Mortified. Pls tell me dr will forget what I did

[BrisPerm]

I had to go to GP earlier with ongoing bowel issues. She asked me to lay down so she could listen to my abdomen. I laid down, she pressed the stethoscope onto my stomach and I ended up involuntarily farting loudly. She actually jumped back at the sound. Absolutely mortified, I start to apologise and my stomach starts making loud squeaky noises and I end up farting again mid sentence. She remained professional throughout but I’m so embarrassed. I have to go back tomorrow and I’m dreading a) seeing her again and b) it happening again.

DH says will have forgotten all about it. Is he right or just being nice? I feel like cancelling the appointment

Please don't worry OP. There's very few things that'd shock a GP. She'd have forgotten all about it by the time they'd finished the shift. Please don't cancel the appointment either. Our health is important.

At least you farted, that's a good sign. It's when you're no longer farting that you need to be worried.

You can’t control it!

my dad did it on his gp who was about to examine his prostate! In a few years you’ll look back and giggle about it, I promise

But…did you queef practically in her face whilst doing a smear….theres always someone worse.

chin up @BrisPermhope you get sorted soon

OP, please don’t worry and absolutely do not cancel your appointment.

A few years back, I went to see my GP because of a really heavy bleeding that wouldn’t stop. I bled everywhere during the exam. The little blue paper towel they put underneath me did absolutely nothing, they had to clean both the bed and the floor. I had another appointment 2 days later and was mortified to be seeing the same GP. She asked me why I was being so sheepish, I said something like “because of what happened last time” and she looked at me with a completely blank expression, asking what happened. I explained and she was so reassuring and lovely, saying that other than obvious health concerns, these things do not phase them at all.

Hope you feel better soon!

My friend is a GP. She told me she sees multiple bum holes every day and is so unbothered by it it’s just like looking at someone’s knee or checking their tonsils. So I really wouldn’t worry about it, they’ve seen (and heard!) it all.

You know what else is disgusting? Putting illegals up in hotels whilst British homeless sleep on the streets.

maybe you were farting out your ignorance - that might be on your record?

I've noticed that there are two words that are commonly misspelled on the internet, I would say MOST of the time. Fair warning: I'm making it my mission to correct this.

To be fazed by something, not phased.
To lose something, not loose.

Don't worry OP, your doctor's seen a lot worse!

It's a funny old job, isn't it!

I absolutely stand by that comment

Well in one day they could have had their fingers up someones bum, looked inside a fanny, poked a load of rotten tonsels, cleaned a dressing full of puss and pulled earwax out of a dirty ear, inspected a jar of poop, iced a wart and inspected someones fungus toenails. So your farts were likely a welcome change from all that. I wouldnt worry about it.

I'm sure it is on the low scale of offensive for the GP.
I was having my eyebrows, eyelash tint.
My stomach started like a washing machine gurgling, I really thought I was going to let out a huge fart.

I farted in the consultants face when I was sat up on the edge of the bed back arched backwards when they were lent cross the bed trying to put an epidural needle in my lower back 😳 (I blame too much gas and air!)

All he said was a muffled “don’t move” 🤣

I’m sure she’s had worse happen!

lol please keep in mind you’ll laugh about this in time to come and at least you didn’t follow through!

Don’t cancel as your health is too important.

If it makes you feel better - when I was being assessed by the neurology reg for my epilepsy I was having to follow all sorts of instructions with my tongue etc. I totally misunderstood one and tried to lick her glove. 🤷‍♀️ So embarrassing and I still don’t really know what happened…

…. I’m a fairly experience nurse!

As others have said, the GP will have heard, seen and smelt far worse. Plus your windy, grumbling bowel has made a point for you; you've got symptoms and they need investigating. Hopefully, there's nothing too serious going on, but if there is, the sooner these things are caught, the better, so keep that appointment.

It's not the same, because cats don't care, but some years ago, we had one with a lot of respiratory problems and very productive and powerful sneezes. I think the vet thought we were exaggerating until the day our little lady underlined the point in the surgery. Two huge, snotty plumes shot across the examination table and from then, the sceptical looks were no more. 😆

GPS Have heard more farts than you e had hot dinners😃

… double post 🤷🏼‍♀️😜

Just think of the hours of endless entertainment she’ll get passing this story onto her mates on a night out 🥴😂…. Embrace it - she’ll remember the sound but not the name or the face

Just think of the hours of endless entertainment she’ll get passing this story onto her mates on a night out 🥴😂…. Embrace it - she’ll remember the sound but not the name or the face

I was having a tv scan once and really needed to fart. I was trying to hold it in, until the sonographer said oh we just need to wait for this trapped wind to pass because I can't see anything. I had no idea it would be seen on the scan, and had no choice but to let it go 😳

She has to regularly stick her finger in men’s arses to check their prostate, your little bit of gas is the least that she has to contend with.

Doctors have seen and done it all. I wouldn’t worry.

My toilet humour loving doctor husband may have found it hard to keep a serious face though.

You should educate yourself then - homeless people are homeless because they don’t engage with authorities for various reasons (trauma, mental illness, drugs etc). They’re not on the streets because people escaping persecution from other countries have taken their spaces. Ffs

I think it takes an awful lot than that to phase a typical doctor.

This kind of thing is quite common when a patient has a bowel problem. When I had to got the hospital for an investigation, I was told by medical staff that it was normal and not to worry if it happened.