Underwear Mandatory at Pediatricians

I don't know when " back then" was for you but the practice was very much in use when I was ten. ( not that long ago). Along with fever, rashes and other outward signs can manefest themselves so a site inspection of the skin isn't ruled out.

We all shivered in our panties...

It certainly wasn't what I would call mandatory when I went to our family GP through illness when I was a kid, although it did happen a couple of times. Mostly, I had to take my shirt off with my pants still on whilst they listened to my heart, lungs or belly and that was it. The exceptions were when they decided they wanted to do a bit more of a general exam and had me stripped to my briefs so they could check my height and weigh ans do reflex checks. It was on of those occasions when I was sitting there in my briefs that the doctor let me listen to myself with his stethoscope and I found it funny listening to my gurgling belly and enjoyed the thumping of my little heart

My exams at school were a bit different as I've described before. The only two pre teen exams I had, at seven I was in my briefs and vest, with my vest lifted while they stethed me, and the other at eleven I was down to my boxer shorts and shirtless. All of my teenage exams, which were annually at senior school, I was in boxer briefs only.

When I was young, I was always just in my underwear or less at the doctor's. Whether it was at school or at our family doctor, I either undressed to just underwear, one year just to socks, and also other times just told to take off everything and was naked for the exam. (I think, particularly, these school physicals is where my medfet interest was sparked.)

There were times when I just went for a booster shot or something simple like that, and didn't need to undress, but for physicals it always involved undressing to at least my underwear.

As an adult, I've had lots of physicals, both regular check-ups, and also for participating in studies, employment, and other activities, and if it's a real physical then it involves undressing. Having just had surgery for skin cancer, which was caught by a doctor seeing me for something else, I feel having the doctor look me over thoroughly is important. If I had a doctor who did not require undressing for a physical, then I would switch doctors.

Up until I headed off to college, my pediatrician would have me strip down to my briefs.

Here's more information than you probably want about my experience.

I saw a pediatrician from the late 1980s through the 1990s with my last visit just after the turn of the millennium at age 18 for my college physical.

I was lucky to very rarely have to see the doctor for a sick visit. On those occasions, I'd only have to undress to facilitate examination of the part that's sick.

For physicals, though, it was a different story. I'd be weighed and measured in a separate room and only had to take off my shoes for that part. Then the nurse would lead me to an exam room where I'd have to undress. I always had to get down to my underwear, but the way I was told to do it was unique for each nurse.

As far back as I can remember, up to age 13, there was one older nurse who came across as mean but wasn't really. She'd always say it the same way: "Everything off but the underpants." The use of "the" instead of "your" really made the process feel a bit impersonal, and it still gives me chills to this day.

At one of my exams as a teenager, a new younger nurse simply said: "Take off your shirt, and he'll be in shortly." I was surprised, so I had to clarify: "Just my shirt?" She replied: "Well, your shorts and stuff have to come off too." I'm glad I clarified because I would have hated to have done it wrong -- at the time I was very worried about not being good and having the doctor call my mom back to the exam room.

Finally, at my last exam there, another new nurse listed everything she could think of: "Take off any shirts, undershirts, tank tops, t-shirts, socks, pants, shorts, and boxer shorts." I was too embarrassed to get clarification but decided to be brave and leave my boxer shorts on. When the doctor came in, I told him that the nurse told me to take them off, but I wanted to keep them on while I waited. He seemed surprised and said that there's no need to take my boxer shorts off and got right to work examining me in my underwear just like every other visit.

Lots of great posts here. I like @matt2327's last post. Nice detail. It reminds me of how I was at a certain age & how many of us did not want to do things 'wrong' or get into 'trouble' with the doctor. It just evokes some of the old nervous thoughts when being told to undress as a young kid / teen.

Up until the age of 7 or 8 my GP would mortally gave me strip to my briefs

I was always asked to undress down to my underwear for my yearly physicals. For sick visits, I kept my clothes on.

Well for me it was always down to my boxers for a physical at my pediatrician. Actually if I went in for anything it was down to my underpants come to think of it. I never got a gown at my pediatrician. But I never remember shivering, if anything it was always a bit warm in the exam rooms.

