Full Physical-No Gown

Thats actually pretty standard in most European Countries, as far as i know

at least in germany

The last physical I had they told me to strip down to my underwear and I had the option of staying like that or putting on a paper gown. I tried the gown and it fit so poorly I just decided to stay in my briefs.

No gowns in France...

Women remain in bra and panties or topless and no underwear depending on the exam. Men are in underwear. In some offices though women are given a paper drape for gyno procedures so they can cover their chest and lower abdomen.

Up through my 20s in the 2000s it was strip to underwear and lower as necessary. After that I switched doctors and started getting a gown. FWIW I was avoiding doctors for much of my 20s and early 30s, so only went in about once from 25 through 35.

Younger was nude from the start. now nude with a drape.

Never had a gown, always in my underwear.

Usually doc asks to remove shirt first, then pants, then when he needs to check the rest he lowers my underwear himself.

It is difficult to know what is really the most common medical practice out there concerning males undressing to underpants only or wearing a gown only. From the posts here, it seems that most males are in underwear only but it is not a scientific sample. Like many here, my experience has mostly been that my physicals have been done in my underpants only although I have had some physicals in the past where I had to undress completely and put on a cloth exam gown. Not sure what the exact percentage would be, if I exclude physicals before I became an adult but guess that maybe 80% in underpants and 20% in a gown. The last several doctors that I have had just have me strip to my underpants. The last doctor who had me in a gown for a physical was more than 10 years ago at least. The last doctor who had me in a gown only was a dermatologist and that has been a couple of years ago. My current dermatologist has me take off my shirt first and then after he checks my upper body, he has me strip the rest of the way, including taking off my underwear. Then he checks the rest of me, including my butt and genitals. I don't know how unusual his procedure is as I haven't seen a lot of dermatologists.

For a few years I went to a doctor where I'd be instructed to strip to my underwear for my physical exams. This was some time ago, I'd be taken back to the exam room by a medical assistant where my vitals would be taken with me fully clothed. The doctor would come into the exam room and go over my medical history then tell me to strip to my undershorts. These instructions were made as he stepped out of the room for a few minutes then came back in to perform the exam.

I had one doctor years ago who would step out of the room after he told me to strip to my underpants. Then he would return after a few minutes. Looking back, I didn't understand why he thought he needed to step out of the exam room just so I could undress to my briefs. Might have been different if he had told me to strip completely and put on a gown. Other doctors either told me to get undressed and they stayed in the room or I was already undressed and ready for the exam before they arrived. But with that one doctor I was never sure why he thought that it was better to have his male patients strip down in private.

I'm always just stripped down to my boxers and socks when I go for my physicals

College crew team physical was done with me naked from the start of shaking doc's hand to him doing the exam. A tad embarrassing but thankfully just him. It was a complete exam!

I never even saw a gown for an exam until I was 17. Before then I always saw our family doctor at his private practice. At those exams I was always just down to my briefs, or totally naked for the entire exam. I think probably around 10 or so I could keep my briefs on, and just lower them for the hernia check.

From when I was about 6-8 I had school physicals in a mobile medical unit, a trailer or RV, which came to our school. The first year, I was just in my briefs, in the other two years I was either totally naked or just in my socks, (which made me feel more exposed than when wearing nothing at all.)

When I was 17, our family doctor retired, and we went to a small practice with three or four doctors. There, if I was told to disrobe I was given a gown. But, I've also had several exams there where I was only told to remove clothes as they needed to examine certain areas. Sometimes just my shirt, one time I was naked below the waist for a prostate check, but kept just my shirt on.

In medical studies I've participated in, I've been in various states of undress. Shirt off, pants on. Naked below the waist. Just in underwear. A couple times when I wasn't expecting to have a physical I wasn't wearing underwear, so I was just naked. They don't always have gowns. And, I've also been asked to take everything off, and put on scrubs.

A couple times when I wasn't expecting to have a physical I wasn't wearing underwear, so I was just naked. They don't always have gowns.

I can't imagine any medical facility NOT having gowns -

Only when my sister and I were young. We would be in our panties. .

In czech republic it is not common to get a gown at physical, so all my physicals were with no-gown in underwear (later the underwear was pulled down for genital exam) 😄

I have gotten a yearly physical ever since I was born. I have never had a gown. I have always been asked to just undress down to my underwear.

I always got examined in my bra and panties until I was 18. My doctor would take off my bra for the breast exam and put it right back on when he was done.

I have as a child but not as an adult.

Jr high sports physicals we lined up in underwear. My high school physicals were with my PCP. May not count - as I don't think they were "complete" physicals.

My doctor would take off my bra for the breast exam and put it right back on when he was done.

@Kathy90, would you typically wear a front close or back close bra to the doctor?

Most of the time, the nurse will typically get a gown out and set it on the exam table. Then she would instruct me to get undressed down to my underwear but would not tell me specifically to change into the gown so I was just examined in my underwear. Never felt uncomfortable about it, in fact its one of my favorite aspects of an exam. The one and only time I did put a gown on, the doctor had to remove it at different places to examine me, so I think that having no gown means less hassel.

Yes. Just about every physical with a pediatrician was just in my underwear. I think once I was given a gown to put on but was told to remove my underwear. Several physicals as an adult I was only in my underwear. There were about 3 or 4 where I was given a gown and told to remove everything my underwear included. Most of the time the gown was then pulled up or moved aside for the genital exam. Once I had a female doctor for a Pre employment physical that pulled the gown off because it was “in her way”. I was totally ok with it. Several physicals I was told to put on the gown but keep my underwear on. That makes things more difficult as the doctor or nurse practitioner then either lifts or moves the gown and asks me to pull down my underwear or they ask me to hold up the gown then they pull down my underwear. It’s odd how each provider has a different preference.

I can't imagine any medical facility NOT having gowns -

Some studies are not as well funded as others. I've been in ones where they are using space in old parts of hospitals quite apart from the modern areas. They don't have access to the general hospital supplies. For example, I did an overnight sleep study where they had no gowns or scrubs, so I ended up sleeping in my shirt and nothing else for the first night. The next time I brought something to sleep in, but I did suggest they swipe some gowns or scrubs from somewhere.

My doctor's office does not use gowns, just take things off as they go.

I never got a gown before. Here physicals are always performed in underwear, and gowns are used for hospital stays or some kinds of tests like x-rays.

I've been totally naked a couple of times

I've been totally naked a couple of times

Please provide details regarding the physical examinations you received that required complete nakedness.

When I was really little (like younger than 10), I remember being asked to remove all clothes, and if they didn’t ask me to I would do it anyways haha. After puberty, I just had to lift my shirt occasionally and the doctor would lift my panties himself. Sometimes I will request a gown for extra fun. The last physical I had I remember the doctor asking me to hold the stethoscope in place near my bowels and I remember blushing.

I used to get checkups without a gown all the time. When I saw my pediatrician until I was 15, I was always in my bra and panties for him during the entire exam. I remember he’d always lift up my panties to take a look down there to see how I was developing. When I switched doctors in high school to a family doctor he also examined me in my bra and panties but the difference was that he would have me remove my bra for part of the exam so that he could check my heart and lungs easier and examine my breasts

In junior high I had 2 sports physicals with me stripped down to only my tighty whities for the entire exam. My female pediatrician pulled my underwear down and did a genital exam, the male physician had me pull down my underwear for the hernia exam.