gyni wore gloves when doing internal looking for a vaginal lump......

[blighter]

i only think this in part as i would want to wear gloves too if i were a gyni' BUT i am sure that they never used to. i have been having yearly smears/internals for nearly 30 years and am sure dr's didn't used to wear gloves, i clearly remember them washing their hands after. i know it is safer etc for them to wear gloves BUT they surely can't possibly be able to detect stuff as thoroughly. i have a vaginal lump and i had to literally show the dr where it was and it is large and right by the opening, easy to find but he couldn't find (feel) it until i showed him which is really frustrating as it hasn't filled me with confidence even though he said nothing to worry about, that it is a cyst. he kept asking 'is this it' but i told him it didn't hurt so unless i was feeling for it myself or looking at it (i could see it using a mirror at home) i had no idea if he was touching it. mind you, i wouldn't want to be a gyni, they have my admiration.... :)

Worra - that's what I thought, too

Really not sure why you feel sick or why you don't know how they do it?

Put gloves on, examine vagina as medically necessary. There's not much to it. I've examined thousands of vaginas - just another part of the body. Nothing sick inducing about it at all.

Surgical gloves are pretty "thin" so you can still feel through them.

I wear surgical gloves for all procedures where there's a risk of cross-infection, as much for my protection as yours!

I'm still laughing at "mittens".

Sorry for u blighted, never pleasent.

I would consider an internal without gloves to b a sexual assault?

viva - i was responding to a previous posters comments rather bluntly about the smells etc due to some not washing, pubic hairs & 'gunk' under fingernails. and as my original post said, i have nothing but admiration for those who do this for a living, and i meant that sincerely. i know i wouldn't want to look at other womens vaginas first thing in the morning however clean they were :). the body - actually, there was a scene in the film with the nightmare nanny where the gyni secretly takes his gloves off as he gets off on examinations. i don't know what i was thinking of.... thejoyful - actually, having been on the net, as you do, i read that vaginal cysts are sometimes caused by 'trauma' and oddlly enough, i had a transvaginal scan about a month or so ago. not sure what the sonographer was doing at the time but i am sure i remember a real pain where i think the cyst now is, as if an instrument was pressing down really hard, possibly that is how i got mine. i hate anything wrong down below. i have had a few op's down below before because of womens things plus uterine cancer runs in my family (grandmother, mother & her sister) so if anything doesn't appear to be aok down below i worry. dh & i haven't had sex in a while, i would be stressing as it is uncomfortable, is yours? i dry alot (to do with my work) & long distances are somewhat uncomfortable & i have a three hour drive this friday.......i should try sitting on a rubber ring :D treament wise, they have told me they will cut it out under a local and then stitch me up, only take less than 30 minutes (according to what they said), best of luck, i don't mind op's, it won't hurt (i imagine). as for what your gp said, mine said similar, they have to say something and i think what ever they say will make us worry (some of us anyway). my gp said it is rare for vaginal lumps to be anything 'bad'. i am pleased it is at the entrance, as yours, rather than fiddling about at the rear which is closer to other things? at a guess

i meant drive alot..

Blighter 'Bodies' is available on DVD - I got the box set for Christmas.

ewwwww @ no gloves.

OP hope you feel less rattled by it all now :)

blighter you can buy bodies on dbd from amazon, and they did 2 series plus a special

Kennyp- that was unnecessary. And puerile.

I am only a nhs cleaner and wear gloves for every new task I have to do.

No way would I go glove free at work

joyful - i remember reading that vaginal cysts are quite common after labour so there is a good chance that that is how you got yours and you only recently went through it!! (labour). mine isn't painful either just uncomfortable, gets in the way sometimes. i came across mine by chance when in the bath checking to see if my being too lazy to do the pelvic floor was making a difference. pinot - i do thanks, am going to watch an episode of idiot abroad, never fails to put a smile on my face. thanks to the rest of you for the Bodies tip off, i think i will treat myself. funnily enough, when i was ttc No. 2 (having treatment) the gyni i had was the cousin of the actor who played the main cheese (max b's useless boss)!! moss - i'm not sure if i saw the special, can you remember what it was about? i remember series 2 ending with max b's character thinking he had an incurable illness because of a contaminated needle going into him..