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embarrassing bodies...would you?!

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ScarlettDarling · 03/06/2014 22:20

Seriously, if you were embarrassed, would you really take part in this show?! Just watched a woman talking about her itchy fanj and showing pics of it!! I mean, she's got to go into work tomorrow...they'll not be able to look her in the eye! And omg, now a bloke has got his balls out!!! Never seen this show before, are these people for real?!

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whereisthewitch · 04/06/2014 14:36

It's like a car crash...I don't want to look but I can't stop myself!
The live show is the worst though...it can't be edited and there's Mr Smith whipping out his ball sack while the doctors tell him to put it away but he doesn't hear cos of the time delay...horrendous!
And that Dr Pixie...sbe gives me the rage and Christian is just a complete arsehole and talks over both of the female doctors! !

Bicciemoosh · 04/06/2014 14:39

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CruCru · 04/06/2014 14:40

I would only go on there if I had terrible teeth. Then other people in real life would know about it anyway.

Blithereens · 04/06/2014 14:42

My friend was nearly on it. She was almost at her filming date when her parents decided they couldn't bear the idea of her naked on TV and offered to pay for her treatment privately instead!

RoadKillBunny · 04/06/2014 15:00

I have been on it, well, my dd was on embarrassing bodies kids, she was only 4 at the time so it was me talking to them.
Her problems where not in an area that had the potential for great embarrassment as she got older so it was a reasonably easy choose to make, after banging my head against a wall for over half her short life I applied just so I could say we had tried everything never expecting them to go ahead and have her on.
When we started we believed it was a problem in just one area and likely out comes would be either medication or wait and see, I wasn't thinking about getting some free private medicine I was thinking about my dd being helped. As it turned out her problems where much more complex then anyone had realised, a lot more was going on and she did need surgery. Even if the NHS had listened eventually it would have been another struggle to get her the surgery promptly (if at all) and her life would be much harder now if she hadn't had it.
The production team of the kids series (different team from the same company, they all work very closely but I can only comment on the kids series) where fantastic. The first questions we where asked from the very start where about what health professionals dd had already scene, if there was an area that hadn't been looked into they wanted to know why. The way things are edited for time sometimes make it hard to know that going on the show is never the first step. I had to have a two hour talk with an independent psychologist to check my mental state, that I understood what we where going to be doing, that I understood and was up to dealing with negative public feed back as well as positive (have never had anything negative said to us or about us).
We always knew we could walk away at any time, no pressure was ever put on, they gave us more time and space to make decisions then we needed. I honestly can't fault them at all, my dd is 9 now and even though she still has some problems medically and some knock on educational problems they are getting better all the time, if we hadn't gone on the show, well the idea of where dd would be makes me sick. Her condition was never life threatening but she would have had so many struggles she didn't have to have and there was a likelihood that aspects of her problems would have become more and more dangerous as she has got older.
I can however only speak for the children's series and for a non private area problem!

RoadKillBunny · 04/06/2014 19:42

far too many errors in there for me to correct, I was typing in a rush with no time to proof read and my own disability that effects my hands and eyesight, put that together with an over enthusiastic auto correct and you end up with the above mess. I hope it is understandable sorry!

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ScarlettDarling · 04/06/2014 21:35

roadkillbunny so glad you had a good experience with the show! Last night was the first time I'd ever seen embarrassing bodies and I just couldn't believe what I was seeing...selfies of fanjos, men whacking their tackle out...I was gobsmacked! Sounds like it worked a treat for your dd though!

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Only1scoop · 04/06/2014 22:00

Road very interesting from behind the scenes account there. Glad dd ok.

Ifpigscouldfly · 04/06/2014 22:05

I remember the guy who couldnt wipe his arse. But it apparently started 5 years ago so I couldnt understand how you just forget something like that ? Very odd.

melika · 04/06/2014 22:32

Oh... but have you seen the Australian version!

So dumbed down they actually called the anus a bum hole, several times.

Testicles were called nuts!

annielouise · 04/06/2014 22:36

I watched it the other week. Some guy had to lie on his side and christian inspected in between his bum cheeks. The guy said he'd not long had a poo and Christian the doctor said he hadn't wiped properly. How mortifying! Bloody hell, who would do that? Knowing that you were going to have your bum filmed you wouldn't wash down there or take some wet wipes or something. How could you ever live that down? The thought of a grown man not being able to wipe his bum properly, just yuk.

