Pull down underwear or take them off?

I think it depends on the situation. I like it either way.....I let my "doctor" decide what he thinks is best.

I love that anticipation when I'm lying on the exam table with my underwear on (nothing else) and I'm waiting for that moment when the doctor or nurse curls their fingers inside the waistband of my underwear and pulls them down. That moment of sudden exposure is delectable. The only thing better is the even more embarrassing and exciting instant when their hands spread my cheeks apart to examine the most private of areas. First memory of that was during puberty. Will never forget it.

If I think too much about it, I start to get excited with anticipation and really, really don't want to have my shorts pulled down and a hard on pop out.

My female Dr. has always had me pull my skivvies down to my knees for exams.

As a kid, the doctor would pull them down, usually to about the knee. When I got older, (and to this day) unless specifically to remove my trousers completely, I just drop them to my ankles.

However, once I had a very bad case of epididymitis. (My left testicle wanted to see what it would be like to be the size of a baseball, I guess.) First, I went to my regular doctor, and the Nurse Practitioner had me come in the office. as I limped it (Yes, it hurt THAT much) she sat with her back to me, took a short history and told me she would have to take a look. I slowly got up from the table, undid my pants and started to pull them down. When I had gotten them just below my ass, she turned around in the chair, dropped her jaw, and told me to gt dressed because she was sending me to see a urologist right away. (She didn't even cross the several feet from her desk to the table, she could see the problem from where she was.) So, I slowly got dressed.

Now, at that time, i worked in the local hospital as an ACNA (Advanced CNA). Prior to going to the floors, I was an orderly/instrument tech in the OR, so I knew most of the GU docs. She sent me to the medical office building on the hospital grounds. ( a relatively short drive from the office, but, unfortunately, I had a standard, so working the clutch was not fun.) I got to the doctor's office and he had me strip completely from the waist down. After a relatively brief (though it seemed like years then) exam, he had me dress and cross the parking lot and I was admitted for IV Antibiotics. Once I was admitted, they notified the charge nurse on my floor where I was. (Fortunately, on another floor from where i worked. Unfortunately, I still knew some of the nurses and all the CNAs personally.)

I spent a week in the hospital, for the first couple of days, i did not get out of bed. (Used a urinal when necessary. At least they didn't have to cath me. That would;d have been total humiliation.) The whole time I was in the hospital, I wore nothing but a johnny. Most of the time, I had a rubber glove filled with ice 'cupping' my scrotum.(The ice was crushed, so my sack rested in the palm, and the fingers curled up because of the position of my thighs)

Because I knew so many of my caregivers, I was usually afforded the dignity of putting the ice on myself, and they always apologized when they had to check if the swelling had gone down.

After a week of IV antibiotics, I was sent home on bed rest with more meds, and was back to work a week or so later. I know that at least my charge nurse, and the nurses on my shift knew why I was downstairs, but when I came back all that was said was, "I'm glad you're feeling better.'"

Everyone was very professional, but I sometimes wondered what the nurses might have been thinking.

Anyway, I didn't mean to stray. The point was that that only time I remember being told to remove strip completely from the waist down.

I just lower them unless they ask me to remove the completely

Just lower my pants to knee level either stood up or laid flat on the exam bed. Only once had to take them right off for a urology problem, the examiner was female on that occasion.

Especially for genital exam / hernia, I would do whatever the directive is. If i'm told to lower them or "drop" them, it would either go to my knees or ankles More likely than removing them. For prostate exam, i may actually be more likely to remove them regardless.

Although i would much prefer the doctor do it for me. Spontaneously.

That's part of the medfet for me. By being in that examination room, i am essentially agreeing to yield control over my own body to the doctor to be examined, And with that should come along manipulating my undies as needed to be part of that complete yielding control experience, That being of course the hottest part of the experience, similar to when that masseuse removes the towel right before......

To answer your question, taking them off is not inappropriate if that makes you more comfortable &/or you want to keep them from falling to the floor, regardless of how dirty the floor appears. And i'd think your doctor would be understanding of that

My new PCP had me strip down to my boxer shorts. When the time came, she had me stand up and pull them down myself. My dermatologist asks me to lift my gown and she pulls them down and then pulls them back up.

My doctor instructs me to remove my underwear for the genital and prostate exam. It does not bother me at all.

Most of the time I will just take mine off, if I'm wearing a gown, from the beginning of the exam. If I don't have a gown, and I'm wearing my briefs, usually they are too tight to just pull down for hernia and prostate check, so I just take them off at that time. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to get my legs far enough apart.

At my physical yesterday, I just lowered my underwear to mid thigh for the genital exam. Taking them off would be excessive for such a short exam.

It is not inappropriate to take them off.

I find it more uncomfortable if they hang between your legs.

I find it more uncomfortable if they hang between your legs.

I agree, standing there with them halfway down your legs is stupidly cumbersome. As I've said before, if I'm asked to "lower" my boxers I'll just take them off altogether, being fully naked is not exactly different to having my dick on display but my knees covered up by my boxers!

When i go for a physical the nurse instructs me undress down to my underwear and hands me a gown with the opening in the back

I don't recall ever having to remove my undershorts for a genital or rectal exam. I have always just pulled them down to mid thigh for the exam, regardless of whether I was wearing a gown, pants, or just the undershorts for the physical.

