Wearing only a drape for physical

But I would think placing it over your testicles would be more important if that were the case.

That's what I thought, too. I would think the testes would be more susceptible to radiation than the penis itself.

Or might it have been for privacy? Would it cover up the outline of my penis so my mom wouldn't have to see it when reviewing the x-ray with the doctor?

I typically use only a drape at my gyno exams. I also only recieved a drape to cover up with for a colposcopy.

I haven't had this happen, but I think I'd prefer a drape to those foolish gowns.

When I had surgery a few months ago, I was in the hospital and rehabilitation for a few weeks. Most of the time when I was in my room, sitting up or in bed, I didn't have my arms through the sleeves of the gown, I just left it sort of draped over me. When the weather warmed up, I just kept the gown over my lap, keeping my upper body and legs uncovered. When the air-conditioning in my room failed, I just kept the gown kind of bunched up between my legs, just covering my groin. A few times nurses or assistants giggled a bit when they saw this.

Really, I decided it just would be a lot easier to have patients be nude when they're in bed. You can keep covers over you, but it would be so much easier when they need to check you over, rather than fumbling with those stupidly cumbersome gowns. Just use those for when you leave your room.

That happened to me when I went to a proctologist. The nurse told me to take everything off from the waist down then pointed to a folded drape on the table and left the room. It was a paper drape and I didn't unfold it, just sat on the table and held it on my lap.

When the doctor came in, I felt a bit weird being naked with a pile of paper on my lap. He sat right in front of me and asked me questions while I sat in that uncomfortable position.

For the actual exam, I had to kneel on a ledge at the end of his special table. I honestly don't remember how I got up to position myself, maybe he helped me unfold the drape first to cover myself, but I can't recall.

I'm not a fan of paper drapes and prefer fabric gowns or nothing.

Wearing a drape seems less cumbersome than sitting in underwear. then removing underpants for the genital and rectal exams.

In any of my physicals I never have a gown or anything. Usually will start by just taking my shirt off and then when it comes time the doctor will simply have me pull my pants down and then when that’s done I just pull them up and put my shirt back on and done. Never ever stripped down or anything for a gown any other way in any doctor I went to. Of course I’ve only had regular physicals and no special treatments procedures or anything at this point.

Never had a drape; currently wear a gown with underwear underneath. I would honestly prefer just underwear as that affords plenty of modesty while giving the doctor full access to my body. Gowns don’t really cover anything up as the top gets pulled off my shoulders to my lap near the beginning of the exam.

And since the gown is literally falling off at the end of the exam, the both years I’ve been given a gown, I’ve had no choice but to set aside the gown and stand in my underwear for the genital exam. Of course this could have been avoided with the gown omitted from the start.

At my first gynecologist's, he used just a sheet for a pre surgical full physical. My current GP uses one of those awful paper "tops" that you put on over your head, which doesn't even cover my breasts, and a paper sheet for the bottom half. I have had so few full physicals in my lifetime, I don't remember any others. Weirdly, when I had 3 surgeries in one year, I didn't have a physical for any of them.

I rarely go to my own GP but thinking back I've never been offered a drape of any kind during an examination. Mainly been strip to waist or strip to underwear but never any drape. Maybe it's a cost cutting measure by the NHS, drapes cost money.

I don’t recall ever having a drape in any exam I’ve had .

I've never had a drape. I had a gown one time for an x ray, other full examinations I have usually been undressed to underwear.

Yes this very same thing happened to me when I was 25. Having gone to see a female doctor with concerns of rectal bleeding and sexual dysfunction issues, she told me to that she wanted to do a genital and rectal exam.

She told me to strip from the waist down and handed me a cloth drape as she left the room. This was to be my first ever recital exam and as I began to undress I very quickly started to develop an erection. I really didn’t want to be sitting on the exam table with a drape in full ‘tent’ situation when the dr came back in to the room, and so I decided it would be a better idea to wrap the entire drape around my waist like a towel ?. I figured if I wrapped it tightly enough it would help keep the erection down and therefore less obvious.

When the dr eventually came back in to the room, she looked at my drape solution and smiled. I nervously mumbled something about not knowing what to do with it, to which she replied, ‘don’t worry, it doesn’t really matter, it will be coming off anyway in a moment’

She immediately went to put on a pair of gloves, asking me if I had ever had a rectal exam before as she did so. When she came over to the table she told me that we’d be doing the genital exam first and so asked me to unwrap the drape and to lie down on my back. However as I was doing that I noticed she was applying lube to her gloved finger. As I lay there nervously watching she suddenly stopped and rather embarrassed, said ‘I don’t know why I did that, but seeing as I have lubed up let’s change the plah and do your rectal exam first, so if you can roll over on to your left side and bring your right knee up to your chest’.

It was a slightly strange moment, and I wonder if my unorthodox use of the drape didn’t throw her a little.....

What is a drape? do you mean a hospital gown?

What is a drape? do you mean a hospital gown?

It's essentially a sheet to cover you.

I just had my annual physical (2nd with this doc) and like last year, he talked with me first then said "Everything off, gown open in the back" and he left for a minute. It is interesting that he requires this, he did not do a genital or hernia exam, but did do a DRE with me laying on my side. When he had me laying on my back he slid the gown up enough to get a visual of my genitals, I guess that's enough at my age (early 50s).

I've never worn just a drape. The first three visits to my dermatologist they had me in nothing but a cloth gown, opening in the back, and a cloth drape over my lap. The doctor and nurse move and reposition the gown and drape as the exam progresses. Halfway through the exam, the nurse removes the drape from my lap and spreads it out on the floor. The doctor then instructs me to stand on the drape as he kneels in front of me slightly to my right. He raises the gown and looks, has me turn 90 degrees to the left and repeats, then turn another 90 degrees to the left. Apparently to cut costs, they did away with the drape recently.

I had a girlfriend years ago go to a health clinic for a pelvic exam and birth control. They had her strip and gave her a thin paper/ plastic sheet and told to her to tuck it under her arms once she sat on the table. So basically her entire front side was covered and her entire back side was exposed. She laid back and the doctor just did the breast exam right over the sheet. Then she scooted down for the pelvic exam. Never had to adjust or remove the sheet at all.

Many years ago I had a GP who always gave a drape said take everything off and sit on end of table and just put drape over lap. it made physical go faster as there was no removal of underwear he just took drape away