Gowns

My current family doctor has always used paper gowns with either panties on or off, depending on what I am there for. I like this for my exams with him but I also like to think back to the exams with my pediatrician when I just had my panties on. I remember sitting in the exam room a couple of years ago and thinking about having a checkup with just panties on now, how it would feel and how "embarassed" I would be.

I've rarely been given a gown at a doctor's appointment. When I was younger, my pediatrician always had me strip down to my briefs. The only time as an adult that I've been given a gown was for a pre-employment physical exam. During that exam, I arrived in a t-shirt and shorts. I was told to take off my shirt and put the gown on but leave my shorts on. The gown was extremely oversized and it was very awkward for me to have it on. I would have been completely comfortable either in my underpants or with just my shirt off. I had to hold the gown up and down my khaki shorts and underpants for the testicular exam and hernia exam. I have an upcoming dermatology exam within the next few weeks. I've been to this doctor several times for specific problems but never a full skin exam and this will be my first. I am interested to see if I'm given a cloth or a paper gown.

When i do fone sex with 18-30s females nearly all say they are in gowns or were in gowns when they were younger even though my pediatrician did not give them to male or female patients. however, many claim that they are given gowns but the doctor removes them as soon as he comes in. can any females truthfully comment if they have experienced that? others say it is illegal for a male doctor to examine a female patient in panties only or completely nude.

Gowns??

Heck I'm still all the way clothed on my last 3 physicals. I like the doctor a lot and he's thorough in his oral history and takes my concerns with care. But how do I really approach my doctor and say hey Doc strip me naked and a gown or strip me to my underwear ( cause its one of the hottest parts of my exam and thorough) ugh.

Maybe for another topic.

Gowns??

Heck I'm still all the way clothed on my last 3 physicals.

Me, too.

Ugh.

Gowns??

Heck I'm still all the way clothed on my last 3 physicals. I like the doctor a lot and he's thorough in his oral history and takes my concerns with care. But how do I really approach my doctor and say hey Doc strip me naked and a gown or strip me to my underwear ( cause its one of the hottest parts of my exam and thorough) ugh.

Maybe for another topic.

I'm actually not opposed to a physical that is fully clothed as long as everything is properly examined. The HEENT exam doesn't require any undressing, auscultation can be performed by reaching under clothes, the abdominal exam can be done by lifting up the shirt, and the genital exam can be done by lowering pants and underwear.

I will say that my physical that was performed with me in disposable exam shorts and nothing else was much more efficient because there was no need to work around clothing for the HEENT, lungs, back, and abdominal exam, and it was much easier to slide the shorts down rather than mess with a belt and pants for the genital check.

I actually found the genital exam less awkward when I only had the shorts even though I had nothing else on because it was very quick and easy to just stand up and lower the shorts. When I was fully clothed, I found it a little awkward to stand in front of my doctor and essentially undress in front of him while he waited with gloved hands.

I have a gown at the start of the exam. Shortly into the exam, the gown is lowered or taken off. It never seems to find its way back on during most of the exam.

Wasn't a full exam but I was topless for a while at the doctors the other week. I'm a pre op trans guy so still have breasts but this doctor told me that he'd need to check my pulses and asked me to strip to my boxers while he left the room. Part of me wondered if he didn't realise, but he seemed to have read the rest of my notes and I'd say it's obvious.

While I was waiting it felt a bit odd to be sitting there with my chest out, but when he started examining me it felt totally natural. Even when he was checking my legs, the reason I was there, I didn't feel exposed. It felt good just to be treated like any other man.

Think I'd prefer exams to be like that, with no gown in my boxers, from now on.

Mmm... a drape is a good option

Mmm... a drape is a good option

But why? I think that is even sillier than a gown. I think they are just a nuisance really.

But why? I think that is even sillier than a gown. I think they are just a nuisance really.

Personally, I've found that the one time that you absolutely do want to be covered up is when the door to the exam room opens. That could be when either the nurse or doctor is entering or exiting. That's the one reason I like to use a paper drape. It's easy to just lay it over your lap to cover your private parts (yes, I'm male and those are my only private parts) while the door opens and closes. Then once the doctor is safely inside the exam room with you, the paper drape is equally easy to just push aside and continue the exam without any covering at all. YMMV of course.

Any examination I have had to have in the US I never wear a gown or drape, I just allow the person to access what they need when they need it, if as always my appointment is planned which is the norm , I wear clothing that will allow quick easy access. A Dr once threw a gown at me, I threw it back at him, he insisted it was the way he conducted business, he then said he would give me 10 minutes to think about it, I told him never ever to give me an ultimatum and do his job at my level of comfort, not his. Needless to say, I walked out, dumped him as my care provider and demanded my co pay back. Needless to say but I did complain to my provider, I reminded them of my necessity for patient modesty, and not that some power crazed Dr who obviously has had it his way for far too long.

