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Prostate exam advice!

dreherdreher Member Posts: 8,891 ✭✭✭✭
edited February 2012 in General Discussion
This will sound kinda funny but I'm very serious. First exam was a small Dr. with short fingers. It felt like he had his entire hand up me trying to get in far enough to feel my prostate. Second exam was from a tall skinny Dr. with long fingers. First exam was most unpleasant and had me dreading the second exam. Second exam was adsolutely no problem, not painful in any way.

Conclusion, always choose a urologist with LONG fingers. Just trust me on this.[:D]
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  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,035 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dreher
    Conclusion, always choose a urologist with LONG fingers. Just trust me on this.[:D]



    Or you just have gotten used to objects. Don
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  • ForkliftkingForkliftking Member Posts: 4,907 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    TMI TMI TMI TMI TMI TMI TMI TMI
    Too Much Information
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  • SpartacusSpartacus Member Posts: 14,415
    edited November -1
    my urologist is a female.
    with short fingers.
    I'm not complaining.


    tom
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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wait until you have a female Doctor do it...they have no appreciation for how uncomfortable it is...asked her if she was up to her elbow yet...
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  • CSI21CSI21 Member Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    LMAO, TMI TMI, thats a killer.
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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You have to be kidding.

    Just go and get it done.

    An embarrassing uncomfortable exam but one that may save your life.
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  • likemhotlikemhot Member Posts: 2,885 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think my Doctor has those knobby bent arthritic fingers [xx(]
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  • chumchumchumchum Member Posts: 847 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You have bowel movements bigger then anybodys fingers. It's all in your head. Maybe you like the second Dr. better(HAHAHA)
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  • Alan RushingAlan Rushing Member Posts: 8,805 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Don't know anyone many that enjoys their prostate examinations, regardless of the physician (one exception above noted). [:(] [;)] [:(]
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    NO ! I aint gonna say it...[:o)][:o)]
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  • topdadtopdad Member Posts: 3,408 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    sounds like a couple more times and you'll be looking forward to it
    just kiddin. I try not to dwell on it.[xx(]
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  • SP45SP45 Member Posts: 1,761 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    you should have said, hey Doc can't we have a couple of beers together first.
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  • enforcinatorenforcinator Member Posts: 232 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My urologist looks like Mario Lopez, except he is smaller and Chinese. I've heard small hands make for better surgeons, but didn't seem to improve my chances. Perhaps someone hid his step stool.
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  • 1880texan1880texan Member Posts: 978 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Make sure he doesn't have BOTH hands on your shoulder?????
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  • bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by 1880texan
    Make sure he doesn't have BOTH hands on your shoulder?????


    HA!

    I once knew a dr who would advise:
    If you find this to be extremely painful... thats not good.
    If you find this to be extremely pleasurable...thats not good either.
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  • dreherdreher Member Posts: 8,891 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I know a married couple who are both urologists. They met in med school. I have often wondered how that wedding proposal went. Darling, lets get married and become urologists so we can spend the rest of our lives with our fingers up peoples *'s.[xx(] Scarey part is she said yes.[:0]
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  • reloader44magreloader44mag Member Posts: 18,783 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by chumchum
    You have bowel movements bigger then anybodys fingers. It's all in your head. Maybe you like the second Dr. better(HAHAHA)
    yea but fingers arent as plyable[;)]
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  • KSUmarksmanKSUmarksman Member Posts: 10,705 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    fortunately I still have many years before prostate exams become an issue for me
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  • woodshed87woodshed87 Member Posts: 23,478 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Had that once
    Good Lookin Red Headed Irish Girl
    Looked about 18
    I thought Piece of Cake[:D]
    After that I Jus' Called her Li'l Susie Big Finger[:o)]

    http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=271697743
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  • roswellnativeroswellnative Member Posts: 10,191 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    crap i thought this was a gun forum
    Although always described as a cowboy, Roswellnative generally acts as a righter of wrongs or bodyguard of some sort, where he excels thanks to his resourcefulness and incredible gun prowesses.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mine is also female, very good, amd very quick!
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,087 ******
    edited November -1
    My urologist is an Asian man with small hands and long, delicate fingers.
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  • woodhogwoodhog Member Posts: 13,115 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    BTDT told me he always asks them to use TWO fingers. That way he gets a second opinion.
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  • s.guns.gun Member Posts: 3,245
    edited November -1
    Checked by a Dr. a few years ago and his finger feel extra large.When through he said he had to leave. He needed a cigarette.

