First gown?

Nope, never had to use a gown in the past.

Never have, not usual here outside hospital stays.

I keep my underwear on because it's drafty down there

First gown was in my 30s sometime. Kept underwear on.

About 25/26 for a pre employment physical. The nurse instructed me to strip to my underwear and put on the gown which opened in the back. As the exam progressed , the doctor lowered it so he could auscultate my lungs and heart. As he was palpating my chest, then abdomen and finally the groin, he kept pushing it down until the top of my boxers were visible. He then totally removed it, instructed me to stand and rem my boxers so he could perform a genital exam.

Actually never, as we don't use them for exams at all usually here in germany

First gown was when I moved from a Family Practice doc, who I saw when I was a kid, to an Internal Medicine doc. Paper gown…torn to hell by the end of the exam!

The first time I wore a gown and the first time I was asked to change into a gown are different.

When I was 12, I was in a bad bike crash. They cut my clothes off in the ER. After checking me over from top to bottom in the trauma room, they put a gown on me.

The first time i was asked to change into a gown was when I was 14. The nurse just said to get undressed and put the gown on. She didn't specify what to take off. But when I was younger, including the year before, when I was 13, I was examined in just my underwear. I assumed that since I was getting older and she was giving me a gown, ‘get undressed’ meant take everything off, including my underwear.

When I was 19- first exam at adult doctor. Nurse said everything off except underwear and use this paper sheet to cover your lap. New adult doctor in my 30s, nurse says everything off and hands me a cloth gown to out on. I never tie it, rather leave it open in the back. Doctor usually moves it around until genital exam where I just take it off all together.

Only recall having to wear a gown a handful of times - maybe not til in my mid twenties or thirties. Don't think they specified taking my underwear off except for a colonoscopy or surgery.

I was 22. Had a physical for a program I was in at local hospital. The nurse told me take off everything but my underwear and put on the gown. It was a nothing exam, the doc looked in my eyes and listened to my heart and lungs.

I had one occupational health exam with a gown. During which I was instructed to remove everything including underwear for the exam.

I had a knee surgery and had to wear a gown got to leave underwear on

As a child when I had my first physical exam. Maybe about 7 years old.

I've never been asked to change into a gown for any medical procedure/examination. If a part of my body needed to be uncovered I removed the shirt or dropped my drawers, or whatever piece of clothing was covering the target of the procedure/exam, then put 'em back on when it was over.

The times I have worn a hospital gown, my clothes were removed and gown put on me by nurses who first removed shoes and sox, then shirt, put gown on me, then removed trousers leaving underwear on. This process was first performed when I was admitted to hospital at age 7, then twice more since 2013 in the ER when I had my two heart attacks. Each time it was determined I was not physically capable of doing it myself.

Never have. Always was fully clothed then whatever was needed removed removed.

As an adult 18+ a gown was required, The paper ones that open in the front. had a female doc that said to take everything off including underwear and socks.

When I was budding. The nurse said here put this on. It's a little cold in here. But I kept my panties on. After that, they always gave me a gown. I got so used to having my panties on that when I went to get on the pill I left them on. My sister was in the room with me. She said nope those have to come off also. I blushed even though it was the same doctor that delivered me and almost everyone in the town and was my peds doctor etc. There was just something about being fully naked even with a gown on that was embarrassing. It was a little funny.

It was in january for my first colonoscopy. And of course i was asked to undress totally under.

The first time I was offered a gown was during a routine physical exam at the pediatrician's office. I was 17 or 18 at the time. The nurse handed me the gown and told me to remove everything, including my underwear. I undressed, put the gown on, and hopped up on the table. Upon entering the room, the doctor took the gown from me. She said that it would only get in the way and that it shouldn't be a problem to examine me nude since we knew each other well enough. I remember thinking that this was such a lopsided situation as I had never seen her naked or touched her intimately. I became very aroused by this grown woman having complete control over my naked body. I quickly became erect and she commented that it was nothing that she hadn't seen before. This made me even more aroused and I fantasized about her getting naked and allowing me to touch her. I remember her commenting before the genital exam, “my, he sure is happy today." Before leaving the room, she said that she would give me some extra time since it would be difficult for me to get my pants and underwear back on.

At the dermatologist a few years ago for full skin checks.

She said that it would only get in the way and that it shouldn't be a problem to examine me nude since we knew each other well enough. … and she commented that it was nothing that she hadn't seen before.

For a few years, I had annual physicals with the company's physician onsite, where it was typically “strip down to your underwear and have a seat on the exam table”. And then suddenly one year, somewhere in the mid 90's, they left a gown for me with the same physician. I didn't see the need for it, and thought it would just get in the way. This was still the same doctor, he has seen my body already on multiple occasions, I'm a male and he's a male, and I've never worn a gown for a male doctor before. So I never put it on. And for the remaining years I had physicals there with other doctors, I was in the habit of not wearing the one they'd put out for me.

With the dermatologist who was a woman, one of her assistants told me right before I had my 1st “full body” skin exam with her that because I'm a male and she's a female, I had to wear a gown, which I did. I started seeing her twice a year for full body skin exams. 3 skin exams later, and I was wearing nothing but a jockstrap and no gown, and did it for the next several years. It's nothing she hasn't seen before.

I have never got any gown. Always just on my underwear.

Never as we don't use them here in germany for exams at all usually

@patientin_Jacqui

Never as we don't use them here in germany for exams at all usually

When do they use gowns? Just curious, surgeries?

Never got any gown, its not usual in Germany.

@Rigel

heyhey, yes surgeries or exams that need sort of a cleaner environment, like bladder exams e.g or stuff like that

My first time was to have surgery as an 8 year old. They gave me a pediatric gown that was much too small for me, even though I was in public areas of the hospital as they transported me to and from the OR. I might as well have been nude. I felt humiliated.

I think they started offering them at student health when I was in college but the nurse would say strip down to undies and you can put a gown on if you want and pointed to the pile. I never used one until had surgeries and it was always everything off gown on. I actually left my underwear on once for a minor surgery and woke up in recovery and they were no longer on lol.

I was in my early 40s when I was first instructed to don an exam gown. I was told to undress completely and to remove my underwear. Up until then, I had always been examined while in my underwear only.