Where do you put your underwear when told to strip and wear gown?

I stack things up as I take them off, so underwear usually right on top. It's easiest too since I get dressed in reverse order.

My underwear goes with the rest of my clothing on the chair.

I typically put my clothes on the chair and then I’ll put my bra and panties underneath them

I was asked to remove all my clothes including my up underwear. I put my underwear in my pants.

If having to fully undress there is normally a chair in the exam room. I strip to underpants and leave my clothes on the chair and wait. You don't get a gown in the UK. If my underwear is removed rather than just pulled down, it goes in my trousers. walking over naked and back is part of the exam.

As I undress my clothes would folded and place in a neat pile. My briefs would be last off and a top the pile.

Recently, I had my yearly dermatologist mole check. The nurse asked my date of birth and asked what I was here for. I advised for the yearly mole check and to have a prescription re-filled. She checked the file and advised to remove my clothes except my underwear and here is a gown. I said I will just stay in my underwear as I do not like gowns.

In general, if I'm told to undress and then handed a gown, I'd remove underwear from the start. However, I think it would depend on where I'm at and the reason for my exam. If I'm at a cardiologist, I'd probably leave my underwear on. If at a urologist or proctologist, I'd obviously take them off too.

In the past, it was never an issue for me, I was always told what to do. Typically, I'm handed a gown and told, “Everything off but your underwear”, or “Opening in the back. You can leave your underwear on”, or some other version of this phrase. On a side note, I LOVE being told these instructions by a nurse or MA!

However, I have had this quandary in the last few years at my dermatologist. When I first started going there, I was always told by the nurse to “get undressed. Take everything off”. That's about as direct as you can get to remove your underwear too. Then suddenly one year, the nurse laid out a gown and said “Get undressed. You *can leave on your underwear.” She kind of stressed the word “can”, so hesitantly I removed them also, since that's what I had always previously done there. The next year, the nurse kind of awkwardly told me, “Go ahead and get undressed. Take off what you're comfortable with. Just know that whatever you leave on, the doctor won't look underneath. So if you leave on, say, your socks, the doctor won't look under your socks or have you remove them.” It was a very awkward instruction from her. I, again, took off my underwear. The last two or three years, the gown is placed on the table, and I'm told to, “Get undressed.” No other specific or vague instructions given. So far, I've always taken off my underwear from the start. Always placed right on top of my pile of clothes.

It usually is a nurse that gives the instructions to remove everything and put on a gown or they say you can leave your underwear under the gown. I follow what the instructions are that are given. Since there never seems to be hooks in an exam room to hang clothes on, one is left to put them on a chair. I have always wondered why hooks are never in an exam room. It seems they should be standard. Anyway, I place them on the chair in the order I take them off, after all a doctor has seen underwear plenty of times anyway.

I do remember one exam, however, that the nurse specifically told me to remove everything and then put on the gown. However, when the doctor cam in to examine me and saw I had no underwear on beneath the gown, he actually seemed angry about it, like he thought I was being an exhibitionist or something, even though I told him that the nurse said to remove everything. He then mumbled something about that he will have to tell her not to give those instructions in the future.

Personally, I hate having exam gowns as they always seem to just get in the way when the doctor is examining you anyway. It is always such a hassle when the doctor lowers the gown to check your heart and stomach but never bothers to raise the gown again when he is done and then you don't quite know what to do if you should just raise it up yourself or just leave it hanging down. It's really a lot of trouble just to protect one's modesty when the doctor will be seeing you naked anyway during the exam.

Here in Germany we don't use gowns

So at the gynecologist I leave my underwear & clothes in the changing cabin

At my normal GP I just put them on the chair next to me at the desk

I follow the instructions. For surgery here a Nurse has always said to take everything off and put a gown on even when I had minor surgery and I asked if that was necessary and then she checked in the OR to make sure I had. In an office if I’m instructed to put on a gown I assume I’m supposed to remove everything unless the nurse says leave your underwear on. It depends what I’m there for like a previous poster dermatologist I remov everything because she goes over all skin. Caridiologist or pain management I leave them on unless told to remove.

I love sitting on the exam table, bare butt sticking to the crinkly paper looking at my pile of clothes next to me on the chair, underwear thrown on top. It really emphasizes how naked I am and what is about to happen!

The next year, the nurse kind of awkwardly told me, “Go ahead and get undressed. Take off what you're comfortable with. Just know that whatever you leave on, the doctor won't look underneath. So if you leave on, say, your socks, the doctor won't look under your socks or have you remove them.”

Wow, so it's sort of like an examination á la carte … the patient gets to choose what the dermatologist is allowed to examine. But it does miss the point of being certain there is nothing wrong with the patient.