    I never went there again.
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  • mlincolnmlincoln Member Posts: 5,039 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've had it done once. Doctor was an absolutely gorgeous young Indian woman. It was a very confusing experience.
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  • fordsixfordsix Member Posts: 8,554 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    is it a must to poop before exam??[:D]
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932 ✭
    edited November -1
    My doctor plies me with a glass of wine first.
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  • JunkballerJunkballer Member Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just wait until you have to call in the Rotor-Rooter man, now thats terrible [:0], ask me how I know [:(]

    "Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee

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  • armilitearmilite Member Posts: 35,490 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had elevated numbers the last time I was tested so I was sent to a specialist. I have not heard one member here yet who has had a check up and they took what you'd call core samples.( biopsy) Sticking a finger or a hand up your butt is a piece of cake compared to when they take that staple gun and start taking samples. I was totally caught off guard on this one. There will come a day when some of you have to have this done and please remember my post when they give you the news.[;)][;)]
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  • victorlvlbvictorlvlb Member Posts: 5,004
    edited November -1
    I've never gone back for a second opinion.
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  • KSUmarksmanKSUmarksman Member Posts: 10,705 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think I will spare everyone and NOT describe the brachytherapy procedure (when we put radioactive "seeds" into the prostate to kill the cancer)

    it is rather unpleasant to watch as a student/medical participant...much less to think about as a potential patient. (however they are knocked out cold by general anesthesia)
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  • CyclonusCyclonus Member Posts: 2,825
    edited November -1
    Having endured 2 of those exams myself consider yourself lucky that you didnt have an infection like I did otherwise it hurts so much worse. Oh and thank your lucky stars that you doc didnt order a clymidia test as words cannot describe how painful one of those is the procedure for which they wont even tell you beforehand. I imagine the reason for not explaining the procedure is because they know you will freak out and run out of the room. As if the test weren't painfull enough you are forced to deal with magma urine for the next week afterwords.
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  • EVILDR235EVILDR235 Member Posts: 4,398 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My exam I had about 14 months ago is now saving my life.If you are of age and have not had one recently,get on the phone tomorrow and make a appontment.If I had waited much longer,I would be in the ground by this X-mas.

    Mr.Lucky SOB.
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  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My first one was by a Dr. that weighed over 500 lbs., his little finger was bigger in diameter than my thumb[xx(][xx(][xx(]
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  • stegsteg Member Posts: 871 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you want to cause an uproar with your Urologist, the next time you are on the table with your rump exposed to the universe-and right after you feel his finger enter you, turn your head towards him and say:"We have to stop meeting this way"......
    It's amazing how fast he will pull out!
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  • mango tangomango tango Member Posts: 3,833 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Maybe the first guy was looking for his watch, maybe it fell off during the exam?
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  • enforcinatorenforcinator Member Posts: 232 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had the biopsy. and yes, it feels like a staple gun. They took 12 samples. one from the left lobe came back higher than the rest so they took the left nerve branch when the prostate came out. They left my right nerve branch and I seem to retain control of sphincter muscles but not sure what else as I have been stuck with a catheter since Dec. 12th.

    If I had gotten tested sooner they may have been able to spare both nerve branches or even taken a less invasive route, but I also know now had I waited it could have been a lot worse. Pathology verified the diagnosis.
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  • EVILDR235EVILDR235 Member Posts: 4,398 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had to have radiation treatments for 8 weeks to treat mine.I am also doing hormone treatments for another year.I went from a PSA level of 29 down to .8 which is less than 1. My treatment is working thank God.

    One lucky SOB.
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  • MudderChuckMudderChuck Member Posts: 4,105
    edited November -1
    I think I have a winner, my Urologist is good looking woman. A tall lanky red head, with those classic good looks that makes most any man look twice.
    I think I'm her only male patient. I feel kind of funny in the waiting room, I've never seen another man in there. My wife found her for me, her idea, they are friends from high school. I used to refuse to go in for a prostate exam, now I look forward to it.[:D]

    I had one spike in a PSA test, that never repeated. Antibiotics seems to have taken care of the high PSA numbers. I refused a biopsy. The pills seem to be working, I can pee.
    Kind of a toss up to what gets me first, a clot, an aneurism or Prostate cancer. We all got to go sometime. I've come so close so many times I kind of feel like I'm overdue and really don't fear it much. All of my kids are grown.

    Most of my family either died before age 55 or lived until near 90. I'm somewhere in the middle now.
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  • gearheaddadgearheaddad Member Posts: 15,091 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Small fingers, large fingers, strange foreign objects..........Nope!! Not for me!! I have a tattoo over my * that says "EXIT ONLY"[:D][:D]
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