How are you asked to undress?

Usually, there is someone who comes in to draw blood first, and then she motions over to the gown and tells me to get changed. The first time, my doctor had to tell me to take everything off, including bra and underwear.

In the last few years of physicals, the nurse will take me back to the exam room but give no instructions about getting undressed for the doctor. The doctor comes in and interviews me while I am still dressed. After that, the doctor tells me to get undressed, doesn't leave the room while I'm undressing, and then does the physical. It has been awhile since I had a doctor who interviewed me while i was already undressed and in gown or briefs only. That used to be the standard procedure, even as an adult.

Anyone else noticed more doctors interviewing patients first and then telling them to get undressed?

Just a paper gown and drape for me otherwise naked

The nurses at my doctors hand me the gown and say,"you know the routine". I the walk into a small dressing room with swinging doors. I get undressed, come out get weighed and anything else. Then get on the table and the nurse writes whatever down and walks out with my chart and slides it in a holder on the wall next to the door of the exam room I am in. I can always tell when the doctor is about to come in because I hear her take my chart out and speak a little to the nurse then she knocks and walks in.

Usually just a very simple, time to see all of you now, or just a will you remove the rest of your clothes please?

The nurse says the doctor will be in shortly and to take everything off but my underwear so the doctor can examine me

Pediatrician's office was always the same: everything off including socks and underwear. have a seat on the table, the doctor will be in shortly.

I have never had to undress completely for a real doc.

However in a play situation I like it to be a surprise especially if its a first meeting . In the middle of s conversation.

Preferably very blunt no please would you mind and very specific to get completely naked. It helps break the ice and start playing.

Xx

The last one I got the doctor was just checking my heart originally before giving me some tablets. I was already stripped to my bra when she decided she might as well go ahead and do a full physical.

At that point she handed me a gown and asked me to remove everything but my knickers. She didn't leave the room but made a point of looking away while I changed.

She dropped it down to my waist for a breast exam. When I was lying down for the second part of that she then pulled it right down to the top of my pubic hair. She felt my stomach and took my femoral pulse. After that the gown was tied at the top again and she asked me to take my underwear off for the pelvic.

When I had my last colonoscopy I was shown to a small cubicle handed a gown and said everything off opening in back. When i said everything? The nurse (who i knew) responded by saying what more fashion do you need for the picture shoot that was about to occur and then gave me a wink.

The nurse at my wife's gyn office just says take everything off and put the gown on opening in the front. Once she said to her "you know the drill".

My last appointment a nurse calls me back takes me to an examination room weighs me takes my height, blood pressure and says the doctor will be in. I'm still dressed after a few minutes the doctor came in smiling, very upbeat he ask all the normal questions. Then his face changed as he looked me in the eye and very matter of fact like said, "undress" He then walks out closing the door behind him.

Being told to "undress" would not tell me anything if I was the patient. Was there a gown laid out for you?

Being told to "undress" would not tell me anything if I was the patient.

If simply told to "undress" without further instructions, my inclination would be to strip completely. If the doctor/nurse has a problem with that, then they shouldn't be so ambiguous in their instructions!

At my last thorough medical, the doctor took my history then said 'now, I need you undressed to your underwear'. I went behind a screen and stripped down. Feels very strange to be nearly naked with another man who is dressed in a formal suit and tie.

Please take everything off and put this gown opening to the back, the Doctor will be in soon to see you. As she smiles at me leaving the room.

I'm 63, and I don't recall ever being asked to strip dow at the doctor's office. When I see the endocrinologist, she does want me barefoot. My ophthalmologist wants my glasses off. My cardiologist will listen with the steth inside my shirt, but only wants it off for an EKG every few years. My primary care doc will ask me to lower my pants when he does a DRE, but I'm not stripped.

The nurse does the preliminaries and says "Please take off your clothes and put on this gown." "There is also a sheet you can use." and then leaves.

The nurses that usually do a preliminary assessment will tell me, "Go ahead and get undressed down to your underwear." Last time I went the nurse politely requested me to undress, but when I went for my exam the other day, I had a different nurse who instead of requesting me to undress, more or less politely commanded me to. They said, "You're going to get undressed down to your underwear, put the gown on and the doctor will come in in just a moment." They were very nice and polite, I just noticed that they didn't ask me but told me to. I kind of liked it.

I recall one time I had a company physical back in the early 90's when employees would be taken right to the doctor's office, whereby he would instruct the patients to go into his bathroom inside the office & strip down to their underwear. One time i recall him telling me to go in and strip down & "Come out dancing in your undies". I gave a chuckle as I went in & undressed. Those were the days of light humor for pleasantry effect, just before all this political correctness nonsense & the age of everyone getting offended over practically nothing.

Most recent phrase, from an assistant: "You can leave your underwear on if you wannoo" which made me think if I should spontaneously change my habits from what both my skin doc & I have accustomed to. I nearly stripped naked and put on a gown instead of what's now become standard that I'm just in a swim supporter jockstrap.

