7 Most Embarrassing Questions You’re Afraid to Ask Your Doctor

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By BlackDoctor

Let’s be real: some health questions are hard to say out loud. You may look them up on your device and then quickly delete your search history because you’re afraid of what other people may think. You may even worry that your doctor will think your symptoms are strange, unhygienic or somehow your fault. So you stay quiet, search the internet late at night and hope the problem disappears.

But the questions that make patients blush are often the ones doctors hear every day. Changes involving bowel movements, body odor, sexual function and bladder control are not character flaws. They are health concerns—and many are common, explainable and treatable.

Here are seven questions people are often too embarrassed to ask, answered in the straightforward, judgment-free way a doctor might address them in the exam room.

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