Thanks for sharing this by the way.So the doc starts to examine my foot and finds that my arch is the problem and is moving his fingers around my arch to demonstrate and I'm trying to compose myself because its tickling, he then decides the best thing to do is strap my foot up but first wipes my foot down for some reason, again tickling me and then the actually wrapping of my foot was about 5 separate bits of type being maneuvered all around my foot which is tickling every time a new part of tale has to be readjusted
They then decide to check for any other areas of pain so I'm lying lat on my stomach while the doc digs into parts of my leg to check for pain, squeezes my calf asks if it hurts and I say no, then dogs into my hamstring and my leg convulses and I'm stifling giggles and just shake my head to say no pain and then dogs into the back of knee which tickles me again and I literally can't answer at this stage so I pretend I cant hear him until I compose myself and say that theres no pain there either
Surprisingly it hasn't happened to me yet. Never tickled to the point where I had to hide laughter or squirming. I've felt tickling sensations during physicals, sure, but I guess I'm not sensitive to light touch.
In my case it's mostly happened when practitioners do that very assertive feeling-around of your abdominal area; invariably I twitch and flinch and they apologize and say "Did that hurt" and I have to say it tickled. Once the woman who was performing the examination nodded and said "I know how that is, believe me" and proceeded to be extremely careful about trying not to tickle me again.
But once I went to the ER (for a scare that turned out to be nothing) and they had me in one of those curtained-off rooms and the middle-aged nurse grabbed my ankle and -- just before she ran a blunt instrument firmly up each of my soles, one maneuver on a checklist of maneuvers she was performing -- said something like "Wait, you're ticklish, aren't you?" She either said that or "Wait, I bet you're ticklish." Then she performed the maneuver and my whole body jolted as barks of laughter came bursting forth, and then she moved on and was gone.
My response was "That's weird, she just thought I looked like someone who was ticklish?" It didn't occur to me until much later that maybe a previous practitioner had put some kind of a note in my record. That strikes me as unlikely, especially since this visit was in a different city from where I usually receive medical care, but either way -- my ticklish response to the test apparently was fully anticipated.
All the damn time, I'm very ticklish all over. The worst was getting a testicle lump checked out haha