How are you weighed during physicals?

The office I currently go to, they have a nurse weight you, take your temp, and check your blood pressure before you even get to the exam room. All of those are done while completely clothed.

I'm shocked how many here are weighted in the clothes. Goes to show just how crazy our medical system has become and how obssessed it is with patients' privacy. Wearing any more than underwear cannot possibly give an accurate reading.

When I was a kid, I got weighed in my underwear by the nurse. These days I get weighed fully clothed by a technician. It's all about cost.

I've always been weighed fully clothed, minus shoes.

I am weighed fully clothed without heels on in a separate room where my vitals are taken. Then I am lead into an exam room and told to strip completely naked and given a gown. I wish that was when I was weighed. Depending on the time of year, that could be a couple of pounds. And the nurse does not take that into consideration when the weight is written in the record.

As a young child up until my teen years I was weighed in just panties in the exam room. I attended a private school until I was 12 and I don't recall ever being weighed at school but a physical exam was required once a year by the private school. In junior and senior high I was weighed 2 time a year at school as I recall. This was done in the school nurse's office and we removed just our shoes to be weighed and to record our height. As an adult I have always been weighed by the medical assistant on the way to the exam room. I have always been fully dressed, including shoes.

I am weighed fully clothed, usually with shoes off but sometimes on. As a kid it was always stripped down to my underpants.

I just had an appointment with a new PCP last week. I was weighed in the hallway. I had to insist on taking off my leather vest and putting down my kindle and papers. Why do they bother? BTW, the weight on my chart was exactly what the electronic scale read. No adjustment for clothes.

I haven't been weighed for years in any type of exam or appointment I have.The dr never asks me how much I weigh either.

Always shoes off only

As a child I remember being weighed in just underwear. However, as an adult, always fully clothed and in some cases clothed but with shoes off. The US medical system is really screwed up compared to exams in other countries it seems.

The last thing my doc does, after he has stuck his finger up my butt, is to "get my true weight", which means I am totally naked at that point. No big deal, in my mind.

I'm jealous of those of you who are weighed properly.

How height measurement. At my visit the other day, my height was measured IN MY SHOES! Why bother?

I've always been weighed in boxers only at the start of the exam at the docs or at the gym in gym shorts only.

I have posted before about weigh-ins for wrestling in school and for physical exams but thought of something else. Not a physical exam, but it was common when I belonged to the YMCA for guys including me to weigh ourselves in the locker room before or after showering when we were already stripped down. There was a big metal scales in the middle of the locker room and many of us took the opportunity to get a strip weight. Not unusual for guys to jump on the scale in just a jockstrap or briefs but they were the exception. I did that only a few times if I already had my underwear back on and had forgotten to weigh before going back to my locker from the showers and had already pulled my briefs on. If we had come in from playing basketball as a group, there would usually be a short line of us waiting in the nude to get on the scales. Most of us were really slender so I don't know why checking our weight was all that important but almost everyone did it. When I wrestled in school, we all constantly checked our strip weight in the school locker room so I guess the habit was hard to break. In those days, I couldn't pass a scales without jumping on.

Anyone with similar experiences in a locker room that was not at school?

Fully clothed minus shoes or sandals..... Doesn't seem to accurate to me!

The scale is in the hallway outside of he exam room. Hey record the height and weigh t at that poin then into the exam room for the rest of the vitals.

These days the scale is in the hallway and they ask you to take your shoes off. I've been weighed with a heavy coat on. I'm not convinced that they overly care and it's more of a formality.

What bothers me is the lack of care about clothing and 'accessories' (phone, wallet, change, etc.). My weight can change up to 10 pounds based on seasonal dress. I've had a doctor comment about my weight loss/gain when appointments were in different seasons. They seem to believe this crap.

Regarding the clothing when being weighed my doctors have seemed more focused on more general categories. For instance I used to be overweight but when I finally got close to being normal (with clothes I was maybe 6 or 7 lbs above where I should be) he marked me as no longer overweight in my chart.

As for the Y most guys who use the scale in the locker room at my regular location are naked or in their underwear because the scale is halfway through the locker room. At the other location I go to more guys are naked since it's right as you exit the shower area.

... Not a physical exam, but it was common when I belonged to the YMCA for guys including me to weigh ourselves in the locker room before or after showering when we were already stripped down... Anyone with similar experiences in a locker room that was not at school?

davidwest - that still happens at the gym. it can be an interesting mix of clothed guys heading out to the gym floor and naked guys just finished with their workout and shower.

Checking our weight in the locker rooms at the Y was routine when I was younger. It wasn't routine for guys to wear towels to and from the showers in those days so almost everyone was nude on the scales going to or coming from the showers and no one gave it a second thought. Some guys weighed themselves wearing briefs or a jock but they may have been combing their hair or shaving by the sinks and haven't gotten dressed yet. Other than that, nude weighing was expected. Other than wearing a jock only or stripped down weights for wrestling in school, we were always in our briefs for the sports exams at school and everyone went on the scales in their underpants at those exams. Waiting in long lines of guys in their underpants waiting to get weighed and their height checked got many of us conditioned to checking our stripped down weight in locker rooms for years afterwards.

I have had it done both ways.

I have had some doctors do just what you said, which I much prefer, being stripped and weighed. However, in most clinics now, its standard to weigh in the hall, fully clothed, and have a standard factor of say 5 pounds to deduct,*I know this is true for at least one place I have used before*

I cant imagine how any doctor can fully expect to monitor a weight loss program or guide anyone in weight loss if they're not weighed properly

Shoes off, scale is the the hallway

When I'm getting a physical, The nurse weighs me, when down to briefs only. No socks,undershirt, or any other clothing. Some times They will weigh me, totally naked before the doctor does the physical. If I'm still in briefs and undershirt, when being weighed and height measured, as soon as the nurse finishes weighing and measuring me, I'm told to strip naked for the examination.

Growing up and into my late teens I was weighed on a standing scale mostly just in briefs. No shirt or sockets. Nowadays, my nurse doesn't seem to care what I'm wearing....and I make a valiant effort to dump my pocket of wallet, keys, phone and anything that would add to the weight. 😃

Weighed by a nurse, fully clothed with shoes on, but without a coat

Most offices where I have had physicals have a scale in an alcove off the corridor where the exam rooms are located. I have typically been taken there on the way to the exam room and have taken off my shoes.

As a kid, I was weighed in the exam room in my underwear. Now, I'm weighed in the exam room in my clothes with shoes off prior to my physical.

If I see my Doctor for something other than a physical exam, I am weighed by the nurse with cloths on and no shoes. For my physical however, the Doctor weighs me toward the end of the exam, when I am completely naked. The conversations starts with, "... let's get your true weight ..."