Rubyee

While I was writing my journal, I thought about all the crappy things that are a part of going to the gynocologist. I could go on for hours. Maybe not hours, but a long time, indeed.

What is your least favorite part? You can't say the whole thing, but list specifics.

I absolutely hate waiting for the doctor to come in while I lay dressed in a gown with my legs open spread eagle toward the door. I am sure that is not the first thing the doctor wants to see when he walks in the door.

I also hate it when they ask you to scooch your butt to the edge of the table until you can feel their hand through the paper. Why not just tell me to scooch my butt to the end of the table instead of giving me a guide- I am sure I can handle it!

The absolute worst though is getting gas. I can go hours, days, and weeks without having a gas problem, but once I get into that office and get myself ready, I have the worst urges. I can't be the only woman with this problem.

jRuntlets

I have the gas problem too! It really sucks!

I think my least favorite part is the abdominal exam while they have their finger inside you. I'm really ticklish so I just end up sort of squriming on their hand. It's quite gross.

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Redgirl

I think the worst part has to be the finger-up-the-butt-finger-in-the-cooch combo where they feel the wall in between. No matter how much I like a little booty play in bed, it's just nothing like having a nurse lube their finger up and shove it in your ass. It's just enormously, nerve-wrackingly, uncomfortable because they do it at the end so you're dreading it the whole time.

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Tinker

I hate it when the doctor is cute!

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wonderwench

The worst part for me is the procrastination about making an appointment. Once I'm there, the exam is over pretty quickly and forgotten.

fallenangel

*note to self... make appointment*

I need to go. I need to find one first. *sigh* How does one find a legitimate Dr. when new to the city? And I can't be referred because i haven't gone to one before. *harumph*

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brianna

when it becomes clear that your doctor went to med school with your boyfriend.

previous winner: when you're 18 and the only choice for a gyno in your small town is your mom's best friend.

Rubyee

I have never had this happen. I am glad that I don't, either, though maybe I should?

As for finding a gyno, ask a coworker or neighbor that you can trust.

flamingpeach

I had to pee really bad during my last exam down there.

It was terrible

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thubpt

I'd have to say my least favorite is the infamous swab. For some reason, I always feel like they are truly scraping my insides off.

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Rubyee

They are. Have you seen what they use to swab? It ain't no cotton swab, darlin!

ShaniFaye

I also hate the finger-butt/coochie combo for some reason its just not the same as my boyfriend lol

I hate when they stick the stupid speculum (sp?) in, its always ice fucking COLD

In my 18 years of going to a gyno I have learned that a female dr is much better...smaller hands

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Averett

Dude, they do that? Seriously?

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ShaniFaye

oh yes I've had it done uncountable times.....twice I had a PID infection and oh man did that make it that much worse

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amonkie

The worst was the little metal they put in the canal to widen it.... I was like "hell no that cold metal thingy isnt going in".

For all the guys that think girls should enjoy going to gyno because of the probing, they are seriously misguided. That has to be the single most unerotic set of procedures in the entire world.

Unless Richard Gere was my gyno, like he is in the movie "Dr. T and the Woman" - warning if you're interested, it is a bizarre movie.

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Averett

So it's only done if there's a problem/reason for it? It's not normal procedure? Causer really... Yikes!

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ShaniFaye

I've had it done when there wasnt a problem as well...it was just WORSE than the usual awfulness because of the infection.

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Averett

I guess maybe I should start a thread on what is general pratice for these appointments... I've never been. Bad, I know.

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Redgirl

Whew! Well at least ShaniFaye has had it done too! I was about to think I was being unfairly persecuted by gynocologists!

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lurkette

Nah, my gyno does it, too, usually, though last time she didn't do it. I think it depends on your age, your profile, how frequently you go to the gyno, etc. Some tests they only start doing after a certain age, and may only do them like every 2-3 years depending on what it's for and what the insurance company feels like paying for

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gremlinx8

I've never had it done, but I've only been there twice.

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*Nikki*

I have never had any butt work at the gyno. Isn't that for another type of doctor??

The worst part I think is when they put the metal clamp thingy in you and pry you open. Its like your insides are screaming HELLO!!!

Does anyone ever feel weird when they are completely shaved and they go to the gyno? I always feel like my doctor is going to look at me strange, like "um where is your hair lady?"

InTeGrA77

God, so weird...I was just there the other day...my, was it an uncomfortable experiece!

There was a "student" there, and thats how she described herself, no certification of any sort, just a student. I had to do the whole scoot forward till you hit my hands thing like 10 times. Then she proceeded to tell me to, "flop my legs open like a frog"...what the fuck? It was also pretty weird when she warned me, "ok, 2 cold, slimy fingers comin at ya!" She's the one who actually did the whole thing, and I must say, it had to be my most painful probing experiences yet, and it seemed to take forever!

The whole breast exam took at least 5 or 6 min. and whats with the whole twisting of my nipples after she works her way over my entire boob...I must say that that kinda came as a suprise. Along with thier discussion of Starbucks coffee the entire time, as I lay there and bare all...

Once again...bad day, went home and straight back to bed...

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amonkie

I so don't want to remember that day... it was about a year ago... which means almost time to go back.

Stupid gyno set the vampires on me. Felt yucky for the next three days. Not looking forward to going back.

