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

We had physicals every other year in school and it was always down to underwear and in a group of 3-5 boys.

We had to change into our white cotton PE shorts for the exam and drop these for the genitals exam. Our PE master tried to persuade us to remove our shorts for the whole exam but nobody took him up on this!

When I had my exam for National Service I had to strip completely naked. I removed my jacket and trousers - which I had had on for the rest of the exam. The doctor was filling in a form as I stood there naked worrying that I would get an erection. Telling him that I was 'ready' on resulted in my being told to 'wait'.

I was 18 at the time.

Roy

I was instructed to undress down to my bra and panties when I saw a doctor for physical exam.

I was probably 12 when I had my first bra. Before it I had only panties on when I saw a pediatrician.

Never needed to undress completely naked.

At the pediatrician I was always just wearing my panties during the medical exams.

It'd always be down to underwear for me.

I was undressed down to my underpants from being weighed until the end of the exam when they came down for genital and visual anal check. I remember a laminated sign in all the exam rooms with instructions to "remove shoes, socks, shirt and pants". This was in the mid to late 1960's.

I didn't have a pediatrician; went to the same doctor the rest of my family did but was in my white briefs.

Never fully naked, always wore underwear

Octavia,

Were you only wearing your underwear or were you offered a gown? I was always ordered to undress to my underwear and was never given a gown. I find this type of exam most erotic. I would love to hear your stories!

Sensei1980

Up to about 12 my twin brothers and myself went to our "country doc" that had us all down to pants when he did all our physicals together. I remember how strange I felt taking my bra off in front of my brothers. After that the doc retired and my new one would only do individual physicals and I always had a gown.

My wife says she was almost always dressed. Exceptions being when she had scoliosis and she would have shirt off only with gown on for visual exam of her back. Also, one time at around 12 years old the NP giving her a physical did do a quick visual check of her vagina. Outside of this one time at the family doctor they did not check her breasts or vagina at all growing up. Probably this one time was around the onset of her breast development and close to the time of her first period.

My mom always took my sister and me to the pediatrician for our yearly check-up. We always had an annual physical at the same time in the same room. I would go first, stripped down to just my briefs (white) the wait for the doctor.

I remember this one time when was 13, I had to strip to my underware in front of my mom, sister and the nurse. After the abdominal exam, the doctor pulled my shorts down to mid-thigh exposing my penis and testicles. The first awkward moment, basically laying naked and having your sister watch the doctor examining your penis and gentials. As if that wasn't enough, he managed to keep a full conversation with my mom the entire time. The final awkward moment, naked and shooting pain from your doctor accidently pitching your testical. Yes, I changed doctors shortly after this exam.

In the 50s and 60s, my recollections were always stripped to my tighty-whities for the majority of the exam followed by the genital exam with my underwear pulled down to about my knees.

Mommy brought me and into the room with me. The kindly nurse waved toward the dressing cubicle saying to mom, "I'll be back when you 've got her undressed." This rather vague request invariably got me peeled to the buff. Obviously mom didn 't want to appear uncooperative. 'Undressed' meant just that. Nurses I have spoken to say that it's not unusual for children to be nude for examination to age 8. After that some clarification as to whether panties may be kept on usually was to be expected.

Polly

Had to strip to my briefs firstly and then they had to come off for the last third or so of the exam including weight and measurements and exercises. The exams normally took over an hour, a little shorter for school medicals where again we normally ended up completely undressed; modesty was not important then and the embarrassment factor high.

My recollection of the duration of school medicals was at the most 10 minutes. I've never heard of anyone having a school medical in the UK lasting longer than 20 minutes at the very outside.

Mom would bring my sister and I into the exam room together and wait for the nurse to instruct her, which soon meant, have them undress to their panties. When I began to wear a small bra, the same thing took place until I was 14 or so and then was given a gown but completely nude under it. Either way when I saw the pediatrician, we were sure to have our panties removed at some point and for him to inspect us with legs spread or cheeks wide open. We always had a rectal temp taken and thermom was always on the tray near the exam table.

