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

I’m a nurse and I can promise you we don’t care, it’s a bodily function. I’m a ward nurse and it’s pretty much a daily occurrence when people turn over for us to clean them. You’re our patients and we’re professionals, much like the gp, we trained in the body and don’t give it a second thought. We all do it!

Go to your appointment. They’ve dealt with worse.

I hope you feel better soon ❤️

You should also educate yourself people are also homeless due to not finding adequate housing landlords kicking them out for no good reason to sell maybe who knows? You’re clearly not educated yourself and those that arrive illegally shouldn’t get housed in our country end of day should be instantly deported

I had issues after I tore into my bum hole giving birth to my son and as a result have farted at a wide and varied selection of health professionals. I’ll never forget the nice registrar who sewed me up coming to see me on the ward round. I did about a 20-second rumbling fart just as he was explaining very seriously about how I’d had to have 3 litres of blood transfused.

Doctors are great. Academically excellent their whole lives, scramble to the top of their career and still aren’t above sticking their finger up a bum or getting farted at on a ward round.

If you had a poopsplosion that sounded like something blew up and blew off your diaper and hit the wall 20 feet away, she'd probably remember.

A fart or two, naw.

Doctors see this sort of thing day in, day out. Try not not to let it bother you. Remember, they’ve dissected bodies as medical students.

She’ll have forgotten it already!

Actually you raise a good point there as corpses can produce post mortem farts.

Apart from the weird attempt to derail - what a lovely thread of support.

Echo everything OP, she likely won’t even remember. Don’t cancel your appointment and hope you get sorted quickly and easily.

Make a light hearted remark to GP such as ' I'd wear a mask just in case'' if I were you.

I once had a doctor fart at me, well at my 4 year old. She bent down to listen to his chest and let off a huge rip roaring fart! My 4 year old was mortified, didn't know where to look. I just laughed awkwardly. She didn't seem particularly bothered, it wasn't the first time it's happened I bet!

There are worse people to fart at. Doctors are well used to it.
Perhaps hold off going for a bikini wax.

Well done to your 4 year old, mine would've laughed out loud! How funny

If it makes you feel better, I can't cope with needles and once projectile vomited after a blood test. I believe it now says in big red letters LIE DOWN FOR NEEDLES or something like that at the top of my notes.

@BrisPerm She won't care, because she will have seen a lot funnier/worse. Your story is nothing compared to (for example) people that have shown up to A and E with toilet brushes stuck up their arses.

Nah no need to worry. She may have forgotten about it by now. I doubt you’re the first or the last.
seriously, you’re good

She will have seen way worse.

So many things wrong with this post.
Why is the doctor using a stheoscope to listen to you bowels?
Why are you so worried about a doctor hearing your fart, doctors have to deal with all the bodily functions? A fart is the least of their worries.
Surely if you are farting that's good news?

Sorry OP, I know you started this thread because you were embarrassed but I've really enjoyed reading through the replies. Hopefully it's made you feel better about it, definitely keep up with your appointments and I hope you're sorted soon.

My dentist farted during my appointment, I was already in severe pain and it was just the cherry on top of a horrible appointment 😭 🤣

Happened to a friend of mine years ago during a smear test 😳🤣. I was mortified on her behalf. I asked "What happened" her reply "I went red and he went green" 🤣

I love this, it absolutely sounds like the sort of thing I would do and also like it should be a scene in a sitcom or film!

Why? We don't put illegal immigrants up in hotels. They get put in detention centres prior to deportation.

You are no doubt aware that asylum seeker are not illegal immigrants.

I hope you go to your appointment tomorrow OP having been reassured by this thread, and I hope they get to the bottom (pun intended) of your issues soon.

Agreed.