Socks off for a physical?

I prefer to be checked without socks, so I put them off, even if the doctor / nurse does not tell me. It is for me more comfortable - and erotic too :-)

I have diabetes, so I'm always barefoot for my Diabetes Checkups.

I haven't worn socks at the doctor's office since junior high school.

I've always kept everything on.. just only take my pants and underwear to my knees as needed. not too exciting. if i were playing with someone i'd likely take everything off except the socks. not sure why though.

I typically leave my socks on. There was one exam I can remember where I removed them. We had finished all the preliminaries out in the hallway. They had a station set up in the hall where they did bloodpressures, temperatures, etc, then I read the eye chart, then I went into the bathroom and gave a urine same. The nurse then walked me to the exam room(which was right inside the door from the waiting room). Still in the hallway she said in a rather loud voice, "Ok, go in here, strip down to your underwear, and put the gown on with the opening in the back." I thought her use of the term "strip down" was a bit odd, but didn't think much of it. I went into the room and took everything off except for my underwear and put the gown on. A few minutes later the nurse came back in the room and said she had one more thing to do. She said i need you to jog in place for 30 seconds and then I'm going to take your pulse again. I did this and i remember my bare feet on the cold tile floor and I remember trying to hold the gown together in the back. That was the only time I've had something like that done.

I don't remember even removing shoes for my exams, let alone socks. I've really only had sports physicals where you just have to take your shirt off, then lower pants for the hernia part. I don't remember ever having a gown and needing to undress.

I don't remember ever having a physical where I was told to leave my socks on. If I had to undress, it was always all the way and put on a gown or being told to strip down to my shorts only. The doctors have usually looked at my feet during physicals although I am not sure why.

I always take my socks off. Usually, I am asked to disrobe completely and am asked to put on a paper gown. The more time I am required to wait like that, the more nervous and excited I become.

I keep mine on unless asked to remove them. If asked, I request that I still can wear them until the doctor actually needs to look at my feet. I've always had cold feet, and I rarely if ever go barefoot unless the weather is above 90F.

Asking to keep them on often solicits a query from the nurse if I'd like blankets over my lower legs while I'm in the stirrups. That's something I don't ask for, but if offered never decline.

I always had to remove socks for school medicals and when giving a play exam now always ask the examinee to remove shoes and socks and strip to underwear

If one wants to be "Naked" then taking off the socks completes the feeling. For my recent colonoscopy the nurse said "Take off everything except your socks and put on the gown." I took off my socks too. The feeling of the cold tiles on my feet reinforced the feeling of being 'stark' naked, before putting on the gown.

I had a colonoscopy a couple of years ago and the nurse told me the same thing. I was disappointed, but did as I was told.

Perhaps the nurse wanted you to keep your socks on to keep your feet warm.

I've never been asked to remove my socks

I have never been asked to remove my socks, and I can honestly tell you, I would refuse. I really hate my feet, I don't like anyone looking at my feet, and on the off chance I go to the beach, yes, I wear shoes, lol. And I never have and never will ever own a pair of flip flops or open toed shoes. Oy Vey, never, I would rather die first, lol.

Other people who have seen them don't think they are that ugly, but I feel they are. I always say I have "Fred Flintstone" feet. My feet are short and wide, and I have little squarish toes. Grrrrr.

Mashie

If you're a diabetic, you better beleive you'll have to remove your socks. Neuropathy causes diminished feeling in the extremities and dry skin with cracks in it can cause serious infections that the patient may not even feel.

I remember having to take off my socks at my first major physical exam, as a teen. The tiled floor was cold against my bare feet. I'd worn clean socks, and I don't think my feet smelled very strong, but I still worried that the doctor could smell them. When he spread my toes and examined them, I was even more concerned – that there might be toe jam down there.

I had to be bare foot during school physicals and in an orthopaedic examination.

Normally strip to just pants and socks but had one exam with my gp (old guy) where it was socks off as well, he examined the bottom of my feet and ran a pencil type instrument down the sole.

I have never been asked to remove my socks: never for general checkups and never for school examination...

My girlfrend was asked only once because she went to the orthopedic to check the big toe (I don't know how to say in scientific way but she has a little deviation )

I am instructed to "remove everything including socks" before every exam.

Yes, I have to take off socks.

I always take my socks off. Isn't that what it means when they tell you everything off and gown on?

Re the last posting - yes I think so.

Around here, dermatologists are skittish about you taking your underwear off. Apparently, they don't realize that the last 10-15 minutes of my exam with my regular doctor I'm typically naked as a jaybird (and my regular doctor is female). I did find a new dermatologist. He is slightly better than the previous one in that while he also has you keep your underwear on, he does at least peak down there to look for moles by lifting the band on the underwear.

And I am not terribly concerned because while I do have moles nearly everywhere, I actually have very few inside my underwear. If I started to develop them there, I would be a lot more insistent that they look...

I keep my socks on

Mt Doctor usually removes them during the exam.

I always wear my socks. It is pretty cold in the office.

I would say you feel more exposed when you need to take off your socks for a physical. Being barefoot on a cold floor is somewhat exciting and arousing as well.

I normally keep them if the doctor doesn't tell me anything.