Examination Gowns

When my wife goes to the gyn she gets only a cloth gown, open in the front. No drape.

My dermatologist uses cloth, my gyn uses paper. The cloth is more comfortable but you feel more exposed with paper. For play I don't use a gown, I like naked or maybe a light robe.

My wife gets the paper gown...her GYN switched from cloth 3 years ago. My wife was disappointed, however I like the fact that she brings the gown home after the exam, and puts it on with KY still fresh in all the key areas 😉

I have had to wear a gown for a physical exam several times. Those were at large, multi-physician offices with lots of exam rooms. I was ordered to disrobe completely, including socks, and put on a gown, cloth most times, and a paper gown other times. As a previous poster noted, they are short gowns, hitting above the knee, and always too large. Sometimes I had to be taken to another exam room for an EKG, or chest x-ray, etc. Trying to keep up with my PA as he led the way, I felt odd, because I was barefooted and naked, except for my thin gown. As we proceeded down the hall, I was trying to hold the back of my gown closed, feeling the stares from people in the hall who were fully clothed, my nipples erect, my dick stiffening and trying to hold off a full boner. And then after the EKG, etc., out on display again, up the hall past more clothed people, back to the original exam room for the remaining parts of my physical. My current GP, whom I have been seeing for several years, is a 'one doctor' office with only a few exam rooms, and it's always his PA showing me to an exam room along with my chart and ordering me to disrobe down to my underpants; remove socks. He watches as I undress and then he takes my vital signs. " You may hang your clothes on those hooks. Wait on the exam table and the doctor will see you shortly." BTW, it seems like those exam tables always have that paper on them that sticks to bare skin.

I have always been told to wear the gown and to keep my shorts on underneath. I never had an adult physical without one.

I have never worn a gown at a doctor's visit.

I was given a gown once, at my first visit to a Family Practice doctor (graduating from a pediatrician). The nurse ushered me into the exam room and only said: "...and we have this very stylish gown for you to wear!" I smiled politely and took it. I was excited to have an exam with one since my pediatrician's office never gave them. I left my underwear on underneath it and pulled it on completely with the opening in the back.

When I sat on the table, the gown was wrapped around me, so I was basically sitting on the sides of it. This was also my first exam with an adjustable exam table, so instead of swinging my legs up and rotating 90 degrees, the doctor just pulled out an extension, and I lay back. He put a sheet over my legs up to my waist and attempted to raise the gown for the abdominal exam. This required quite a bit of me lifting up since the gown was so tightly wrapped around and under me.

The genital and hernia exam was conducted standing with my underwear lowered and me holding the gown up at my waist.

The whole thing seemed rather awkward. In the future, I'd prefer to just have the exam conducted in my underwear instead of fiddling with gowns and sheets.

When I go for most annual exams I generally stay dressed. They put their hand under my blouse in the back when listening to my lungs, or slide the stethoscope under my blouse down from the neckline to listen to my heart. If I need any testing (EKG, echocardiogram etc) I only need to remove the clothing that is necessary to preform the test and an generally given a paper gown with the opening in the front.

The gyne is the only one who wants me undressed an generally only fom the waist down with a drape over my legs with the opening in the back.

In general, I think the patient removes only the clotthing that covers what the doctor wants to examine. Unless the exam is a general physical or for skin problems, patients usually leave most of their clothes on. On the other hand, in the hospital patients who have had surgery or complex treatments are usually naked under the gown.

The traditional gown is open in the middle of the back to ease caregivers' ability to change it. Most gowns have three or four ties in the back for modesty. My experience in the hospital was similar. I broke an ankle and required surgery. I was given a gown with ties on the side, at the hip. This was to prevent unwanted exposure. I barely recall having had some pain shots and then walking from my chair to the bed. It wasn't until after I saw the surprised looks on the nurse's face that I realized my tie got loose and I was all exposed in the rear. Oh well. I had another surgery for one night and was issued a surgical gown. This has only one tie at the neck since they don't expect the patient to get up at all. It was a challenge to get around, pushing my IV pole with one hand and holding the gown closed with the other. I was probably hanging out all over.

For my yearly exam, the PA brings me into the room, hands me a gown and says "everything off but your underwear, opening in the front". Once I am undressed she comes back in and does an EKG and blood draw. When she is done she says,"underwear off ,the Dr. will be right in.

This past year I had a male PA, he said, "gown opening in the front, strip down completely including your shorts". When he opened the front of the gown for the EKG, the top of my pubes were exposed.

During the actual exam, the doc unites the gown and pulls it off my shoulders so he can listen to my lungs with the steph. I am naked for the rest of the exam. Never had a modesty problem so I did not mind the PA seeing my pubic hair and am completely comfortable being naked for most of my exam.

Usually I am allowed to keep my boxers on under the gown. Sometimes I feel like being naked and seeing what the doctor would say.

I have always thought - that for male exams - the gown can add an extra layer of humilation.

It seems that the gown strips you of your masculinity as you sit there, in what could be a dress.

Gowns in Central Europe are uncommon and considered as a waste of resources. Almost never they are offered for males, for females - on request, by gyneceologists.

