State of undress when you were younger at your pediatrician examinations.

When i was younger, up until about 16 when i had to transfer to a regular doctor, i would go once a year to my pediatrician. I was instructed by the nurse before she left the room to undress down to my underwear. I was never offered a gown and never asked because i was young and that's how it was always done. The doctor would then come in and conduct the entire exam with me in just my underwear, (until it was time for the genital check, then my underwear was slide down) I've always wondered if girls were treated the same way? Were you instructed to undress down to your panties? (and bra if you were wearing one?) Were you offered a gown? Was the exam conducted with you in just your bra and panties?

I've never not been offered a gown, even when i was 12 (maybe when i was a little child) but i would find it weird if i didnt have a gown

I usually was naked since it ended with the visual anal check. Prior to that, I would usually spend the entire physical in my boxers.

Middle europe seems interesting... i guess i must visit sooner than later...

i believe there are a lot of medfet providers as well there...as in just for fun...

it'll be wrong to trouble a real doctor for fun sake... 😜

Although I am now in my sixties, I can remember my state of undress at my pediatrician's. I didn't mind being undressed to panties in the room with medical personnel, but once was told to walk to the end of the hall and back in panties only. I was fully visible to the waiting room. Did not like that at all, but did not think I had the power to refuse.

Always nude.

middle europe seems interesting... i guess i must visit sooner than later...i believe there are a lot of medfet providers as well there...as in just for fun... it'll be wrong to trouble a real doctor for fun sake... 😜

Indeed, don´t even think of going to a real doctor for fun´s sake here. More likely than not a doctor will listen to heart and lungs underneath your shirt, without bothering to have you undress. Time constraints and all that don´t you know ... professionals here have learned the notion that time is money, along with other modern-day American ideas of modesty and prudery. It´s not like the old days anymore.

As for medfet providers, indeed, countries like Germany are the place to go looking. And you´ll also find these in other countries as well, though you will have to do some diligent searching.

For me, it was always stripped to my underwear then underwear to the knees for the genital exam. Not sexy at all.

My pediatrician, who I saw until I went away to college, would always have me stripped to my underwear (always white briefs) to begin the exam. He would either tell me to strip himself and stay in the exam room while I undressed or the nurse who brought me to the exam room would tell me and then leave the room. My briefs stayed on for the entire exam and were just pulled down for the genital and hernia exams. This would be done as the final part of the exam and I would be standing in front of the doctor.

Most of the time yes, i was made completely naked. untill 15 the doctor saw me naked.

when i was very young my mom or the doctor used to undress me but after 10 i was asked to do that in front of them.

My glans and testicles were always checked.

At the doctors it was always down to underwear for me.

The usual protocol was for the nurse to show us to the exam room, issue instructions for me to strip to my underwear, and then we'd wait...and wait...and wait. Sometimes the doctor would just pull my underwear down in front after the abdominal exam; other times I would stand and be asked to drop them for the final bit.

There was one time however when I was about 11 and my younger sister was 4 that we had an annual physical at the same time in the same room. That time I only had to take my shirt off. After the abdominal exam the doctor undid my pants, slid his hand down my shorts, and felt my groin and testicles. As if that wasn't awkward enough, he managed to keep up a full conversation with my mother the entire time. When he was finished rummaging about in my pants, the doctor pulled my shorts down a bit - partially exposing my penis enough to lift it up and have a good look at the head. I think the fact that I still had my pants heightened my sense of exposure all the more!

I think when children grows up a bit and gains the sense of modesty, the doctors should stop striping them naked, seeing the genitals and touching them untill it is realy required. it is for both girls and boys.

i was always made naked and exposed even if it was just a mere routine check up.

I think when children grows up a bit and gains the sense of modesty, the doctors should stop striping them naked, seeing the genitals and touching them untill it is realy required. it is for both girls and boys.

i was always made naked and exposed even if it was just a mere routine check up.

I think there'd be much less medical modesty that interferes with real medical care if they expanded the reasonable exam. Honor the patient's modesty by doing the exam in private as the child reaches the stage of development when natural modesty kicks in. Don't examine a teen with siblings or mom in the room.

I think when children grows up a bit and gains the sense of modesty, the doctors should stop striping them naked, seeing the genitals and touching them untill it is realy required. it is for both girls and boys.

i was always made naked and exposed even if it was just a mere routine check up.

