"unnecessary" nudity

Diagnosis is positive if the patient feels pain under this pressure. Quite crude, but no need for special equipment except for a rubber glove and some lubricant.

I felt pain just lying still and breathing. No need to push on anything for that ... ha ha

I was fully naked for a few physicals in my teens and pre-teen years even for parts where I think I could have been dressed or partly dressed or at least in underpants. These include both private doctors and my school sports physicals (1980s).

Agracier: It happened to me when I was a kid (same test twice, once by GP, once by surgeon).

The physician's finger presses onto the appendix (directly or indirectly I don't know) through the rectum wall. Diagnosis is positive if the patient feels pain under this pressure. Quite crude, but no need for special equipment except for a rubber glove and some lubricant.

@Pecan_nutjob... On several occasions from my teens into my early 20s, which was long before the ultrasounds we have today,I had that very same test for appendicitis conducted by surgeons. I as told that I would "hit the ceiling" it my appendix was "hot". Fortunately, on each occasion, I did not "hit the ceiling" and I was deemed not to have appendicitis and I still possess that vestigial organ today.

Anyway, I was given a CT scan after having to drink 1.5 liters of water (it was horrible to get it all inside me) to distend the abdomen as was explained to me. The docs did a bit of palpating my abdomen, but no rectal exam.

This is similar to my experience when appendicitis was in question years ago. They palpated my abdomen and sent me for a CT scan (without having to drink a bunch of water). No rectal exam, and I believe I was actually still in sweatpants with a gown on my top half. Turned out to be an ovarian cyst.

I had my appendix out in 78. In the ER I was given a DRE. No pelvic exam.

In the 90's hospitals it was very common. It was unnecessary but everyone knew that they undressed you without giving you a medical gown

At the age between 11 and 14 i had frequently examinations of my funnel breast at a special orthopadic doc. From the start I was totally naked during the the examination it took 20-30 minutes. There was no possibility to cover my genitals. I think it was unnecessary, but the doctor wanted to see my whole body, breast, back, hips, spine and it was easier when i get fully undressed. When puberty started i get more embarrassing, the nurse and the doctor saw the development of my genitals over the years.

Back in the 70's 80's I had to be naked or just panty left on for my exams till 14. Even when it was not really necessary.

I posted this somewhere before, so I'll keep it short here: once a doctor visited me (age 17) at home while I was (school) sick. My mom had the doctor called (not our regular one though) so he visited us at home while I was in bed. My mom left me alone with the doctor in my bedroom to examine me. Although nothing was wrong with me I claimed to feel already much better, he insisted to check me with his stethoscoop while I was lying with just my undies on bellow the blankets. After having removed the blankets, the doctors stethoscoop started at my chest but gradually went lower and lower until just below my waistband of my undies (which immediately made me hard). After that he asked me to step out of my bed and stand before him and then jump a couple of times up and down. Then he removed my underwear completely, then pulled my sack down and then again asked me to jump up and down again. This was all rather embarrassing of course not the least because I had a full erection.

When I was about 22 or 23, my employer sent me to an occupational medicine clinic for a mid-back strain. My physician was a male, probably 50 years old. As I recall, I was told to undress to my underwear (white briefs) and don a gown for the doctor's assessment. That part was probably OK.

What was weird was that while assessing me, he wanted to "check if my pelvis was level," and he had me remove my gown and pull my underwear down to my knees so he could exam my naked pelvis from the front. He might have touched the sides of my pelvis, but I don't recall him touching my genitals. The exposure was maybe 20 seconds. My penis may have lengthened a little bit, but no real erection occurred.

I can kind of understand what he was looking for, but it still seems a bit odd to make a young adult pull down his underwear for acute mid-back pain.

I often had and still have problems with my stomach. I've had a long history about this and I'm feeling good at the moment. But two years ago, there was one evening where I felt very bad and had to vomit over and over again so we went to the hospital. The doctor did the normal exam of heart, lungs, abdomen etc. and he wanted to do a small rectal exam. He asked my dad to get out of the examination room. When my dad was out, the doctor asked my to pull down my underwear. I asked if it was really necessary to do that (I was there because of my stomach, not because of my genitals). Anyways, I pulled down my underwear and he had a good look at my penis and my testicles. He also palpated the testicles and the lymph nodes in this area. Afterwards he had given me the rectal exam. In my opinion the exam of the genitals would not have been necessary, because I was there for my abdomen.

Looking back at it I actually enjoyed it a little bit although it was still rather embarrassing 😳

Every time I go to the doctor I am always hoping to be asked for be completely naked for the exam even if I'm just getting my legs/knees checked or if I just have a cough.

Every time I go to the doctor I am always hoping to be asked for be completely naked for the exam even if I'm just getting my legs/knees checked or if I just have a cough.

Nice fantasy 😀. Did it ever happen? Twice as an adult I was naked under a gown for a physical. Can’t say if it was necessary or not. Could have accomplished the same things if I had my underwater on and lowered it when needed.

Ever since I was 11 I had to strip down to my panties and socks and put a gown on, everytime I went to see the doctor. I almost always wound up naked or partially naked while being given a full exam.

