When you are asked to disrobe in advance how fare do you go?

I have not sisrobed at my GP since I was a child. They just ask me to pull down my pants and underwear when its time for a rectal or genital exam. When I see my urologist the nurse will ask me to take off my pants and underwear if I am there for a procedure.

At this point, I fully anticipate being instructed by the nurse to remove all of my clothing as she places a paper gown on the exam table and usually leaves the room. With the sound of the door closing, my heart rate gets faster as I ponder how much time I will have to complete the challenge. I always start by kicking off my shoes and then removing my blouse and slipping off my slacks as I stand there in my underwear. It has happened that I will run my hands over my hips - it's just a way of mentally engaging I suspect. Then if I have on pantyhose I will peel them off and carefully place it on the chair and then reach for the clasp of my bra and removing it. My panties are still on but have sometimes slipped a bit from removing my hose and now the moment of truth arrives. I take a deep breath, as if this helps, and remove them and then hide it under my clothing on the chair. It feels like forever as I stand there naked and then reach for the gown. It's an intense moment however = one that is mixed with many emotions and sensations.

Now that I've been at both of my wife's exams - her GP tell her only what needs to go off under the gown, usually just underwear. The gyno's nurse tell her to "take everything off".

I've never had a doctor ask me to get completely naked.

Dermatologist has asked me to strip down to my boxers before and then I dropped them as needed.

Even when I had to remove blood clots from some trombosed veins on my anus i kept my shirt on.

Man I would love for the doctor to tell me to get naked all the way!

When i have been asked to take my clothes of, they have always said keep your pants on.

When i have been asked to take my clothes of, they have always said keep your pants on.

This. The physician's assistants are nearly always explicit about leaving underwear on, but shirt off. I don't want to be that bad guy, so I follow instructions and disrobe as needed during the exam proper.

I guess I'm in the minority who are specifically told to take off everything, including my underwear, and to put on the gown with the opening in the back.

It's been an evolutionary process at this clinic. The first time, it was everything off but keep your underwear on and put on the gown. The second time, it was everything off including my underwear. That was a great physical. From almost the start I was bare-chested and the gown pooling on my waist -- very hot. He told me to get dressed while he stayed in the room, and for a couple moments I was buck naked. I got the sense for the first time he was really enjoying my body.

The third time was different. The doctor came in right away when I was fully dressed, and told me to get undressed. He watched me the whole time. He did not say how far, and I didn't ask, so I stopped at my boxer-briefs and stood in front of him, awaiting instruction. To this day I regret not slipping them off.

Sadly that doctor retired but I've stayed at the same clinic. It's always been everything off including your underwear with this doc, who is younger than I and pretty good-looking.

I went to a new doctor years ago when he started his practice. The first time, for a physical, he instructed me to take off everything except my underwear. No gown was offered. The next time I took everything off, including my underwear, and from that point on his instructions changed to my taking everything off. Another doctor never gave the details, so I simply took everything off. He was in the exam room/office with me each time. I can add that, in my 60's, I have been used to being undressed at the doctor's office for physicals, so I am simply ignoring gown creep.

What's the use of differing your undressing with the phases of the exam? I think patients should undress as they are told right from the beginning.

I just hate when I have asked a patient to undress to her panties and she comes out from behind the screen still wearing her bra and/or socks/nylons.... You're usually at your doctor's for a good reason, I suppose you might as well give him the opportunity to check you thoroughly and that starts by being properly undressed since the begining.

I can't remember a time where the nurse didn't give specific instructions such as "undress to your shorts" or "take off everything and put on this gown." I just do what they ask.

At my most recent physical I was told to "take everything off, including underwear, and place the gown on with the opening in the back." I did as instructed; however, the gown remained down and across my lap throughout most of the exam. When asked to stand for the genital exam and rectal exam, I simply placed the gown on the exam table and stood completely exposed.

During the chest and abdomen exam I was on my back, and the doctor placed the exam gown so it just covered my genitals.

When I was a kid it was always down to underwear before doc came in. One adult exam I had was gown and boxer's were still on. Now I dont remove anything unless told to do so

Nurses always provide gowns before asking you to disrobe so I go all the way, taking off everything

If i am asked to disrobe in advance i will do what I am told. There are times when I am given a gown and been told to keep underwear on and other times when I am gived a gown and told underwear off too.

