Undressing Unnecessarily

Have you ever taken off more than was necessary for an exam either of your own volition or at the doctor's request?

I went to a walk in clinic once for a bad cough. After they took my information, the doctor came in and questioned me while I was still dressed. It was winter, so I was in heavy clothes. The doctor asked me to get undressed. She stayed in the room, but had her back to me while I did. I'm not sure what compelled me, but when I got to my underwear I asked her, "Underwear on or off?" She turned around and said, "You can leave them on, but it's up to you." I took them off. :-)

It seems like I am asked to get totally undressed and put on a gown every time I go to the doctor's office. The doctor usually asked me to drop the gown when he checks my heart and lungs. When he has me lay back, he will remove the gown from my lap and set in on the counter leaving me totally naked for the rest of the exam.

She turned around and said, "You can leave them on, but it's up to you." I took them off.

Whenever I'm given an option like this, I do the same thing, taking off everything, or as much as possible. For most full exams, I remove everything and am completely nude, with only a paper drape for just the beginning of the exam. I'm sure that undressing completely like that is now considered completely unnecessary, but that's what I do.

For a non-annual exam visit, the process usually involves removing my blouse and/or pants/skirt depending on what I have worn. I don't usually have the expectation of removing my underwear but it has occurred/ I suppose it is the threat of having to show all and hearing "underwear too" that makes the exam or doctor visit humbling.

When the get an exam it moves kind of slow. First they pull shirt sleeve up for bp. Then shirt off for chest and back exam, usually having to un button pants and lower underwear, just a little bit. After that one time it was a little cold, they let me put my shirt back on and then remove pants. After a quick exam of legs and feet underwear is slide down to finish exam. They don't seam to use any gown. I asked the nurse if they had any, and she told me they do, but don't realy ever use them, "their a waste of money " she said.

But it does seam that just about every time they are going to do a quick full body exam of some type, and of course making you undress slowly.

Dermlover it would seem to me that your level of disrobing was completely unnecessary. I have been through my share of Bronchitis and Walking Pneumonia over the years and have only been required to remove my shirt and undershirt both at my regular doctor's office as well as the local Urgent Care Clinic. The doctor you mentioned wasted their time as well as yours by having you strip down.

Only as a kid. When I was younger, any time I went to the doctor for anything from a physical to being sick, I had to strip to my underpants. Looking back, that wasn't necessary most of the time for the regular illnesses that I got, like sore throats, the flu or bronchitis. I can understand why it was easier for the doctor if the patient is already undressed and what is wrong is not obvious but most of the time kids have the same illnesses and don't need to be undressed to be diagnosed. This changed sometime in my teens when if I was ill with something that was going around, I waited for the doctor with my shirt off only. Growing up, we went to clinics on military bases most of the time that I remember so this was just the military way. Some of the treatment areas where doctors and nurses worked in those clinics were large rooms where several kids could be seen and treated at the same time. There were small exam rooms too but the overflow was what was called in some clinics the medical bay area.

I have never payed attention to the nurse's demands to leave my underwear on. If I am getting into a gown, or expecting a full body skin check, then I will be nude under the gown. Once the doctor asked me to stand and drop my pants, so she could do a hernia check. I unbuttoned and unzipped, with her still watching every move I made. I then pulled my pants down to my ankles while she tried to tell me to keep my jeans above the knees. Really?!?! She is shy when it comes to my knees?

Recently I went in for a physical, or at least I thought it would be a physical and not a meet and greet. The nurse took most of my history, meds, bp, pulse, temp... then the doctor came in. I had not been asked to get in a gown. The doctor sat and went over much of what the nurse did. (Why the double up on this effort?!?!?) She then asked if I recently had a DRE. I told her it had been awhile. She then asked when my last physical was, again its been awhile. She then says we will get you back in for a physical in three to four months time. Heck, I was there, at that time, for my physical. So she agreed to to a partial physical and handed me a folded paper sheet from the cabinet and asked me to undress from the waist down. She left the room.

A few minutes later the nurse walks in, with the doctor right behind her, to find me with only my socks on my feet and the folded paper sheet over my lap. The doctor tells me that we will not do the physical today after all. She says, 'thanks for disrobing anyway' and leaves the room. The nurse tells me to stand up and put my clothes back on. She hesitates for a second so I stand up and drop the sheet on the table. She turned her head and quickly left the room.