I've heard

"Everything off, except your shorts",

"Leave your underwear/shorts on, everything else off" (shorts meaning underwear, not regular shorts, (especially when i'm not in shorts)

"Everything off except your shorts. If you want your genitals examined, then everything off"

"Strip down to your undies please'"

"Drop your pants please"

"Drop your shorts, please"

"Could you slide your shorts down for me, please"

"Lower your underwear for me, please"

"Lower your shorts, for me please"

"Can you slide your shorts down for me, please"

After the nurse take my vitals and ask all of her questions, she asks me to put on this gown and when you are done to open the door a bit so the doctor knows when to come in.

I had a venous ultrasound, along with a few other tests, last week. She passed me the gown and said something like "I'll leave you to get changed into this. We'll need access to various areas so please slip off all your clothes, including all underwear. The opening goes to the front"

At a recent procedure I had, the nurse said in preparation, everything needs to come off, then put the gown on opening to the back. And I had to even remove my wedding ring.

I had a doctor years ago tell me to "take everything off, including your underwear, socks, and jewelry." I was a young college guy and had no visible jewelry that he was talking about but it was probably this doctor's standard instruction to all patients. He pulled a gown out of a drawer and told me to wear that and nothing else. He must have had patients who kept their underwear on or only half undressed under the gown or wore watches, rings, necklaces or other jewelry that interfered with the exam in some way. It was my first time to wear an exam gown for physical so it was strange to strip down and try to get that gown on and tie it in the back. Sitting bare butt on the exam table, I felt like I wasn't wearing anything.

I'm told to take everything off and put on a gown. How I'm told is usually along the lines of " now go ahead and take everything off, put on this gown and sit on the exam table when you're done. The doctor will be in shortly" or something similar. Either way it's take everything off gown, sit. Nothing to fancy wording wise just straight and to the point. Then they leave me to do just that.

Panties off!

At the physical I had a couple weeks ago, the nurse asked me if I had ever had a physical with this particular doctor before. I told her I had and then she said something to the effect of "well then you know he likes his patients to change into one of these stylish gowns". I told her that last year I had worn exam shorts and the nurse replied that he didn't use those anymore. I double checked that I was supposed to have the gown facing the back and I left my underwear on as I wasn't given any specific instructions.

During the exam, the doctor lowered my gown into my lap himself to auscultate my chest and back. For the genital exam, he told me to stand up, but didn't say anything about the gown. Since it was falling off anyway and already lowered completely from the abdominal exam, I simply set it aside and stood in front of him in just my underwear. Putting on the gown would have been far more awkward at that point so I was ok in just my underwear. For the genital exam, I waited until my doctor finished putting on his gloves and then he gave me an "ok" and I lowered my shorts. After the genital exam, he told me "we're finished" and I covered myself and sat back on the exam table.

Since my childhood to my adolescence and then up till today when I am in my early forties, I have many experiences of being asked to become naked during my medical examination or undergoing some medical procedure.

During each of these occasions, I have heard various ways and tones of requests, instructions or orders from Nurses or Female Doctors who had examined me or conducted some medical procedure on my body.

In my childhood, I had tonsillectomy surgery. During the morning of my surgery, I was asked whether I had gone to the toilet that morning for my bowel clearing. When I said no, I was taken to another room where a Nurse was waiting in front of an examination table with a smiling face. She welcomed me and asked me to lie down sideways with my back facing her. Then heard her telling me in a smiling tone "Good boy. Now I am going to take off your pajama from your back side.I am going to put some liquid medicine into your anal hole. You will see very soon that all your bowels will be cleared so nicely. Is it OK Baby?" Before I could think about what I have just heard, she loosened my pajama knot near my belly and slide it down both from my back and front side right down below my knees.

A few years later, my Mom got me introduced to a neighborhood aunt in my locality who also happened to be a doctor. My mom always tried to persuade me to get myself examined by her.But somehow I could evade such ordeal. But one day, I went to her house to pass on some household articles from my mom. She welcomed me inside her house and asked me to sit for sometime in her living room. She came back after few minutes...but to my utmost shock, she was in a completely different attire - wearing a more formal dress, a white doctor coat over her dress and a black stethoscope hanging from her neck. Then she said to me" You Mom has requested me many times to examine you but I heard that you are not willing to come to me. Oh my poor boy, there is nothing to feel shy or ashamed to get examined by your Lady Doctor Aunt. It is not good for you to be disobedient to your Mom....so today I request to allow me to examine you OK? So, my dear boy...please lie down on the sofa"

In the shock of suddenness of the situation, I could not gather enough words to deny to her request. I lay down and allowed her to start my examination. I watched her examine my head, eyes, ears, tongue, throat, listen to my heart and lungs with her stethoscope and then palpate my stomach and abdomen with her soft hands. Then she told me smiling,"Now my dear, since you are a brave big grown up boy,i am going to examine your genital organ. So, now I am going to pull your pant down a bit....OK dear? Nothing to feel shy that I am a woman. I am your Doctor". In no time she pulled my pant and underwear down to my ankle and exposed me totally.

It seems they only have three ways of saying it at my doctors, everything off but the underwear, strip down to your birthday suit or my personal favorite "take everything off and sit there, no point in putting on the gown since you'll be taking it off once he enters"

'If you'd like to go behind the screen and get ready'