WOMEN'S Physical sensations of being opened up

I am wondering about the physical sensations of what it feels like for a woman to be opened up with a speculum.

How it feels to have a metal Vs. plastic speculum inside you? The difference in cold metal Vs. warm and the difference in types of speculums. For instance what causes pain, is it when it is opened too far? Or closed inside you? Describe that pain as opposed to what it feels like at a comfortable level.The position you are examined in, does that affect it?

I like to write and I want to get the sensation right from a few different viewpoints. Is there something that you think people writing always get wrong or over look? Let me know Please. Either here or if you want send me a PM. I'm not asking to be creepy or dirty. I want to make my stories more believable.

Also if anyone has had a Doctor use a Perineometer on them, I would really like to get your opinions on that.

Thanks.

Also if anyone has had a Doctor use a Perineometer on them, I would really like to get your opinions on that.

My husband uses a perineometer in my vagina regularly.

It's made of his penis.

I squeeze it very firmly on a fairly regular basis. 😁 😁 😁 😁

As far as the sensations of a speculum are concerned, mine uses a warm metal speculum and slowly opens it. Cold ones don't feel good. Picture a cold splash of water on your back when you don't expect it. If the speculum is opened slowly, it causes no pain or discomfort. Opening it fast, and I'll use this example since you are a man, is like having someone take a slightly, NOT well lubricated dildo, and shoving it fast up your ass without any foreplay.

Got the picture???? 😁

Well that does give a mental image doesn't it?

I'm looking to make my descriptions as realistic as possible. Is there any other particular sensation or object of note you'd care to share. I don't want to "pry" 😜 but I thought I would do my research before I put something in that makes the reader go that's not how it is.

As for his penis...How does he hook the meter up to it? There's only one place I can guess he puts it.

I was just joking about my husband's penis being the perineometer, which is really just a pressure sensing and measuring device. I never had an actual one used on myself.

I do my Kegel exercises using my husband's penis as the perineometer, and he judges the pressure by how good it feels when I squeeze it! 😁 😁 😁 😁

Oh Susie, I know. I was kidding too.

I'm just hoping some of the Ladies here help me out. My writing group has challenged me to write a non-sexual story about a ex-porn star with a fetish. Its a challenge let me tell you. That's why I have to make it accurate.

Well, not sure anything I am going to say is going to be of any help at all to you since this is just my opinion, but I will tell you what I know.

When it comes to metal or plastic speculum's, I like the metal ones the best because I am old school, and while I do like them warmed up first, the metal ones just have a nice weight and feel to them that the plastic once don't offer. The plastic ones are too light, but the trade off on them is that they are not as cold as the metal ones can be. However, with that being said as well, the metal ones from my experience open and close much quieter than the plastic ones do. For example the plastic ones make that cracking almost scary creeky noise as they are being opened, not to mention they are very jerky and that for a lot of women, especially women who are getting them for the first time or who are hurting down there in that department, the clicks and ticks of a plastic one I'm guessing would be a little bit frightening to them. Another thing with the plastic ones, or at least the ones that I have seen used a "for lack of better explanation" use a ledge/step system to open the speculum up. So sort of like someone walking up a set of steps in tap shoes, there is nothing quiet or smooth about that. You hear the hard click and noise, then feel the little more stretch. The plastic ones from what I have seen or have used just seem so archaic. Yes, I know they are supposed to be a modern improvement, cheaper to toss them than to resterilize them in the end,but how much if any more comfortable or cost effective could they be?

When I go do my doc, I made sure he had metal speculums to use, and he does and he made a note in my chart accordingly, so he only uses the metals on me.

Mashie,

Thank you very much for answering my question. That is some very helpful information.

If there any other Ladies who would care to contribute I would really appreciate it. I want to be as authentic as possible.

I get turned on by the thought of an exam so I tend to be loose and well lubricated before the doctor starts pushing it into me. I used to like the metal specula best but I prefer the plastic ones now since I know they are disposable and have never been up anyone else's pussy so it just makes me more comfortable mentally. I notice that some models open more smoothly and if the doctor is careful and takes his time the experience is very pleasant. I agree with Mashie that the one disadvantage to some plastic ones is the fact they open in steps rather than smoothly and the noise can be annoying. As long as I am horny it helps since I am easier to open and the doctor doesn't have to use as much force. That's why I like seeing a doctor I have had sex with... our encounters are more sexual and less clinical so I'm always turned on by my visits and my pussy is much looser for him.

