Yeah, speaking as a woman, those aren’t a cake walk either. For those not in the know, you get the finger up the rectum, then another in the vagina, and then your abdomen gets poked, prodded, and even pushed down on hard to check the pelvic region and see if everything is in its place (and that nothing is there that shouldn’t be).
Cicero: There are false positive results and other issues with the blood (PSA) tests, so it’s best to check your doctor’s advice and see what the current opinion is on the subject.
Well, all the jokes I could think of have already been taken.
I’ve had 2 DREs, by different doctors. What I think is funny is current doctor is female, and she had a female nurse in the room to keep everyone honest. It’s hard enough to drop my drawers as it is, and I had to do it for 2 wimmin…
The most awkward situation in general was following abdominal surgery, when they sent in a very cute and very young female nursing student by herself to remove my Foley catheter. She did everything right, and when she was done, I thanked her for not laughing at my daddy bits.
You know, I’ve always wondered what one should say after a DRE. I mean, that doctor has his finger up one of your most private areas. What do you say afterward? “Call me”?
I’ve done thousands of DREs and I always use my 3rd finger. It’s longer, thus giving me a better feel of what’s up there. I tried it with the 2nd digit a few times, thinking I could get a better reach due to the knuckles getting in the way less, but it wasn’t so.
That’s funny, because I was also misled my first time. I always knew that a rectal exam was in my future. But when the doc said that it’s time for the ‘digital’ rectal exam, I thought that I was very fortunate to have turned 35 in the age of modern technology.
Had I checked the dictionary first, the first two definitions would have given it away…