My pediatrician always had me undress down to my panties. I think he told the nurse to just do that with everyone because until he came into the exam room he wouldn't know what all he would have to check. I know a couple of other girls who went to him and they had to do the same thing.

Only panties until age 12 or 13, sometimes given a gown but it would come off always for the doctor, panties needed to be pulled down or off for vaginal check and looking at anus and rectal exam

My pediatrician always had me undress down to my panties. I think he told the nurse to just do that with everyone because until he came into the exam room he wouldn't know what all he would have to check. I know a couple of other girls who went to him and they had to do the same thing.

Well for me it was always down to my boxers for a physical at my pediatrician. Actually if I went in for anything it was down to my underpants come to think of it. I never got a gown at my pediatrician. But I never remember shivering, if anything it was always a bit warm in the exam rooms.

For @Jennifer_S and for @DonnieR ‘s sisters, were you allowed to keep your bra on? I mean, as you got older and you started to develop brests, those parts can become just as sensitive as your genitals, right?

Yes I always had to go down to panties and my sports bra as a kid.

The nurse would not even weigh you until you took your cloths off.

I shivered when I was very young. Before I started wearing little sports bra I wore nothing which meant I was sitting on the table with just panties.

Funny because now as an adult I can not wait to take my cloths off at the doctor. At my general doc office they won’t let me get naked. The nurse has me go to panties and a bra and offers a paper gown if you want. So to satisfy my urge I wear a lace micro G String and tiny bra set. The micro barley covers my slit and the top is sheer. I don’t have much on top anyhow. But I do get a thrill out of being naughty. I do get a full body scan at the dermatologist once a year. I am naked for that appointment. It starts off in a gown but as I am being checked the gown just ends up on the table. My Derm has had the same nurse for years. She just looks at me and shakes her head. After the initial checks before the doctor comes in she will put the gown on the table and have me disrobe knowing I will have that thing off in the first 5 minutes after the doctor is in the room.

If you really want to be naked, just don't wear a bra or panties when you go there.

just don't wear a bra or panties when you go there.

I have had this accidently happen on one occassion.

I had been on holiday and cut the back of calf on either coral or a rock in the sea.

Anyway I ended up with clear case of celluitis and went to my dr back home who insisted on getting an ultrasound scan to enure it wasn't a blood clot. I had been on long haul flight was on contraceptive pill and had history in the family.

Seeing as it was only a swollen and painful calf I assumed I could just roll trouser leg up for the scan but I was told to change into a gown as always start with the veins in the groin and scan down.

The person doing the scan grabed my gown and opened the bottom of it and went to tuck some paper into my panties then told me I was meant to leave panties on.

I told the truth and said I didn't come with any.

Didnt bother her and just carried on and when she reached bottom of thigh she just closed the gown.

I grew up in the 90s and always stripped down to my panties. Then the doctor would briefly pull them down, look at my mound, then pull them up.

The only time I had to automatically strip was when I got a physical exam. Most other times for colds/strep throat, it was shirt off only.

Same here. Always down to underwear, then the dreaded "Lie back and relax for me." Briefs down to knees, inspection and squeezing of my penis and scrotum, then knees bent and legs lifted to ceiling for a spread of the bottom. After that he would lightly spank bottom as if to say " I'm done" then lower legs and replace the underwear. He did the spanking thing when I was 1 6, but not the squeezing, just visual inspection of genitalia.

I always hated him and think he's why I hate going to doctor to this day. Was not a friendly sort and always seemed a bit creepy. Think this started my fetish though.

Not automatically, I would be asked to strip off your shirt and undershirt by the nurse. Then when the Dr. came in he would start writing and turn his head and say " you need to strip down to your shorts including your socks".

Back in the 60s even teen girls wore panty girdles. I went to the doctor's and was asked to undress to bra and panties. When I was laying back on the table she wanted to check my tummy. She asked me to pull down my panty girdle so she examine my tummy. I pulled it down to mid thigh. At that point there was nothing to hide. At least it was a female doctor.

