Embarrassing Doctor Stories

I was left behind a curtain to get my gown etc on before surgery and put the paper pants on my head, as I thought it was a hat to keep my hair covered.... no lie

After I had my twins via cs, I was bed bound for a day or so and when I had my first shower the midwife told me to keep an eye out for blood clots, as I'd not been upright for a while. I was having a shower and to be fair I didn't have my glasses on. I looked down and there was a massive big red lump in the shower tray. I called the midwife, she got her gloves and carefully picked the lump up, only to discover it was my strawberry soap that I'd dropped and hasn't realised.

oh my god how were you not dead from TSS????!!!!!!!!!

I was in for a routine smear. Did the usual preamble questions... when was my last period... about 10 days before.

Started the smear, she's having a good look and wiggling the speculum around and says "I think there's a tampon in there... has that been there for 10 days." FML. Off she went to find something to remove it with while I lay there and died.

Yep, tampon one too. Weird brown bleeding for a few weeks, especially after sex. Doctor found a month old tampon up there. KILL. ME. NOW. 🤢

I would love to know, too. Multiple of my knicker also have holes in the gusset, from the inside, and have no idea how that happens.

When I was 20 I attended an appointment with the practice nurse at my GP surgery for my first ever smear test. At the time I was a medical student, who ultimately planned to become a GP.
The nurse started the appointment by asking the usual sexual health questions, and one of them was "Do you have a regular partner?".

Now, in retrospect it could not be more obvious that she was asking about a sexual partner, but at the time I think just because we were in a GP surgery, and I was an aspiring GP, when she said the word "partner" I immediately thought GP partner. I thought she was asking if I saw the same GP whenever I would come to the practice. So I replied "No one in particular, just whoever is available." She was wonderfully non-judgemental and just noted a little something on my record.
It was about 5 minutes later that, mid procedure and legs akimbo, I realised. I explained what had happened to the nurse and she had to pause the procedure, she was laughing so much.

Not my finest moment.

This is brilliant 😂and has just reminded me about when I came round from an anesthetic and started asking the nurse if ABBA had been in the room because I could have sworn Bjorn was next to the bed singing to me. When she told me sadly not I started singing Waterloo anyway . Mortifying 😭

I'm having IVF and had a particularly difficult embryo transfer. I have a high up cervix that was kind of hiding to the side, and very strong muscles which kept pushing the speculum out. The doctor tried to get good access to my cervix for about 30-45 minutes before calling time for a break. An hour later, after the doctor had spoken to other doctors on the phone for advice about difficult transfers, we tried again. This time they sat me upright with the hope a different angle would work. In the room was the doctor, my husband, the embryologist and four nurses. I was high off my face on gas and air which they gave me to relax my muscles. After another few minutes in the new position the doctor announced 'I'VE GOT IT.. I'VE FOUND THE CERVIX' and THE ENTIRE ROOM STARTED CLAPPING. It's made even more embarrassing by me slurring out some 'woop woops!!'s and 'yeaaahhhhhs' in my high as a kite state because I was so relieved they finally found it.

I'm having IVF and had a particularly difficult embryo transfer. I have a high up cervix that was kind of hiding to the side, and very strong muscles which kept pushing the speculum out. The doctor tried to get good access to my cervix for about 30-45 minutes before calling time for a break. An hour later, after the doctor had spoken to other doctors on the phone for advice about difficult transfers, we tried again. This time they sat me upright with the hope a different angle would work. In the room was the doctor, my husband, the embryologist and four nurses. I was high off my face on gas and air which they gave me to relax my muscles. After another few minutes in the new position the doctor announced 'I'VE GOT IT.. I'VE FOUND THE CERVIX' and THE ENTIRE ROOM STARTED CLAPPING. It's made even more embarrassing by me slurring out some 'woop woops!!'s and 'yeaaahhhhhs' in my high as a kite state because I was so relieved they finally found it.

It's caused by the natural acids your body produces gradually corroding the material. After I had a hysterectomy, it stopped happening to my pants (unexpected bonus).

This is similar but I was embarrassed on behalf of the doctor who kept pronouncing my tablets as Clop~i~DOG~rel . They're pronounced Clo~PID~ogrel . I got the giggles and he asked if I was nervous
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I did this.....left tampon in and had no idea.....had gone to GP about an unpleasant discharge.

Let's just say she opened all the windows wide to let fresh air in

I was mortified!!!

Had to work myself up to my first smear…stupid I know but never been great about anyone looking ‘down there’

anyway talked myself up saying you’ll never see this nurse in public blah blah blah. So I’m lying on the bed with my bits out ready to go and she says ‘oh sorry can I just confirm your address’ reads it out and it’s incorrect so I say oh no that’s wrong and give her the new one. She then says ‘oh have you got the white Mercedes? I live opposite you’ she then asks if I’d prefer someone else to do the smear so I say….in a state of panic and social anxiety ‘no don’t worry you won’t be the first of the neighbours to see me vagina’ WHAT THE FUCK 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ honestly I wanted the floor to swallow me up.