Disliking RT's as a kid

A lot of people talk about how much they hated to have their temperature taken rectally as a kid and how they often fought about it.

What about it bothered you?

I never enjoyed them, didn't have a fetish for them, but I found them rather benign. You lie there for a few minutes. It's cold when in first goes in, but only for a few seconds. There was nothing painful, uncomfortable or embarrassing about it. The only thing was when my mom wiped off the lube, she was gentle and didn't get it all off, so I'd have to go to the bathroom and wipe again. But I never really found anything negative about it.

At the same time, it wasn't something I looked foreward to either. If I was sick, my mom (sometimes dad) took my temperature. That was it.

So what did you as kids dislike about it?

I didn't really have a problem with rectal temperature taken at home. Like you said, it didn't hurt and I wasn't embarrassed, but at the doctor's office, especially as a teenager, I didn't like it. After reaching puberty, I was embarrassed having to lie on the table with my bottom exposed for the nurse, as well as the fear of someone in the hall watching me, as the door was always left ajar.

I didn't particularly like or dislike them. When I was sick, my mother would usually take my temperature rectally. This continued until I was a teenager, which was when she began taking my temperature orally. I can't ever recall having my temperature taken rectally at the doctor's office.

Reading Montgomerie's description of a rectal temp, as an adult it doesn't sound that bad or scary. almost clinical. But from a child's perspective ,much different. As an adult i am able to analyze and comprehend all the points she makes and it seems like a(as she said) benign procedure. However as a child I was not nearly mature enough to think this was and having my temp taken rectally was very scary. As i think back , I have to agree that it wasn't painful , at least not like getting an enema was or a suppository. I think it was more the whole frame work of the situation surrounding having to get my temperature taken. Number one I was probably sick, so i wasn't feeling well to begin with.. Then there are the psychological matters more so than the actual physical ones. Loss of control for one...penetration of what has to be the most intimate part of ones body for another .These things made getting my temperature taken rectally NOT FUN!!!!!!!!!!!! As an adult , that's a story for a different post LOL.

I didn't mind one way or other. Where I grew up everyone got them till at least age 13 we all had the same doctor and the parents did what the doctor recommended. I recall playing doctor with a male friend at age 10, we never even thought of taking our temps play or for real other then rectally.

I can't say for certain, but it is my opinion that what people hated about rectal temperatures was the barring of ones butt to have the temp taken. We are told by our parents that the backside is off limits and what is emitted is totally gross and full germs and dirty. With that in mind, it is no wonder that people are embarrassed to drop their pants and show their buttocks for all the world to see.

I can say I pitched a fit almost every time I had my rectal temperature taken as a kid. I hated it. But as a nurse, I've come to understand how important it is to take a child's temperature rectally, at least until they're 4 or 5. I had been taking my son's rectal temperature till he turned 4 this January. I tried using the temporal artery method, and a couple times it was off several tenths of a degree from rectal. I know this because I took his temperature before a doctor's visit once with the temporal scanner. They still used rectal, and he was running a slight fever. So I've decided to go back to using the rectal thermometer on him till he's old enough for oral.

Is having his rectal temperature painful for him? NO. Is it uncomfortable and invasive feeling? YES, and it is for most children that age. Otherwise, most kids wouldn't cry having it done. But I'd rather have my son cry through a couple minutes of temporary discomfort than see him have a life threatening fever that was misread.

As a child, my temperature was taken rectally at each visit to the doctor at the start of the exam as routine. I was escorted back, strip to underwear only-no socks, step on the scale for weight and height, then lay on the table on your tummy. She would slip my underwear down with two hands. It came down very easy on the slick exam paper and the question was always how far down. Some nurses took them down to the knees before you could blink and without warning. I couldn't see much but the glimpses I did see over my shoulder showed the nurse holding the thermometer pointed up in her fingertips with the blob of jelly on it. Nurses always knew exactly where to spread your buttocks and never missed when planting it in. The next questions were how cold and how far in.

