Of all people who took your rectal temperature, who did best job?

I have been lucky to have had some most wonderful experiences getting my rectal temp taken. Some more memorable ones included the first time I had a session as a adult with my girlfriend. We were both 18 and it was the first time I used the family rectal thermometer in years. I've even met some extraordinary ladies from this site who took mine, and I took theirs. Exquisite!

But... I have to go with what got me here - the first temp taking experience when I was truly excited. I was a lad of 9 at a doctor's appointment. Everyone ALWAYS got their temp taken rectally when visiting this doc. This is a post a made some years back about the encounter that made me a life-long rectal temp lover --- https://en.zity.biz/index.php?mx=forum;ox=display;msg=599211

My bff

Lucky housekeeper @Laura41

@Jacana

I guess one reason why in France, when I was growing up, they would phase kids from having their temperature taken rectally by adults to being asked to insert the thermometer in the same place is that it reduces unpleasantness.

At what age do you think this was normally done? How is it usually taken in France now?

@Koan I think these days people generally used infrared thermometers. But if people use a probe-type thermometer (they are cheaper), I suspect many use it in the rectum, as opposed to the mouth or armpit.

I don't recall which age mom changed from inserting the thermometer to requesting me to insert it. A few elements: nurses in hospital for appendectomy expected me to know how to insert the thermometer rectally, and I was perhaps 9 for this surgery. I have little recollection of mom inserting the thermometer, whereas I recall her inserting suppositories. So I'd say maybe 5-6.

@LordJim2 it was a one time thing with my house cleaner. She walked in my me as I was getting ready to take my temp and offered to help. I hoping it will happen again.

I hope so too @Laura41 . 😃

@Laura41 omg this is the kind of scenario I’ve daydreamed of. Whatever came of it? Did she assist? (If you don’t mind sharing)

Always my mom

No mather if I was a toddler or 11 years old, she used to hold the thermometer in my ass for the whole that 5 minutes, cupping my butt with her open palm

My mom and husband would be a tie score. Denise

I don’t really know how to define best. So, I think that I will define define that as the most skilled or efficient and I think that I will have to go with the last nurse that I every remember taking my temperature rectally.

I got lots of rectal temperature from my mom and various nurses up until I got switched to oral temps somewhere around 6 or 7 years old. I don’t remember exactly when the transition was, but I do remember getting rectal temps at one hospital visit when I was still in kindergarten, so I am thinking that it was around first grade that I fully made the switch to oral.

A few years later, somewhere in the 10 to 12 year old range, I was in the hospital for a surgery. They had had been taking my temperature orally, but when I came back to my room from surgery, I got a surprise. As soon as I was back in my bed, my nurse swooped in like a ninja, flipped me up on my side, slipped in the rectal thermometer, and had her hand up against my butt to hold it in place before I could utter a surprised “What!”

No warning. No “I have to take your temp dear”. No “I know you are a big boy, but I need to use your bottom this time” She just stepped into to where the orderly was a second ago and me in position and penetrated before I knew what was going on.

That was the only time that stay that I got a rectal temperature too. The nurse never told my why she took that one rectally other than to say “It’s hospital policy.”

Still she was definitely the most efficient. I guess that she at least avoided me arguing that I was too old for the rectal thermometer.

@RTmemories If this can make you feel better about this indignity, I received digital rectal exams as a child in about the same way (no clear explanation what would be done, got the finger deep in).

Others here have (I recall at least @Nurse_Phillips) mentioned rectal temperatures from nurses in American hospitals as old as 14 because of "hospital policies".

@Jacana Oh it wasn't too bad. The surprise and not understanding the why was the worst parts. I really didn't even mind the rectal temp. (It wasn't a shot so all good) I would have just liked some warning though.

Also, since I really never understood why she took my temp rectally, I was never sure if it wouldn't happen again. It never did, but there were a couple times as a teen that I thought it might.

I do think that it eventually feed my interests in rectal temperatures.

And I did get a couple of random rectal exams during my many childhood hospital stays. It was a teaching hospital and random exams seem to be a normal part of life in the hospital.

@RTmemories Digital rectal exams for no reason? At least mine occurred for a reason (confirming appendicitis).

@Jacana Yeah, at least once that I remember. Or at the very least no reason was ever given to me and I was in for orthopedic surgeries.

As I said it was a teaching hospital back in the 70s and 80s. It wasn't uncommon to get extra exams or to be a "demonstration". Sometimes they asked (me or my mother), sometimes they didn't.

I remember one time when I was 5 or 6 and they wanted an example of a normal ekg of a patient my age. That time they asked and my mother agreed.

I think that it was common to assign a resident or med student to do as set of exams on a patient and sometimes the relationship to their stay was stretched thin.

It was a different world back then.

@RTmemories That reminds me of something I read in the press. Until recently (10-15 years ago?), in France, some teaching hospitals would incite students to conduct digital rectal or vaginal exams on unconscious (anesthesia) patients, without asking for consent and without medical reason. The idea was that this was a simple way for them to learn.

All of the female nurses who have taken my rectal temp over the years are all tied for first.

As a child and teenager it was definitely my mom.

I only had it a handful of times in a medical setting. I am guessing they did a good job. Not much to it other than putting it in and keeping it there until there is an accurate reading.

Never had anyone take mine. 😞

Definitely my ex boyfriend he was awesome! Sometimes sensitive, sometimes strictly

Of the 2 who have taken my rectal temperature it has to be my gf (rather than my mother).

I enjoy the over the knee position to feel vulnerable and controlled but also enjoy when she puts me in the diaper position, inserts the thermometer and then pleasures me to an amazing orgasm knowing what she is doing to me at the same time. Needless to say temperature is normally elevated....