Barefoot during exam

Generally socks off at the regular doctor, but socks on at the gyno — that’s been my experience.

For dermatologist "everything off except briefs" and regular doc "gown with everything off underneath" means no socks to me.

I was wearing sandals at my last exam, as it was during the summer, and my doctor removed them while I was sitting at the edge of the table.

My wife is a type 2 diabetic so both her primary care physician and her endocrinologist inspect her feet for any issues so she has to get barefoot. I only get barefoot for my annual physical.

I take off my socks usually. The main reason is because I don’t really like wearing socks in general. Like, when I get home and take off my shoes, I take off my socks as well. I don’t think the doc would care. Maybe I will leave them on at my next exam and see what the doctor says.

I think being barefooted adds to the sense of submissiveness of the patient in the exam situation. I make sure that I am barefoot by not wearing any socks with my shoes when I go for a physical. I also think feeling the cold vinyl floor under my bare feet when I stand to slip down my briefs adds to the humiliation of the experience.

I always have my socks off during my physicals.

Yes I'm always barefoot for my physicals. In fact the nurse specifically tells me that I need to remove my socks because my feet are always examined.

This never happened to me

My last physical I never even took my shoes off! Other than dermatology exams, I haven't taken my shoes off for a physical in almost 20 years.

I hate going barefoot and avoid it at all costs. I hate my feet, so I never even wear sandals unless I kind of have to. Like at a beach or something where it's stupid to not wear them. So I always keep my socks on. They say everything off, and I'm sure that means socks, too, but mine stay on and nobody says anything about it.

I am always barefoot during my physical (doctor asked me for the) 😃

Always barefoot here

Pretty much always I have to teke off socks for any physical exams.

Yes. I used to be a test patient for my cousin. She did a head to toe examination in front of 10 spectators.

I had to take off my shoes and socks before the examination

I would require it so that I could examine the whole body.

I used to leave my socks on during just about any exam, unless the doctor specifically wanted to look at my feet. But now because of some infection issues down there, I now take them off in case the doctor does want to look down there. My last full physical I was undressed completely except for a flimsy paper gown and white briefs.

My doctor doesn’t really care at this point. It’s not a requirement to look at my feet during a gyno exam. But seven when I was just having physicals, my socks would stay on, and if the doctor needed to examine my feet, they’d just pull them off.

When my wife and I have our physicals, I am able to keep my socks on, my wife can keep on whatever she is wearing on her feet that day, whether it’s no show anklet socks, nylon footies, nylon knee highs, stockings, etc. If the doctor or PA that examines us needed to see our feet during the exam, I’m sure they would just ask us to remove them.

I've kept my socks on during the beginning of my exam, but when the doctor had me lay down on the table he removed them to examine my feet and then I spent the rest of the exam barefoot on the table and cold floor

When I was a kid I always kept my socks on but one time my doctor took them off to look at my feet, and since then it’s always been socks off. It’s better to be barefoot because it makes it easier for the doctor to check pulses, range of motion, gait, and obviously skin and nails.

I always make sure I'm barefoot for my gyn appointment. I love having my bare feet in the stirrups and knowing I don't have a stitch of my own clothing on.

Growing up, all through high school, my socks always had to come off from the beginning. Now, I don't remember ever taking them off.

Yes, I'm barefoot for all my physicals. Actually the nurse(s) specifically instructs me to take off my socks. The phrase is something like: “strip or take everything off but your underwear, socks off too.” I agree, it adds to the excitement of having the cold floor touching my bare feet during the genital exam.

I am barefoot for my physical and I feel it's good. The only place where it matters is with gastro and gynec because I have to lie down on bed or be in leg rests. Even though I don't wear socks as I said, still I can imagine myself lying on bed and being examined by gastro while wearing socks alongwith street clothes but it's very weird for me to imagine being in leg rests in a gown for pelvic wearing socks. Sounds weird to imagine wearing just socks with gown and obviously nothing underneath.

Not making fun of anyone who wears socks with the gown. You may be comfortable with it. Just that I just imagined myself in socks with the gown and found it weird.

Agree with you guys about the cold feeling, I enjoy the cold feeling of the floor of the exam room, and also the scales when I step on them, on my bare feet. I'm never specifically asked to remove my socks, just told something like "can you strip down to your underwear please" which I take as meaning everything except my boxers and including my socks.

I have never had a doctor ask me to remove my socks.

Great question as I have never thought about it. If I tried to remember I would guess that feet were never part of the exam.

I've posted before here, I think. But I have not been barefoot for any exam in many years except for a trip to the hospital a few years ago during an illness.

But as a kid and teenager, I often was. They do the walk-back-and-forth stuff, and I guess need to see your feet. Plus that thing where they scrape the sole of your foot for a reflex.

I remember a physical in my teens with my brothers when we had been told to get ready and have a seat to wait. We left our socks on and the doctor and a physician's assistant came in to get started and the very first thing the assistant said was "socks off, guys."

Plus that thing where they scrape the sole of your foot for a reflex.

Ah yes, another good part of the exam where they use a tool to scrape the sole of your foot for a neurological test where you're lying there, you can't see what they're doing and can just feel it rubbing against your foot, and similarly when they scrape it against your belly.