First physical

[I Am Paula]

Well... I've got my first physical exam today as a girl. My endo, and my surgeon have seen me with my top off, but that's it.
My GP, of course, knows what she might find in my panties, but this has to be embarrassing. My Doctors have always known that I presented female, but this is the first since HRT, and a new Dr.
Life is full of firsts. She's probably never done a breast exam, and a prostate exam on the same patient! LOL.

[kimdl93]

Just think of how you've broadened end her world!

[whowhatwhen]

Also think of how lucky you are to not have your prostate exam done by a dude with sausage fingers.
:P

[Carlene]

Cute post Paula, thank you,,,,Carlene

[alannanicole]

TmI. TMI

[Barbara Ella]

isn't it wonderful to expand people's horizons!!! We do present some unique opportunities. Cute post.

I too have my physical this Wed. My Gp now knows i am on hormones. Have not had the nerve in the past, and just thought he would attribute the breasts to the prostate medications. Can't do that now, had to put them on my chart when i got dizzy spells this summer and saw a physician's assistant. Gonna come clean with him (small hands) this time about it all.

Just not sure if I should underdress. Wife still does not want me to dress in our town. Just love going to Chicago to the endo where I can be Barbara.

Good luck with your two exams dear.

Barbara

[LeaP]

Shouldn't be a problem for any physician, really.

Or ... get a trans physician.

[Chari]

No matter where we are in life, we continue to learn - about ourself and about others! Enjoy.

[Kimberly Kael]

No credible physician will have the slightest problem caring for a trans individual, and it's one of the rare occasions when my transgender nature feels legitimately germane. I've had a few recent visits to specialists and have been amused at the questions I get that make disclosure appropriate. I guess I've never lost that built-in assumption that everyone can see at a glance that I'm trans, but having been recently asked by one practitioner if it's possible that I'm pregnant, and by another if I've started menopause? I guess not.

I was especially entertained by a physical therapist who asserted that I was solidly in the demographic most affected by my condition (adhesive capsulitis — frozen shoulder, which I don't recommend.) I laughed and asked what demographic she meant, which turned out to be "women over forty." She adapted readily enough, making suggestions about questions I should pose to my endochronologist.

[I Am Paula]

Once again the mind blows things out of purportion. A nice nurse weighed me and took some measurements, blood pressure etc. then she asked how long I'd been on hormones. Guess she read my chart.
I was asked to strip, and given one of those horrible gowns. The Dr. came in, and poked me, prodded a few places, listened to my heart... then she sat down, filled out my pre-surgical report for my surgeon, handed it to me and told me to get dressed.
That's it! We talked about my BA a couple of minutes, and she told me to call her if there was any post surgery concerns.
No indignities involved, and I'm cleared for new boobs Sept.9 Yaaaaay!!!

Kimberly- This was my second time meeting this GP. She has no problems at all about me being trans, except she keeps calling transition 'conversion'.

My last Doctor's nurse said 'that's a lot of estrogen, have you had a hysterectomy?'

[kimdl93]

I was amused by her use of the term "conversion". it calls to mind all sorts of automotive conversions, or worse yet, conversions of a more philosophical nature.