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Last feminine appointment in UK...
So I have my last women's checkup in the UK a couple weeks, then I will be good until we get back to the States. Just curious about yall's experience from the States and how it differs in other countries (or visa versa).
For me it is really similar except the medication is different (and free) and my surgery is a little less subtle than my OBGYN in the States.
Re: Last feminine appointment in UK...
lol, um, a surgery is a doctors practise here in the UK.
I can't answer the question as I never had a woman's appointment in the USA. And here the only woman's appointments I have had here all related to pregnancy or childbirth, which is very different to anything I experienced before.
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Agree! My first appt the doc was just like ok take off your pants! No dressing room, no gown, just pull 'em down.
And you can only get a checkup every 3 years I think. But free BC is a definite positive for the NHS!
US: I would lay (lie?) on a table and have a hospital gown on. I'd be positioned in a way that I couldn't really see what was happening. For the breast exam the dr. would cover one breast with tissue while examining the other. There was also a nurse in the room. Things were sent to a lab and I'd hear back if there were issues.
Germany: I get undressed behind a curtain as my dr. sits and waits. I sit down and scoot my butt to the edge of the chair with my legs in stirrups so my knees are about even with my ears. I can see everything he's doing. Oh, and I'm also facing a window which sometimes doesn't have the curtains drawn. Fortunately we're on the 1st floor (2nd floor). Then I stand up (naked waste down) and have to lift up my shirt so he can do the breast exam. In most cases, he'll then go right to his microscope to check for any glaring problems and have another slide sent to the lab where they will call if there are issues.
Pretty much exactly this, except that my US nurse practitioner didn't cover one breast while she checked the other. And my German doctor lets me put my pants on before doing the breast exam. I had a female OB for quite a while but switched to a male last year and was happy that for my check-up a few weeks ago his female assistant stayed in the room the whole time. Not that I think he'd do anything or I wouldn't have switched to him, but it's nice to know that someone else is there as a precaution.
I really don't understand why the breast exam isn't first. Don't they know the 'right' order to do things in? Why are they skipping bases?
One of my drs in the US tried to give me a pants-off breast exam once. I made him wait while I put my pants on. (1) Freezing and (2) No reason for them to be off!