Thermometer register time

How long have you ever had a thermometer inserted. Mostly thinking about actual attempts to get a factual reading. I know most of us here leave it in a lot longer than five minutes while we are playing, but how about nonplaying situations. When I was growing up, my mom was a five minute believer but a least a couple of times she would leave me face down, thermometer in and she would go off to do some chore or answer the phone. Probably the longest was when I was older, and she got an early morning phone call and I lay on the bed for over twenty minutes.

Speaking for myself I will say my Mom followed the guidance of Dr. Benjamin Spock whose book on baby and child care came out in ‘46.

And I am guessing the OPs question was about mercury thermometers.

I did as an adult have a RT from a nurse using either an IVAC or FILAC unit where the probe was left inserted for what I thought was a longer than usual amount of time for such a unit. If I had to guess she left the probe inserted for a good three minutes. Why? No idea.

My Mom always left the thermometer in my rectum for 5 minutes timed with a kitchen timer. It was what Dr. Spock recommended in his book on infant and child care. She also made me hold an Ivory soapsuds enema in for 5 minutes no matter how much I complained that I had to go. She just told me to take deep breaths through my mouth to ease the cramps and held my butt cheeks tight together so it wouldn't leak out before the kitchen timer went off.

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As a child glass thermometers were in my bottom for at least three minutes.

As a child it was always about two minutes since we had a digital thermometer. But when I grew up I had glass thermometer which took about 5 minutes. The longest I ever had it in is I think about 30 minutes, but that was for pleasure

My mom held it in for 5 minutes, sometimes a bit longer if she forgot the time. We only used glass thermometer. There were a couple of times when my mom forgot because she didn't held it in, and on those occasions it stayed in for 15-20 minutes because I didn't dare take it out.

3-4 min tops. It always felt longer but now it never feels long enough!

The new thermometers don’t give you the same pleasure as the vintage glass rectal ones, back in the day. But that shouldn’t stop anyone from having fun.

4 minutes is adequate.

My mom always left the mercury thermometer in my butt for 3 minutes. At the hospital, it often took longer for the nurse to come back and remove the thermometer. That time always felt like an eternity to me.

I recall that 5 minutes was always the standard in my home when I was growing up, whether rectal (until I was about 6) or oral. However, I later had a girlfriend who was a UK-trained nurse who had a slightly different approach. She would leave the thermometer in place for 4 minutes, before reading it and putting it back for another minute to confirm that the mercury had indeed stopped rising.

Sadly, the only time she took my temperature, it was after we had split up, and she did it orally (despite my best efforts to fake a cough!). But her two-phased approach has fuelled many fantasies for me over the years and made it into some of my stories.

An accurate glass rectal thermometer shouldn’t take longer than three minutes. A high-quality digital in the rectum can give an accurate reading in less than 15 seconds.

Agreed, the digital has put a damper on the sensuous feelings with glass rectal thermometers. However, in real life medical situations, our older daughter in her 30s spiked a scary high fever for 48 hours. As a mom, I wasn’t about to make her lie there with a thermometer in her behind longer than necessary.

Five minutes with a glass thermometer was the rule when I was a child.