Ultrasound Doubts

[pete581960]

Hi  am 61 and over the last 12 years i have had loads of infections and also blood in my semen and so i have had approx 15 ultrasounds on my testicles. All were fine apart from one when i got an errection and ejaculated but the guy doing the ultrasound and said nothing. After a big course of antibiotics all has  been ok for the last 5 years. In 2018 however my right testicle got stuck up inside and i could not get it back down. I went to hospital and after lots  examinations a doctor finally pushed it back down. He then sent me for an ultrasound on my testicles. When this was done by the male radiographer he put gel on my testicles and penis after checking my testicles he then rubbed the wand up and down the sides of my penis making me fully errect he also put more gel on the top of my penis the rubbing up and down the shaft of my penis for several minutes. I have wonderered ever since if making me errect with the wand was necessary or not. It seemed a bit of an odd thing to do but i trust the NHS stafff to do things properly.

[AnnieBrooke]

Any doctor, nurse or tech that has to handle male genitals in their daily work will have seen men accidentally get erect and even ejaculate, hundreds of times. This would not be stimulating to them, just something the patient's body does, and they would hardly note it. You are never going to know if the tech's actions were excessive unless you ask another ultrasound tech (or possibly a doctor) and can bring yourself to explain what happened back then, and see if that is standard procedure for taking this kind of picture. Also, I'd guess that if there was a tech out there who was getting his jollies by stroking guys, he would be picking on the hot 20-year olds, not guys in their middle years. This makes it seem a little more likely that he wasn't particularly trying to get you erect, or if he did, he wasn't interested or maybe wanted the penis out of the way or a muscle to be tight. I agree you have the right to wonder, and I would wonder too in your position. But frankly, there seems to be little profit in asking anyone in the health world because even if they did think a fellow medical person did something improper, medical people tend to close the circle and try not to get each other into trouble.