Ccm93 Hi I feel your pain Chelsea, I do

I have always had at least a gown and underwear on, and would pull them down or dr would pull back the waist band for the genital exam

When I fractured my ankle (14 or 15)at the ER they stripped me until I just had my underwear on. I went under two scans on my ankle and being laid on table was playing into my medfet so I did get a semi but luckily I had to lay on my side, plus they turned off the lights for whatever reason. Then when i went to see my pediatrician I was also stripped to my underwear for another scan but in a bigger room with a table in the middle where I did the same position

@Sleepless79, did you take everything off? What happened?

When I was in the Army, the hospital on base had the policy that anyone having surgery be completely naked. Didn't matter if you were male or female, or if the surgery was on an ankle or your nasal bones. In pre-op you were in a bed completely naked, then would be transferred from bed to or table for surgery then back to bed for recovery. Almost always covers were removed for these transfers, so there was much unnecessary nudity happening there.

When I was in the Army, the hospital on base had the policy that anyone having surgery be completely naked. Didn't matter if you were male or female, or if the surgery was on an ankle or your nasal bones.

I had an infected toe-nail of all things and for the very minor surgery, the nurse still gave me a gown and said to undress completely. And that was in a normal, everyday, civilian hospital.

It makes sense because one never knows what may go wrong during even a minor procedure in an OP, or if someone drops an instrument and it falls into clothes you are wearing, or if moving you the clothes snag on something … better to be undressed for all unforeseen eventualities.

For anyone who thinks things through, it should be no big deal.

When they take you into an OR - for whatever reason - they want to keep it as sterile as possible. Also, if things go south, they want immediate access to wherever they need to go.

I had a friend who had a surgery cancelled because they saw a fly in the OR and had to re sanitize it. Took a few days to get another OR scheduled.

When I was a kid I went to pediatric urologist about my incontinence problems. Standard practice there was to have me strip naked and sit on the exam table with a sheet across my lap. The very first thing the nurse told me when we got to the room was to get undressed. All the vital signs were taken while I was naked under the sheet. Sometimes I had to pee in a urinal so they could measure it and then they would catheterize me to see how much stayed in my bladder. I was naked for all that. Also I had x-rays while they put dye into my urethra and bladder and I was naked for that--it was in the hospital.

I had hand surgery last week - surgery on one finger, to be exact. They did have me get completely naked under the gown.

Getting that way was no big deal. Coming out of anesthesia, I had a great big mitten of a bandage on my hand and that, coupled with still being groggy, I was completely unable to dress myself. It was rather awkward but the young, African-American female nurse helped with everything. Even if we had waited another 20 minutes for my head to clear, it would have still been awkward - though maybe not as exposing.

I had a ganglion cyst removed from my wrist last year. They had me strip down to my boxers and handed me a wrap around gown plus some no skid socks. It was no big deal. Oh, and before I got to the pre-op cubicle they had me brush my teeth with some anti-viral toothpaste.

Post surgery I was able to dress myself, except for my shoes and socks. Some nice medical assistant did that for me.

More than 10 years ago I was getting Cervical Epidural Steroid injections at a surgery center every 3-6 months. The first time they required me to be completely baked under a flimsy hospital gown. Keep in mind I wasn’t going into an operating theater, just a procedure room with a fluoroscope.

After the first procedure they said I could keep my boxers on.

@agracier: I had an infected toenail. The podiatrist had me take off one shoe and sock…that's all...for the surgery.

I remarked that it was easy so undressing for the podiatrist. He related story of one of his elderly patients who was deficient in hygiene habits came in wearing slacks & pantyhose. Female assistant had to help the obese smelly woman remove the pantyhose and she wasn't wearing underwear. Gowns, modesty sheets etc were not available at his offfice.

@agracier: I had an infected toenail. The podiatrist had me take off one shoe and sock…that's all...for the surgery.

I remarked that it was easy so undressing for the podiatrist. He related story of one of his elderly patients who was deficient in hygiene habits came in wearing slacks & pantyhose. Female assistant had to help the obese smelly woman remove the pantyhose and she wasn't wearing underwear. Gowns, modesty sheets etc were not available at his offfice.

Sounds like that was an office procedure - not a surgery in an Operating Room. I've had infection lanced, stitches, etc. all in a doctors office without undressing. Totally different that going in to an OR.

@agracier: I had an infected toenail. The podiatrist had me take off one shoe and sock…that's all...for the surgery.

My procedure was done in a hospital by a surgeon who was a relative of a colleague of my wife. I suppose it was standard operating (ha ha) procedure in the hospital to have patients undressed when being operated on in an OR …

I had a ganglion cyst removed from my wrist last year. They had me strip down to my boxers and handed me a wrap around gown plus some no skid socks. It was no big deal. Oh, and before I got to the pre-op cubicle they had me brush my teeth with some anti-viral toothpaste.

I had one once. The doctor told me he'd get rid of it if I wanted. Just put my hand down flat on his desk and he would smash it with a big book he took from his book shelf. I declined his offer.

Roscoe that is an old technique. And it works but sounds wierd. I have had it done twice.

I remember one time when I was younger the nurse said strip down and take my underwear down so that they could take my temperature..