Men: Did you wear underpants at Pediatric exam?

When I was very young, I can only remember my peditrician just pulling my shorts out from my body without taking out the genitals while I was on my back and having a quick peek and feel. When I was a bit older, the same peditrician would have me stand up and lower my shorts for a full "turn your head and cough" hernia exam.

My pediatrician was a male and he just had me lower my underpants so he could check my penis and testicles i also was not in a gown during my exams just my underpants

Only had one that I remember, at school when I was twelve. Had to take my shirt and shoes off while lined up in the hall, then stripped to underpants while in the room with a few other boys and some nurses, then had to remove those completely when it was my turn behind the screen with the doctor.

Usually i never took off panties at the pediatrician. Once he asked me to pull them down. It happens an other time at a school physical when I was 11

Not for long! Underwear came off when I was weighed as a pre-teen and during my teenaged years at my pediatrician in the 1960's

My pants went down to my ankles and the underwear just went to my knees for the quick hernia exam.

At my pediatrician appointments from what I remember I was always told to undress to my underpants and when it came time for the hernia check my pediatrician would stick his hands into my underpants (briefs) and check me for a hernia. I was never naked for an exam.

Yes, for most of the exam until the genital and hernia checks. This was in the late 50s and early 60s.

The nurse would always have me remove all of my clothes except underpants before the doctor entered the room. After taking my temp rectally she would tell me to sit on the table and wait for the doctor. When very young the doctor would have me lay down on my back while he felt my abdomen. Then to check my genitals he would pull down my underwear enough to expose my penis and balls. When I got older he would have me stand in front of him while he sat on a short stool. Sometimes he would ask me to pull down my shorts and other times he would pull them down himself.

Never had that option. always nude.

Whenever I went to pediatrician i was in underwear - Didn't matter if there for an ear ache or sore throat, you had to undress to your underpants.

During a physical, my pediatrician would slip his fingers into the waistband of my underwear and pull them down for the hernia check/genital exam. He always did with me laying down.

When I started going to a family doctor (in 6th grade), he would have me stand and then direct me to pull my underwear down for the exam. Mid thigh.

I only had to pull it down for genital check, never completely nude as far as i can remember!

I was always nude. I had to take off my underwear when i was weighed and stayed nude for the rest of the exam.

Yes, always. As a child the doctor would have me lower my briefs to a mid thigh level. From puberty forward (new doctor) I would have to remove them completely and place my hands behind my head for the dreaded genital exam.

At my genital exams in my teenaged time I always had to take off everything and stayed completely nude. I never have been asked if I want the pants went down only to my ankles I always had to take them completely off and had to undress stark naked. At my paediatrician it was usual that I had to undress completely naked before the doctor came into the exam room. Of course, that was always absolutely embarrassing for me!

From what I remember, when younger 6 to about 9 years old, the nurse would usually pull down my underpants before the doctor came in to do the examination. I would be standing on the step of the exam table until he arrived. Usually the nurse, my mom and older sister would be there in the room with me while we waited for the doctor to arrive. When I got older, after 11 or so, I would be allowed to keep my underpants up until the doctor arrived and he would do what he had to do.

My first physical exams started when i was barely a teenager 12-13. When I went to the physical exam I was asked to undress to just my briefs / boxers and given a gown if I wanted to wear it. When it came time to the genital exam it seemed like every year the doctor would pull them down a little further. For my first exam at 12 the doctor just pulled them down barely past my testicles just to retract the foreskin, check the hair development and check my testicles. When I turned 13 and was going in for a bigger dose of ADD medicine and had another physical he pulled them down half way between my knees and my waist so he could do a hernia check along with everything else that he did in the previous exam. When I went in for a school physical that fall he pulled them down to my knees. When I turned 14 and went in for my spring exam for my ADD medicine. The doctor ended up removing them completely but not at first. First he pulled them down past my knees while I was laying on the bed, then he told me to stand up, to which i started to pull them back up because I thought we were done, he then told asked me what I was doing and I replied aren't we done and he said no there are still a few things I need to check out while you stand, and then he asked me to take them off completely because at that point he had seen every part of me. So for the rest of the exam I was nude. However for the fall physical I went to a different doctor and he wasn't just a general practitioner who specialized in ADD and not a pediatrician. Instead of being examined on the bed, he just had me stand and instead of pulling my pants down like the last doctor, he asked me to pull them down for him. He still checked my foreskin with his hands. And after a couple exams I switched doctors and my last physical was done by a doctor who asked me to pull them down for the physical, but not completely off and he instructed me to retract the foreskin versus doing it himself... however at that point i was 18 years old and just about to graduate high school.

Great story, doctortad!

Go to the doctor often enough for my problem and taking my pants off along with my underwear is normal.

I dont waste time dropping anything to my knees. Its all off

At the pediatrician I always started out stripped down to my underpants. The nurse pulled them down to take my temperature. At some point the doctor would pull them completely off and do a genital check and hernia check. If I had injections coming they stayed off until those were done.

When I was a child my pediatrician examined me in my street clothes. When he had reason to look 'under the hood' he'd say "let's have you drop your pants." Then he would help lower them to my knees. I remember sticking my willie out rather proudly. Only on occasion would it be or get erect.

My mother was always in the room as I recall.

My trousers and pants were pulled down to my ankles only before I had to bend over the receptionist's lap for booster shots in my bottom following the examination.

My pediatrician always had me in briefs for a physical or check up. He'd pull back my underpants or pull them down slightly to check down there (usually just a quick look). Doctor or nurse would pull them down if needed for a shot, which only happened a few times. We'd be paraded around the office to go do labs, get weighed, etc.

If I went in because I was sick I'd be fully clothed unless I had to loosen shirt for stethoscope or the doctor would undo my pants for a shot - again not common.

That was until I was about 10 and switched to a regular internist at which point things were pretty much the same, except no shots back there and more modesty for traversing the doctor's office.

I just had to pull mine down.

Growing up, I always had to strip to just my underpants (tighty whities then). When it came time for the genital exam, I would have to stand up. The pediatrician would just reach over and pull my briefs down mid thigh and examine me. At my "family doctor" during my adolescent years, I would still be in just underwear, but he would ask me to lower them. Did not have to take them completely off then.

I've always been naked for the whole examination until the age of 8 or 9 years. In have not been there since then. The doctor was a male.

I was put into the hospital once for pneumonia, they were feeding me laxatives and soft meals, eventually I lost bowel control, a Sister nurse came in and help me bathe, a gown was brought back and a diaper

Till 8 or 9 years it was taken off completely after that age it was lowered till knee length... its off if it is so required.

When I was very young, they would be pulled all the way off and my genitals where examined with me sitting my knees spread real wide and my feet together. Kind of frog leg like. As I got older I was asked to hop down and stand and my undies were pulled down to my knees, but once or twice they slipped all the way to my ankles.

Mine were lowered to take rectal temperature to my knees till age 7. Afterwards depending on what was being check, mostly just pulled open and gentiles checked.