What is the best way to take your own rectal temperature?

What is the best way to take your own rectal temperature? I live alone so I do not have anyone to help me with it. What is the best position?

The best position for taking your own rectal temp is to lie on your left side and bend your right knee up towards your chest. This will give you easy access for inserting the thermometer.

As Teri says the classical position is rolled on the side knee flexed. This position is comfortable, which was important in the days of glass thermometers that you had to keep in for several minutes.

One is to get up onto your bed on your knees and drop your pants and underwear. Then lubricate the thermometer, separate your cheeks, take the thermometer and feel where your rectum is, insert the thermometer, and lay down on your bed. Then watch the time. Two, be on your knees on the floor with the lubricated thermometer and do the insertion of the thermometer and lay over an office chair with no arm rest and hold the thermometer in place.

When taking my temperature with my glass thermometer, I always start out by lying on my left side. After lubricating the thermometer, I insert it up my bottom. I roll over onto my tummy and set a timer on my phone for five minutes. When the time is up, I remove the thermometer, clean it with rubbing alcohol, and put it away for the next use.

I agree with the previous posts that recommend laying on your side with the upper leg bent slightly and raised toward the chest (same position commonly used for enema administration). It spreads the cheeks somewhat to provide easy access with the thermometer to the anus. Shake the thermometer down below 96 degrees and lubricate the thermometer tip with Vaseline or a water based lubricant such as KY. Insert the thermometer gently into the rectum about 2 to 3 inches. Wait the recommended time (usually 3 to 5 min), withdraw the thermometer, read the temperature, clean it with alcohol and return to the case. Normal rectal temp is about 1 degree above oral (99.6 degrees).

Try different positions and see what works best for you. The most common would be lying on your stomach. Add some variety....spice it up...i.e., put some pillows underneath, lay on your right or left side, etc. Just be careful to avoid rolling over and landing on your butt, with the thermometer inside. That may not turn out so well.

I get on my left side, same position as for an enema, lub the business end of the thermometer and insert it, holding it in place for 5 minutes. Use you phone to set the timer or pick a song or two to listen to while the business end of the thermometer does it’s thing. 5 minutes produces accurate results.

Here is a new way. Lay across your bed; just like if you were laying over a person's lap and separate your cheeks and insert the thermometer into your rectum and set the timer on your phone and let the thermometer read. Just let your pants rest at your ankles while relaxed.

When trying to get pregnant the first time in my mid-20s and no luck for quite a while, my doctor recommended that I do basal body temperature (BBT) and charting. It was in the spring when my allergies were at their peak. I'd wake up in the morning with a stuffy head, so we decided to take temps rectally.

My husband and I learned to love my glass basal thermometer, which I had to keep inserted for 3 to 5 minutes. If I took it solo, I turned on my left side and it was easy to insert with just a pinch of Vaseline. If he awakened first, he would turn me on my tummy and slide my nightie bottoms down, and he got really good at inserting the thermometer without me even waking up. We had a fun time doing BBT and charting for a month. That summer I got pregnant with my first daughter, and I remember how much fun it was trying in those days.

Everyone seems to be saying take it with a glass rectal thermometer in Simms position. I just want to submit that the best way to take your rectal temperature is to have a significant other take it for you! LOL!

Lay down on your tummy, insert the thermometer. Laying on your side works too.

When i'm alone i always use to take my temperature while laying down, with a pillow under my bottom.

I have a lot ofold fashion rectal thermometer so i have not the problem related to the thermometer coiming out from the bottom even in this position.

Lying on my tummy completely naked across the bed or the dinning table.

The best and most comfortable way to take rectal temperature is to be on left or right side on bed or sofa with dress/jeans lowered and panties down to ankles. If I bend my knees I don't even need to spread my bum cheeks.

Don't know the best way but I know what I like.

I like to pretend someone is taking my temp so I lie on my stomach, reach back and spread my cheeks to apply vaseline to my anus. Then I slowly insert the thermometer. Sometimes I do this while looking in the mirror. Once I video recorded it so I could see it from the temp taker's perspective. I shared that once with a girlfriend. She liked it more than I expected.

Continued to what I had posted on 18.03.2020, the best way to take my own rectal temperature would also be lying on the big sofa and on the kitchen slab. 😃 😉

When I am alone, I use to take my rectal temperature lying on my stomach, while sitting in my bed. Most of the time I like to use several rectal thermometers, different types, with different shapes and dimensions. And when I reach the “heat”, I switch my body position to doggy style position, with thermometer inside of my ass, I start to rub my pussy.

Unfortunately, I only take my temp. alone. First, I open my porno pages on my iPhone and pad. Some of the pictures include women having their rectal temperature taken, so that’s a plus. I let my pants and undies drop, lie down on my stomach, and slowly insert the thermometer , until just a small part is sticking out of my ass. I remove it after a few minutes, read the temperature, sniff it, imagining that it just came out of a hot woman’s ass, and then I imagine that the same woman is taking my temperature, and I slowly stick it way up my ass.

That sounds Hot as hell !!! @RTLoVer

In a doggystyle

With a mirror or with someone watching 😳

With a mirror or with someone watching 😳

Absolutely.

During COVID, I admit being paranoid. I kept a tube of Vaseline and our vintage rectal thermometer in my nightstand next to the bed. A couple of times when I was feeling that I was coming down with the virus, it was easy to turn on my side, pull my nightie bottoms down, lubricate the thermometer and slip it in.

On Labor day weekend, 2020, I was suddenly having severe chills when I woke up. I took my own rectal temperature, and I had a fever. I didn’t need a testing kit that morning, I knew I had gotten the virus.

I’ve always taken a rectal temp if needed on my left side, similar to the position when I would give myself or my husband would give me an enema.

The best way to take to take one’s rectal temperature is to have a loving friend help you out. @Iris1858 does it for me. She twirls the thermometer as she puts it in with me on my side. Yum. It’s delicious. She holds it in place until the five minutes is up.

If I’m doing it solo; I just lay on the bed or couch on my side, britches and panties down to my knees or sometimes completely off, I don’t normally lubricate the thermometer; I just insert into my bottom and wait 3 to 5 mins!

I use both glass mercury pear-shaped thermometer and digital!

When my husband takes it; I like to lay across his lap like it was done when I was a child!

I usually start on my side, knee flexed insert, then carefully roll onto my stomach for about 3 minutes.

For some reason, I find undressing completely is usually the first thing I’ll do once I’ve made up my mind to take it. I say make up my mind, as it becomes quite the process to gather up supplies, remove clothing, shake the thermometer down, apply some Vaseline to the thermometer and a touch to my rectum. Everything off, including my underwear. Towel on the bed or sofa, and I’m ready. Most often, I’ll lie face down and slide it in with my bottom side up. I will on occasion lie on my back, too. While it’s easier for me to insert the thermometer lying on my back, I find it a touch more like old times (as a young person) when I lie down face first.

@OverRainbow when I do it solo I lay down on my bed or the couch pull my britches and panties down just to my knees or sometimes off or sometimes I wear my little night gown without panties; I lay on my side and gently insert the thermometer (I don’t normally use lubricant) and I leave it in my bottom for 3 to 5 mins!

Now if my husband takes it; I like to lay across his lap. That’s the position that was done when I was a child and It’s kind of comforting!