How are you weighed during physicals?

In general I think that the weight doesn't need to be that accurate. They want to know if you're the right weight for your height, and for that the odd kilo either side is neither here nor there. So the weight of clothes and shoes isn't really that significant. Maybe there are some situations where it needs to be more accurate and so needs to be in underwear or whatever.

I go for an annual cardiology checkup (it's about the only time I ever visit a real medical practitioner). They weigh me in full clothes and shoes, and don't even worry about what's in my pocket. Once they simply asked me my weight!

Praepe1,

The problem, it's happened to me, is when the doctor compares my weight during the summer (shorts and T-shirt) with heavy clothes in the winter and advises me that my weight is up. They have no clue in those circumstances.

It is always a simple matter of step on the scale, be still, then step off.

I never take my shoes off to weigh. My wife, on the other hand, always steps out of her shoes.

In winter, I will take my coat off, but make no other adjustments for seasonal clothing.

Jds how heavy are your clothes? My cousin who is a little OCD used to weigh himself twice a day to determine how many pieces of toast he could eat in the morning. LOL

Jds how heavy are your clothes? My cousin who is a little OCD used to weigh himself twice a day to determine how many pieces of toast he could eat in the morning. LOL

I'd guess summer is 2-5#. Winter can be in excess of 10#, heavy shoes, heavy shirt, jeans, hoodie and leather vest, pocket contents...

The concerned comment about a 5# gain is laughable.

At the real doc -- clothes on shoes off.

At the play doc usually it's underwear only.

Here in india u get weighed in clothes ubr wearing.if wearing somethng heavy likes coats, sweaters they will ask u to remove them ... so basically u get weighed in shirt pants and socks if wearing......

I've always been weighed while fully dressed. Sometimes they ask me to take my shoes off. I've always wondered where these fancy clinics are where they do it while you are undressed. Some people just have all the luck.

Always fully clothed. I always try to keep the same amount of clothes on (i.e. shoes / no shoes) to keep the comparison as close as possible.

When I want to know my true weight, I weigh myself at home at the same time of day wearing nothing.

Back in my wrestling days, my physicals included taking my weight in just my underwear. The nurse would take my weight after showing me back to the exam room - having me just take my shoes off. But when the doc came in and found out I was going to be wrestling for the season, he would give me a lecture about the dangers of cutting weight, and would take my weight again later in the exam while I was wearing only my briefs.

Of course there were always the weigh-ins at the various wrestling meets. Many of them were done with each wrestler stripped naked. After the weight was verified, we stood over to the side where a doctor (or most of the time an athletic trainer) would look us over head-to-toe for skin issues. Gotta admit that it was hard not to get stiff during those moments.

I would love to be told to get naked before weighing, but here in Holland its usually in your boxers. I have a thing with weighing in the nude. At home I always weigh nude and I would normally get an erection while weighing. I would love to be weighed nude and have my hips an thighs measured one time with a female nurse or doctor. Well just keep on hoping and searching.

VA nurse has me leave clothes on and then subtracts 5#

Shoes and coat of, or sometimes naked but wearing just a gown

When I was a child always all naked. After, only the shoes were off.

At my doctor's office weighing is the first thing that happens at any appointment. The nurse calls me back to the area with the exam rooms, and just inside the door to that area is the scale. I get weighed in whatever I wear to that appointment since it is a public area.

Usually, I'm fully dressed, sans shoes, and it's done on a scale that isn't in the exam rooms, but like out in the hallway or something.

In underwear at beginning of exam

At the start of the exam after being asked to take my shoes and any outdoor clothing off. I've never been naked or in my underwear for this part.

I had many regular physical exams by different doctors (mostly paediatrician, gastroenteroogist at the clinic and urologist) in my teenaged time in the end of the 1980s, and at the most exams (except by the dermatologist) I was always been weighted and measured by nurses at the beginning in the preliminary room, because I had serious abdominal problems and was underweighted, too. I was always ordered to take off everything and was weighted and measured then completely naked; they normally took also my heighted and different circumferences (of head, chest and abdomen).

