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To ask what is the most embarrassing thing that's happened to you in a doctor's surgery?

121 replies

leaveitaloneforgodssake · 03/10/2017 19:50

Someone has to make me feel better.

Today I had to go for a gynae exam. The doctor put the speculum thing in and was twiddling about for some minutes. She then asked if I had any contraceptive device fitted as something seemed to be 'in the way' of my cervix. I said no, I use a diagram but I always take it out......oh. No, it's still there. From about about a week ago (which is obviously why I had completely forgotten about it.) Ewwww. Doctor looked at me slightly bemused as I quickly removed the offending item. Two nurses were standing there too trying not to crack up. I have never felt so mortified. Blush

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AbsentmindedWoman · 04/10/2017 01:29

I'm stressed out and in a crappy mood and this thread is making me laugh so much and cheering me right up Grin Thank you Mumsnetters!

Also makes me realise I must have a guardian angel looking out for me. I attend so many medical appointments but have never had a mortifying experience.

HappenedForAReisling · 04/10/2017 01:56

Recently going in to the surgery to request we get moved to another doctor in the practice. Just as I start to explain, the doctor we want to move from walked into the reception area and stood right next to the receptionist I was talking to.

Ilovecoleslaw · 04/10/2017 04:36

Having sex cowgirl style and I landed down on him in slightly the wrong position, ended up tearing my vagina and needing stiches.
Went to a&e and the nurses were lovely.
But I'm a student nurse and had my placement there a couple my months later. If they recognised me they didn't say but I felt so awkward the whole time that they had seen my fanjo Blush

ScissorBow · 04/10/2017 09:08

Probably when DD was kneeling on a chair and pushed onto the back of it and fell face forward hitting the base of the metal bed. No blood but the 2 drs in the room just watched me pick her up and comfort her whilst telling them how I wasn't coping with my second pregnancy. Just humiliating to have it proven so obviously Blush

4teensandababy · 04/10/2017 09:37

I was 12 weeks post (emergency cs) birth of son. I'd been on constant antibiotics for various infections and been feeling pretty rubbish. I had started bleeding VERY heavily (hadn't stopped since birth), but this was filling a maternity pad every 5 minutes.

Anyhow, I knew something wasn't right, and was sat in reception waiting. When my name flashed up on the screen I stood up to go to the GP's room and looked at the (fabric covered) chair I'd been sat on. There was blood everywhere. I really didn't know what to do. I hurried to see the GP and told him.

When I left the poor receptionists were covering it in bin bags and taking it away Blush

LivingInLaLaLand · 04/10/2017 11:59

I had to have a "defecating proctogram" for a rectocele diagnosis. That's about as bad as it gets as you basically sit on & go to the loo whilst they X-ray you. I thought it couldn't get any worse until the doctor walked in. Extremely tall, dark & exceptionally handsome & there's me with pants round ankles crappy chalky stuff into a loo in the middle of a room Blush

CuppaTeaAndAJammieDodger · 04/10/2017 12:04

Nothing in the actual examining room, but I opened the post whilst I was waiting for an appointment a few months ago, a friend of mine had sent me one of those birthday cards that pops open and shoots confetti all over the place when you open the envelope.

I, along with those sitting closest got rained on by confetti - I jumped out of my skin, turned bright crimson and then got on my hands and knees and started collecting the tiny pieces of paper from the floor.

Caulkheadupnorf · 04/10/2017 12:05

I’ve just had major ovarian surgery and I’m struggling with the pain. Yesterday I went to the ward to get checked and the doctor wanted to give me a smear test.
I explained that I’m notoriously not good at them, and could someone come and hold my handchaperone. This happened, but as soon as she began I screamed because of the pain. I loud cried for the rest of the time she did it and in the end had to ask her to stop.

I’m not a crier at all and did not expect that to happen. afterwards I was mortified at how I had reacted. The doctor did apologise for causing me the pain but I was so embarrassed.

MadisonMontgomery · 04/10/2017 12:11

I had to have stitches in my eye tightened up after surgery - I was terrified and the consultant said ‘oh if you like my registrar can hold your hand’ so I eagerly agreed. Obviously he was actually joking, but this poor registrar had to awkwardly stand there holding my hand through the entire procedure. I now work with said registrar.

guilty100 · 04/10/2017 12:18

I have had so many gynae surgeries that I am no longer embarrassed by anything.