Another great little piece of information. Thanks for helping me too. The things you learn when you ask questions. You Ladies are wonderful.

One more question for the wonderful ladies of the Zity.

Would someone please describe what the internal stretching of the Vagina with a speculum or other instruments feels like for them?

I have asked my wife and she gave me an interesting viewpoint of how it makes want to pee until after wards and then the sensation goes away after it's removed.

I love being in the stirrups waiting for the doctor to insert the speculum. As I've said in other posts, I have a very small vagina and the doctor has to spread me open with his fingers to get the speculum all the way inside me. And when he starts opening the speculum he has to go slow, I like the fact that it keeps him between my legs a little longer. Once he has my vagina spread open as far as possible,I Iove the feeling it's like an inflatable penis, what kind of a girl wouldn't like that. And then when he takes it out he puts a couple big fingers up inside me. And then just for good measure I get his middle finger in my butt.

To me it doesn't feel a lot different than inserting a dildo, except it spreads it out wider, you feel really open and you can feel the cold air coming in through the spec. I love the idea of someone looking up inside my vagina and at my cervix, it really turns me on.

I've also had a perinometer used on me, I have bad stress incontience from a traumatic birth experience. Felt like a dildo.

I get so wet I leave a wet Spot on the paper.

I think I have got to describe it as feeling like a dildo but it is one that expands inside and I feel the pressure of that. I do not feel any pain and I do not feel very uncomfortable either really if it is not opened up too quick. The pressure goes away when the speculum is closed a bit and taken out. The practice nurses who did my first 2 cervical smears with plastic speculums were a bit rough and I do not think they were bothered if I felt a bit uncomfortable or not. My gynecologist is much better when he does it but he uses plastic ones as well like GP practice. I wish he did use a metal speculum because I prefer that to plastic. The metal ones are a bit more comfortable than plastic I do not like the creaking of the plastic ones all that much. I know the plastic will not break if I squeeze my vagina around it but when I had a plastic one in me the first time it was my first thought. I thought how embarrassing it would be if I broke it. Hahaha I know better now than to think that.

I have just had metal speculums when I have had play exams at home. My ideal one is either a graves or a collins and it has got to be warmed a bit. I do not want it to be icy cold. The pressure of the graves is up and down and the collins is side to side. I feel the pressure from both types but it feels different with each.

I don't feel pain from it being opened up, a bit uncomfortable but nothing major. The last time, just before he took it out, it seemed like my obgyn gave it a hard shove to try to get further in and that did hurt. I wish I'd said something at the time or asked him what he was doing. It was just for a second or two, very brief. He did say he couldn't see my cervix, so it very well could be an attempt to get it in further.

I've never had any pain problems. A little uncomfortable sometimes when my cervix was playing hide and seek. She had to do a bit of searching and manipulating but it was tolerable. Never used a Perineometer.

If doctor insert and open speculum slowly, it isn't unpleasant or painfully. If doctor insert it, it's little similarly like insert of dildo. When he start open it, I feel first little pressure and at end relatively strong pressure, but no pain. This pressure I feel all time during exam until is speculum closed and pull out from me. When I'm open I don't feel pain, but I feel be very vulnerable. Discomfort is if doctor can't found cervix and move in me with opened speculum, but isn't usually.

I felt pain only twice when doctor opened speculum very quickly. I pulled legs and squeeze my vagina.

My preference is metal speculum, only one weird is that I know it was inside many another women's, probably includes my friends which have same doctor.

My wife has described the sensation of the speculum to me. She says that insertion of a closed speculum feels like a couple of fingers being inserted. No pain, but slight pressure. When the examiner opens the speculum, she feels pressure that intensifies as it is opened wider. Once it is locked open, the pressure doesn't subside until it is partially closed and removed. For the past several years the doctor's office has been using the disposable plastic specula. She is opened up about four clicks of the locking mechanism. When stainless specula were used, I assume she was opened up the equivalent of four clicks before the thumbscrew was locked.