Now a mom myself of two teen girls, our doctor has us undress fully and put on a skimpy paper gown that is wide open in the back. Sometimes the nurse is there getting things ready, which is a bit awkward as there is no privacy screen so its a matter of which way do u want to face when removing undies. I tend to turn so that my back is facing her but really it doesn't matter. I often wonder what she thinks and how she feels going about conducting the prelimiinaries until the doctor arrives. Sometimes she leaves and I wait, which only adds to the tension. I have read my chart if it's on the counter but now they use an electronic record. It's weird reading the physical exam notes - nothing sexual - but knowing the comments are about me and what was done.

Private preparatory (junior) school Rockdoc.

When I was younger I was in my panties. But when I was 9 or 10 I left most of my cloths on and would remove or lift up what the doctor need to get to.

For me it was always pretty much the same at the pediatrician. The nurse would tell me to take off everything except my underwear. She would do the prelims and then the doctor would come in to do the exam. It was like this until I was old enough to see an adult doctor.

For me it was undress to underpants until the very end, then step out of them for a minute or so then the exam was done.

Mine was always shirt off for steth and abdominal. Pants and underwear off for genital.

I perfectlly remember to be totally naked in my paediatrician. In fact, the doctor office had two rooms, an office and an exam room. When I entered with my mom, she seated to talk with the doctor in his desk and explain why we were there, and I was taken by the nurse to the exam room, when she undress me completelly, took heigh and weight and put me in the exam table.

I went to a pediatrician until I was 18 and I would always be asked to only leave on bra and panties. From when I was 14 up until my last visit with him last year he would only briefly pull out the cups of my bra away from my chest and then because the table was against the wall with me facing the wall on my side and knees pulled up he would pull my panties to mid thigh briefly and lift my upper cheek for a second before pulling them back up. other than the 3 or 4 like that not much exposure growing up.

Joane,

If you look anything like your avatar, I can see why the doctor would like to catch an extended glimpse of your breasts and buttocks. However, I don't know of any medical reason for doing such an inspection. It doesn't sound like he performed a proper breast exam and you are obviously developed. He also didn't perform a rectal exam, though he felt the need to spread your cheeks. Do you think he did this to get off?

Until I was about ten or so the nurse would tell me to disrobe completely and leave me alone in the exam room to wait for the doctor. The first time she did this I did as told not expecting her to return. When she did return she didn't even knock and caught me starkers in the middle of the room, I was about eight and terribly bashful. After that I always kept my underpants on until after her initial check, she never checked twice. My best friend who went to the same doctor and said the nurse always did the same thing to him.

Always naked from the age of 12 pediatrician was an older guy was always very humiliating for me to be nude in front of him for the whole exam.

I changed doctors earlier in high school age since I moved. The last three or four sports physicals I had to take because I wrestled were done in the nude. The doctor was an old lady doctor and I believe the nurse was there also on some examinations. (I don't remember)

I was shocked the first time when the doctor called me into the exam room, and told me to "take off all of my clothes, including your underwear." I remember just sitting up on the exam table after I was just down to the underwear, and the doctor told me to "You need to take off your underwear as well. We need to make sure that you're ready to compete in wrestling." My first time there, there was a gown on the exam table, but the doctor just took them and put them away in the cabinet.

Since the previous doctor was male, and he only pulled down the underwear towards the end, (never nude) and provided me a gown, this was a shock to me.

What was shocking was that my sister was going to get her physical after mine, (she and my mom waited in the waiting room during mine) and after my exam was done, the doctor told me to get dressed and go wait outside, and that my sister was next. As I got dressed, the doctor changed the paper on the exam table, and pulled out a examination gown from the cabinet and put them on the exam table. I then knew that she cared about the modesty of girls, but not the other way around.

Preschool, naked, after that underpants left on. Pulled down for rectal temperature by the nurse and then again for hernia exam by the doctor. And of course, pulled down for needed shots.

House calls were the same, underpants lowered to my ankles for rectal temperature and shots and subsequently removed if an enema was going to be administered after the doctor left.

I did not have yearly physicals until I was a teenager. When it was required for school or sports the exam was very basic and quick I would just have to remove my shirt. I started seeking care from an Adolescent Medicine specialist as a teen. I was behind schedule in my development so the doctor insisted complete physicals yearly until I turned the corner. I was required to strip to my underwear for every physical.