No one likes going to the doctor, and realizing you may need to go can cause waves of anxiety. It doesn’t matter how many times you do it, it never gets easier. It can be scary and awkward, but thankfully, your doctors are trained to handle these situations. Still, even with all their training, things can quickly get uncomfortable.
In a recent Reddit thread, people are sharing their experiences and answering the question: “What was your most embarrassing trip to the doctor?”
The answers range from hilarious situations to incredibly uncomfortable moments. The folks in this thread are getting naked in more ways than one, and it’s definitely NSFW.
Here are 20 of the most embarrassing doctor visits from Redditors.
1. Infected testicles
Crushed my nuts with a milkcrate at work, and when asked by the emergency staff how it happened they were confused. Spent roughly 10hrs trying to explain how and even had to demonstrate a few times.
2. Butt cyst
I had a cyst on my upper buttcrack for the better part of a month.. one lovely Saturday morning it’s gotten so large and swollen that I couldn’t even walk or sit down without crying in pain
I’m the first person to the Urgent Care that morning and find myself laying sideways on a table with a lovely Doctor using a scalpel to force an eruption of the volcano that had formed between my cheeks. It was instant relief and used probably 20 pieces of gauze to clean up.
3. Constipation
Went to the ER for stomach pains, worried about appendix, spleen, gall bladder etc.
I was constipated.
My brother still tells the joke that the one time i went to the doctor I was full of shit.
4. Hemorrhoids
Hemorrhoids by far, I know women go through way worse at the Gyno and idk what I expected but I was not prepared to lay on my side in the fetal position while the doctor opened my ass cheeks like he was about to read a book.
5. More butt stuff
When I had to show my naked butt to the doctor in the hospital and she spread my butt cheeks to look inside and then a dozen student doctors (interns?) came in the room and were all staring at my butt for what felt like hours.
6. Trimming accident?
Cut the flap of skin that connects my sack to the shaft of my penis with hair clippers. Not only was it a day that they were training new doctors but also my mom worked for the hospital and saw my name on the computer system. So by the end of the visit, I had 5 extra young doctors staring while I got stitches but also my mom walked in too thinking something bad happened to me.
7. Salmonella hemmorhoids
Post salmonella hemmorhoids. I went to my usual male doctor and told him about my painful butt things and he politely asked if I would like a female doctor to check them (I am a woman).
I said cheerfully “Nah mate, all good, everyone’s got a butthole!”
He did do the check, but I was silently asking myself the whole time…”Why did you say that?? Why?”
8. Testicle lumps
Found a small lump on the left testicle
I went to see the urologist, and when the nurse brought me to the room, inside there was a doctor with around 20 students.
Doctor told me to lie down on bed and take my pants and underwear off. And not to worry about students, how they will be doctors one day as well.
He put the gloves on, and proceeded with the exam, trying to find the lump by moving his fingers around my left testicle.
After he finally found it, he called the first student, and told him to look for the lump.
Every single person in that room was touching my balls.
9. Pelvic exam
The time I went for a pelvic exam, and my gynecologist was rummaging around down there and suddenly asked me if I’d ever been to the Grand Canyon.
10. Testicle pain
I had a ton of pain in my balls. And read too many TIFU by getting testicular torsion posts on here and a recent coworker who was diagnosed with testicular cancer. I went in to get the pain checked out. Wouldn’t go away, kept me up at night, just really freaked me out and hurt. After much inspection and touching. The doc asked about what kind of underwear I wear and I said boxers. He said he recommends getting boxer briefs as I have saggy balls and have most likely torn a ligament or muscle. I immediately bought some boxer briefs and sure enough by within a little over a month the pain had subsided.
I paid $250 for the doc to tell me I have saggy balls and get new underwear.
11. Pill poppin’, sort of…
I was pretty young, had never swallowed a pill before, my only experience with anything pill like was flinstone vitamins. I was in there with my mom and was given a tylenol and a cup of water, and I guess no one imagined I had never taken a pill before, so I immediately popped it in my mouth and vigorously chewed, and then immediately threw up from the bitter taste. My reaction was surprise and confusion.
Doctor was just like “… You just swallow them… with the water…” like I was some damn idiot.
12. The tables are really short
I was about 15 and at the doctors laying on that short table waiting for the doctor. I couldn’t figure out why that dumb table was so short and tried to figure out a way to make it longer. Well I realized at the end of the table there were these fancy leg extensions. So I pulled them out and waited. Doctor came in and started laughing hysterically and asked me what kind of exam I wanted? I didn’t realize what I had done until 20 years later I went to the doctors with my wife. Kind of a delayed embarrassment!
13. “You’re full of sh-t!”
Woke up one day with severe pain in my lower right abdomen. I was aware this was a possible indication of appendicitis, so I’m worried.
Got to the walk-in clinic where they ran some tests and an x-ray.
After awhile the doctor comes in and simply says… “You’re full of shit.” and laughed
I said excuse me!?
Come to find out I was severely constipated. They prescribed a laxative and a few hours later I was feeling a lot better.
14. Masturbation?
I had blood in my urine once. Went to the doctor and we figured out that I had popped a small blood vessel in my genital area from jerking off too hard/too often.
Doctor: “Are you sexually active?”
Me: “Not currently.”
Doctor: “Masturbation?”
Me: “A lot.”
To make things worse, there was some college dude shadowing the doctor that day.
15. Parasite
I got a parasite after the water pipes in my city broke due to a hurricane and ended up in the ER for almost 2 weeks. Doctors said it was a third world parasite they’d never seen before, so I had hordes of medical students coming in and out every day asking me really invasive questions.
Then some nurse read that hedgehogs can carry this parasite and, well, I have a hedgehog. So I had to call up my landlord and have her scrape poop off my hedgehog’s wheel at 3am, put it in a bag, and bring it to the hospital for testing. I had random hospital employees coming into my room every few hours after that, asking me if I was the girl with the hedgehog poop.
Found out my hedgehog’s poop was perfectly clean. And the kicker was that this supposed “third world parasite” was just giardia. This was a hospital in New Jersey.
16. Penis tick
When I was eighteen I got a tick on the end of my penis. After I pulled it out, the right side of my penis swelled up double in size. I didn’t have a grownup doctor yet so I had to go to my pediatrician to show him my penis.
17. Chicken skin?
Skin on my balls had the texture of dried cooked chicken skin and was flaky, was informed I didn’t have ball cancer but I was masturbating too much.
18. Broken tailbone
I broke my tailbone pretty bad. Apparently the only way to fix it is by the doctor putting a finger in your butthole and bending it back.
Fixing it hurt more than breaking it.
19. Pinched nerve
I was getting ready to go to a BBQ/pool party. Changed in to to my swimsuit, put clothes over it and I was doing chores before I left home. My face started feeling numb and I was getting a headache. Called the advice nurse, she told me to call for an ambulance. Paramedics come, transport me to hospital, check in to the ER. They do an exam, CT scan, and labs. They find nothing and decide to discharge me to follow up with my regular doctor.
While waiting for discharge paperwork, I’m sitting on a hospital bed in the hall. My neck is really aching from my halter-top swimsuit holding my boobs up so I pull the strap over my head to relieve the pressure…. And then it hits me; I’m fairly large chested and my halter-top swimsuit was pinching a nerve in my neck and causing all the symptoms. I was too embarrassed to tell the doctor or nurses.
20. Anal abscess
Went in to have it lanced, and the nurse was super hot. She was the one who ended up holding my butt cheeks open so the doctor could drain this massive disgusting cyst.