First gown?

Never have, always just down to my boxers.

Never got one, except for a surgery

Definitely not until I was married; over 21. I was asked to strip completely nude. I have always been given a gown since then, and I feel like nearly 100% of the time I was asked to strip completely nude under the gown. Maybe one or two times left my underpants on, and that is the most.

At hospital when 12 y.o. . Was taken aback a bit when nurse said to undress and put it on her holding it. Kinda felt like it was a bit of submitting to protocols and belittling of me as a youth to encourage positive behavior since it looked girly like a dress skirt and feminine. Fretter.

The first time I had to change into a gown was at the hospital to have surgery for an undescended testicle at the age of 8. It was a cloth gown and since the doctor needed to access my genitals I had to take my underwear off. So, I was completely naked besides just the gown.

However, the first time I wore a gown for a physical examination was at the age 17 with underwear on underneath the blue paper gown. And I wore a gown for my exam at the age of 18 too. But, this time I wore it with my underwear on underneath until I had to take them off completely for the genital exam at the end of my physical exam.

My pediatrician rarely offered or gave me a gown. It depended on which nurse you got. I remember getting a gown for my 6th grade physical and then a gown for my 11th grade physical, but was in my underwear for all of the others. Not sure why it was inconsistent.

@Racefan19 Did you keep your underwear when you were given a gown for those physicals?

The first time I had to put a gown on was for a complete physical with my current doctor. After the nurse was done with taking my vitals she laid a gown on the exam table before she left the room. As she was walking out she stopped and told me if he wants you in this, he can tell you then she left. When the doctor walked in a few minutes later he said hello and saw the gown laying on the table, he looked at me and told me you can take everything off including your underwear and socks then put this on pointing at the gown. I knew then he was going to be giving me a very thorough physical. That's the first time I was ever required to put a gown on.

@Racefan19 Did you keep your underwear when you were given a gown for those physicals?

@Wanderer yes, I kept my underwear on when I was given the gown as that was the instructions I was given

First time I was asked to put on a gown was when I got my vasectomy, nearly 20 years ago. Of course, I was instructed to remove everything underneath. Not knowing any better, I put it on with the opening to the front. When the doctor came in, he kind of looked at it as if to imply "that will work, too."

I've since worn a few gowns for colonoscopies (2), hernia surgery and a few skin checks at various dermatologists.

All my dermatologists have told me to leave my underwear on under the gown.

It started at my current Family Practice clinic after college. During my first physical exam I was instructed to undress to my underwear and put on some useless paper gown and of course I tore it while putting it on my body. When my doctor had me step on the scale she joked "No street fighting with the paper gowns, mister". I sheepishly grinned at her and stated I wasn't used to a gown. She said the gown was optional and it was all about my comfort level. I then tore it off, threw it in the trash and was weighed, measured and subsequently examined in my underwear. My doctor then visually looked me over and said. "The gown makes many people feel better. It appears you work hard to keep yourself in peak physical condition. That is an admirable character trait. You shouldn't feel modest about your body at all "

I've never worn a gown before.

This is a great question and one I have to think about. Hmmmmm.

I didn’t get a gown at physicals at the pediatrician.

I think likely the first time was in a physical exam in college at our health center. I still remember that place really well. I would go once a year for sports.

Two memories I had were the first one where I got a full head to toe exam while wearing just boxer shorts.

The other was one where the nurse practitioner gave me a tesicle exam though the leg holes in my loose boxers. I had no idea if was coming.

The first time I was asked to change into a gown, I was 18 and has a pre-college physical. I was told to keep my underwear on. When it came to the genital exam, I was asked to slip off my underwear and lift my gown.

Never had a gown outside of when I was in the hospital.

Even as a kid getting suppositories and enemas as a kid I was in my clothes or naked with just underwear.

The first time I was asked to change into a gown, I was 18 and has a pre-college physical. I was told to keep my underwear on.

@colddisk Was this at your usual PCP or a new doctor/ first time exam? If this was your regular doctor, how were you dressed at previous exams? If you saw this doctor after this exam, did you wear a gown at later physicals too?

13 for an x ray.

Besides a tonsillectomy at age five, the first time I was told to wear a gown was for a pre-employment physical (early twenties).

The doctor walked me to an exam room and told me to remove everything and he would return in a few minutes. Having removed everything I picked up the gown and discovered it was only a vest and small one at that. Pretty useless. Oh well, when the doctor returned I was sitting naked on the exam table with the exam vest lying across my lap.

@colddisk Was this at your usual PCP or a new doctor/ first time exam? If this was your regular doctor, how were you dressed at previous exams? If you saw this doctor after this exam, did you wear a gown at later physicals too?

This was my regular PCP. All other exams were in my underwear with no gown. I saw the doc after and during physicals it was the same routine, gown with underwear on. That particular exam may have been the last genital exam I got from him. Subsequent physicals with him did not include genital exams. I then changed doctors around 24.

... for a pre-employment physical (early twenties).

Having removed everything I picked up the gown and discovered it was only a vest and small one at that. .

It makes me wonder how many men put it on and wore it when the doctor entered. And how their lower bodies were exposed. How many of them got erections from the experience. obviously, these vests were being passed out to males as the sole modesty cover. Some of them must have worn them, and then with no bottom at all....

First gown was at a physical before high school with a Dr who specialized in adolescent healthcare

First gown was at a physical before high school with a Dr who specialized in adolescent healthcare

Very cool. Were you allowed to wear anything under the gown?

Nope

First gown for a physical was only a few years ago.

A few years ago when I was about 80 and had to find a new doctor. I had been going to her for 10 years and had to request a nude physical. My previous Dr. always had me naked as soon as I entered the exam room but she never did and I felt there could be plenty she was missing in places I couldn't see. My wife mentioned that at her last physical and she has had me nude since then. I guess she was waiting to get my wife's permission but her assistant still gives me a gown which seems ridiculous. Just so I can take it off for the doctor?

I remember mostly underwear and a drape through the pediatrician years, but when I turned 16 and my mom sent me to a physical with an internal medicine doctor I was given a gown.

I got the gown, but I thought it was typical to undress completely with the gown without underwear. I was a little embarrassed when the doctor asked me to bend over to check spine and the gown parted like the Red Sea to show cheeks. Makes sense to me later why sometimes the doctor is closer to help you keep your gown closed for these maneuvers.

I’ve never had a gown for any of my exams growing up.

Down to my underwear for my pediatrician growing up until I was 21.

Down to my underwear for my adult doc that I saw for a few years before moving.

Down to my shorts and underwear for school doc.

And only once did I have to take my underwear off for the end of the exam and that was when I was 17 with another doc in the same practice because my regular docs wasn’t available…PM me if you wanna hear about that exam lol.

I’ve never had a gown for any of my exams growing up.

I had exactly the same experience - never any gown. As a child, I was examined naked by a dermatologist. At the pediatrician's in underwear that was lowered down to examine the genitals. During the military examination, first in underwear, then completely naked behind a screen. When I am examined by a urologist, I take off my pants and lower my underwear. I have never been offered a gown. In my country they are offered to women but not to men.

I was 12 the first time I was examined in a gown. I had my panties on under it.

I was not offered a gown until I started seeing an internist and even then it was not at every appointment. It seemed to vary depending on who the medical assistant was who roomed me. Sometimes i was asked to undress and put on a gown and other times nothing was said and I remained in my clothes until the same doctor would enter.