my underwear I felt even more exposed when I was asked to lie down.

The doctor pushed into my leg at various points and moved it about. He then took my pulse in my ankle and the back of my knee before using what I now know is a doppler. He then said something like "I'm going to lower your underwear slightly" and I had no chance to react.

It wasn't like my genitals were exposed but they were pulled down enough to reveal quite a bit of my growing public hair. His finger went well in to my pants as he pulled each side back and it stayed there for what felt like ages. Nobody had touched me near there before so it's an experience I've never forgotten. Think it's also what started my medical fetish.

When the plant doc would examine me for hernia while I was lying down, the last 2 annual physicals he did something extra after the hernia check, which seemed to occur spontaneously for me, hence "catching me off guard".

The first occasion, after the hernia check, he swept his ungloved fingers around my scrotum. it felt more like a caress as I didn't really feel a squeeze. I presumed he was casually checking for testicular cancer. Wasn't watching him, wasn't expecting it. Liked the way it felt though.

The second occasion, after the hernia check, he gave a brief squeeze to each testicle. Was wondering during the hernia check if he'd repeat what he did the year before. Again, wasn't looking. Suddenly i could feel my balls being squeezed one at a time. Caught me off guard.

Remains one of my fondest physical exam memories.

There were 2 instances, both around the same time

.I was probably about 11or 12 at the time. For some reason, my Mom took me to the doctor. (It may have been a normal physical for before the school year.) My normal pediatrician was out of town, and another doctor was covering for him. Actually there were 2, a husband and wife. I never met either of them before, but my mother knew them. I understand that the husband was a rather surly fellow who was rather gruff with his patients. Fortunately (or unfortunately, if you are a pubescent shy boy) I got the wife

Anyhow, the exam started as normal, strip to my shorts, height, weight, temp (oral by then) etc. So, I'm sitting on the table in my skivvies on the table waiting for the doctor, my mother sitting in a chair across the room. In comes this woman, and she introduces herself to me as the doctor, and told me she would examining me. I had never had a female doctor before, and, as I indicated, I was a rather shy kid, so that was surprise #1. My mom had a bit of chit chat with her, then she turns to me.

She was friendly and quite gentle, but efficient. She did all the regular stuff, HEENT, listened to heart, lungs, and abdomen. She palpated my abdomen, including just under the waistband of my underwear. (Nothing unusual there) She then checked my range of motion, gait, scoliosis check, etc, (Again, nothing unusual) then had me stand in front of her.

At this point, my normal doctor would have simply looked into my briefs to see that everything was OK. I was a bit nervous having a woman do that, but then came the biggest surprise of the visit.

She pulled my underwear down my upper thighs. (Now getting really embarrassed) She skinned back my foreskin, My doctor had done the same, but remember, I was a shy lad who never was examined by a woman at a time when I was just becoming aware of girls, and had had Sex ed the previous school year. (Although, I don't remember getting regular erections for at that time.) After this humiliation, she did something my doctor never, that I remember, did. She grabbed my scrotum and gave my balls a gentle squeeze. (Totally unexpected) I felt a tingle in my balls, but, fortunately, did not become erect. She then pulled my underwear back up and had me sit on the table. She told my mother that everything was good, told me to get dressed and left the exam room.

I dressed, then we went out got some paperwork and left. Of course, I told my best friend what happened, and we had some adolescent talk about that. I often thought about that often as I sailed into puberty.

The second instance was in the summer. I was about 13 at the time. It was a August, so I slept on the floor in the den and not in my bed upstairs. (My room was terribly hot in the summer) My Dad was out mowing the lawn, so it was probably about 8:30 or 9:00 in the morning. I woke up, and I was covered in hives, and my eyes were swollen. Mom called the doctor, (My regular doc this time) who sent us to an allergist. (We did not go to my doc at all, but that was not unusual at the time.) We knew it was not chicken pox because I had had them a few years before, and my MMR was up to date, (Also, i was the 5th of 6 children, so Mom had seen and dealt with most of the normal childhood diseases, as well as poison oak, poison ivy, and poison sumac.) so, off we went.