Normally the nurse weights me fully dressed and then knocks 1Kg off for clothes/shoes.

Normally in France it is different according to the kind od doctor you are visiting

At mandatory physical examination, even it might have not been a strict rule, I have been most of the time weighted in briefs and sometimes even naked

when I was a student at school, we had a mandatory physical examination each year, and for the weigh-in which was performed by the nurse with the height mesure and measures of the chest and waist, we were always undressed until briefs at midle school like in high school.

it could be performed in the locker room where we had undressed in group half of a class if there was a scale on a corner of this room or in the examination room in front of the doctor.

If we needed a medical form to practice in a sport team outside of the school, it was not always the same but we were at least undressed in briefs and sometimes if it was required by the coach or the doctor to be stark naked and we were treated as a group without privacy.

For summer camps also when there was a physical examination, it was in briefs.

After at 18 age for the draft physicals in a military medical pre-induction center, we were stark naked for the weigh-in like it was for all the examination and it took place in a large room with male nurses and some non commissioners officers to supervise us while lining up to wait our turn.

It was also naked at the next physical exam in front of the members of the draft board commissioin a few weeks after.

And it was naked each time we had a physical examination at the army after induction.

At university, it was in briefs each year

For the mandatory job physicals, it was also in briefs like all the examination since we undressed in a cabin.

But apart of these mandatory physical exams, the things are now different

When I was still a young man and went to see a doctor each year for a complete check up , I was told by the doctor who was at that time a middle aged woman to undress until briefs in a small cabin and she weighted me almost just after. It lasted like that during about 20 years.

But when she has retired, I have been forced to change of doctors and since that change, when I went to see a doctor, I am most of the time weighted bare chest with still my trouser and even sometimes full dressed except for shoes.

I believe that now for adults at a doctor office, the most common practice is to be weighted bare chest only. .

I have never been weighed by the doctor, always his nurse. During my employment physical, I am asked to remove my shoes and I usually empty my pockets of keys since I usually have two large sets with me for work. At my regular doctor, I have my shoes on and don't empty my pockets. I don't recall my play doctor ever weighing me. In fact, I don't ever recall seeing a scale in any of the play clinics I have been in. I would hope that I would be naked and it would be a fairly long walk from the exam table to the scale.

I have always been weighed as i get ready to walk into the exam room by taking off my shoes only and leaving everything else on unless I am wearing a coat which I will remove then

Different ways at different times...

As a kid it was wearing just my briefs by the nurse.

As a teen, it was briefs or nude (for wrestling) by nurse (or coach).

As a young adult, it was mostly briefs.

In middle age, my doctor conducted all physicals nude throughout the exam (I was nude, not the doctor). He was a one man operation, no nurse, just a receptionist.

Now (age 50+) weighing is done in the corridor on the way to exam room (they must assess clothing weight and adjust for it.)

In my country, in the 1970's, we would be weighed by a nurse a few days or weeks prior to the real physical exam involving a doctor. We would be allowed to wear our clothes then. Once the doctor arrived at our school to conduct the standard physical exams, we would already have our weight and height inscribed in our records. Incidentally, the physicals involved groups of 6-8 students who were invited into the doctor's office at the school and asked to undress to the waist. The doctor would then take us, one by one, and listen to us as well as palpate our torsos and percuss the lungs on the front and back. The most enjoyable thing was waiting and watching the other ones of us being examined while we stood in the corner, half-naked, and "abused" each other by patting on our bare chests and pinching one another's skin (and sometimes nipples). We would just be silly kids, playing with our bodies and flaunting our nudity.

Clothed, shoes optional

Always clothed, i always take off my shoes.

At my last physical I was weighed in a public hallway fully clothed except for shoes (my height was also measured). There wasn't to my knowledge any subtraction for clothes, belt, and full pockets.

Clothed