Was your temp taken rectally until an older age than your siblings were?

Was your temp taken rectally until an older age than your siblings were? If so, did it seem unfair to you? What was the reason given, if any?

I only had one sister that was two years younger than me, but my temp was still taken rectally five or six years after she progressed to the oral temps. When I was 10 i was sick with a high fever of 106. I had to have rectal temps every four or six hours around the clock until it broke. after that my parents were reluctant to let me go back to oral. When I was 11 I had to get rectal temps several times at the docs until I had this minor procedure done. I remember a couple rectal temps at home right after that.

My temp. at home and at the doctor's office, was taken rectally until around age 5. My guess is that my sister, who is around 2 years older than me, had the same experience. I hated having a thermometer shoved up my butt, as a kid, and it seemed that my mother was obsessed with taking my rectal temp. a little too often. I would throw a fit. Fortunately, oral temps. became a normal part of my childhood, from a very young age. You'd better believe that I figured out how to hold it under my tongue.

My mom took my younger brother's oral temp starting at age 14, and as I never minded rectal and never asked to change she did mine rectally till I joined the US Navy at age 18. After I discharged from the navy. I went to college and my roommate and I talked about childhood doctor visits and I found out my college roommate also had rectal temps till he left home at age 18. This actually lead into us taking each other's rectal temps when sick and sometimes just for fun. We both also had rectal temps at our doctors as kids. My doctor's nurse asked how you wanted it after age 13. My roommate said about the same happened at his doctor. We both grew up in the midwest United States and both were age 13 in 1971 for me and 1973 for my roommate. We never found it at all odd that we ended up taking each others rectal temps, we even gave each other enemas when needed for constipation, and didn't see anything odd about that either.

My 3 years older brother mentioned it several times that he is no kid anymore, last time when he was 14. But he always freaked out when he should get his temperature measured. Our parents and at the pediatrician his and my temperature were always measured rectally.

My relatives live in Turkey and my cousins are younger than me. I remember when I was 12 that I got ill during our trip in Turkey, so I got several times measuring. My cousins sometimes saw me lying there with a thermometer up my bum, they were 11, 10 and I guess 8 and 4. The missing privacy was embarrassing, on the other hand the parents from them told their kids how brave and compliant I behaved and that I would be a positive example for them. Later two of them became ill, too, so they all got RT as well. I felt like being the hero for my cousin that I supported them morally 😅

During my childhood, here, usually only preschool children had their temperature taken rectaly.

In my case, after I reached 7 years old my mom started to use alternately - rectal and axial till I was 12.

Usually, if wasn't any hurry, I was let to introduce the thermometer myself under my arm ( axial way ) and after around 5 minutes my mom had ask me to give her for reading, but sometimes (at least 50 % from cases), she had doubts that the temperature displayed was accurate, so, she insisted to take again my temperature in the "baby way". Mostly she suspected me that I moved my arm and the thermometer wasn't keept propely anymore (I was a skinny hiperactive kid, and I must to admit that her reason was true), and second, because once, when I was 9, I had try to fake my temperature for a school skipping...

If my mom was hurry, she always proceed for a rectal check from the first time...

My grandmother always used the "baby way" till I was 12 almost 13. She was a former military nurse in WW2 and later a orphanage nurse, so, no no sense!

For me, since I was in the kindergraten, I always felt myself shy and embarrased because of my exposure, but somehow at least it was fair for me because most of the kids around my age from my circle was treated in the same way.

When I was a bit older and most of my cousins around my age was check ONLY under arm like most of the other kids - I started to feel myself treated unfair, like I was still a baby or a todler...

I had a sister who was a couple of years older than me, and I used to get upset because she had her temperature taken by mouth. Eventually, I was graduated to oral temps at around age 5, or 6, and I no longer felt resentment.

I am old enough that glass/mercury thermometers were the only kind available when I was young. I have had sinus problems all of my life and am a mouth breather. I could not keep my mouth shut long enough for those old thermometers to work. Rectal temps were the norm until the faster electronic thermometers were readily available. Although I am a butt play fan rectal temps don't do anything for me. I am thankful that the newfangled thermometers that scan your forehead or that they stick in your ear seem to be the norm now.

My brother is 2 years younger than me & my sister is 3 years younger than me. Both had their rectal temperatures stopped before me. I was always told by my nurse was due to my breathing issues, rectal was the only option. This lasted until I was 12 or 13. It was always embarrassing when my brother & sister had a thermometer in their mouth & I had one in my rectum. Especially if we were all in the same room together. I also think my nurse enjoyed taking rectal temperature of kids who fought it. Which I did. She was old school & seemed to enjoy holding me down & taking my temperature.