I think this is a sensitive attitude toward children and young teens, but it may be counter to good medical care. From what I can tell from my reading, there are a number of reasons for a boy's pants to be taken down during a physical. The doctor needs to evaluate the boy's pubertal development as there are disorders causing both early or delayed development. The only way of doing this is looking at the hair development and the scrotum and penis. The boy's testicles must be examined too, since testicular cancers occur in younger males. Boys also need examination of the meatus and foreskin if present. The unpleasantness of the genital exam can be minimized by having the underwear on until time for that part of the exam and then just slipping them down rather than removing them.

From what I've read, what you wear during a physical exam at a pediatrician varies more by time period than by patient's age or location.

I'm 30 now, and when I saw a pediatrician (from the late 80s through the 90s), I always had to get undressed down to my underwear (no gown) before he came in. Today it seems more pediatricians are offering gowns or just doing the exam over clothes. Before that, I've heard lots of stories where patients were completely undressed through the entire exam.

For my first physical at 7 it was a case of being stripped down to vest and briefs, and just lifting up my vest while they stethed my chest, back and belly. My next physical at 11 just before leaving junior school, I was down to my boxers for the whole exam (I'd switched from briefs and stopped wearing a vest by then) and had to remove them briefly while they did a hernia check.

For all my exams in high school I was also only in my boxers for the whole exam and again removing them later on. For these exams it was a bit more detailed as well as turn and cough they checked my testicles, shaft, glans and pubes.

How would it feel when you are lying on the table with your foreskin pulled down and the full glans exposed, while the doc is busy writing the prescription but not allowing the young boy to dress up....

and why the docs have to touch the genitals in an insensetive way,

just pulling down the foreskin with great force in one go or touch the glans and press it when they know it is a sensetive part. why they have to play and squeeze the testicles?

How would it feel when you are lying on the table with your foreskin pulled down and the full glans exposed, while the doc is busy writing the prescription but not allowing the young boy to dress up....

and why the docs have to touch the genitals in an insensetive way,

just pulling down the foreskin with great force in one go or touch the glans and press it when they know it is a sensetive part. why they have to play and squeeze the testicles?

I don't know where you're from and how common circumcision is there. Here in the US, young (and not so young) doctors don't know how to deal with a foreskin except to cut it off. They're not being insensitive, they're being clueless. Of course leaving the young man naked and exposed while doing other tasks IS insensitive.

I don't know where you're from and how common circumcision is there. Here in the US, young (and not so young) doctors don't know how to deal with a foreskin except to cut it off. They're not being insensitive, they're being clueless

They must indeed be clueless or maybe very haughty from their cultural vantagepoint. It´s not really that difficult a concept to learn or to teach: circumcision is in the main a religious and social custom. It is only rarely a medical necessity. And yet too many American doctors keep treating circumcision as if it were a medical prerequisite to good health.

I suppose the charitable explanation is that they are taught so in medical school. Although heaven knows that in other countries (Islamic excepted of course) this bit of simple medical knowledge seems to be common enough amongst not only physicians and medical personnel, but also amongst the general population.

It just seems so obstinately stubborn at times, somewhat like the US sticking to those utterly complicated and bewildering inches and feet and miles, while the rest of the world has adopted the far more easier and by now universal metric system.

Why the emphasis on being different just to be different?

Yes....

that time it was a newly grown sense of modesty of hiding the genital, bt it is not aplicable at doctors office. the child's genitals is checked and he or she exposed.

Until fourteen I had a checkup once a year.

For this I was stripped completely naked from the beginning. My mom was always with me in the room.

As I changed to a regular doctor I could stay in my boxers until he checked my testicles and since them I am alone in the exam room.

Stripped to the briefs, genital check was a quick peak until I was about 13 or 14, and then the shorts were just pulled down for a genital check. Never offered a gown.

GF never took off anything really. She always had a woman dr or female nurse. They never looked at breasts or genitals.

As Doc. S. told, generally undressed to the briefs, with a VERY quick genital check until 14 y.o. No gown.

I normally was offered a gown when the nurse asked me to strip completely down!

I was always naked on all general medical exam. Mybe I was lucky to have exam with doctor who require to be naked.

I was instructed to change into a gown with no detail about underwear needing to be worn or not.

I had two pediatricians. The first, whom I saw until about 10, generally had me strip to underwear (white briefs), but a couple of times had me strip completely. When underwear were worn, he lowered just the front of them for the genital check. The second, whom I saw from 11-17, had me strip to underwear...those were eventually lowered to mid-thigh for the genital check.

I had me exams done by the school dr as i was at a borading school. For the most part it was clothes off as soon as you went into his room.