Belly exam details from one of my exams

So I just found out that I can look at my charts from my doctor online. I was able to read my last physical and what the doctor and nurse wrote down. Its really cool but I really don't want to share exactly what it said but here is a summary. list came from a form I found, actual answers are from my chart. anyone else read their charts?

enjoy 😃

Abdomen:

Observation

Skin: nice even color, few freckles. no suspicious moles or discoloration. umbilicus inverted but normal.

Symmetry/contour: completely symmetrical, smooth contour. slight definition

Visible peristalsis: slight visible aortic pulsation above umbilicus

Auscultation

Upper left: present/normal

Upper right: present/normal

Lower right: present, slight hyperactive

Lower left: present/normal

Vascular: no bruits

Aorta: strong pulse

Renal: no bruits

Iliac: no bruits

Femoral: no bruits

Bowel sounds: present, active. increased in lower right abdomen

Percussion

Liver: normal, palpable lower edge

Spleen: normal, palpable due to patients thinness

Murphy’s punch: normal

Percussion note: tympanic through out abdomen, some increased tympani left lower belly might indicate abnormality

Abdominal tone: normal with slight natural resistance

Skin hypersentitivity: negative

Light palpation: no tender areas found, no organomegaly detected

Deep palpation: slight organomegaly of cecum. possible constipation/meteorism. no other organomegaly detected.

Inguinal lymphnodes: normal

Hernia evaluation

Umbilical: evaluated due to slight inversion of umbilicus. negative palpation and cough test

Inguinal direct: negative

Inguinal indirect: negative

Femoral: negative

Acute abdomen special tests

Rigid abdomen: negative

Rebound tenderness: tenderness in lower right side in area of caecum. also tenderness around umbilicus. possible small bowel inflammation

Valsalva: Negative for hernia in abdomen

Murphy’s sign (GB): negative

Murphy’s punch (kidney): negative

Carnett’s test: negative

My doctor's office has an online system too, but it doesn't allow me to see any doctor's comments at all. About the only thing I can see is lab results and vitals (BP, pulse rate, etc).

Now, in the distant past when I was moving and switching doctors I did request my full medical records from my old doctor. This was in the days of cryptic, barely legible notes from the doctor scribbled on a sheet of paper. The extent of my "full medical records" was a copy of that single sheet of paper. Rather boring.

Several years ago, my mom gave me several document papers and letters from the doctors and hospital stays of my bad teenaged time, she had saved them in a file. There were also the yearly letter from the school doctors and from the military exams. There is written so much about me, mostly about my tummy problems and abdominal exams, too.

Any other parts of the notes you'd share?

Thanks for posting!

That is awesome. And you have a wonderful tummy!

Very thorough exam. Mine is very thorough like that as well. I have access to my medical records and have detailed notes like what was posted as well.

Any other parts of the notes you'd share?

Thanks for posting!

In these letters it was often written about my abdominal problems with nausea, vomiting, pain and diarrhoe and that I have a conspicuous outie bellybutton / navel hernia, too, so that I must have more intense abdominal and navel exams. In the hospital papers it was written about all these exams and treatments, that I had appendectomy and laparotomy (Meckel diverticle surgery) and other details, too.

I have reports of my medical examinations in the recent years. The remarks concerning my belly are its size, even a urologist has measured it. The other data in this report are more interesting in my opinion.

My doctor's office doesn't do that, however the lab I get all my blood work done at allows us to see results online. It's interesting the things my doctor does not tell me!

I have taken to requesting a copy of reports from specialists, xrays etc.

Interesting note FLATxBELLY, thanks for sharing it! It reads like a very thorough exam. Also seems like some followup may have been in order to figure out what was going on with the tenderness in the small intestine. Hopefully it is all good now.

I haven't found any notes from my exams online, just lab works.