So yet again I was undressed unnecessarily, this time by the doctor's orders.

The doctor tells me that we will not do the physical today after all. She says, 'thanks for disrobing anyway' and leaves the room.

Did the doctor provide a reason why she wasn't going to conduct the physical? That seems really strange to me. You either have time for the exam or not.

Not me, but my wife did. It was a male doctor. Not sure why she told me, as it didn't bother me, that's for sure.

Never has happened to me. I guess unfortunately and fortunately (depends on my mood I guess)

The pediatrician often remove everything but to make this visit soon and maybe even right. What I did not understand why her grandmother and mother did not want the see I brought bra.

I really liked your story...

the answer for the question is: no never

@JimmyJohnson she did not say, however it was implied (in my understanding) the nurse told her they did not have time for a physical today. And, yes, I find it rather strange in general as well.

When I arrived, early, I saw one other person in the waiting room. Only one other person came out from the exam rooms and 5 other people came in after me. Three of those people were called in ahead of me. There were other practitioners in the office. I was called back 15 min late (past my scheduled appointment time).

Again, my understanding was she was going to do a DRE and abdomen auscultation, which takes, what, less than 5 minutes, or so? And they didn't have time?!?!?

I could be wrong and it could have been something else.

Years ago when I was living in the San Fernando Valley portion of Los Angeles, I had a doctor who would have me in my briefs for the first part of my physical, and take them off completely for the genital and rectal exam. The last physical I got from him before he retired, I stripped completely naked on my own volition for his last exam. I'd always wanted to do a complete exam in the nude, and I felt that would be the perfect time.

The closest I've come to this is when the nurse practitioner said something like "Everything off except your shorts, unless you want your genitals examined, then everything off." Which, based on how she commented when she returned, was under the assumption I'd be wearing the disposable gown. I had used the folded gown as a drape over my genitals.

So it was "everything off", but including the gown

Although a long time ago, I had gone to see a dermatologist for some skin issues to get a script for some good ointment or cream to heal them. I wanted to show her the rashes developing in my crotch area. Just by describing for her what & where, she had something in kind to prescribe. I began to undress to show her, but she reacted as if she didn't need to see. I believe I may have stripped to my briefs & pulled them aside, & she acted like she didn't even want to look. This is going way back. I only saw her the one time.

Actually too, whenever i have a colonoscopy, i take my shirt off before wearing the gown. I don't like being too warm, so i usually always remove my shirt.

I had a doctor who would have me in my briefs for the first part of my physical, and take them off completely for the genital and rectal exam.

The way I read that, I'm not sure if it's the doc who takes them off of you completely.

I don't know if it's 'cause i'm horny, but that was somewhat hotly worded the way I intepreted it. (the "doctor who would have me in my briefs"). I'm into that whole dynamic of stripping others & being stripped "by" others. It can be very exciting. The whole revelation of body experience. It's an intersection of nudism, voyeurism, exhibitionism, kink, erotica, dominance & submission,

Is it safe to say everyone on Zity has come, having received some form of pleasure, and that Zity becomes an integral part of the pathway in the desire to seek it again, and perhaps again.

I don't remember undressing unnecessarily but unlike JimmyJohnson below, I never had an exam canceled after I was already undressed. I can't claim that just getting undressed for an exam is unnecessary just because I wasn't always getting a full physical. I would say that the opposite probably has happened a lot where patients aren't undressed enough for the doctor to do a thorough exam. On this board, there are stories of patients getting physicals where they take nothing off or just their shirt or drop their pants at the end for a hernia exam. I don't know how a doctor does a good job unless the doctor can see the patient's body. Skin cancer for one thing is something that you can't see through a patient's clothes. Even checking a patient's feet is important to diagnose certain conditions. I have been lucky not to have those doctors.

I don't remember undressing unnecessarily but unlike JimmyJohnson below, I never had an exam canceled after I was already undressed.

I never did either. I was commenting on the appointment that jhg had.

One time I, and my mother, thought that I was being asked to undress to an unnecessary degree. (i have told this whole story elsewhere.)

