Your reaction to wanting or being told your temperature is to be taken rectally.

A few years ago while in my mid fifties, the ER doctor ordered an RT on me. I said, “Oh come on! Really? No!” It actually made an awkward situation even more of an awkward situation. My objection did not matter; it happened regardless of my protest.

I know some people say its more accurate, and I'm sure it is, but really its not like you're using temperature for titration of meds (usually body weight), and even then there is some room for error. I would definitely protest if I was told it was happening. Hell even in a play exam I feel like I'd put up a least a little resistance to the doc to them going 😃

Dosen't bother me and so use to it now that it's normal for me, it's the only way my Nurse/Mistress Girlfriend will take my temperature in this house and it's her preferred method...so don't argue it and just enjoy it everytime!.

I would love it, I, too, have no faith in ear of forehead readings.

I think I'd been hit with a bad case of the flu a few years back. I was sweaty, felt roasting hot with a horrible cough, etc. Went to my doctor and sitting on the exam table, he took my temp orally which showed 101F. He then suggested a rectal temp to get the body core temp to compare. I took my pants off, laid down on the table and he pulled my underwear down to my knees and slid the lubed thermometer in. After a couple of minutes the temp read 102F. I was told to stay the way I was, he came back with 2 syringes and two 2 inch #18 gauge needles. He filled first syringe with B6 and I got that in the right buttock, filled the second syringe with Pen-G for the left buttock and that one really hurt, ended up with a small bruise at the injection site. Even though I felt like crap I really did enjoy that visit.

In a clinical/medical, non-fetish related setting, I would be perfectly fine with that. Some Doctors will take a rectal temperature if you request it. They are few and far between and most certainly do not have any hangups about it.

I was fine with it. Because it made me feel like a toddler

If needed, I wouldn't mind at all.

Yesterday I went to the hospital cause I wasn’t feeling well, I had some belly pain in the lower left cadran… anyhow at triage it came time to take my temperature and he needed to take it rectaly, at least he offered I take my own temperature, so I did I was surprised at first but I was really sick and just wanted it to be over. Later that night one of the nurses came to me and told me she needed to take my temperature “in my butt” she told me, I became so red… it was a electronic thermometer with the red probe it was really fast and she was really professional.

If I was told I was getting my rectal temperature taken in a medical setting these days, I would have no choice to be a compliant little boy and submit to the procedure.

I’ve had my temperature taken rectally since I was around ten years old at my new doctors office. I can tell you that as a teenager, when suffering an accident or going to a hospital and being told this. It’s embarrassing, you ask why can’t it be done another way. And then to have complete strangers do it, there are all sorts of emotions….shock, embarrassment, excitement, etc.

I’d be in absolute shock

Having had a number of procedures such as being catherized when I had sepsis, a camera scope inserted in penis to check bladder and an operation on testicle to fix a hydrocele(Correct spelling?) having a rectal temp is no big deal. The only time it ever happened was when I was four and taken by a nurse.

My Temp is always taken rectally by my PA. I told her that I always had my temp taken rectally, I do not do well with oral and she agreed that it was the best route to get an accurate temperature. I still get feelings of embarrassment, but glad I have a PA that agrees and complies with my choice/request.

My Dr will only use a rectal thermometer reading. He runs a very unique office; it’s just him and the nurse. Doesn’t take any insurance. Has you get completely nude and wear a gown or you can use a drape.

Still makes my heart skip a beat

@RaeW is this the action regardless of why you’re presenting?

Yes, from allergies to sore muscles you strip and temp! Then discuss your ailments

1984 or 85 .. I was 15 at the emergency room vomiting had a virus . 2 nurses came into my cubicle only separated by curtains from the next patients around. The nurse told my mother and I she was going to take my temperature with a rectal thermometer. I was embarrassed couldn’t believe this was happening I laid on my stomach with a thermometer sticking out of my butt

It happened to me when I was 13 the nurse came into the ER cubicle holding a glass thermometer with a glob of Vaseline on the silver tip. The nurse told my mother she needed to take my temperature rectally. I laid on my stomach for five while the thermometer protruding from my bottom was registering.

My Dr will only use a rectal thermometer reading. He runs a very unique office; it’s just him and the nurse. Doesn’t take any insurance. Has you get completely nude and wear a gown or you can use a drape.

Still makes my heart skip a beat

Wow.. In California ? I haven't come across that in the bay area, La/OC or even in Sac - guess this must be a small town mountain area thing. You are lucky if they even give you an oral thermometer - its mostly IR thermometers

Wow.. In California ? I haven't come across that in the bay area, La/OC or even in Sac - guess this must be a small town mountain area thing. You are lucky if they even give you an oral thermometer - its mostly IR thermometers

It’s the small town mountain thing but he’s in Oregon! Yes, I will travel! Oh and my heart skips a beat as well.

Yes, from allergies to sore muscles you strip and temp! Then discuss your ailments

Just rectal temp or BP/pulse/ height/weight too ? Seems like straight from Western Europe playbook

Once in an urgent care clinic, I had a migraine and was throwing up. A triage nurse said she was going to take my temp rectally. I don’t remember having much of a reaction. I might have nodded OK. I was in a gown lying on an exam table, and they had given me a plastic bucket to be sick to. She inserted the probe into me, and it was over in just a few seconds.

She took it again in my bottom a couple of hours later after they had graciously allowed me to sleep in an adjacent room after being given a shot for the pain and the nausea. My husband and I were on vacation in Minnesota and we remember this experience because everyone in the clinic was so nice.

If I was told to that they wanted a rectal temperature, I would be somewhat surprised, but compliant. Actually, I wish it were the norm. I don't trust the ear or "magic wand" they wave over my forehead, and I have difficulty with my mouth (dental issues)