Underwear Mandatory at Pediatricians

Dr. Visits for my siblings and I were only when one of us was sick, and only to the family doctor. I do not recall ever taking my clothes off for a visit.

Rheumatic Fever and St Vitus Dance/Sydenham chorea kept me in hospital for nearly a year where I wore only those damn hospital “gowns”, and I don't remember ever being embarrassed by it.

I think modesty about nudity is a learned trait rather than innate behavior.

I think modesty about nudity is a learned trait rather than innate behavior.

I agree to some extent having grown up in / raised causal nudist positive family so to speak.

But for some there is an innate modesty that comes with feeling less secure about body/ appearance which isn't learn

I was always only in Underpants until they came off and then stayed naked for the rest of the exam

I was always only in Underpants until they came off and then stayed naked for the rest of the exam

Until when was this the common practice for you.

I don't think I always had to be in just underpants for a sick visit, but for my annual well child exams, the nurse always told my mom to take everything off of me except my underpants when we got to the exam room. No matter how old I got, the nurse never told me – always just my mom. And my mom would actually undress me until those last few years after I turned 14, 15 and 16, when she let me undress myself. Once I was in just my white briefs, the nurse would walk me down the hall for height and weight. I remember one time when we were waiting for the nurse to take me to the scale, it was particularly cold, and my mom told me I could put my shirt back on until the doctor showed up. When the nurse finally arrived to weigh me, she seemed annoyed and told my mom she needed to take my shirt off too. They were pretty serious about that undies-only policy.

I never had to strip to my underwear but I do however remember being examined and my doctor always went under my clothes if he had to. Like listening to my heart and the palpations. There was only twice I can remember, I had issues with stomach/belly pain and my doctor would lift my pants to palpate under my underwear but never exposed me fully.

Growing up going to a pediatrician and now at my more adult doctor I have always entered the exam room fully clothed. The nurse usually goes through some general questions and then asks me to take everything off besides my boxers. I am usually sitting on the table when the doctor comes in and he conducts the exam in my boxers until I have to pull those down for him to see my dick.

Paper undies seem to be standard now: https://youtu.be/sOEUB6V66ZI

Paper undies seem to be standard now: https://youtu.be/sOEUB6V66ZI

I've never seen or heard of those, the local hospital system recently (within the past 5-ish years) had new gowns designed.

Also adding on to what some others mentioned, while I've for sure been in a gown with my underwear, thinking about it, most of the time my doctor has just reached under my shirt, and pulled my waistband down just a little bit to check my stomach. I've seen some guys go “oh that was my favorite part because next was--” as a woman there never was any “next”, that was the end, lol.

I've only ever worn paper underwear once, and that was for a colonoscopy.

That said, it's very unusual to be in your underwear for a doctor here in the UK, at least in my experience.

It was mandatory for me. I was always instructed to take everything but my undies off, then the doctor would take them away to another room until the genital/rectal component of the exam came around, then he would take away my undies too and I was never allowed to have them back until the end of the appointment.

Interesting discussion. I am pretty sure I always had to remove all clothing. I still think about it from time to time. It is sort of a turn on for me.

For physicals stripped nude. all other visits stripped to underwear. shared visits with brothers growing up.

When not getting a physical my brother and I (who always accompanied me on my checkups) never had to disrobe. When we did get checkups we were always (with one exception) in our underpants as soon as we got into the exam room. I remember when I first had a checkup with my pediatrician as the nurse was escorting us to the exam room she stopped at what looked like a closet asked ‘are your boys wearing underwear’ before I could say anything my mother chimed in saying ‘they're both wearing briefs’. The nurse turned on her heels ,away from the closet,and said ‘great, if they were not wearing underpants then I would have gotten them covering for their modesty' . That really turned me on.

It wasn't automatic for me. I went in a few times for being sick, and I didn't have to undress to my underwear. But when I had my annual physical as a girl, I always had to take everything off except for my panties.

Nope not me.

I stopped visiting the doctor regularly after elementary school. Guess I was healthy enough? Seems kinda dangerous to assume nothing will happen between 11 and beyond to me, although I don't even see a doctor now. Off-topic, I always had other clothes on.

I was stripped to my underpants in the exam room as a kid too. My underpants came down or off for my temperature to get taken, (usually pulled down by the nurse), and remained down or off afterwards until the doctor entered the room and usually instructed me to get dressed. That meant sitting there with my tender bits hanging out for a good 15 to 30 minutes. In the 60’s and 70’s, kids we’re definitely to be seen, and not heard. I felt like a piece of naked meat.

I was lucky if I had my underwear up or on for even half of my appointment.

Underwear was mandatory for all office visits. if I was there for a physical I was required to undress completely. pretty standard growing up in the early 70s.

As many have noted, at the pediatrician I was required to be undressed to my underwear, but often could leave my socks on. Dressed as such, I was taken to the scale and weighed, measured, had my blood pressure taken, then was told to lay on my tummy and the nurse had me raise my hips and took my underwear down for my temperature to be taken.

I had to strip to my underwear until I was around 20. I had no problem with it, and still don't. I have never felt self-conscious or nervous about exposing my naked body to my doctors.

Not sure about other uk based members. I was only ever examined by our family doctor who also examined my whole family. I only ever removed the clothing that he needed to examine, although it was in an era when gowns probably wouldn’t have been offered anyway unless you went to hospital etc.

School medical s were always carried out with me stripped to my underpants at the start. Our family GP sometimes had me undress down to underpants as he occasionally gave me a check up even if the visit was for a specific reason, being unwell etc.

Oh i would say it was underwear off. That was mandatory.

@dropandcough your experiences sound very much like my own. School exams were in briefs and vest when I was younger and in my boxers as a teenager. When I went to the doctors because I was unwell they sonetimes decided to do a full check-up and had me strip down to my undies in front of my mother and big brother. It got embarrassing the last time I went in with them when I was 12 and I felt self conscious being there in my boxers in front of them, especially when my brother had a silly grin on his face as I hopped on the scales and sat on the bed.

For my school phyiscals I always had to strip down to my underpants right from the start upon entering the exam room. This was also the case for several of my phyiscal exams as an adult (military, job, insurance). On the very few occasions that I was examined as a teen by my family GP, he had me undressed to my undies as well. As an adult I hardly ever visited a GP and never had to undress.

I had monthly exams concerning my development for which I had to undress completely right from the start

I don't remember having to undress to my underwear when going to the doctor for some illness, just when it was a yearly check-up and she examined everything. I had to undress to my panties and at the end of the exam she lifted my panties and took peak.

We moved around a lot when I was a child, so I saw several different pediatricians, some male and some female.

In general, I was topless, clad in my panties, until I was about 10 or 11 for my yearly physicals. After that, it was pretty much always a gown with panties on underneath, although I do remember wearing my bra and panties with no gown as an adolescent, which was more embarrassing than wearing a gown.

We moved around a lot when I was a child, so I saw several different pediatricians, some male and some female.

In general, I was topless, clad in my panties, until I was about 10 or 11 for my yearly physicals. After that, it was pretty much always a gown with panties on underneath, although I do remember wearing my bra and panties with no gown as an adolescent, which was more embarrassing than wearing a gown.

Were you able to keep your bra and or panties on throughout the exam?

Were you able to keep your bra and or panties on throughout the exam?

No. They both came off and then back on during my physical, at different times, of course.