Weighing

Unfortunately I’ve never undressed completely when weighing at the doctors office. As a younger kid I do remember getting weighed in just my underwear a few times.

Nowadays it’s on a scale in the hallway fully clothed. Not even asked to remove shoes which is crazy! In order to be most accurate weight should be taken fully nude. At home I’m always naked when weighing myself.

Weighing is usually one of the first things they do, so I don't have to get undressed for it, they just tell me to take off my shoes.

I never had to undress completely to get weighed. Usually got weighed in a hospital gown.

Last time I got weighed I was told to strip to my bra and panties, but that's uncommon at my exams

Yes at my pediatrician I was always weighted at the end naked

For the people that say they get weighed in a gown and/ or underwear, does that mean your doctor's office has scales in every single exam room they have? I would think that would be very cost prohibitive. I was weighed in the exam room at my pediatricians after the nurse had me remove my coat, shirt, and shoes. But that was one doctor with only two exam rooms, many years ago. My current doctor's office has 5-6 providers and probably a dozen exam rooms. There are plenty of offices in my area that are much larger too. That would be expensive to maintain. Every doctor that I've been to as an adult in the last 30 years or so has one scale in the hallway or alcove and at most I've been asked to remove my coat and shoes. Usually not even that.

I once was weighed wearing a gown before surgery but never totally naked. If I was ever asked I would question it for sure.

For my surgery they weighed me with clothes on - including shoes - on the scale in the hallway. They don't need 6-sigma worth of accuracy to figure out how much juice it will take to knock you out!!

I am completely nude while getting weight and height measurements. I have a physician style scale at home so i check Weight and Height often

When the doctor checks my height and weight they just ask me to remove my shoes. In a play exam, I guess I would be open to wearing less.

It varied sometimes shoes and socks off, sometimes underpants only. When I was young the scales were in a different room so you walked between in underpants.

The only way to get an accurate weight is for the patient to be completely naked. That's how they did weigh-ins not that long ago in the military and even with professional athletes where one pound could make all the difference. One time I did a check by weighing myself clothed normally (no coat) and in my birthday suit. I was an extra five pounds with clothes, shoes and the things inside my pockets.

From baby until around 10, my first doctor weighed me in my underwear only. The scale and finger pin prick were done at the nurse's station in the open. I was never embarrassed by it at the time, it's just how it was done (this would have been the late 80s through the 90s). The ones from 10-21 were done in the exam room, I know the first time I was in underwear because my dad told us to undress after that I think it was done with maybe just shirt and shoes off at the beginning. For adult, it's always been fully clothed even shoes. My first adult doctor had me undressed down to underwear and gown and second doesn't at all, but always weighed in clothes at both.

To me this is the same as the PSA debate. An individual value isn’t as important as the trend. So it really doesn’t matter what you are wearing, within reason. Tracking and graphing your weight over time will reveal if you are gaining, losing or maintaining your weight.

I'll pile on here and agree with @Srgfgahs. Not just weight and PSA, but temperature as well. There are special instances when accuracy is important, temps with infants which can change quickly and have lasting effects on development, weight on infants etc. But 99.999% of the time (my opinion not a scientific fact) a reasonably close measurement is all that is needed.

Only thing I took off was my shoes. Socks stayed on.

As a child, the pediatrician had my brother, sister and I undress completely in the exam room. We were then escorted in the nude down the hall to a scale to be weighed and measured in view of office staff members. I seem to recall then being directed to the bathroom to each urinate in a cup. I recall being embarrassed at the time but the experience arouses me now. Same office completed the same routine with us kids in underwear as we got older.

@Mr_S

how old were you when you guys were weighed nude? at what age were you allowed to keep underwear on? Were all three of you escorted down the hall at the same time?

I was weighed only my underpants as a child. Almost always fully clothed as an adult.

I don't recall being weighed, or weighing myself in any setting. Or at home growing up. The first time I recall being weighed was my physical when I entered the military a few years back. About 200 teenage (18 yo+) boys doffed our clothes down to our undershorts, shoes, and socks and the process began. I weighed 146 pounds.

After that, weigh-ins were done fully clothed except for shoes when height was also measured. Five pounds was subtracted to make up for clothing. I weighed between 144 and 148 all the way to my exit from the Service 20+ years later.

These days weigh-ins are done with everything one including shoes. No subtractions for clothing. However, when I weigh myself at home it is usually starkers and I am very unhappy with what I see . 😱

When we take our weiner to the vet, he gets weighed with a coat on. Go figure. 😜

It happened only twice to me. But i was pretty shocked.

At junior school we were called to see the doctor in twos and threes and the nurse had us strip off everything and then would weigh us on one of those old fashioned machines with the weights at high level and with a height scale over it. Then we sat and waited for the doctor to call us in individually. Very embarrassing at the time but great to re-imagine now.

Technically, the patient would have to be fully nude. But underwear, or a thin paper gown works great in the hallway.

@DrJay I guess that had you fully ready for the doctor. Did this not continue at secondary school?

Examined - I was allowed to keep my underpants on waiting to see the doctor in small groups and while a nurse weighed and measured me at a school medical centre for senior school medicals until I was with the doctor and two left me in my pants for most of the exam until the inspection of genitals and bottom; one of the doctors had me strip right off right at the start of my examination - embarrassing.

@DrJay Highly embarrassing at the start, and when not alone.

Until I moved to Florida in 1999, I was always weighed barefoot and stripped to my briefs. This happened even if the scale was in the hallway (this happened only a few times). I would have preferred stripping nude after the age of 12, as I always ended up nude at the end of an exam.

Doctors in Florida seem to have a real hang up about nudity in the exam room. I've had doctors freak out when I would take my shirt off for the chest exam!

I’m weighed in a gown with just my panties on in the hall (it’s tucked in the corner next to the exam room) so no one has caught a glimpse.

@thephysicalexam232 Is there only one exam room at your doctor's office?

I’m usually weighed in a gown, once in my boxers at the paediatricians