I prefer to pull them down, and to be asked to pull them down. My long-time female physician always said "just pull your undershorts down" while I was lying on the exam table, wearing a gown and draped by a sheet she laid over my lap and then pulled aside once my underpants (my preferred word) were down to do the genital exam. Both she and her nurses usually told to me to "get undressed down to your undershorts (dr)/underwear" (nurses) at the start of the exam. A few times the nurse said "take everything off and cover up with this" (a gown), and sometimes I did and sometimes I left my underpants on. Once when I did take them off, I got a pretty obvious erection when the doctor exposed me for the genital exam--but she just very deftly wrapped the sheet around my penis to cover it while she continued to feel my testicles--and of course, said nothing. Clearly not the first time she'd had to do that.

For my physicals, they are usually just pulled down.

Mine have always been pulled down for basic exams. Quick and simple, and never really sure if the area is going to be ignored so there is a little tension!

Mine have always been pulled down for basic exams. Quick and simple, and never really sure if the area is going to be ignored so there is a little tension!

I think the uncertainty that occurs when you have underwear on, rather than naked under a gown, creates the anxiety and uncertainty that makes the physical more memorable. When you are seeing a new doctor for a physical, you never really know how thoroughly you will be examined, what body parts will be included, and what the order of events will be. If the doctor has you completely naked with a gown on, you can safely assume the genitalia will be examined at some point. If you are allowed to keep pants and/or undershorts on as the exam begins, you are much less certain that the intimate body parts will be included in the examination and have to wait and see what happens. When the genital exam happens, the degree of awkwardness for the patient naked with a gown is much less than a patient with pants or undershorts on. Simply lifting up the gown is much less awkward than dropping shorts or, even more awkwardly, having to open and drop pants and shorts.

I love this site, nothing escapes consideration. i've never thought of this, but my imagination is easily piqued.

i haven't read all the responses on this one, but this strikes me as an individual thing. i have little to no experience with MedFet Examination... but have performed thousands of exams (CC nurse).

But, considering the question from a patient perspective, i'd go with pulling down vs removal. And not pulling them down myself, but having them pulled down by the 'examiner.' For me there is a B & D component, i.e., the examiner is in an authoritative, 'Dom' position, so they have the control over whether when the underwear come down and exposure happens. As to where the underwear end up, i'd say around the ankles, because that is pretty much like having ones ankles bound by their own underwear by the examiner (try making a quick get away in that state lol). Could even be enhanced if the examiner were to pull the underwear down to around the ankles and then ask the 'patient' to step over to the exam table with, maybe for the prostate exam? Just a few steps, but making it an awkward shuffle where the patient is sort of bound and controlled

I usually have to lower my underwear for the exam, doctor pulled them down for me one time and another just put his hand under the waistband and felt around.

For me, I just pull them down. I think more comfortable.

I agree with exam doc that there is more uncertainty about the thoroughness of an exam if the patient is not told to be completely undressed and in a gown or undressed to underpants only from the beginning. This may be a situation that affects male patients more than female patients as I always assumed that female patients were always told to undress completely and put on a gown. From the posts on this board, that doesn't happen as much with male patients who may be told to strip to their underpants only, strip completely and put on a gown only, strip to underpants and put on a gown or strip as the exam goes and maybe only have to drop their jeans and underwear for a genital exam.

This last option creates the most uncertainty about the thoroughness of the exam because some doctors don't have male patients do anything in advance other than maybe take off their shirts and then maybe drop their pants for a hernia check at the end. I had one or two physicals like that years ago where they weren't really physicals. The doctors were fine with having my shirt off from the beginning and then only one checked my testicles and for a hernia and the other doctor didn't even have me to undress more than taking my shirt off. Both of these doctors were busy family doctors and one of these exams was a quick exam for insurance so I guess the insurance company didn't care whether the doctor did more than listen to my heart and lungs and draw blood.

I would be surprised if a patient was told to undress completely and put on a gown and didn't get at least a hernia/testicle exam, if not a rectal exam too. I haven't been in a gown only very much for physicals but on those occasions, I got a rectal exam every time.

The same is true for being told to undress to my underpants only. I can't think of a single time that I was in my underwear only and those didn't come down for a hernia/testicle exam at least.

I have pulled them down for doctors in the past or had them lowered for me, but my female doctor now wants them off along with everything else for a physical.

It just kinda depends on the exam itself for me. A lot of the time I just pull them down as far as my knees if all they need is a quick look at something.

One time I had to climb up and lay on the exam table so I just took them off all the way and tossed them in with the rest of my clothes. I didn't want to trip on my underwear after all, lol.

Male urologists have always had me drop my pants for a GU exam. Female urologists have always had me undress completely, and have me lay on an exam table for the GU exam. Females tend to be be more thorough. Female urologists always have another female in the room during the exam.

Currently, my wife and I are examined conjointly by a female internist. She examines me nude, on an exam table, with an assistant and my wife observing.

Female urologists have always had me undress completely, and have me lay on an exam table for the GU exam.

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That actually sounds reasonable to me. He didn't say that he was completely uncovered. He say that he undressed completely. I'm assuming he was given a paper drape for covering.

For my last few exams it’s just been pull them down while I’m standing, a quick look and feel of my testicles and turn your head and cough, then pull them back up.