Socks off for a physical?

They usually just pull mine down and put them right back on

At any full examination I have usually had to remove everything to begin with, except underpants. This included socks, even if my feet weren’t actually examined. I was usually undressed liked that before weighing and measuring.

I never had to remove my socks for any physicals. It's kinda surprising to know that many, if not most, of you guys had to be barefoot. I guess feet exam wasn't given importance here as my socks stayed even when my underwear was completely taken off.

For any physicals where I’ve been asked to undress, yes, socks come off too.

For my last checkup in July, as a new patient, I wasn't even asked to take my shirt off. I can't remember any exam over the past decade where I was asked to disrobe let alone remove my socks.

@Desperatepatient lol your reply suits the name so well. Are you desperate for a more old-fashioned exam?

For every mandatory and full exam, if at all, the only thing I could keep on is my underpants, brief or whatever I was wearing as such. And that also had to be removed quite quickly during the exam. I also had exams where I was told to remove everything from the beginning.

@Desperatepatient lol your reply suits the name so well. Are you desperate for a more old-fashioned exam?

@Easternexam how did you know 😊

EVERYTHING off but Underpants!

One exam memory I think about in regard to socks: I was 16 and my younger brother and I were taken for physicals at a clinic we had been to before. This place had started using gowns but you had to take off absolutely everything else if you were there for a physical exam. So, the PA took us into the room and laid out gowns for us and told us "take off all your clothes and put these on, tied in the front" and then he stepped out. My brother and I left on our underpants and our socks. So the PA comes back in and is putting fresh paper on the table, etc., to get ready for the doctor and he says, "socks off, guys. Underpants off, too, if you left those on. Nothing on but the gown, ok?"

My socks have never been off for a physical. My doctor does ask if I experience any swelling in my feet, but I answer "no", so that ends that part of the exam. If I reply "yes" they probably would come off. Socks always come off at the dermatologist though, where I am in a paper gown.

Usually I'm asked to take them off, but it really depends on the thoroughness of the doctor and the season of the exam. In the winter, the doctor sometimes says to keep them on so the floor doesn't make my feet cold.

Socks almost always come off at some point as long as I can remember for physical exams or at the dermatologist. I have taken them off and had the doctor take them off while I was sitting and he wanted to check out my feet. If I an asked to disrobe I will always take off the socks; I don’t ever recall specifically to be told to leave them on.

My doc respects my modesty and allows me to keep my socks on! This surely helps lessen the chill as I am naked during the genital exam!

I don’t think I’ve ever had my socks off, and it’s never come up

I always take a patients socks off if they have left them on despite instructions to remove all clothing except underwear. Some have asked to keep them on and I just sternly say no.

In role play I encourage 'patients' to keep their socks on, I rather like the look of it.

The first time I ever had a check-up in just my underpants, I was actually told I could keep my socks on too, but I took them off anyway because it felt odd to me to keep them on somehow. I think it was because the exam room I was in had a linoleum floor and I thought I would find it slippery in my socks, perhaps because during gymnastics class at school we always had to be bare-foot because socks would slip, and even though that was on padded mats I think I had this connection in my head that socks + shiny plastic-y surface = accident. I don't remember getting my feet examined for that one, but perhaps the doctor did look at them and give a visual check - I'll never know. The last full medical I had in my mid-twenties I did get asked to remove socks along with everything else except pants (until the genital exam of course) and had my posture tested with all sorts of exercises that required me to be bare-foot. Some others in this post have said they prefer socks on, either as patient or doctor or both, but I'm definitely a socks-off guy!

If I have to undress in just underwear, I removed always my socks, I find it ridiculous to wear socks in underwear and still more being naked except for socks and I have never been told by a doctor to pull them again, the doctors do not mind in fact if my feet are bare, they do not express any surprise even when they have said " undress except for your underwear and your socks"

When I was a kid, there was only once when I was at the doctors and they said to my mother "Can you strip him down to his underpants please? He can keep his socks on for now."

Because it was unusual, it felt a little weird stepping onto the scales with my boxers and white socks still on.