I posted below in this thread, but remembered another time involving me wearing an exam gown. I was just out of college and was sent by my regular doctor to a radiology clinic for a chest x-ray. I arrived and signed in and a few minutes later was called back into a small room by a technician. The room was not an exam room but was more like a changing room with a bench type seat and a hook on the wall for hanging clothes. The technician told me to undress completely, including underwear and any jewelry, and put on a gown that he pulled out of a bin. I told him that I was just there for a chest x-ray and he told me that it was the clinic's policy that everyone wore an exam gown to get an x-ray. He stepped out of the room while I stripped down and put on the gown. Then the technician returned and took me through a door directly into where the x-ray machine was. He positioned me for the x-ray with my arms down first and then told me that for the next x-ray I needed to hold my arms straight up in the air. I did so and realized that this made the bottom of my gown rise with my arms. It was one of those short gowns that I mentioned before. My arms going straight up made the gown rise enough that my butt and dick were now exposed. The technician definitely saw me like this before he moved around the corner to push the button that took the x-ray. I had to turn sideways and repeat the same arms straight in the air thing for the next x-ray. Again, I was exposed from my belly button down. He got another good look when he returned and told me that I could put my arms down. I didn't see what the point of the gown was if the x-ray procedure worked like that. Anyone have an experience like that or have any idea why I needed to be in a gown just for a chest x-ray?

Miked, probably there's some misunderstanding concerning chest x-ray. It's true that the patient must take off all (including bra) his/her clothes above the waist (due to some metal parts, buttons etc) and remove jewellery, including nipple piercings. Gown is optional. Taking off pants is never necessary. Moreover, a lead apron is put on the waist to protect genitals. The image may be taken in two positions: PA (postero-anterior) - the patient puts hands on hips, shoulders rotated foward - and lateral - the patient with arms raised above head.

I definitely did not receive a lead apron to protect my genitals from the x-ray. I thought maybe having all x-ray patients strip completely and put on a gown even for chest x-ray was just a precaution to avoid anything metallic. But I could have kept my underpants on for a chest x-ray even if I had to undress and gown. It was a male x-ray technician this time so maybe if I have had a female technician I would have been allowed to keep my underwear on? Another time when I had to have an abdominal CAT scan and was allowed to keep my shorts on under the gown so that made even less sense.

I've never had to wear just a gown for a chest X-ray. Indeed, I've had a few where I didn't even need to take off my shirt!

Back in 2005 I was sent by my orthopedic surgeon to have an MRI done on my shoulder. After a few minutes I was called back into a hallway and directed into a small waiting room with a couple of chairs and table with pamphlets scatter on it. Off to the side of the room were three very small what I would best describe as changing rooms. The attendant handed me a gown and told me to step inside the first room and completely disrobe and remove any jewelry that I may have on and leave them in the changing room. Taken aback by his instructions I told him that I was just there to have an MRI on my right shoulder so did he just want me to take off my shirt? I too was told that it was simply the clinic's policy that all patients disrobe completely and were to wear nothing but the gown for their procedures. I stepped inside the room and removed my clothes and put the gown that I had been given on making sure that it was tied very securely in the back. I stuffed my socks inside my shoes and placed them on top of my discarded clothing on the bench inside the small changing room. I was left waiting (alone thankfully) in the small waiting area for maybe 10 minutes before the attendant came back for me and led me to the xray room. I had to climb up on the hard table and lay on my back while I received an injection for the contrast dye. I had to lay there for a good 10 minutes after the injection to "give it time to set in". After that I was led back down to the end of the hallway passing other people who worked at the clinic to the MRI room. There was a lady in the MRI room at the time so I had to sit in a chair outside the door in the hallway until the MRI tech came for me. Even though I was never exposed during my time at the clinic, I felt SO naked being paraded barefooted down the cold tile hallways. And since it was "policy" everybody that I came in contact with that day knew in their mind that I didn't have a stitch of clothes on under my gown.

If you're wearing the gown you're at least somewhat covered, even if it is hard to tie the back. It's not the same thing as being completely naked. I'm fairly tall too, but the gowns reach down to mid thigh so I'm not sure why it would not cover you reasonably.

I was asked to stop wearing gowns at my doctor's office. Being something of a prankster, I decided to show them how lousy these things could be, so I put it on backwards, and ran down the hall.

Most of the folks got a good chuckle, however the doctor did not.

When I've been admitted to a&e before and when having ultra found scans, have had to put a gown on. Most of the time because it leads to an internal scan and then having to poke and prod at me. I usually take everything off including bra if I'm in a&e but for a scan in leave my bra on

I love having the gown on. Its a little of peekaboo or a game of trying to keep it all covered. The humility of it having to come off is very erotic for me.

I prefer to have the patient change into a gown (no undergarments), then once the stage of the examination requires it, the gown is opened, and then removed.

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As a guy in the US, the only time I recall being given a gown was by dermatologists for full body skin checks. One of them I was nude underneath and the other i had underwear that was removed when he got up to that.

I'm fine and prefer only briefs to paper itchy gowns

Usually the expectation was that I would keep my underwear on under.

Anyone ever just fully undress before the doctor came in to surprise him?

Drbruno, I started this topic a long time ago and I can say that in Finland gowns are not used during a regular physical exam. As far as I know it's similar in Sweden. I agree with you it would be nice to know in which European countries patients are asked to put a gown on. What is the situation in Italy?

A lot of the posts say gowns are not common in Europe, but what is? Fully naked, underwear ?

JonathanC, in the country where I live in Europe, you don't need to undress completely naked. Usually it's enough that you undress down to your underwear.

I've never worn one, but it would be sexy for a play exam