We got there and, Mom filled out the paperwork. After telling him the problem,( Which had subsided some by the time we got there) and he had me take off my shirt. (The first time I was not told to strip to my shorts for an exam, which was OK with me because my mother was in the room with me.) At this point, being naked in front of my mom would have been...awkward. (This visit also marked the last time that Mom ever went into the exam room with me.) He inspected the hives on my chest, arms, and back, then my legs,(It was summer so I was in shorts.) and feet, then he had me lie on the table and he started doing the normal exam stuff. After a bit, he told me to remove my shorts. I was surprised, and so was Mom. (We expected him to just look at the rash and be able to identify it.) Mom and I both protested strenuously, and he said to my mom "Is he wearing clean underwear?" Mom replied "He better be!" so, off came the shorts and underwear. He checked under my penis, scrotum and my whole groin and upper thigh area.(This was about the time that my pubic hair was starting to sprout.) Then he had me turn over and checked my buttock, separating the butt cheeks. (It's a good thing my face was already red from the rash to hid my blush)

After doing a thorough exam and I was dressed, (Or possibly before the exam, it was long ago) he did a scratch test.

The final diagnosis was an allergy to grass and ragweed. He gave me some medication and told Mom to have me follow-up with my regular doctor.

As I said, I think when Mom saw that I had, indeed, reached puberty (Pubic hair and larger genitals plainly visible) this was the last time she came into the exam room with me.

There were a few things surrounding the same visit that caught me off guard. I had made my first "introductory" visit with a new PCP the previous Fall and dutifully scheduled a return visit for follow up of my pesky hypertension. The visit was scheduled for Tuesday or Wednesday, can't remember which. The Friday morning before I decided on the spur of the moment to take a mental health day and enjoy the beautiful weather. I remembered the upcoming doctor's visit and thought maybe, just maybe I could see if they had any openings that day and save myself the hassle of coming in on the work day. The clinic was in the other direction from my work. This would be a lot quicker and I wouldn't be as stressed out needing to get out of there in a hurry.

The receptionist told me that my own Dr. wasn't working that day but that the nurse practitioner could see me if that was okay. I only wanted to do hypertension management (aka get my meds and get the wife off my back - seriously, I have a STRONG family history) so I told her I was cool with that so she put me on the schedule. Before she could ask, they always do, why I was coming in I mentioned my hypertension. There was a pause. The receptionist seemed puzzled, telling me they had actually scheduled me for a physical (This was news to me. I had not asked for one. Call the wife ecstatic if I even go to the real doctor at all if I can avoid it.) Pause. We could fit you in later this afternoon. I said yeah, go ahead.

When I got there I was jittery and a bit spacey. I filled out what seemed like newspaper's worth of forms, much more than for the initial visit. The MA finally called me in, sat me on the table for the vitals etc before reaching under the table to grab a gown. I was taken aback, my previous PCPs either did things over, around or under clothing. When I expressed my surprise the MA just shrugged her shoulders and said I could "discuss it with her" before leaving.

The NP came in reviewed the history before getting up to leave. She told me to change into the gown but leave my undershorts on. Okay, dodged a bullet. Or so I thought.

She came back, did the usual exam sat up, no problem. When I lay on my back she proceeded to do a breast exam, explaining that while uncommon in men it did occur.

They mustn't have had any proper drapes that day because for the abdominal exam she draped my lower half with a heavy folded sheet that could probably have doubled as a tent! She finished the abdominal exam by putting on a pair of gloves to palpate both of my femoral arteries before instructing me to roll to my left side. I rolled over and pulled up my knees a bit. I swear to God I thought she was going to try and feel for my spleen. It all happened quickly, and I was still kind of spacey and zoned out a bit, not realizing that she had managed to yank my shorts half way down my thighs. As she fussed with the gown and drape from behind it started to dawn on me that I was feeling vey slight a cool breeze on my bum. At about that time I heard a plastic snap which was the cap on the tube of lubricant. Just as I started to get an inkling of what was to come she pulled the right cheek up a little and by the power vested in her cold wet fingers swiftly indoctrinated me into the prostate exam club.

Yep, caught of guard that day... This is a true story.

Physical in my 20s. Doctor told me to strip down completely, including underwear, and put on a gown. Got an unexpected rectal exam although he told me that he was going to do a "rectal" as I was bent over the table. Didn't know what that was. Was very surprised when he shoved a lubed finger in and twisted it in a full circle in my rectum. I couldn't have been more shocked. He told me to stand up and take a seat back on the table. I sat there wondering what had just happened as he sat and finished his notes. Since he didn't give me anything to wipe up with, I went home with the seat of my briefs lubed.

The doctor's visit when I was 18. I was caught off guard during a combination college / pre-employment physical. The nurse told me to strip down to my underwear and wait for the doctor on the exam table. The "surprise" came while the doctor was examining my genitals. He told me to hop down, put my feet on the "x mark" on the floor and drop my boxers. I guess the "x-mark" was to to make sure your legs apart. During the exam, his back is to the door and this nurse comes in and just stands waiting. He asked me questions / problems about my penis, foreskin, testicles and feels the area behind and the backside of my scrotum. For the whole hernia exam, he stands with his back to the door while I'm doing the "cough,cough" on both sides. He finally realized she in the room and said something like "just a minute be with you when I done". It was just weird standing there naked with the nurse watching the doctor examine my genitals.

