Squishy feeling

Yuck? It made my day, driving away from the doctor's office with a big smile on my face, feeling squishy as a reminder of what had just happened 😃

That feeling was the WORST!

I like the squishy feeling after the thermometer is taken out of my bottom. It lingers for a while reminding me that thermometer was just in my bottom and the anticipation of the next temp taking.

@Laura41 - I also love that squishy feeling of lube in my ass. not after a thermometer but after a smallish dildo my wife often pokes me with. Walking around, sitting and squirming. Rather than KY we've always used Neosporin salve because we've found it lasts longer and KY dries out too quickly.

@stiknclikit rectal thermometers are my craving followed by small butt plugs. Either way i like the squishyness. I mostly use vaseline. It does last longer.

@joe thom: I also remember when recently my doctor did a rectal exam / prostate exam. He used lot's of lube and when I walked out I felt it in my underpants Yuck ! lol

This sounds all too familiar.

As soon as my Mom removed the thermometer from my rectum she wiped my anus with a Kleenex so any Vaseline that was left was inside my rectum, not around my anus.

Not from a rectal temp but my visit to the urologist for prostatitis. The doc did a DRE on my side and a prostate massage. When he finished he did a quick wipe and had me roll onto my back to collect the prostatic fluid. After he left to examine the sample I got off the table and got dressed again. I left a wet line where my butt was on the exam paper and quickly after sitting down with my underwear on could feel the squishy feeling between my cheeks. A small souvenir of my recent experience.

Rather than KY we've always used Neosporin salve because we've found it lasts longer and KY dries out too quickly.

NOT a good idea!

No antibiotics should be used except when needed. If overused, your body will become immune to the antibiotic, and it will be useless when needed.

Use plain petroleum jelly or something like Aquaphor (blend of petroleum jelly, mineral oil, lanolin...) instead.

My mom didn't use Vaseline, but a similar product from Avon.

She would always wipe my butt after removing the thermometer, but it being an oil based product, it never all came off. Yeah, I'd have that squishy feeling the rest of the day. I have no idea why I didn't think of going to the bathroom and wiping or washing the residue off. It was an awkward feeling, but not troubling. A few years later, I found a tube of K-Y Jelly in my parents' bureau drawer. I wonder why she didn't use that. It cleans up so much easier.

What I do find rude is when a dr./PA/NP gives me a rectal exam and doesn't offer me tissue after. A couple years ago my then PCP did that. I kind of was waiting for her to hand me the tissue, but she just said "you can put yourself back together now." By the time I left the office and went to the bathroom, it leaked on my underwear and I had to go around the rest of the day like that. Fortunately, it didn't go through my pants (trousers for you across the pond 😃).

For what it's worth…

When I was made to insert the thermometer into my own derrière, no lubricant was used. However I would also receive drugs as suppositories. These were drugs dissolved in some kind of grease that would melt at body temperature, perhaps cocoa butter. Inevitably the melted grease would leak out and one would get a squishy feeling, basically the impression of having shit one's pants. Unpleasant when it happened in public… One had to go to the toilet to wipe oneself.

@Koan It is possible that she discovered KY jelly later than the years during which she took your temperature rectally. Did she by chance reach menopause in the meantime? She may have then been advised to use a water-based lubricant for sexual intercourse. In contrast, when she took your temperature rectally she may have been following family care books that advised using Vaseline or equivalent, and maybe had not heard of KY jelly.

By the way, I have a similar mystery. I recall being constipated a number of times during childhood, but recall receiving only some oral laxative, but nothing rectal - neither enemas nor glycerin suppositories. Yet I later found adult glycerin suppositories in the medicine cabinet.

@Koan It is possible that she discovered KY jelly later than the years during which she took your temperature rectally. Did she by chance reach menopause in the meantime?

By the way, I have a similar mystery. I recall being constipated a number of times during childhood, but recall receiving only some oral laxative, but nothing rectal - neither enemas nor glycerin suppositories. Yet I later found adult glycerin suppositories in the medicine cabinet.

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No, she definitely wasn't going through menopause. I think she had it from years earlier when she used a diaphragm. But she had a tubal ligation, so she wasn't using a diaphragm when I recall her taking my temperature. She just may not have thought of it. Any kind of lube would work. The second to last time she took my temp she used hand lotion, for some reason.

As for your issue with constipation, I don't find it a mystery at all. Why give you something rectally, if oral medication will work?

@Koan The oral medication took time before acting; thus the "plugged up" feeling lasted for a while.

My nurse always used alot of vaseline, so that squishy feeling would last a long time for me. Still to this day, I can never shake the feeling of what it felt like going in with the amount of vaseline she used.