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[> [> [> Subject: Re: There Is One That Requires Exposure For Sure
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Author:
Bob R.
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Date Posted: 14:34:34 10/15/09 Thu
I've had two testicular ultrasounds. Both were pretty much the same. In the first one a young technician ushered me into a fairly small exam room and told me to take off my pants and underpants. I did so with barely enough room to store them on a small table beside the exam chair (really almost a couch). As I did this, she got her machine set up correctly, and began testing it. Then she told me to lie down, which I did, on the exam chair. She sat on a little stool and slid in beside me. She picked up my penis and moved it away at an angle up on my belly. She took a small towel, rolled it up into a wand, and put it over my penis to keep it in place. Then she took another towel, bunched it up and put it between my legs, under my testicles so as to elevate them. She did this very deliberately and very carefully. She then put a cold gel on my scrotum and moved a wand up and down it, at times pressing hard. It hurt just a bit now and again, though she was obviously trying to be gentle. (I think my testicles are more sensitive than most, because I have felt pain in the past when my PCP does the genital exam even though she is quite gentle too.) She moved the wand about for maybe 10 minutes, recording bits here and there on the machine as she did so. At first it felt strange, and the gel cold, but as it got warmer it started to feel good. She adjusted the towel under my balls a few times, and the towel over my penis once (it had slipped). I did get what I feared I would, a half erection, but not a standing one. If she noticed it, she did not indicate she had. She was all business. I looked at her as she worked. She was a cute brunette, face concentrated on her computer screen. I talked with her a bit, trying to find out what she was discovering, but to no avail. Just as she got done I started to get harder, as I feared I would. She pulled a disk from the computer and got up, looking at me briefly. She told me I could get up and get dressed. As she left the little room I got up. I now had a standing erection, which she may have seen out of the corner of her eye, but if so said nothing. That was it.
The second ultrasound was at a different place. This time the tech was a fat, older woman in her late 30s, a blond who was grouchy throughout. She was not as gentle and hurt me a couple of times jabbing the wand into my balls. I went "ouch" or something like that and she said, "sorry"...and did it again a bit later! Overall the procedure was the same except she never touched my penis. Instead she had me hold it in place, on my lower abdomen. Interestingly she ran the wand up the base of my penis, something the first tech had not done. I don't know why. I did not get even a suggestion of an erection from this episode. In fact I wondered afterward if I had caught her on a bad day or if she was always so unpleasant. When she was done, and she had told me to get dressed, she mentioned on the way out that they were short handed today and that was why there was no chaperone, as there usually was (!). First I had heard of a chaperone. The exam room was not much bigger than the one in the other place and I wondered where on earth the chaperone would fit, if there had been one. Both rooms were remarkably intimate. I have never understood why these places have large lobbies and hallways and tiny exam rooms.
As it turned out both tests proved negative. They happened about a year apart and were "commissioned" by the same doctor, a female urologist that I still go to. She did however tell me that my left testicle was slightly smaller than average and my right one slightly larger, a piece of information that means absolutely nothing to me, or to her.
Overall they were not bad experiences, though they did in the end provide no significant information. And they were interesting. Little pain, and only on the second exam, and a curious sense of sterile intimacy from both. Under different circumstances I might have been interested in asking the first tech out. I did and do wonder how she feels about scoping testicles all day. She did tell me she did two or three testicle ultrasounds each day, on guys of all ages.
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