Not sure if it counts, but I had to pull my pants down today at the dentist's!

I was there to get rid of my wisdom tooth. Last week the same docs pulled out my two upper wisdom teeth at a time - it took two minutes and didn't cause me any trouble afterwards. So this time I was expecting something similar.

But that tooth was harder, took the doc's time and effort, I even have a couple of stitches now...

Back to the subject. When it was over and she was giving her recommendations and prescriptions, she said "And we're going to give you a couple of IM shots. I was like "I beg your pardon??"

The doc stepped out and her assistant prepared the shots (I wasn't looking, would've been too much).

She then asked me to roll over to my side (I was still in the dentist's chair). I pulled my jeans and panties just a bit down to give her access. The second shot was a little more uncomfortable, but overall neither of them really hurt, though I was afraid of it.

The whole thing was weird to me. Visiting a dentist I expect to open my mouth, not to pull down my pants.

Though I guess it was kind of a minor surgery, and that's why the shots - must have been anti-inflammatory or painkillers.

Funny enough, I can't remember the previous time I had a shot, maybe some vaccination in high school.

Going to the doctor not expecting a rectal exam.

When going to the doctor for a routine examination required by a change of schools, I was unusually calm because I reasoned that, not being ill, I wouldn't need an injection. I had, however, forgotten about booster shots and was stunned at having to pull everything down and bend over the receptionist's lap for three stings in my bare bottom that left me unable to sit down next day.

When i was a child - 7 or 8, my pediatrician found i had a tight foreskin and during the exam, suddenly and without warning, he pulled down my foreskin really hard. it hurted for the next few days, but i didn´t have to be circumcised

At a sports physical, I was breezing through the exam when the doctor told me to stand up from the exam table, and face the window. I thought there would be physical tests such as monitoring gait or a quick check for scoliosis, but it was actually the genital exam. (Previously, all of my genital exams were done with me lying down.)

Went to the college doctor to ask about my achy testicles. I wasn't expecting him to usher me into a small room and take a quick look! When I saw him putting on my gloves you knew what was about to happen!

Went to the college doctor to ask about my achy testicles

I'm pretty sure asking about achy testicles would be the fastest way for a guy's testicles to get inspected!

For me it was a completely unexpected rectal exam around age 20, think I posted about it. Lean over the table style, and he was in there for what seemed like forever. Not sure which of us looked more surprised when I turned around afterwards, only then realizing I was semi-erect.

The doc nearly caught me looking through his cabinets. Other than that not really caught off guard.

My first time ever to be told to take off everything and wear an exam gown. Also, my first rectal exam was a complete surprise. Didn't expect either.

Years later I was caught off guard when I saw a doctor for what I thought might be a hernia as I had some discomfort down there. I didn't have to undressed but I expected to drop my pants for him to check me for a hernia in the usual way. But I didn't expect him to check me for a prostate infection that might explain the discomfort. Never occurred to me. So I ended up jeans and underpants down and bent over the exam table for the doc to do a rectal exam, feel my prostate, and express some prostatic fluid so he could check it for bacteria.

He decided that I had epidymitis, which is an infection of the tubes in the scrotum. Gave me a prescription for antibiotics and instructed me to wear a tight jockstrap instead of just briefs for a few weeks until the pain went away. I saw him three weeks later for a followup exam so he could check my scrotum which had been kind of reddish before. That visit was quick, dropped my jeans and jock, he looked at and felt my balls, asked me how it was feeling and that was it.

I have posted this already, that when I was taken to my family internist with what he apparently presumed to be mono, first, instead of undressing to my underwear only, he wanted me completely naked at the start. You can see the old school of this, in 1984, that as opposed to having only a specific area exposed, why not go all the way. What was completely unexpected was the request to get on my hands and knees, which I had never done with him, and his holding a slide next to my penis as he put pressure on my prostate. I had no idea what he was doing, or why. Of course now it's obvious. Old school doctors didn't explain.