Up till age 10 we had to remove all our clothes, even our underwear. At age 10 we were allowed to keep our underwear on, till the nurse entered to take our vitals. She took our underwear down to take our rectal temperature and give a small enema for a digital rectal exam. We pulled it back up when finished on the toilet, however, when the pedestrian entered the examination room, he removed our underwear until the examination was completed. At age 12 we got to keep our underwear on, no more rectal temperature or small enema, and the pediatrician only removed our underwear when he did a genital and digital rectal examination.

Always had to strip to underwear and socks until age 18 for college physical. when dr. came in he always removed socks. and he eventually pulled down my underwear.

I like the relation of his physicals until 16 age by Dr T4Fem with the doctor lighly spanking his butts when he has finished his visual inspection of the anus area.

It reminds me that many doctors at school or private doctors liked to give to a boy a small smack on his butts, without reason and not to hurt, just because it was tradition..., women doctors also gave us a slight smack when we had our butts exposed if they wanted us to change of position or to lift again or to bend over or for anything..

Even at high school, the nurse gave me a smack to climb up naked on the scale annd a second one to climb down, it was rather a motherly pat than a real smack but it was surprising at 17 age as a senior to be treated like a child.

At the military pre-induction centers, each draftee was receiving several spanks while naked, either to line up in a corridor or to enter in a room examination during the medical process given by non commissioners officers , or after to climb up on the scale or to move his body or to bend over or to stand up again by a military doctor.

It seems that it was like a tradition or a ritual of initiation for future inductees . Anyway it was obvious that at 18 age we were not considered as mature young men but lads who deserved to be strictly disciplined and it was part of it, the spanks were sharper than at school examinations

Is it true that the year that youngest pediatricians out there who still make their patients strip to their underwear without a gown were born was 1970? I think the youngest ones were born around 1970 because it may have started to gradually die out with doctors born in about 1960 and there may have been a few stragglers left born as late as 1970 because the youngest doctor that I ever remember having me undress was born somewhere in the mid 1960s so I presume that there may have been a few a little bit younger than her who were as thorough.

My pediatrician is in his mid 50s and has me strip down to my tighty whites without a gown. If he is in his 50s I guess that means he was born in the 1960s.

The most I ever wear in my pediatricians office is my briefs. Doesn't matter what I go in for, I have to strip down to my tighty whities. For a full physical I'm naked.

HI,

I'm so glad I grew up in the UK, only ever time I was seen at the clinic before school stripped down to only underpants and vest, they never came off. Never had another examination which involved removing anything else but a shirt after that from 5, 11 to 16. Guess what I as a result of that, I'm completely healthy, never hospitalized, still at 56 healthy. All my school inoculations were given in the top right arm, never ever given in the bottom. When I joined the army, again never subjected to some kind of degrading, humiliating examination, strip down to underwear which stayed on throughout. No intimates examined. Again all inoculations in both arms.

My mother was somewhat paranoid. She always undressed me or maintained only my underwear and in topless when we visited the doctor. It is not important if it were only a cold. She always it toward. I was very ashamed but I always was the same thing

Nothing was ever mandatory, regarding, undressing at my physical exams. It was different each time for the first exams I can remember, which were school physicals, and it was probably different each year after that at our family doctor, as I got older I wasn't undressed as much.

For those first school physicals when I was 6-8 years old, the first year I was undressed just to my briefs, the second year I was told to take everything off except I could leave my socks on, and the third year I was completely naked. Different doctor each year for these school physicals, always female.

It was the same for me. At my first pediatrician, whom I went to until I was about 10, there were no gowns, so no matter what, I was told to undress to my underwear. When I was 12, I started going to a different doctor. I still had to undress no matter what, but I got a gown.

When I was in third grade, I was really sick, and my mom took me to a doctor late one night. Urgent care centers weren't really prevalent at that time, so we must have gone to some kind of on-call center. I remember my stepfather carrying me to the car and my mom telling me to sleep during the ride. I have no idea where we went, but I ended up seeing a doctor I had never seen before. And still, everything came off.