Does anyone else cry when their temperature is checked rectally?!

Does anyone else cry when their temperature is checked rectally?! Please no rude comments….but yes when I’m sick I do cry when my temperature is checked. I only take of have it taken rectally. It’s not that it hurts or anything….it is somewhat unpleasant or uncomfortable at times and I don’t cry EVERYTIME but when I feel really bad I tend to cry more and even cry during a rectal temperature check!

Just curious if anyone else cries during that particular procedure or if it’s just me!

Why would you cry all ways enjoyed it

@Luvbottomtemps Emotions can elevate when ill or under duress. It builds up and the RT probably triggers or focuses those emotions. It’s not wirerd you shouldn’t be concerned, unless you get sick a lot.

No worries. Emotions are funny things and how you associate with receiving a rectal temp is just very personal. No one is the same! I don't think it's weird but likely a hold over from having rectal temps taken in childhood. We remember these things!

Don't feel bad, it's probably a nice, emotional, release as well as the pleasurable feeling of the thermometer nestled in your rectum.

Interesting… I’ve not, but almost, on more than one occasion. It’s a very intense, emotional sort of sensation to be in that very submissive moment.

If my temperature were checked sins im teenager or adult, my temperazure was always taken by an ear Thermometer. This was at home, at the doctor (several different doctor offices) or at the hospital.

I only used a rectal thermometer some times for fun.

@Luvbottomtemps

Does anyone else cry when their temperature is checked rectally?! ... It’s not that it hurts or anything….it is somewhat unpleasant or uncomfortable at times and I don’t cry EVERYTIME but when I feel really bad I tend to cry more and even cry during a rectal temperature check!

Do you have your temp often checked? Do you measure it by yourself or does it anyone for you?

As an adult, unless the “Patient”, recipient of the procedure is totally unfamiliar with it, or has not been as an adult, acquainted or re- acquainted with having their rectal temperature taken; it’d probably be more like culture shock and humiliation and embarrassment, with reluctance expressed or the act questioned.

That’s what I’d think. Crying? I can’t speak for others and I’m not saying an adult in said circumstances, might or might not shed a tear or two.

Good question. Having spent close to 24hrs in an ER bed within the last couple of days because of an infection which at one point hit 104F! ( rectal- I took at home, advised ED staff). All mine were oral probes at most 10 seconds.

Honestly though I believe in RTs, I doubt that had that been the route the staff was told to use, I doubt I’d have cried. And the way I felt, it really wouldn’t have mattered.

@Luvbottomtemps, Sounds like you need a soothing bun rub during your rectal temperature check to take your mind off the fact that you are sick. A good bun rub can have a very calming effect.

I have seen young children in the hospital cry when their rectal temps were being taken, particularly if that’s not how they’re used to getting it taken at home. With older kids, they might be upset about the embarrassment of getting their bottom bared, or the sensation of a cold thermometer in their bottom. Also, I think kids think they’re about to get a shot in their bottom, rather then a thermometer. Getting your temperature taken rectally as an adult, can make you feel like a child again (which is why some people enjoy it, while others don’t like it). For me growing up, I don’t remember crying when getting my temperature taken, but I sort of had a love/hate relationship with it. On one hand, it made me feel like a baby, and as I got older, I felt like I was too old to still be getting it taken that way. On the other hand, I started to kind of like sensation of it. I can see how getting taken rectally as an adult, could trigger feelings of childhood regression, and you tended to cry when getting it taken as a child, that it could happen now too.

Never bothered me, but my younger brother hated it so much that he would complain and cry every single time.

@Luvbottomtemps ,

Interesting you say that because in the past on an occasion or two while getting my temperature taken in my bottom, the person taking it did softly rub my buns!

Also when I get massages sometimes the therapists are willing to do a rectal temp if I ask, and while the thermometer is inserted continue the massage ; and yes being bare bottomed for the temperature taking, my butt cheeks are given their fair share of “ Hands on” and too, “ hands in!”

I remember crying when my rt was Thaler the first time by my former partner. It was all intense and emotional as he was so soft doing it. It just made me cry…. But just that one time, never again anymore thought I really like that way of getting my temp taken

Not anymore but when I was young I was always crying when my rectal temp was taken. As soon as I knew what was going to happen tears started falling. I know for sure if it happens to me now that I won’t cry because there is no greater feeling for me now then having my rectal temp taken

As a little kid, at around age 4 or 5, I cried and threw tantrums. As an adult, I would only cry if my thermometers were broken or missing. Years ago, our friend’s 12 year old daughter, cried at the doctor’s office, when the nurse took her temperature rectally, because she had a severe cough that prevented an oral temperature. Her mother went into full detail. Poor kid.

No, I haven't but I would love to. Crying in sexual situations seriously turns me on.

No, but I’ve certainly pretended to for theatrics - such as when it’s combined with age play or something like that.