Rectal examination

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Examinations

  • Walk In the Park

    Votes: 5 16.7%

  • Damn not another one

    Votes: 9 30.0%

  • Ok just give me half an hour

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Aaaaaaaaahh!!!

    Votes: 16 53.3%
  • Total voters
    30
ThrashtillDeath

ThrashtillDeath

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rectal examination

Are examinations as normal as breathing now or do you still get scared?

I've got used to them now, it used to take hours to get it done:)
 
lol doesnt bother me.. the 1st one i had i was so nervous but partially passed out cos i was in hospital but the 2nd one was ok.. apart from my parents were in the room ( the curtain was shut so they couldnt see) but my dad was laughing at me lol
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I voted aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh as the last one I got was when I had a full obstruction in my rectum and they didn't know yet so they kept trying to get different people to shove their fingers up my ass. I kept having them say, "Thats the tightest rectum I have ever ever seen" and I was just about to kill someone.
 
I've never had to have a finger shoved up there, I used to tense up so much that they don't try it any more, just have a look and stuff
 
hmmm I got my first one back in 2000 when i was getting a flight physical for the Army (top it off the Dr.s name was Dr. Fingers) and it really bothered me I actually felt violated for a few days. Nowadays its as normal as them taking my vital signs when i go to the ER. For some reason when I tell them my history first thing they wanna do is poke my brown eye.
 
after re reading the thread are you talking about the "Prostate check" ?
never had a wand back there. I guess as long as Im not looking forward to it Im doing ok.
 
They wanted to feel if I had an abscess and instead of getting me an xray or knock me out, which they eventually had to do, they kept trying to stick their fingers up my ass. I must have had five or six various sized fingers go up their. I thought they were about to ask me if I could do it to myself.lol
 
How do you get used to THAT??
My GI has never gone there unless he was doing a colonoscopy or flex sig, but my colorectal surgeon does EVERY time. I hold my breath and cringe. Then to top that off he always asks me a question that I can barely squeak out an answer too. Last time he had the balls to say, "Wasn't that so much better than last time?" Meaning my rectum was in better condition so it shouldn't have hurt as much. NO! It was NOT better! Better would be my untouched anus sitting on a beach with a pina colada.
 
I've only had one, and it was the first time i ever saw my GI ("Hi, how are you, let me stick my fingers up your butt..."). My mom watched, which was probably the moist embarrassing part. And the doctor used some kind of lubricating gel that had a very distinctive smell. For about a week afterwards i could smell it EVERYWHERE. car exhaust, lotion, shampoo, other people's breath... it was weird.
 
I'll never get used to it!
I heard that we are supposed to have two sphincters... presumably an inner and an outer one. I reckon the outer one is to lead you into a false sense of security... "that's not too bad"... and it's the inner one that's a killer!
 
for me the docs have learned to NOT poke around. i say "oh helll no. if you wanna poke, you knock me out." and then they look, and see that i am right :D hah.

lol i joke about this all the time though with my family. i would love to ask random people "how many people have seen your anus?"
i can NAME 22 people. not including all of the OR assistants, hospital nurses, etc that have seen and i dont know their names.

hah! that sounds SO weird, but i would love to see peoples faces.
 
I'm used to it now ... sadly enough. One very nice ER doc once said "oh man I'm sorry but I have to run another another test real quick" .. after I had put my clothes back on and I said "no worries man you're the one who has to stick your finger up my ass" ...
 
Kello... I like the idea... maybe we could keep a little book: "the people who have seen my anus" and get them to sign it!
Don't forget to say... after they've signed it; "you can keep the pen!"

(No offence, Pen!)
 
Some of these polls are really old but I am having fun finding out how I fit in with everyone here :) I voted as "damn not another one" so far other than the colonoscopy I have only had 2 and both was to check for blood in general without having to take a stool sample. Seriously, I would rather take thier nice little cup home and provide a stool sample the next day or what have you. As a woman I guess having a yearly check up is bad enough, so to me if they dont wanna look at one hole then it is the other:eek:utahere: It sure isn't a walk in the park but at the same time just like with a yearly I guess it has to be done and it reasures me that nothing too bad is going on for the moment i guess
 

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