How are you dressed (or undressed) for the exam?

I'm curious how most women are dressed for their exams.

-Naked? (My intuition says this is the realm of internet pics only. . .)

-Naked from waist down?

-Gown from waist down?

-Full body gown?

Also, do you have to undress in the presence of the doctor, or do they leave the room for a few minutes?

I wear full gown ...until exam and she exposes what she needs dont for get the white socks....lol

I am naked under a gown for my gynecological examination. I lower the top of the gown so the physician can do the breast and abdominal exam. Of course I am exposed below the waist for pelvic exam. When I see my family physician, I am dressed, and he just has me remove what he needs so he can examine me.

I go with my wife usually so i'll answer for her. She takes everything off.The doctor is not in the room. The nurse gives her a gown and tells her to put it on open to the front then she leaves. So it's just me and the wife as she strips. I haven't seen a breast exam with her sitting up only laying down. I sure would enjoy a breast exam with her sitting up and the gown down to her waist.

My wife tells me (cause I always ask) that she is given a gown and a cloth and is told to take everything off and leave the opening in the front and use the cloth to cover her lap. She keeps her socks on.

I hope to see this live real soon.

My gyno will allow me to keep my panties on and she'll remove them at the appropriate time. Maybe she likes to take 'em off? 😁

I am fully naked with a gown, open to the front. When my the dcotor examines my breasts, he takes the gown off down to my waist. He has me lay back and completes the breast exam with me uncovered. I remain uncovered while he examines my abdomen. Then he helps me sit up and put the gown back on, and The doctor will put a drape over me when I put my legs in the stirrups.

I'm always naked under an exam gown. All the gyne's I see have me put on the gown open in the back.

Gf is naked under the gown and she undresses behind a private screen before the doctor comes in ..

Having had 4 children over an eight year period during the 1980s my wife has had to undergo numerous gyno exams. She used to always wear a loose fitting shirts so she had only to remove tights and underwear with skirt pulled up. most of the exams were done by male GP or male hospital doctor.

In the 1990s things changed with the practice nurse doing the smear tests.She now wears trousers so she is totally naked from waist down.she is also now closely trimmed which is a big change from her full bush when younger.

This is one of those things I've answered in the past, but don't mind answering again, as I tend to be by far the exception to the rule.

In short, no it is not just in the realm of internet pictures that some patients are nude. I'm one of them. I don't wear any type of gown or have any kind of covering during my exams. I've been going to the same doctor for most of my life, and that's just the way it's been. It started out being that way when I was a kid, so I just got used to it and never really had a desire to be covered up. I know it sounds weird to most, but I'm completely comfortable with her, and to me a gown is just something else to get in the way and have to be fiddled with. If I was to see a new doctor for the first time, I'd almost certainly wear a gown. But with her, it's just not necessary. She's seen so much of me at this point, that any modesty just seems silly to me. I'm not saying everyone should feel that way, just that it's what works for me and my doctor.

As for the second part of your question, I typically undress in private after being led to the exam room.

...to me a gown is just something else to get in the way and have to be fiddled with.

I feel exactly the same way. I couldn't have expressed it any better myself.

I feel exactly the same way. I couldn't have expressed it any better myself.

Yup, and for me, the fiddling about emphasizes the attempt to avoid exposure. As someone who's empathetic but not modest, that makes me uncomfortable.

Naked under a full gown and a drape on the bottom. I undress alone.

Naked with a paper gown

I am totally naked under a gown. There is a small changing room in the exam room with a swinging door. The nurse always ask if I need help and I always say no at which time she leaves and nobody is in the exam room while I change.

I am led into the exam room by the medical assistant/ nurse. She follows me through the doorway. All my vitals have been taken and recorded into the electronic chart in another more open area of the office suite. On the exam table, there is usually a neatly folded cloth gown. She then informs me since this a full physical or gynie exam, that I need to get changed. I usually smile at her. And she informs me that EVERYTHING COMES OFF including bra, panties, shoes, stockings and jewelry. Then she reminds me that the gown goes on open in the back. She asks if I have any questions and leaves the room closing the door behind her and allows me to start getting completely naked.

Jewelry too? What, piercings? I've always enjoyed the rings, necklaces and bracelets myself.

When my wife gets her annual gyn exam, the medical assistant asks her to completely undress after she gets her weight and vital signs just before she leaves the exam room. There is a paper vest for her breasts which she wears with the opening in the front and then covers her lap with the paper drape.

When I get my annual gyn exam, the medical assistant asks me to completely undress after she gets my weight and vital signs just before she asks me to change behind the Tri-fold changing area. There is a Pink paper gown dress lenght which I must wear with the opening in the front and then I must sit up on the exam table.

My wife has a gown that only goes to her waist line that opens in the front and a blanket covering her bottoms

My wife and I are examined conjointly, by a female internist, and are always given the choice regarding cover. We are both comfortable being nude during our exam. So, not just an internet phenomenon. Our thought process is this, we are active nudists who are accustomed to being nude, and since the focus of the exam is on exposing our private parts, why cover the non-private parts. We have always thought that drapes were more for the examiners benefit, than that of the patient. Our doctor appreciates our openness, and admits that only about 20% of patients given the option, choose to be nude. BTW, she provides the option only during conjoint exams.

Naked and gown

Completely naked underneath a cloth gown.

I wear a paper gown with nothing on under it.

When I go to see my gynecologist for a check up I am just in a gown for the exam and I have taken everything else off. He is not there when I am getting undressed. It would not bother me if I was nude for the exam, I think it would be much easier and men have seen me on nudist beaches so I do not think it would matter if my gynecologist saw me nude as well. I think the gown is just a nuisance.

@ Amethyst: The “dress (gown)”, I think it is typically Anglo-Saxon because in Belgium or France, the “dress” does not exist, the examination occurs entirely naked!

@ Amethyst: The “dress (gown)”, I think it is typically Anglo-Saxon because in Belgium or France, the “dress” does not exist, the examination occurs entirely naked!

I think Americans know more about the gowns than the British because it is more usual for them to have the checkups than us. I have checkups that most British women do not. I can speak French ok but to go to France or Belgium for a checkup would be a long way to travel just to not have to put a gown on. lol

@Amethyst: I suspect that it is far! Lol! It was right information!

Generally, a cloth gown open in the front is given or just a paper vest that opens in front also with another paper square to cover my pubic region. I would love an exam where I am completely naked. I dream of it in fact. It's part of my fantasy gyno exam.