Underwear Mandatory at Pediatricians

Always in my briefs.

Underwear was standard growing up. I would typically be called back for the exam by the nurse. She would show me which exam room I would be in, then show me the bathroom where she would give the instructions to provide a urine sample in the bathroom and after I was done go back to exam room and "be a good by and take off all of your clothes except your underpants". I would strip to my underwear and sit and wait in a spare chair in the room until the nurse came back. She would then weigh and measure me And have me get on the table for blood pressure and temp check. Then she would leave me sitting on the table in my undies to sit and wait for the doctor. My underwear never completely came off but the doctor would either pull them down or slide his hands into my underwear for the genital check

When I went to the pediatrician for a physical (and my mom took me every August just before school started) it was always strip to my tighty whities. He only had one exam room and the nurse would be there when I undressed as would my mother. Then the doctor would come in and do the exam. As I got older, he would always pull my underwear down towards the end of the exam to check my penis and testicles.

When I was sick and went to the doctor I used to just have to take off my shirt. But when I went it was almost always because of an ear or throat infection and it ended up with me lying on my stomach on his exam table with my pants and underwear pulled down below my knees getting a penicillin shot in the bottom. I hated those shots and having to take my pants and underwear down in front of the nurse, my mother, and the doctor. I still remember laying there and hearing the Doctor prepare the syringe and needle. The doctor gave the shots himself.

What I hated as a child has become a fetish for me as an adult. Now I really like lying totally nude on my stomach and having a lovely lady give me painful shots in the butt. Unfortunately I don't get to experience this very often.

For my regular yearly checkups I had to take off everything, exept my small white briefs.Even the socks had to come off!

For the testicular control at the end of my exam I just had to lower my briefs down to the knees.

When I became sick and had to visit my doc, all depended what I had - usualy shirt and undershirt off to enable the doc listen to my hart and lungs! Not more.

I was always in underwear and socks. The exam would be conducted that way until the doc pulled my pants down to check my genitals. When I was about 6 I remember being escorted to the scale in my underwear and a young girl and some moms saw me in my underwear. I was very embarrassed.

I can remember going to the doctors office and being led down the hall for a chest xray after a bad flu in nothing by underware and socks. Most of the times the doctor did a testicle exam he would just grab my under ware with no warning drop them to the floor. Once it was with my older sister in the room I was so embarrassed. I got her back because the same doctor a few yeas later wanted to do a breast exam on her she protested I was in the room so they made me stand outside the door. I still knew what was going on in there.

I hardly ever went to the pediatrician for anything but a physical and I only had to strip down to my briefs if I was getting a physical. I remember when I would be there for a physical, and would be nervously sitting in the waiting room looking at all the guys who seemed much less nervous than I was and wondering if they were there for a minor illness so that they might not be dropping their briefs and letting the doctor see their penises.

...and would be nervously sitting in the waiting room looking at all the guys who seemed much less nervous than I was and wondering if they were there for a minor illness so that they might not be dropping their briefs and letting the doctor see their penises.

Ah, what a fun game to play -- guessing what other people in the waiting room are about to have done to them. I just love playing that. 😃 I like to imagine what they look like as they are standing in front of my doctor being examined just as I am.

I remember having to strip down, and then getting a paper gown to put on. I think usually, I just had to take off my shirt. I remember once going in because my foot was bothering me. I thought HA! I won't have to undress. Everything but my undies had to come off. I got the whole the ankle bone is connected to the shin bone bit. I was so mad! I don't think I got my temp taken up my butt very often, but a got a lot of suppositories though. I used to throw up a lot when I was sick.I hated them. My mom kept them in the fridge. They were hard and cold.

I went to a family doctor until my teen years. He was very no nonsense and old school but I was only required to strip down for a physical every few years. Then at 13 or 14 I transitioned to an Adolescent Medicine doctor due to some delays in my physical development. Thankfully they were just that: Delays. I had yearly and very thorough physical exams under her care. She was a very kind, trusting and competent doctor who had a way of reaching out to me during the most challenging years of my life.

I did not automatically have to strip down to my underpants for sick calls, but of course it was always strip to my briefs for physical exams.

That said, your question did trigger a memory for me. Once when I was 8 or 9 I was at the doctor's for a follow up to a sick visit. After the nurse collected the history from my mother, she said, "Strip him down to his underpants, the doctor will be right in."

I was scared because I don't normally have to strip down for a sick call. I did get me temperature taken rectally at the initial visit, but my pants were simply lowered and I was allowed to pull them back up afterwards.

The doctor came in and looked in my throat, eyes and ears and then looked at me all over my body. At asked me to hop down from the table and pulled my underpants down to my knees, looked me up and down, turned me around and looked me up and down again. He told me to get dressed and I quickly yanked my underpants back up and ran to get the rest of my clothes back on.

Not sure because when I was young no one tells you anything, but near as I can figure out thinking back on it, I suspect my mother was concerned about an allergic reaction to the medication I was taking for whatever illness I had.