I might just take everything off and underwear and lay the gown over my lap on my next new doctor exam in January.

Or just underwear and not even use the gown. Any thoughts? Thing is I like the underwear only but I would like to see the reaction if I just get naked and gown as a draping.

Medfetguy, you can be standing with your underwear in hand when you hear the knock on the exam room door, which I have done when the scale was there.

Well as for me if i need to get completely undressed i will. I have always been given a robe for my vasectomy and other visits that i have had .

I have rarely been asked to undress. The one time I did, I was at a peditrician's office for the first and only physical I received there. They asked me to strip down to my underwear. I didn't feel like it, so I just took my shirt and my shoes off. The nurse came back and was not amused. She stared me down until I lost my pants.

My providers and their nurses/MAs are very specific with instructions to disrobe. There's rarely any ambiguity.

• GP
  • For a physical, it's everything off but panties, gown open in back
  • For a sick visit or follow up, it varies based on the reason for the visit, but it's most often shirt off, pants/skirt/shorts unbuttoned
  • The MA gives undressing instructions
• Gynecologist
  • For my annual Gyn exam, it's everything off, paper vest open in front and paper lap drape
  • For problem visits, it depends on the problem being addressed, so it can be topless under a vest or bottomless under a drape
  • The doc gives the disrobing instructions
• Dermatologist
  • For annual FBSE, it's everything off, gown open in back
  • The MA gives the instructions
• Urologist
  • Depends upon the reason for the visit - it varies from everything off, gown open in back to everything off below the waist, covered with paper drape, to nothing off
  • The MA gives in the instructions most of the time, once in a while, it's the doc
• Endocrinologist
  • Depends upon the reason for the visit, but once a year it's everything off but panties under a gown open in the back
  • The nurse gives the instructions
• Osteopath
  • No disrobing other than the first appointment, but wear loose fitting clothes
  • First visit was everything off but panties under a gown open in back
  • For the first visit, the doc gave the instructions

For a physical at my primary care, it is everything off, but underpants, gown open in the back. The medical assistant gives the instructions when she opens the door to the exam room; then closes it and leaves. At the urologist, it was everything off from the waist down and I was covered by a paper drape. The instructions were given by the nurse, who led me to the exam room; I entered alone.

I strip off as much as I am asked to straight away.

It depends. If there is no gown, the nurse asks me to strip to my briefs. If I am handed a gown, the directive is to strip fully! I usually obey but it feels awkward standing there naked and reaching for the gown.

For the last several years the instructions at kaiser for a complete full body physical are…." Have a seat, doctor will be in shortly." There has been no disrobing and any exam is over the clothes. My last annual FBSE at the dermatologist I was told to remove my shirt. That was the only article I removed. The doctor checked my back, shoulders , arms and scalp and said I was all clear.

The nurse always instructs me to get undressed down to my underwear before the doctor comes in, so that's how far I undress initially. The underwear comes off later in the exam.

I only go as far as specifically told. I feel like to take off more or to assume I should is potentially rude to the doctor/nurse. Even as a kid, I would err on the side of taking off less (and the times when I was pointedly told to take off more are kind of hot to me for that reason, I guess.)

The days of disrobing for the doctor seem to be diminishing. Actually, I can't remember the last time I was told to take my clothes off. What I do remember is the assistant would always tell me what to take off and it was never to strip naked.

The last time I was told do disrobe was at my dermatologist this past early spring, I had a couple moles removed a couple years ago so I get rechecked every year from head to toe so when I go I am told by the nurse to totally disrobe so that's what I do.

For physicals, the medical assistant gives me very vague instructions something to the effect of “there’s a gown for you to change into“. I always take off everything and then put on the gown as a genital exam and rectal exam are always part of the exam. One year I asked what all I should remove, and was told I could keep my underwear on. I left them on at first, but ended up taking them off before the doctor came in. It just didn’t make sense to leave them on knowing they would have to come off at some point. It seemed easier and frankly less embarrassing just to remove them from the start as he does the genital exam while I’m supine, then the rectal with me on my side and then I stand for the hernia exam.

At the urologist, it was everything off from the waist down

@srg_rik did you take off your socks?

Underwear only, everything else off. It‘s been a few years since I have been asked to undress, but when I had to, that’s what she said. “I’m going to step out so you can get changed. Keep your underwear on, but take everything else off. Put the gown on, opening in the back.”