  • When I was much younger, I had to have a colonoscopy. Went in, and the doctor was young, male and very, very hot. We got chatting, he was utterly charming - caring, sweet, off to Africa to do some work there. Basically the perfect guy, and I had to let him stick a hose up me bum. I was mortified. He voluntarily, without prompting, gave me his number at the end, but I was far too embarrassed to call him. I wish I had!!
  • I once had a student doctor learning how to use the internal imaging device... it took about 40 minutes (not exaggerating) and I just sat chatting to a healthcare assistant about her career options, pretending nothing was happening. She wanted to be an ecologist.
  • I repeatedly had an op that involved a lot of water being put into me, and my body would absorb this fluid, with the result that when I woke up I would be absolutely desperate for a wee. The first time it happened, I asked, and the nurse told me to lie still - I begged - still no result. I knew I couldn't hold it in and I really didn't want to humiliate myself, so I just sat up and started making my way to the loo, all woozy. The nurses came and tried to tell me off, and I said in a stern voice "SOMEONE BRING ME A BEDPAN THIS MINUTE!!". It worked.
dontquotemeondailymail · 04/10/2017 12:22

First smear test, only 17 at the time (GP requested it as had a few concerns)

After the exam she left me to get dressed but I couldn't find my knickers. After searching and getting so stressed out I gave up, just put the rest of my clothes on and walked out.

The nurse then came running after me, pressed my knickers into my hands and said oh, I think you forgot these! I was so mortified

Avonandice · 04/10/2017 12:27

Our old doctor's had a small area where kids could play while waiting. I was in there with two of the DC's when one of them decided that she needed to loo. She was dizzy and shaky so I needed to go with her. The receptionist said she would watch him for the two minutes it took to take the elder one to the loo. The receptionists were wonderful at that surgery. In the less than two minutes it actually took DS had managed to remove ALL of his clothes and was entertaining a packed waiting room with 'the naked bum' dance. At which point we were called through. He danced butt naked all the way to the doctors room.

notreallythere · 04/10/2017 12:37

MinisterForMagic Shock That's appalling!

RiversrunWoodville · 04/10/2017 13:13

I embarrassed myself still high after emcs with dd1, born at 32 weeks and a very gorgeous surgeon I turned round and muttered "oh dear if I'd known I'd have had a Brazilian" (why??), saw him the next day and he asked "how's the Brazilian lady?" DH was Confused

steppemum · 04/10/2017 13:36

I had to have a breast exam. Got dressed, GP all prefessional, then just before I left he said - may I ask you a personal question?
Were you at xxx uni?

OH NO, I was at uni with him, had thought he looked familier, but then just thought I must have been to see him before as GP!

I wouldn't have minded, but he had just been man handling my boobs!

Vaglikeacavern · 04/10/2017 14:02

My DS 3 yo had tonsillitis. Went to see GP and from the second we set foot in the consultating room he screamed hysterically as if he was being murdered.
Refused to look at GP, refused to open mouth for GP to look, refused to explain why he was screaming. After few minutes of this DD (12mo) decided there was obviously something to be scared of so joined in the hysterical screaming. So after 10 minutes of 2 kids screaming and getting nowhere GP eventually tells me to come back later if DS will cooperate.
On the way back out everyone in reception was staring so it was obviously audible from the waiting area. DS never told me what he was screaming about but he went back 2 hours later and opened mouth nice and wide like the model patient.

NikiBabe · 04/10/2017 14:13

This is an old tv show i used to watch. Dead Like Me.

She isn't embarrassed about her smear mishap. Lol.

isthismummy · 04/10/2017 14:50

Not me but a work colleague.

We both worked in a supported housing unit for adults with learning difficulties. My colleague had to support a resident known for being rather oversexed to a medical appointment . It was a prostate exam. GP (a Chinese gentleman, this is relevant) put his finger where the sun doesn't shine and our resident went "hmm mm, that's nice" GP didn't hear and asked him to repeat himself. My poor colleague said that he totally lost it and in sheer panic drowned out resident repeating himself by saying "He said, hmm mm fried rice. You know, because you're Chinese"

He said it would haunt him to his grave and beyond.

Bratsandtwats · 04/10/2017 18:41

@NikiBabe

I loved that series, so funny!

Did you watch Pushing Daisies too?

NikiBabe · 04/10/2017 21:04

@Bratsandtwats I loved Dead Like Me. Gutted it was cancelled as apparently not successful in the US. They dont get irony.

I havent seen Pushing Daisies, is it good?

Bratsandtwats · 04/10/2017 21:38

Yes, it was good. Out at around the same time as Dead like me. Might watch them again....

NikiBabe · 04/10/2017 21:47

Im going to dig out Dead Like me box sets.

i love the coping with loss themes.

ticketytock1 · 04/10/2017 22:10

I was heavily pregnant and experiencing a lot of pain and some bleeding so went to maternity unit to get checked over.
I had an internal examination, by a really hot male midwife, who used a great big black and decker type torch to look in my vagina. My DH nearly killed himself laughing and I was never so mortified in all my life.
The torch was like something you dad would get out to go up to the attic with... and it wouldn't have been so bad if he wasn't so damn sexy!

Monoblock67 · 04/10/2017 22:55

@isthismummy omg I am DYING of laughter at your post 🤣🤣 just woke DH up by laughing so much!

khanbal · 04/10/2017 23:02

I needed an intimate examination and a male GP said he wouldn't do it and I need to book with a female GP?

I felt mortified - I think it was a lump of some sort and I didn't know I needed a female GP
To do it and I thought maybe there was something wrong with me because he didn't want to do it?