Examination | Males: Gowns and prostate ex…

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I was not instructed to start wearing a gown until I started getting prostate exams in my early 30s. (History of prostate cancer here.) The doctor was very clear: I was to take off my underwear and wear the gown, and make sure the opening was in the back.

From your experience, is there a correlation between wearing gowns and receiving prostate exams? In other words, how many have you have had prostate exams while wearing your underwear?

And if you have, does the doctor ask you to push them down, or do so him/herself, and what position are you in?

Anyone asked to take off his underwear completely for a prostate exam?

m1943

At my local doctor and the hospital it has always underpants down for just a prostate exam.

In the hospital when I had various probes put inside me, I wore a pair of hospital supplied underpants with a flap at the back.

bob1952

For a routine prostate exam, my urologists have always just had my drop my trousers and pants. For more involved procedures they have had me strip below the waist and put on a gown. At my PC, my annual physical is done with me naked under a gown and that includes a rectal exam.

Lv2examn

I'm always naked under a gown for my prostate exam which is usually done with me bent over the exam table with my legs spread slightly.

davidwest

For m1943, you have to tell more about your hospital experience where you wore underpants with a flap in the back for the various probes you said you had. I've never heard of that.

bigjohn86

I was told to drop my pants and bend over the table. One time I was told to lay on my side and pull my underwear down.

MedFetNewbie

When I was 19, I went to this random doctor for a physical... he had me strip completely naked. Stretches, breathing, jogging in place, everything, in the buff. I had never had my prostate checked before, so it was a bit foreign when he motioned for me to lie down on my side on the table. "Pull your one knee to your chest, bear down".... was thrilling. Then he handed me a tissue to clean myself up.

No gown.

DrSprague

Not always.

Robert1949

These days I bend over the table wearing just a gown.

n/a

I get offered the choice to put on a gown or stay in underwear - I usually don't bother with the gown and just lower things as necesary.

watertrain

Every prostate exam I've ever had was done standing up, legs spread with my underwear pulled down by me....Sometimes the doc will hand a tissue for me to wipe with or point out a box of tissues for me to use. A few have not even bothered with "clean-up"; after those events I just enjoyed the "squish" on the way home.