Do doctors not feel your balls in this country when you're growing up?

cafecolour · 22-03-2011 11:10AM #1

Okay, this is actually a serious question. In the US (where I'm from), you have to get a check-up every year (generally right before school) when you're growing up.

Usual stuff - mouth/throat/listen to lungs/listen to heart/etc/etc... Also, the doctor always checks out the lad - checks for hernia, checks the balls for testicular cancer, etc.

Do they not do that here? Since I've had several mates - and read countless PI threads - who are very embarrassed/anxious about approaching the doctor about any problem down below - to the point where it endangers their health in a couple cases.

Vs the US, mates wouldn't be thrilled about it, but it wouldn't be a big deal to go get checked if they had an issue - since we're used to the Dr. dealing with it.

Gunsfortoys · 22-03-2011 11:11AM

I think priests where in charge of that.

Menengroth™ · 22-03-2011 11:11AM

My doctor never did it, just my priest.

Dravokivich · 22-03-2011 11:13AM

When I was growing up I checked my own balls...

seamus · 22-03-2011 11:13AM

Doctors, no. Nurses, yes. During primary school all of the children get checked by the local nurse (probably the public health nurse), and they do the whole "Cough please" routine in the school building during the school day.

I'm not sure how often this takes place, but I only recall it occuring once. It definitely doesn't occur after primary school, and I'm pretty sure it's not a yearly thing.

Most Irish men don't attend a doctor or nurse during their teenage years unless they fall ill. This is probably the main reason why they're very uncomfortable about it when they become adults. If it was something that they were accustomed to during puberty, it would be less of an issue as an adult.

bigwormbundoran · 22-03-2011 11:15AM

I recall my doctor doing it a few times in my youth now whenever I was about for check ups or ailments

No ho-ho-hilarious after hours answer from me im afraid

colinod0806 · 22-03-2011 11:16AM

i only had to get it done once for the medical for boxing but not routinely

Morag · 22-03-2011 11:19AM

In america most kids have a peds dr who they go to at least once a year.
Over here there is only the general pratice who tend to see the whole family and there is no yearly check up for kids.

kfallon · 22-03-2011 11:21AM

My doc wouldn't feel me balls when I was younger, he just insisted on stroking my shaft :pac:

TeddyTedson · 22-03-2011 11:22AM

This happened in my school in Junior Infants. Two female doctors brought in people one by one and checked their balls. I'm sure they checked for other things too but this obviously sticks out.

Pompey Magnus · 22-03-2011 11:23AM

seamus wrote: »

Doctors, no. Nurses, yes. During primary school all of the children get checked by the local nurse (probably the public health nurse), and they do the whole "Cough please" routine in the school building during the school day.

Really? I can't remember having that done, I must have blocked it mentally...

Menengroth™ · 22-03-2011 11:24AM

Gunsfortoys wrote: »

I think priests where in charge of that.

Damn it, beaten to the inevitable priest joke by a matter of seconds!

biko · 22-03-2011 11:25AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujyhWBJD9zY

starbelgrade · 22-03-2011 11:26AM

I teabagged a nurse once.

Don't think that counts though.

stovelid · 22-03-2011 11:26AM

I got examined once in primary school by a nurse.

I was devestated to hear afterwards that she did the whole class as well. Not to mention the fact that when she was doing it, she didn't even take off her nurse's cap and uncoil her primly secured bun to reveal a sluttish mane of hair while staring in my eyes.

Wolfe Tone · 22-03-2011 11:28AM

No, never.

Then again I would never go to the doctor unless I was really sick, in fact I can only ever recall getting one check up, and my balls where left alone.

Fresh Pots · 22-03-2011 11:43AM

Not the same thing but this thread reminded me of this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fANwTBK3Ylg

kfallon · 22-03-2011 11:45AM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I'm sure they checked for other things too but this obviously sticks out.

No, no, no.....your cock sticks out.....your balls just hang :pac:

who the fug · 22-03-2011 11:46AM

When I were a lad, they were more worried about nits than odd shapped balls

RobFowl · 22-03-2011 11:49AM

Doctors check the testicles at the 6 week baby check after you are born. Generally only after that if there is a problem.

Mahatma coat · 22-03-2011 12:03PM

RobFowl wrote: »

Doctors check the testicles at the 6 week baby check after you are born. Generally only after that if there is a problem.

HOW???

i didnt think balls Dropped til you were 6 or 7

seamus · 22-03-2011 12:11PM

Mahatma coat wrote: »

i didnt think balls Dropped til you were 6 or 7

0_o

Morlar · 22-03-2011 12:32PM

seamus wrote: »

0_o

Classic !

Sprrratt · 22-03-2011 12:58PM

A while back I arranged myself (im 16) to go and see my GP about a problem I had down there...

Arrived on my own and it turned out, dont ask me how i didnt know, my sister and my mother were there at the same time. FML. Anyways I just said I had an issue downstairs because I frankly couldnt give a sh!t.

That all changed. I went in and the doctor is about 70 odd, slaps on a latex glove and asks me to pull down. I swear to good god I thought my balls were going to get welded to my arse her hands were that cold.

Was around 4 months ago and it still haunts me. There wasnt even anything wrong.

seamus · 22-03-2011 01:07PM

Sprrratt wrote: »

There wasnt even anything wrong.

I wonder what goes through a female doctor's head when a male patient asks to be examined "down there", but there turns out to be nothing wrong?

Sprrratt · 22-03-2011 01:13PM

seamus wrote: »

I wonder what goes through a female doctor's head when a male patient asks to be examined "down there", but there turns out to be nothing wrong?

"Look how small and shrivelled up that is"?

Owen · 22-03-2011 01:16PM

That would be an ecumenical matter. This'd be funnier if post #2 hadn't happened.

FatherLen · 22-03-2011 01:17PM

i got cupped in the past by a female doctor in her office.

pretty sure she wanted me.

gcgirl · 22-03-2011 01:48PM

Mahatma coat wrote: »

HOW???

i didnt think balls Dropped til you were 6 or 7

If they have not decended at birth there's a chance of the undecended testie turning in to a tumour

Sprrratt · 22-03-2011 01:50PM

gcgirl wrote: »

If they have not decended at birth there's a chance of the undecended testie turning in to a tumour

****

Latchy · 22-03-2011 01:54PM

stovelid wrote: »

I got examined once in primary school by a nurse.

I was devestated to hear afterwards that she did the whole class as well. Not to mention the fact that when she was doing it, she didn't even take off her nurse's cap and uncoil her primly secured bun to reveal a sluttish mane of hair while staring in my eyes.

My expierence to ......we must have went to same school

Do doctors not feel your balls in this country when you're growing up?

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