Part 1

During an pre-employment physical I was 19 maybe 20. I didn't know their procedures but it started out normally stripped down to my underwear. The doctor was almost done with the exam the only thing left was the genital and hernia exam. That when he said something like "you still need to give us a urine sample before you leave." I got caught off guard when the nurse entered the room this portion of the exam had always been done in private. He told me to stand up and drop my underwear looked at my penis, foreskin and felt my balls and hernia exam. The nurse gave a cup and lead me to the bathroom. The nurse told me that a lot of people were cheating on the pee test using masking agents or using their friends pee for the sample. To stop the cheating, they started only taking urine sample after their genitals checked and also only in their underwear. Con't 1 of 2

I gave natural birth, but had complications. About two or three weeks later I experienced pain and went back to the doctor.

He put on some gloves and shoved his finger up my rectum. I was so surprised/shocked I nearly jumped through the ceiling. I did not expect that move at all.

Con't 2 of 2

Some people inquired about the very end of the exam. After the doctor finished with the hernia exam he instructed me that I could now pull up my underwear. Next, the nurse would take me the bathroom and she would wait outside the room. She did check on my because it was taking along time ( long story) I could not pee not even a drop. This whole exam caught me off guard, I never had a nurse present before or since be present while my penis, genitals, and having a hernia exam performed.

When I needed a smallpox vaccination in pre-school, I was worried about where I would get it because I always got shots in the bottom while held across a receptionist's lap. When she came in and took her usual seat, I feared the worst but was pleasantly surprised when the doctor vaccinated my arm. It made me feel very grown-up, especially with the receptionist watching, but I was then shocked at being told to pull down my pants and bend over her lap for a booster shot. Worst of all, the vaccination didn't "take" so my arm wasn't sore but I couldn't sit on the booster shot, which I feared would make my friends think I had been vaccinated on the bottom.

The nurse told me that a lot of people were cheating on the pee test using masking agents or using their friends pee for the sample. To stop the cheating, they started only taking urine sample after their genitals checked and also only in their underwear.

Just goes to show how many applicants are using....

I was at the doctors once for strep throat, he told me to remove my shirt to listen to me breath which I considered to be perfectly normal. Soon after, he told me to lay down, then continued to do an abdominal exam but then pulled my pants and underwear around my knees (was in sweatpants) and gave me a full genital exam. Not to say I didn't enjoy the surprise exam, just caught me off guard.

@Tk023 Nice! Btw, if he caught you off guard that means he did the genital examination with no gloves on? (otherwise you'd know what was about to come the moment you watched him putting them on) that's even nicer!

Two different times. First, I had headaches and an MRI showed a small pituitary tumour. I was sent to an endocrinologist, he did blood tests then asked how my erections were, I was shocked !! he then lowered my pants and examined my testicles - totally surprising me ! I did not realize until he told me that testosterone and prolactin were produced and regulated by the pituitary!!

The second time I went to a new GP doctor for a routine exam. I am uncircumcised in America, and 67 years old. He told me to lower my pants for the testicular exam, I did so, and he examined my testicles and also examined me for a hernia. He then took hold of my penis and retracted my foreskin, examining the glans in detail. I had never had that done before ! Previously at other doctors they just looked or I had retracted the foreskin myself. I was shocked, but thrilled !!

My first sports physical for school when I was 10 years old, which also happened to be my first hernia exam. Everything involving that experience caught me off guard, especially standing in front of the strange doctor, exposing myself, and then being required to cough with his hand on my testicles. Such a weird first experience for a boy, especially since I had never even heard of such a thing before. My doctor had never even looked at my genitals before (that I remember anyway).

The first time my female pediatrician gave me a physical (this happened to be my 2nd sports physical when I was 11 years old). For my typical sick visit, the nurse would just have me remove my shirt and shoes and wait for the doctor. Then after her abdominal exam she would unfasten my pants and feel my stomach just barely inside my underwear, then we were done. This time, the nurse had me undress down to my white brief underwear and wait. After the abdominal exam, the doctor lifted my waistband and stuck her entire hand in my underwear feeling along the side of my scrotum where it meets my leg, on both sides. Then she used both hands to lower my underwear and just look at my genitals. I was mortified.

At a pre-employment physical, the nurse instructed me to undress to my underwear and put on a gown. That was my first surprise that day as I had never worn a gown before. My second surprise was when the pretty woman about my age walked in the room, introduced herself, and told me she would be conducting my physical. The exam from her was fine, I was just not expecting a woman, since it was a first for me (as an adult).

My wife and I went to a urologist for a consultation for me to get a vasectomy. At the end of a very nice conversation explaining everything, he tells me to stand up and lower my pants. We both really thought that a "consultation" meant just talking. The second time he caught me off guard that day, I was lying on the table and he was examining my testicles. He tweaked something and I got a shooting pain all if a sudden. I about jumped off that table.

Probably my last time caught off guard was the first time my doctor said he was going to check my prostate. I was totally not expecting that at my age.