I used to hold my gown closed at the back when walking in the hospital corridor. Then I put a gown on backwards ( thus covering my buns ) and one on the way it should be. That way if my top gown is open at the back all that is seen is my other gown which is underneath it . It's frowned upon but what the heck.

It makes some nurses cranky because it's not standard practice.

So, laying on my belly, I just open my top gown at the back then I lift my underneath gown to my waist thus exposing my ass for whatever is mandated. ( usually an enema ).

I like for my role play patient to be in a gown . even better is when she is reclining on crinkly exam table paper

I do what Rock does: get 2 gowns, one front, one back. I'm not interested in playing what seems to me to be a game of depersonalizing vulnerability humiliation.

The two gown--one forward and one backward is very common when patients take their exercise walks in the halls.

It keeps them covered.

The gown I was given during my recent hospital stay for a total knee replacement overlapped in the back and tied in the front so there was no exposure at all during my walks around the floor. Much different from the ones I previously was accustomed to.

^^^^ The gowns you describe that wrap around 540 degrees are also used, but they seem to be less available than the regular ones.

A precedent was set last week.

From now on, if I am asked to wear a gown for a physical, I will ask if there will be an EKG. If there will be, i will discourage the idea of me wearing one. Gowns cause me to perspire, and between that & my hairy body, getting the electrodes to stick will be a pure nightmare.

And of course by now, my new primary care physician understands this phenomenon, all too well.

(Jest alert, so relax) And maybe, just maybe, she will secretly like the opportunity to get a further look at my jockstrap. 😉

I haven't been offered a gown in a long time. Occasionally, there is a paper drape. The nurse usually tells me to undress to my underwear and I can use the drape if I want it. I just leave it on the counter.

I prefer not to wear a gown. I like to be as naked as possible at the doc's.

No gowns for me please

I just had my anual physocal and was given a gown to ware. That was the first time in years. I enjoyed it because the doctor lifted the gown during my hernia exam which was done while i was still on my back. It was easy access i guess.

I just had my first visit with a new doctor. I was told by a nurse to put on a gown and leave my undershorts on. The gown was a total waste of time. It kept slipping down. The doctor listened to my lungs. heart and checked heent. She also checked my feet. Other than that there was no reason to have a gown. The actual exam part of the physical could have been done in the clothes I was wearing. It was very similar to the last exam I had with another doctor.

I prefer not to wear a gown. I like to be as naked as possible at the doc's.

That's pretty incongruous for someone named "the reluctant patient."

I must say, if i had a choose, i always want a gown, but for on all my exams, from the start,

I have been told, i am to shy and i do not need it.

Every time i mention it, they both laugh, my mom , will something like , were all family here.

I love being in my underwear and when its time for my doctor to examine my genitals I like getting naked and having nothing to cover myself with.

I can't vouch for whether this is true but when calling a phone sex line the other day I talked to a female about 22 in oregon. She said she had a physical recently at a new clinic and the nurse told her to undress down to her panties and sit on the table to wait for the doctor. When she asked for a gown, the nurse said they don't use gowns there. Sounds like my pediatricians office in the 80s and 90s but hardly believable for a female adult in America. It was disappointing that the doctor did not have her remove or slip her panties down at all, that she got no rectal or pelvic exam. She said the nurse was present during the exam

Now, she could of been telling me this knowing it will turn me on and keep me on the phone longer. But the fact that she said the doctor never saw her completely naked and never did a rectal and vaginal exam, and had the nurse in the room, also makes me suspect theres a grain of truth to what she said, that if she really wanted to lie to turn me on, she would have said the doctor examined everything and had her naked by the end, and was alone with her.

Can anyone else speak on this or vouch for similar experiences?

One thing I do not understand is why when I'm chatting on gay or female chat lines or doing phone sex, people usually hang up when you ask the doctors name and location in cases where they claim such exams. If theyre telling the truth, telling me the doctors name and location will never get them in trouble because no one would have any way of disclosing their identitites for doing so. Only once recently did a young adult gay boy tell me about a naked exam that included a rectal exam and he gave me the doctors name and location which I verified. Anyone else experienced this?

You called a phone sex line and you expect to get an honest, NON-titilating answer from them?????????????????

Their job is to keep you on the line so they can empty your wallet.

You really have a thing about gowns and sheets don't you.

Doesn't bother me one way or the other.I was at my doctor's office and I wore a paper gown.Then I went to my urologist and saw the nurse practitioner who was a female and she gave me a paper gown,well it tore off ,she said don't worry about that. And then I went to another docto on a referral from my doctor and she was a female the nurse told me to remove all my clothing. So I guess it depends on the doctor