I can totally relate ! I was clenching up because I felt the urge to fart. She was like… relax… I was all tongue tied and nervous from trying to supress said fart that I blurted out… “I’m sorry I was trying not to fart in your face” :smack: she just kinda looked at me like I was a total freak and had said some word she had never heard before. WTF ? Should I have said “passed gas” ? Jeez…
And don’t even get me started about the tissue from the table going up your ass. Feels like you are picking that shit out of there for 3 days…
I keep telling myself to relax, breath, and it will be all over soon–not that this helps in the slightest to keep me from clenching every muscle I have.
Well, my first two children were delivered by women docs, and the pelvics they did were OK. A little discomfort, but not bad.
For my third child, I was living in a different area, found a different doctor, a guy. The first time I saw him, I had “assumed the position”, and said something like, ‘okay, I’m ready’, to which he responded, ‘I’m done’. Yikes! That was the gentlest pelvic I’ve ever had! And lest you think “well, you’ve had kids already, so things are already loosened up down there”, it don’t work that way with me. All mine were C-section.
Funny thing is, my doc and hubby have gotten to be pretty good friends, so hubby gets kinda weirded out when it’s time for me to get a pelvic!
My doc has me completely undress, except for nice, warm socks that she leaves out with the gown. The breast exam comes standard with the pelvic exam.
I chat with my doc. I expect I’ll be listening to her fuss at me this year, since she told me to get a mammogram last year and I still haven’t done it. I don’t mind the pelvic, but I’m dreading that first mammogram.
I had my first mammogram almost a year ago, and it just wasn’t that bad. It’s not something I’d like to repeat often just for kicks, but it wasn’t horrible. Uncomfortable, but definitely bearable, and I’m a wuss about pain!
Yes! Yes! Dread the mammogram! Eee Gads! What a torture device! Sadly necessary, but what a pain!
As for Paps, my dr. and I have been together for a dozen years so we have great conversations ranging from favorite bell bottoms from the 70s and animation cel collecting. But he also watches how tightly I can curl my toes. He has a theory that the extroverts ALWAYS wiggle/curl/twist/or thrum their toes. Mostly he just waits to see how tight I get them this year.
It’s handy to be able to ‘throw’ your stress into different body parts. :))
look at the picture of the tropical beach on the ceiling, listen to the radio, pray i never hear the words
“I have to get the doc, I can’t find your cervix”
ever again.
yep, lucky me, i’m retroverted, retroflexed, all the good stuff.
i like the big fuzzy blankets my nurse puts out to cover my legs with, and the fact she doesn’t believe in stirrups.
the doc was pretty funny the couple of times she did it, she was asking me anatomy questions (she knows i’m a med student) on the male reproductive system, to keep my mind off it.
funny.
CrankyAsAnOldMan - my doc did the “surprise rectal exam” to me just a couple of weeks ago! No one has ever warned me this was even a remote possibility. I felt betrayed and angry!
I got her back though … because she gave me no warning, I clenched my butt cheeks so tightly while lifting my rear off of the table that she very slowly (so as not to scream) said “you must relax and let go of my finger”.
I have not forgiven her for not warning me in advance, and am looking for a new doctor.