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Supple Cow

What in your profile necessitates this kind of test? My school requires us to go to informational sessions before having our first ones and they never told us about that. Then again, they've never done it in my three years.

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lurkette

I have no idea - I was just guessing about what might have some people get it and some people not, but it might have as much to do with the particular doctor's training or the particular clinic's practices as anything else. *shrug* I know that at age 30 you're supposed to start getting rectals and fecal occult blood tests every few years (when you're bored and sitting there in that stupid paper gown, the "test schedule" posted on the wall makes for fascinating reading) and I just turned 30, so I assumed that was it.

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Hash_Browns

My most hated part of the exam is then they stick two fingers and and check my overies by pressing down as hard as they can inside and out at the same time...hurts soo bad!! I don't know if this is just a pregnancy routine or not, because I've never gone without being pregnant or for my 6 week check-up afterwards...

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ShaniFaye

Its not something thats an after 30 kind of thing....I was 19 the first time they did it to me. Not all my doctors have done it, but most have

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Redgirl

Yeah I have only had a few doctors do the rectal exam portion as well and the first time I was in my teens. I thought maybe it was a Planned Parenthood thing because that's where I always go for my exams.

Ohhh I hate that, too! Yes, they do that in all the exams and it sucks.

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guinnessgurl

I know its a bit outta your way, but go to my old doctor! i highly reccomend! call me if you want the #....

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Supple Cow

I've been trying to comfort myself since I first read this thread, but I have to say that you have me dreading the day I turn 30. Being the slight hypochondriac that I am, I used to love having a doctor tell me everything's okay at my annual gyn appointment, but this rectal business changes the story quite a bit...

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qtpye4u84

Never had the butt thingy. I would have to say the thing that makes you wider and the 2 fingers. Makes me feel weird like, does she think I am lose or tight or ugly looking down there. I am scared of what she might be thinking about me down there. Yea, one time she told me I should not shave down there. I hope she does not think that I get wet from her cause one time she lubed her fingers put them in like normal then when she was done there was like a wet spot on the paper so I was freaken out hoping she did not see it.(I Liked that doc. t movie)

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raeanna74

Oh I've had the butt thingy countless times. I can't remember when I haven't had it. I've been to 3 different clinics and had 4 different Drs for the yearly female physicals. I always just got to a general practitioner - maybe their training for that specific field is a little different. Dunno.

First time I had a visit the only Dr at the clinic who was accepting new patients for this kind of thing was a Dr I'd known since I was a toddler and whom I'd babysitted for. I had no choice. I was amazed. He was totally calm, professional, and his conversation (whatever it was about) put me at ease. I couldn't believe I'd just had a man whom I'd known for years grope me in a such a way and not feel abnormally uncomfortable. He had been a Dr for many years though and so apparently knew how to put people at ease.

My clinic uses the plastic speculums. I'd take the metal ones over the plastic ANY day. The plastic, for some reason, feel scratchy to me. The metal are much smoother albeit cold. The cold sortof distracts me from the "swabbing" though so I don't mind it quite so much. I always cramp up when they swab. I'm so sensitive and get the cramps so easily.

I'd say the worst part is the swabbing/scraping.

Course after having a baby (c-section yes but they check you like what - every half hour it seems) and after having 2 colposcopies the normal PAP test seems like a cakewalk. Last colposcopy I had I took 4 Ibuprophen and 1 large codine (I think 500mg can't remember) and it still didn't cut the pain and cramping. She got in there, started snipping and scraping, I started cramping(could actually feel my abdomen under my hand harden) and she just kept messing. It felt like forever. I had cramps for the next 3 days. Crap!

Oh wow. Sorry I didn't realize how long that was.

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RainbowBright

I had the nipple squeezing and the ovary thing does really hurt!

As for the butt thing it is a normal thing but I think it's something that doctors may or may not do depending on how thorough an exam they are doing. I remember back in high school reading a YM article about the first visit and them saying you may or may not have that done.

la petite moi

All this sounds dreadful. When should one make her first appointment to the gyno?

xxSquirtxx

I can't say I've had a gas problem, but it never fails that I have to pee like a racehorse before the doc ever gets in there.

brianna

as soon as you become sexually acitive or at about 18ish.

SparklingDot

I had my first trip to the gyno today. It sounds like so many of you have had evil doctors from hell. Mine was gentle, thank goodness. I got to sit naked in that cold room longer than the actual exam took. Just like raeanna said, the cold distracts you from the swabbing. My least favorite part was being spread open. If the darn thing is going to be cold, why can't it be cold enough to numb us? Sheesh!

I'm sorry for those of you who had bad experiences. My mom was petrified for me. For her first trip, she had a butcher who actually left bruises on her. So there are gentle doctors out there. I'd recommend mine for anyone in the Bako area.

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la petite moi

SparklingDot, who is your gyno?

lurkette

My gyno warms up the (metal) speculum first - god bless her. She runs it under warm water and tests it to see that it's warm. And I don't know how she does it, but I never feel the scrape. She's super gentle. Although this last time she was concerned because she could feel my fibroid when she was pressing on my stomach and wanted to make sure everything was okay, so she spent a lot of time pressing REALLY hard around my (full) bladder. I hate that.

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