Mortified. Pls tell me dr will forget what I did

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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’d be embarrassed too but the Gp is a professional and won’t think anything of it especially as she was prodding your tummy.
TBH I would be tempted to laugh if it happens again, to break the ice!

thought you were going to say you had a bowel movement! farting is nothing showed what issues you have anyway. she wont worry about it

Most doctors that I know (my father was a GP) find farts very funny. She probably only didn't laugh because she didn't want to embarrass you (though it would have cleared the air, so to speak, if she'd made a joke of it)

Person with bowel related issues demonstrates bowel related issues in medical setting. There's really nothing to see here.

Plenty of women shit themselves giving birth. I doubt the midwives still think about them.

I think I'd have laughed at myself.. find that eases the embarrassment... don't worry about it.. she's seen allsorts a fart is nothing!!

That's hilarious.

She'll bring all her friends along next time 😃

Even doctors fart

@Littlejacksmummy now that made me laugh out loud

I thonk you meant ‘a colon’. 😏

“We have forgotten the fart”
qe1 to Raleigh? In Blackadder

Your doctor farts aswell you know ... 🤣🤭 she obviously knows that's the problem don't cancel the appointment that's silly get it sorted x

Don't cancel the appointment, you need to get to the bottom (excuse the pun) of your issues. Although I'd also be mortified, she's a GP and has definitely seen/heard far worse.

When I gave birth at home the midwife told me to stick my bum in the air when I was on all fours. When I pushed a huge fart went straight in her face

It is a true historical quote, not Blackadder. Queen Elizabeth I said it to the Earl of Oxford, who had farted when bowing to
her 7 years earlier.

I made a GP squeal once as she got covered in projectile pus from a cyst on my back. Please don’t worry, I’m sure they’ve seen it all.

Someone once told me that someone they knew had been constipated for a very long time. When the doctor had a little prod it was like detonating a bomb. The stuff went everywhere, including all over the doctor.

Typical leftie “if you don’t agree with me, you’re wrong”

bore off

I get why you’re worried OP but as comments have said, as it’s bowel issues, this is to be expected! Kind of comes with it. She definitely won’t think about it again and please don’t let it put you off from going back! If you feel very awkward; maybe make a joke/comment about it

Thanks everyone, I went to the appointment, all was fine ☺️

I’d hazard a guess that she was just a bit startled when she heard the sound, and if at all she has given it more than a second’s thought, it’s because she’s thinking “I totally embarrassed myself with a patient today because I was startled by a fart, I hope the lovely patient doesn’t think I’m unprofessional or judge me for it”!
I can guarantee she has experienced much much worse from patients, and is not offended or horrified or thinking any less of you. In any event - it’s her fault coz she was putting pressure on your tummy area! That said, it’s a natural bodily function, pretty much everyone does them - and sometimes uncontrollably!

If it makes you feel better I once projectile vomited all over a GPs office. I had a UTI that had gone to my kidneys and they insisted on me making an appointment for later in the day and then when I turned up early because I was in so much pain they made me wait. I felt so ill and when they finally called me in I stood up and just spewed everywhere

As a nurse myself, I can hand on my heart promise you, this will seem like the biggest deal to you but to the doctor they will not give it a second thought. The doctor has been through years of training in all sorts of specialities, and would have seen (and heard!) every bodily fluid/sound.

If a person never farts, then there is something really wrong. She will have been totally this incident (and more) would be likely at this type of appointment. Don’t worry.

Please don’t cancel, your health and wellbeing is too important x

Was it a smelly one? If I had stank the room out too I would have been absolutely mortified. I’m just hoping for you it wasn’t because that would have been a different level of embarrassment. When I came into hospital to give birth just in time 10cm dilated I pooed myself violently and it absolutely stank the room out. The smell was so bad the staff had to cover their noses and open the windows. They had to pull my clothes off and clean me up. This was in front of my husband too. I was mortified. Rest assured this is the type of things doctors have to deal with