So while I was not overly modest at that age about being at the doctor's in my underpants, the unexpected stripping had me concerned something painful was going to happen.

Yes as a kid my ped always had me strip to shorts. as an adult I rarely have to strip the closest I get is a shot! lol

I my youth was the following rule:

For sick calles never

For my yearly medical exams always everything came off - sometimes just were allowed to keep my briefs on - sometimes (esp. for the spinecheck) told to strip completely naked!

I also had to strip to my underwear no matter why I was there. I remember going in for an eye infection and my mother argued with the nurse saying there was no need for me to undress. It was weird.

I only remember being told to strip to my tighty-whities when I went for my physical every year. I have a lot of ear infections as a kid so I was the pediatrician regularly and was always able to keep my clothes on.

When I was a kid, I just was told to "strip to the waist" for routine physicals, and the doctor would take it from there--undoing my belt, unfastening and unzipping my pants to do the abdominal exam (which usually gave me a little buzz even before I knew exactly why.) He would then have me stand up and my pants would naturally slide down to my ankles, and I would be standing in front of him in my underpants.

Until I was 12 he just pulled the waistband open to do the hernia exam, but for the next three years after that he pulled my underpants down to my knees to do the genital exam. This gave me at least a partial erection each time. My last exam with my pediatrician was at 18, and he had me pull my underpants down myself that time. That exam was also the first time he had me turn around, spread my bottom and look at my anus, but no actual rectal exam.

My adult physicals have either involved getting completely undressed with a gown, or down to my underpants with a gown. My favourite combination would be undress to underpants, no gown, and a female doctor who asks me to pull down my underpants for the genital and rectal exams. As others have said, though, physicals are not what they used to be and this scenario is rapidly disappearing--sadly.

Ironically, I've only ever had to undress pre-exam for my 2 most recent adult physicals. However, I do think this practice is fairly rare, at least in my own clinic, due to a remark the nurse made regarding gowns. The nurse asked me if I had been examined by this particular doctor before. I said I had and she replied that I knew to expect to change into a gown. I replied that the previous year he provided exam shorts rather than a gown and the nurse didn't seem familiar with them and guessed that he didn't use them anymore.

Since nurses are shared among many doctors at my practice, my guess is that she wouldn't have made that comment unless it was an uncommon step specific to only a few doctors.

I always kept everything on until the genital exam. Then she pulled down my pants and underwear to my knees. I was always laying down too

Most of the medical exams I received in my childhood were conducted with me almost nude (maximum wearing only pants or a white t-shirt), often concluding the exam completely nude or starting the exam nude from the beginning. So I was used to undress by myself and if the doctor didn' t give me instructions I used to remove everything and make the doctor start the exam with me completely nude (usually she started with height and weight measurement on the scale)

Similar to most people's recollection I undressed down to my panties for exams unless went for specific issue where only area of interest would be examined.

If my sister or I were sick with the flu or whatever or like in my sister's case accident prone we were not required to undress. For the regular physical we were in our panties.

At my doctor as a kid the instruction was "remove your shirt and your shoes" before the start of the exam. Removing my top was a nuisance because the office was cool and it could sometimes be a very long wait (45min) before the doctor showed up.

At my physicals with the family physicians (I didn't have a pediatrician), the nurse would tell me to strip to my underwear for physicals (no gown). Same procedure seemed to carry to when i started having annual exams at work, until they started using paper gowns in the mid 90's. But since i was already used to just being in my underwear with the doctor, i never put the gown on.

I was always told to strip down to my underwear. You'd leave the lobby, go past the nurses station to your room, strip to your underwear and wait for a nurse. Then they'd take you for height, weight, etc, all while in your underwear. Second the doctor walked into the room your underwear always came off and stayed off the duration of the exam until he left the room.

Underwear was the most that I ever had on. Most of the time they asked me to undress down to underwear, but some early exams I was completely naked or just in socks.

Other than a physical i always kept my clothes on.

At my paediatrician, I was always told by the nurse to take off everything including my pants, when I was taken in the exam room.

I would be in my panties only until about 16 when I was given a gown by the nurses finally but when the doctor came into the room he would say "gown off" and soon came off my panties also.

Certainly in my times of seeing the school doctor (UK 1960 - 70) and numerous physiotherapy sessions (UK 1960 - 1964 ). The procedure was always the same. Medicals: immediately strip to vest / pants. After preliminary checks, strip to pants. Final part of exam...totally naked....always.

Physiotherapy....Lots of sessions...roughly 50 / 50...just underpants or PT shorts / or naked.

Even with doctors etc in the still almost hysterical climate of aspects of child abuse in the UK in 2017, I cannot imagine child patients being naked unless the parents were present & it was absolutely necessary (for whatever reason).....

Yes, I grew up in the 1970s-80s and this was almost always the case. I don't ever remember visiting the pediatrician and not at LEAST having to take off my shirt and most times it was automatically down to just underpants.