Alas it was the early sign they had complete control at the very onset. The doctor would come in towards the end and before I could pull my underwear back up and sit up on the table. That got me in the obedient mindset for the thorough exam that was to come.

I disliked it at home when administered by my grandmother. She always had a way of making me feel ashamed when held the thermometer in the whole time. It was also unpleasant at the doctor's office. I disliked being undressed and bare assed in front of strangers.

I found it very embarrasing when I was a kid...

I hated knowing that i was but-ass naked in front of my mom, personally, after i turned 4 they stopped, but wen i was 12, they started back up again for some odd reason after i came back from the doctor and he took a RT there

I vividly remember when I was young (7 or 😎 mom called me into her bedroom. She was shaking a thermometer. Naturally, I thought it'll go in my mouth. To my surprise, she told me that she's taking it "the other way". I then saw a towel laid on her bed. Now, I got scared! The week before she gave me an enema and I hated it (I was a screamer then). I thought it'll hurt.

I had to lower my PJ bottom and laid on my stomach. But it didn't hurt!! I still vividly remember the cool feeling sliding into my rearend. I laid there for a few minutes before she took it out and I could get up

Now a couple of years later, I started to enjoy enemas (mom didn't know). and of course getting my RT taken. Mom always took it when I was sick with a cold or sore throat. I put out a false front in letting her think I didn't want her to take it that way but in truth, I enjoyed the feeling of the thermometer sliding into me and me laying butt naked and feeling the coolness of the RT in me. Mom never suspected.

I really liked having it done when i was little and remember it well. i remember talking to my friends about it as a kid and i was surprised when they would say that they didn't like it or it hurt. that was my first clue at a young that i was different from the rest. happy to be on this site with some like-minded folks.

I too heard people say RT hurts but In all the years I have had RT as a kid or an adult it has never once hurt. I very much wonder what the others had done to them that made it hurt.

I was embarrassed having my bottom bared, my cheeks spread and the thermometer inserted and held in for 3 minutes. It certainly didn't hurt -- in fact I was aware of a pleasant feeling after I was about 8. But I just seemed too old since my friends said they were getting their temps taken the grown up way now. The next year my mom switched to oral thermometers but just a few months after that I began to take my own rectal temps. Still do.

I absolutely hated it as a child. It was embarrassing and painful. Liking it now, given that there is absolutely no pain involved and just love and care is my way of handling the trauma. I still doubt I'd like it much in a real situation.

Nothing I hated really

I always just accepted the fact that little kids got their temps taken rectally. At the doctors the nurse would always tell me what she was going to do and that when I was all done I could pick out a toy from their toy drawer. When I was real young she would sit on a stool and I would lay across her lap. Later I would lay face down on the table.

It was the embarrassment of having a bare bottom in front of my mother, who patted it and rubbed it the entire time. She was very gentle, but I knew she loved looking at and touching my bottom. Once she wanted my brother to stay across her lap after she removed the thermometer.

I only disliked temps 2 times the first time that felt so strange at 5, I never knew a temp could be done that way and the second time 4 hours later, after that I had a sudden fastination with the glass rod

I never saw a bulbus thermometer like it and the golden Vaseline surrounding it. I only remember a slender thermometer with the taste of rubbing alcohol before that

It was a gentle experience at home. I never really minded it that much. But at the clinic or hospital, it was a different story. Nurses tended to stick the thermometer too far for some reason. I usually winced when it first went in, and cried a few times.

I got my temp taken rectally when I was quite young and didn't like it. When my mother thought I was old enough for oral temps I was really happy, too. At a young age it seems that everything medically has to do with your butt whether it is temp taking, enemas, or shots.

I don't recall having any particular like or dislike of it, but I also didn't get it past maybe 6/7/8 or so and then probably only sometimes. I think my memories of it would've been more clear if I disliked it. For some reason I seemed to have a fascination with it once I was like 6 or 7, but don't recall getting it anymore then.