One August day, I woke up covered in hives and my eyes swollen. I was probably 11 or so. Mom called my pediatrician, who sent me to an allergist.(Back in those days, a phone consult was all that was needed. I had never seen this doctor before. He had me remove my shirt, sneakers, and sock, then started to examine my Including HEENT, Range of motion, etc, as well as examining the rash.When he asked me to remove my shorts (It was summer, so I don't mean underwear) we both objected, since he could clearly see the hives on my body. (I do not recall having any in my genital area.) When my mother and I objected, he said "Is he wearing clean underwear?" to which my mother replied "He better be."

Anyway, the doctor got his wish, also inspected my groin for more hives.

Only later did I find out that, as a rule, (especially back then) the first time you see a new doctor, they have no baseline to compare your current health status against, so they do a complete physical instead of just addressing the problem at hand.

Other than that, I simply did what the doctor asked.

Although it is only necessary to expose the upper buttock for injections, in my youth I had to pull everything down to ankles, thereby regaling the receptionist with a full frontal nude before bending over her lap for my shots.

When visit my doc for some unpleasant injection as iron for example, she recommended me taking off everything to waist down for better relax muscles. I respect her advice, she is old doc with many experiences. And I am doing it. After all that's standard for every gynecologist visit.

Nope...just the opposite...a feel inside my shorts rather than lowering them. That made it more awkward!

I went in to see my regular doctor for a possible broken toe. She checked it out, but said it probably wasn't broken and showed me how to tape it up to stabilize it until it heals.

She checked my chart for a minute and then said, "While you're here, do you want to do a quick head to toe checkup - no pun intended?"

I'd been in to see her for my regular exam a few months earlier, but agreed. I stripped naked and she did a brief check of my vitals. She recommended I come back in a few weeks so she could recheck my toe.

I made a follow up appointment and returned a few weeks later. This time when the assistant left I stripped completely and waited for the doctor. She came in and examined my toe as if I was otherwise dressed. Everything looked fine. She filled out my chart.

She asked if I needed anything else examined. I told her no. She said she was just wondering, since I was undressed. I started to flush a little and said that I thought she might want me undressed again, since she did last time.

I think she noticed my embarrassment, because she reassured me that it was fine. She asked if I was more comfortable being examined nude. This caught me off guard, and I said that I just prefer to be thorough and make sure nothing goes unnoticed. I could feel my groin stirring and my penis starting to harden.

She said that's a good idea and went back to the chart. I'd hoped we'd dropped the subject. She finished the paperwork and asked me again if there was anything else she needed to look at. I said no again. At this point, I was fully hard.

She said that she didn't mean to embarrass me. Then she added, "I was just surprised to get the full monty for a toe exam, but you should always feel free to undress as much as you like. That's why the rooms are private." She told me to take as much time as I needed to clean up and leave the door open when I was done.

At first, I wasn't sure what she meant since there was nothing to clean up. Then I remembered my state, and my eyes went to the lubricant on the counter. It didn't take me long to come. I got dressed and left. I ran into the doctor in the hall on the way out. She a said goodbye and gave me a big smile.

I have always stripped down to briefs alone, whether a gown was offered or not, whether the instructions, as happened recently, was to just take my shirt off. When I was going to gay doctors, I would take everything off, including briefs.

Just by coincidence, my annual skin exam comes in December. Last year it was a very cold day and I was going to have to visit a job site outdoors after the appointment, so I put on long underwear. At the doctors office I recieved the usual instructions to undress and put on a gown but leave my underwear on. I ignored the last instruction. When the doctor was examining me she said that I could have left my underwear on I told her I was wearing long johns that day. She smiled and said me too. The long sleeves were obvious under her scrubs but I could tell about the bottoms.

I can only remember one occasion when I thought that I was being asked to unnecessarily to disrobe. I had been to the urgent care the previous day for what turned out to be a case of viral pneumonia. The doctor had ordered a chest x-ray as part of his work up. The next morning, I received a call from the urgent care facility (it is run by the local regional medical center) that the radiologist had spotted something and though it might be an artifact. I was asked to return for a second x-ray with nipple buttons.

However, when I arrived, the intake nurse handed me a hospital jonny and asked me to undress completely. I explained that I was only there for a repeat x-ray and that it wasn't necessary. She insisted and I refused and the doctor backed me. Fortunately, the second x-ray showed that the first one was an artifac.t

What in the world are those?

They are a tiny ball bearing inside what looks like "spot" band-aids used as a landmark on x-rays, usually to mark the location of the nipple as a white spot on the x-ray.

That makes sense, then. Thank you!