CarbeDiem · 05/06/2014 01:14

I've only ever watched one episode and it was where they rocked up to some beach, popped up a tent and all these people were coming in with STI's, lobbing their bits out - there was other issues too but I just remember the STI's - I was thinking, FFS if you know you've got something would it not be more sensible to go to the fucking GP and get it cleared up rather than wait, on the very slim off chance, that embarrassing bodies would be visiting.

In answer to your original question - NO!

Whathaveiforgottentoday · 05/06/2014 02:08

Absolutely not and I have a condition which would be perfect for this program but not a chance in hell I would ever go on television and tell the world all about it. Luckily I have a decent GP but it took me almost 3 years to get up the courage to go and tell her.

NatashaBee · 05/06/2014 02:18

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Ifpigscouldfly · 05/06/2014 14:31

annie that's the guy I'm on about. He though he had some terrible disease !

TheFuzz · 05/06/2014 16:00

I know someone who went on it for skin reduction after losing a massive amount of weight. The NHS wouldn't help. The story was twisted a little by the production crewe to make is sound more interesting, but the main reason was removal of lots of excess skin.

phantomnamechanger · 05/06/2014 16:07

I know....how they have the nerve to go on TV like this is amazing!

NorbertDentressangle · 05/06/2014 16:08

The standing joke in this family is that if I'm flicking through the channels (which I don't often do as I'm bottom of the pecking order when it comes to having possession of the remote control) you can guarantee that I will stumble across an episode of Embarrassing Bodies at the precise moment there's a close-up of someones arsehole!

EBearhug · 05/06/2014 16:32

As a general rule, I can't imagine any problem which is likely to be improved by broadcasting it to the nation. Having said that, some of the chronic conditions I've seen on there - I think if I'd been suffering with something for years, and tried all sorts of things to try and get it sorted out and was still in daily pain and discomfort, as some of them clearly are, then I wouldn't discount any possible route that might at last make the difference.

I think they have probably helped with awareness of some conditions, too.

But it is still mostly about making TV, and I think I would need to be feeling quite desperate.

carabos · 05/06/2014 17:08

I wouldn't, but didn't need to as the nurse who wheeled me into the operating theatre to have my fibroids and uterine polyps sorted out, picked up my notes and holleredcommented "ooh I've seen that on Embarrassing Bodies, must be awful" .

Latara · 05/06/2014 18:51

As a nurse I can be honest and say quite a lot of people don't know how to wipe their bums properly! Shocking.

Anyway.

I can understand going on EB if you have a problem like excess hair or excess skin after weight loss - it's not too embarrassing and they get laser treatment / skin reduction surgery for free.

But with private parts no way!!

BadgersNadgers · 05/06/2014 21:14

Bloody hell, who would do that? Knowing that you were going to have your bum filmed you wouldn't wash down there or take some wet wipes or something. How could you ever live that down?

Oh but imagine giving Dr SmugBastardChristian a big face full of poo. I think it would be worth the humiliation.

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ScarlettDarling · 05/06/2014 21:14

How can adults not know how to wipe their bums properly?!?!

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CrohnicallyHungry · 05/06/2014 21:34

I wonder if he didn't wipe his arse properly, or if he really did have some bowel condition? Crohn's and UC can lead to leakage, either from mucus or diarrhoea, or through a fistula (abnormal opening between the bowel and skin).

Anyway, it's one of my worst nightmares. If I have an appointment where I think I will have to show my arse off (eg colonoscopy) i will shower before I leave and I carry wet wipes and have a freshen up just before going in.

CarbeDiem · 06/06/2014 00:32

Latara I'm shocked, that's disgusting unless they've got a medical condition.
I'm obsessive about being clean down there - even to the point of judging loo roll - I'm not interested in how soft/thick it is. I judge solely on whether or not it sticks to my fanjo on wiping
If I have an appointment where I know my fanjo needs to be out I'll leave the house knowing its all clean and fresh and will not under any circs have a wee, and risk sticky on bits that I can't get off, until I'm done :)

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