As far as warming the speculum, she has never had a cold speculum inserted. Our doctor's office used to run warm water over the metal specs before insertion, then they bought new exam tables that have a warming drawer. The specs are now kept warm in the drawer. We've peeked in the drawer, they have both metal and plastic specula of various sizes. The plastic is always used on my wife now, I assume the metal ones are probably used for certain procedures or maybe upon request over the plastic. My wife says the metal specs feel "harder and completely inflexible" versus the plastic, which feel like they have a little give if she tenses up at all during the exam.

The opening of the speculum is the most uncomfortable part of a pelvic exam for her, with the rectovaginal exam a very close second. She has a tight, small vagina, and has never had kids, so an open speculum is the worst part for her. A medium Pedersen speculum is always used for her exams. The one time a large stainless Graves was used on her was for her IUD insertion. She said the large Graves being opened and locked inside of her was almost as uncomfortable as the IUD insertion itself, both bordering on painful.

I have experienced both a metal graves and collins and then a plastic one at my real appointments. At a real appointment, the plastic ones they have used on me have always been small, creaky sounding, and they never open them all the way. I also had worried it might "snap" because of the clicking noises it makes. It just doesn't sound very durable at all. In a play exam, after a graves speculum is inserted and the bills are opened... there is another adjustment on the handle to slide up vertically and open me wider.... that sensation is my favorite! The speculum is initially opened and your vagina adjusts itself around it and you start to breath for a moment, only to be shocked again by the sensation that you can, in fact, be slowly spread even wider, making me feel even less in control and more vulnerable. It's almost paralyzing. Once the speculum is opened inside, all we feel is pressure, but when adjusting the handle wider.... I can feel myself being stretched. More nerve endings on the outer parts of the vagina.

I've recently saw a new Gyno, he's in his 70s, and was shocked when he used the Sim's speculum, or whatever kind it was. One part went into the lower vagina, deep and pulled it down, then his assistant put the second part on the upper vaginal wall. It was cold, metal and felt very strange. Not painful just invasive. His fingers very also very long and I could feel him going deep inside me during the bimanual exam. Just wish it lasted longer.....

The only other time I was examined like that was in Europe. Usually doctor's would use the Welsch-Allyn plastic medium, last time was illuminated which was funny ;-) the doctor didn't know what to do with it.

It looks like the speculum is undergoing a redesign for better comfort. I wonder how it'll change how women feel about that part of the exam.

https://yonacare.com/

I prefer metal. In fact, one of the favourite sentences I like to hear is “this may feel a little cold...”. Being opened wide, slowly sometimes makes me orgasm spontaneously with no other stimulation.

I have always had plastic speculums and have never experienced any pain or discomfort. I am usually pretty wet so it goes in easy.

I prefer the metal clanky speculums to the plastic ones. I find the plastic ones cause more tension than the metal one. But also one gynecologist doesn't open the bills all the way of the metal ones so that might be why I feel more pressure with plastic one is the NP and the bills wide open. I have had a speculum in a warmer but then the hospital said they could no longer use a warmers and had to use warm water.

I've only ever had the plastic speculum. Honestly, I would like to have a metal one used on me sometime, but I doubt my doctor is going to start using them.

Ladies, I've never had an invasive exam like a pap or rectal exam that requires the use of an inserted tool. Could you describe what a speculum feels like to a curious male? How much can you tell the differences between the plastic and metal types, the different designs of speculum, or which size was used? Do you have a preference?

I've only ever had a plastic speculum used during vaginal examinations. It is usually not painful, just a bit uncomfortable if the doc spreads it wide. At my last exam, the doc couldn't visualise my cervix so he had to use a larger size speculum which felt very strange. I also had to move into different positions to get the right tilt to my pelvis, including holding my fists under my butt cheeks to raise my bum off the table, and, when that didn't work, turning over onto all fours. Very embarrassing.

If the doctor is experienced, there shouldn't be any pain during insertion. However, speculums come in different sizes and if the doctor judges incorrectly, you might experience some discomfort.

I've never experienced any discomfort while being opened.

The highest risk is at the end of the exam, when the doctor has to close the speculum, do that quarter turn and then pull it out. I’ve felt discomfort at this stage when my doctor did this phase too quickly.