I hated rectal temps. when I was a kid. My mom took my temp. rectally almost every day, until I was around 5 or 6. When I was 8, my grandmother took my temp. rectally, because the oral thermometer broke, and she was babysitting for me and my older sister. My sister was sick, and she took her temperature first. It wasn't a problem for her, because the thermometer had a big glob of Vaseline on it. I apparently caught what my sister had, but when my grandmother took my temp., she didn't lubricate the thermometer. It felt like a sharp pen going in, and burned like crazy. I begged her to take it out, but she refused, and pushed it in deeper. I think when she finally did remove it, it hurt more coming out, then it had going in. She announced that my temperature was normal. All of that pain, for nothing. My butt hurt for hours afterward. Years later, while staying at a girlfriend's house, who was a nurse, I had gotten sick, and she told me to lay in bed, while she went to get the thermometer. When she returned, with the thermometer and Vaseline jar, my heart pounded. I thought that it was going to hurt, and didn't want it taken in my behind. She was very gentle with me, and it felt so incredible, that I became hooked. Since that night, 30 + years ago, I have had a rectal temp. fetish. Unfortunately, my wife wants nothing to do with it, and thinks that I'm weird. Oh well.

I had rectal temps done up until I was about 7. As much as I try to recall, I can't actually remember if I cried, or not. Still, I really hated exposing my butt to a stranger. I hated that it was only a "little kid" thing. And I hated the invasive, cold, weird, and sometimes painful sensations. The hospitals that I was in as a young child all used the electronic probe type thermometer, with the translucent disposable tips, or tip covers. A lot of nurses just inserted the probe about an inch. But there were a few who felt the need to get it alllll the way up there. That's when it would hurt.

I think I hated them as a kid because it was something that only babies had done to them. I once had to have one done because the regular thermometer broke and there was only the rectal one from when I was a baby.

I hated it when my mom took my temperature. I don't recall my dad ever taking it. I would try to hide when she told me she was going to take my temp. It is interesting that I cannot recall what I disliked so much.

I think I had my temperatures taken rectally until I was around six years old. I never did mind at all and it was usually only taken when I wasn't feeling good and was sick. All of my rectal temperatures at home were done by my mother and I almost always had my temperature taken rectally when I had to go to the hospital.

I remember when I was around five I was having problems with my tonsils and was always coming down with something. I can remember being sick and feeling like something the cat dragged in and my mom checking my forehead. When she did that it was pretty much having to have my temperature taken. She would have me take off my pajama bottoms and either lay over her lap if I was up and around or on my side if I was in bed.

Since I got sick fairly frequently, I had my temperature taken fairly frequently. It always felt cool when it started and there was never any problem with her putting it into me. Same way at the hospital or the doctor's office. I was always told that I was too young to have my temperature taken orally and so that was the only thing I really wanted to do was get old enough to be treated like a "big boy" and not a little baby. I think I did like the rectal temperatures after all was said and done.

Growing up, mom relied on rectal temperatures as the rule and it sure cut down on pretending to be sick. Our doctor's nurse always took it no matter what you were there for and mom made sure to tell you to turn over for the nurse well before she had the thermometer lubed and ready. It is now a source of arousal but as a medical procedure, it remains rather embarassing to know that a nurse is looking at my bottom. Some nurses will press cheeks together while it registers = makes for an intense feeling - while others keep me spread holdin the probe. I guess i most mind it if the doctor walks in while it's registering. The exam rooms are small and I am sure anyone passing by can get a view of my tush with the thermom showing.

As with the doctors, I definitely think more than a few nurses got off on the humiliating aspect pre exam prep before the doctor came in with the weight, height, bp and finally rectal temp at pediatrician clinics. I think they enjoyed controlling these wide-eyed unsuspecting youth patients wearing only briefs or panties which would soon be lowered to half mast and eventually be removed completely during the exam.