Covered during exam

Hi when having your smear do you prefer to be covered with a drape or towel etc or do you prefer to be completely on show?

Also would be good to know what the practice typically is in uk

The wife says it depends on your GP (doctor or physician) or nurse.

If she wears trousers they have her strip to the waist, if she wears a skirt some still make her strip, whilst others just let her take her knickers off and pull her skirt up to reveal herself. Until the person who is doing the exam, sometimes they put a blanket or sheet over her lower body whilst others just leave her there exposed.

I hope it helps.

I have had patients completely disrobe wearing a skirt and other just pull there skirt up to there waist during exams. Its truly up to the patient.

I can tell you my wife loves to be completely nude and "on show". She enjoys being scrutinized with staring eyes.

My wife is always nude during her exam.

In Germany you're dressed up when you have

on the examination chair/Table.

I was only once completely naked during an

examination.

Normally, you are never completely naked

Lower half clothes removed for me and no drape of any kind is offered at the GP'S surgery .Even at the hospital I've never been offered a gown or drape .

Thanks to a nice gentleman (I think it was a man) whom knocked me off my bike, I am now in hospital with a broken shoulder & hip using my free arm to post this. Seeing how putting a gown on me is so impractical, they just have a sheet over me for modesty which comes off every time I have to use a bed pan or be examined.

Always in an exam gown and usually given a little sheet to cover up with.

I have always been in a gown of some type and typically with a drape sheet. Gowns have been cloth or paper, or an exam vest type covering.

Sorry for the hard luck Tullip. Keep us posted on what they do to you. Get well soon!

Sorry to hear about your accident Tullip. We in the UK have hospital gowns that have buttons or snaps on the shoulders so it would be easily to use on the unaffected shoulder and at the same time protect your modesty. A friend has assured me that they can be found in the US especially common on the Orthopedic and ICU wards. They are easy to put on and take off fast,keep from tangling up all lines and protect your modesty. Hope this helps

Tulip,

I am guessing if you are in the hospital, with those injuries, you are on the orthopaedic ward/floor/unit? Do they plan to transfer you at some point to a rehab care center before going home?

Andie

Thanks for kind words.

About a month here, 6 weeks in re hab

Gowns over here way of life no matter what u have done. But because of my injuries the nurses suggested the sheet was better thanr the gown, it works for me.

I've been with my wife for a couple of her smear tests and also two gyn appointments and she has never been offered a blanket, towel or other form of cover

I prefer to be covered with the sheet that the nurse gives me when I am getting into the stirrups.

I've always had a some sort of gown for exams at my regular doctor and my gynecologist. The only times I've ever been completely nude were during physical exams with my pediatrician, prior to my teens (and those usually started in panties only).

I have always had a gown and a sheet.

My girlfriend is always covered with a gown and a sheet on her legs when she has her pelvic exam never completly naked during the exam

When my gynecologist did my exams this year he had a sheet covering my thighs and then he lifted it up above my knees so he could see better under the sheet

I am in a gown and never completely naked for the pelvic exam. When on the table,first a sheet is placed on my thighs that goes till my feet, then as I lie back and my feet are positioned in stirrups, only then I raise the sheet and gown underneath till thighs. This way doctor can do her job and I am also covered from mid thighs and above. Nothing embarrassing.

Here gowns foe exam very rare. I have to undress from waist down for the pelvic exam and pap smear. No cover.

For me it always stripped waist down then they cover everything with a drape depending on the type of exam (smear vs. Colposcopy) sometimes I try to pull it back to see what going on and going in

I suspect, as the OP said, this is mostly an inquiry for UK women. In the US (I have no idea about the rest of the world) the woman most always is undressed fully and in an exam gown, with a drape sheet. However, in the UK where it is often panties down, skirt up... the question of a drape sheet is much more valid.

But even with a sheet, I suspect there is often an urge to as someone else said, pull it up a bit to "see what is going on."

Just my opinion of course.

No sheets here in the UK.. We are hardcore, take our knickers off in front of the dr/nurse and get on the couch.. I usually wear a skirt as its easier to pull up around your waist and therefore you're more covered on the way up and down off the couch.

My wife is always covered, depending on the doctor she has went to the covering has differed somewhat. With one doctor the majority of the exams have been with a cloth gown opening to the front. This doctor however in 1982, and the very first one I saw her have she was completely nude. Also this doctor did a couple of her exams when she had a dress on, he had her just remove her panties and do a frog leg position for him to do a quick checkup. The one four years ago at a regular gynecologist she had a wrap around piece of paper around her waist and a paper flap over her breast. One doctor she went to, and I didn't get to witness she said it was like a paper loin covering her pubic area, and nothing on the backside with a paper vest. For mine I have never had a gown other than when I had a dermatologist exam.

In the UK the woman is told to either undress completely below the waist, or if she is wearing a suitable skirt then she might be told to just take her knickers off and it is done upskirt. A typical NHS smear test would be done that way and the whole appointment over in 5 minutes or less. If she was having a more thorough well woman check including an internal, a breast exam, and general medical at a private practice, then she might be told to undress completely and be given a gown to wear. At my employers in London we were offered annual private medicals paid for by the company, at one stage the women went to a BUPA facility and were told to bring a dressing gown from home to wear during their appointment. They were told to undress completely and had their mammograms and internal exams done while wearing their own dressing gown...

When I go for an exam I always have a gown and a sheet to cover me.

For me I have no shame so being on show does not bother me. The lil paper does shit it always ends up on the floor so why waste one on me.