Did anybody tell parents they choose rectal and not oral?

Did anyone have the chance to switch to oral or underarm and tell their parents they wanted to stay with rectal? My parents gave my a choice, but I always went with oral - probably because I didn't remember having rectal.

I am going to say no this question. Just like I said under other threads, my rectal temperature days ended during the age of 4 but, if a nurse wanted me to pick between oral or rectal; I would pick rectal if I was the only person in the exam room with the nurse. If a friend or family member was in the room with me along with the nurse, my choice will be oral. I am very private with stuff like this.

I have written several posts about thé rectal temperature taking I had to go though at my last high school physical at 18 and how l felt humiliated by this procedure, so had I been given thé choice in this situation, I would certainly have chosen oral.

Later in my life and even today, in a private situation, for instance with à girlfriend, I might probably choose rectal because of my fetish.

My parents only had rectal thermometers, but let me take my own after about age 11, id been sneaking RT's since age 9. My doctor's nurse started to ask oral or rectal at age 13. Which made my brother happy as he hated RT's. I never minded so told the nurse RT was fine. Mom finally got an oral thermometer for my brother when he was age 14, I think.

My rectal temps. stopped at around 5 or 6, but ironically, resumed by choice, when I was re-introduced to it as a young adult. Never was it taken in a medical setting. It would be neat if you could read someone's mind, and determine what temperature method they use. Unfortunately, it's nothing more than a great fantasy.

Due to the big virus that is coming from overseas and causing fever and if I went to doctor today for a fever and if the nurse wanted me to pick between rectal and oral; I would pick rectal.

I never had rectal besides as a baby and the only temps I ever remember were oral and so I definitely prefer oral over anything else. I never did under the arm and did the forehead swipe once.

I was 16 before I knew there was anything but rectal. None of us were given a choice growing up. My sister Lisa and I are both anal erotics, so why change a good thing?

I didn't choose rectal, rather wasn't given a choice. It was the beginning of my rectal temperature fetish.

While switched to oral at age 6 i've always had a preference for rectal. As an adult, my bride and I are 100% RT

Sass, you need an experienced RT tech, like myself. I work cheap.

In my house gowning up my temperature was always taken rectally.

Much like a few others that responded, a choice was not offered. At home it was exclusively rectal, and there was no discussion. I learned to accept that without ado, but was very private about it and never shared this fact with my friends.

Had I been given a choice during my last years of rectal at home I probably would have chosen oral. I secretly liked RT but didn’t like the implication of getting it done the little kid way.

I like the idea of a play scene though where I’m given a choice and am driven to admit my real preference. Maybe it’s a babysitter or relative who’s taking care of me and sees both kinds in the medicine cabinet and asks which one to use. Or a friend or roommate using a digital thermometer that has settings for oral vs rectal and they casually make a joke about doing it rectally and I get bold and suggest we do it.

When you were younger if your mom gave you the choice to have the oral thermometer instead of rectal what would you have done? When I was a boy I prceived things differently i probably would have stuck with the rectal cuz I'd be afraid if I didn't do the oral right even though oral might make me feel like a big boy but I'm not sure how I might handle it right and then if I didn't handle it right my mom would just go back to the sticking it in my bottom anyway

My Mom always took my temperature rectally as long as I lived at home.

I never did have a choice growing up it was always rectal at our house

I had rectal temperature through high school. I was never given a choice at home or at the doctor’s office. If I were given the choice I would have opted for oral.

I had no choice. My temperature was always taken in my rectum…

These days I think we can pretty safely say that such a situation would not play out.

That would be due to many concerns about legal issues and perceptions of potential child abuse. Also the change in temperature taking methods would play a part too.

I had no choice with Mom (the usual temp taker) or Dad (did it once in a while, which felt odd somehow). Rectal was *the* way.

I was a camp counselor in a day camp when I was 16 and witnessed interesting choice that a 10 year old camper made with the nurse in the medical office. He was not feeling well and I took him to the med office. This was the mid '70's and there was no such thing as digi thermometers. The nurse wanted to take his temperature orally, but the lad insisted that it was not done that way! I posted my recollection of that incident here awhile back --- https://en.zity.biz/index.php?mx=forum;ox=display;msg=1023243

It was pretty interesting to see it all play out.