RTs: How were you told?

The nurse would always say I need you to lie down on the table and turn over on your tummy. She would then prepare the thermometer. The worst moment came when I was 16 or 17, with my Dad in the room. The nurse kept saying how big I was getting, and that I'm such a big boy, and grown up, and all that. The next thing she was telling me to turn over so she could take my temperature. The whole time the thermometer was in I was thinking that if I were really all grown up why am I getting my temperature taken like a baby.

As a kid, I would just be told to lie down on my tummy, then I would feel the thermometer go in. ? I never complained though since it felt great. Nowadays, my play doc will tell me he’s going to take my temperature and instructs me to lie down on my tummy. Then he lowers my briefs and sticks the thermometer in. Always a good feeling.

I don’t remember anything noteworthy. It was probably like go get in bed and roll over to take your temperature” or something like that. I knew where it would go, and might have made some pleas to do it orally, but it took some time before that conversion happened.

I don't think that I was told anything. My mother would close the bedroom door, and before I knew it, the Vaseline coated thermometer was shoved up my butt...and left in place for the longest time. At least, when you're 4 or 5, it seems like forever. I just knew that I hated it, and threw a fit afterward. I think that my mom was relieved when I was able to switch to oral. I never fussed with the thermometer under my tongue. I was now a big kid..not a helpless baby.

I would love to have to go to @Robin3000 's clinic next time I'm sick!

Well the clinic where I work at we put it on our forms and inside our exam room stating that if a patient comes into this clinic sick or getting shots we take temperature rectally regardless of age,

Well dear, it is time again to check your temp.

you know what to do, dont you?

up to your room and get ready.

i will with you in a minute ...

Robin 3000, I can't believe your post, but I like the ideà a.s a fantasy.

Well the clinic where I work at we put it on our forms and inside our exam room stating that if a patient comes into this clinic sick or getting shots we take temperature rectally regardless of age,

Do you get complaints often? I can only imagine what those signs look like haha.

It was simply, “I need to take your temperature”. It was not a threatening tone. I remember when I was sick about 4 or 5 years old her watching TV and she came into the living room where I was lying not the couch. My brother was there too and she said, “I need to take your temperature” and she helped me up took me by the hand to the kitchen. The thermometer was on the table already lubed with vaseline on a tissue and she sat down, pushed my pj’s down and helped across her lap face down and put the thermometer in my bottom. As kid, it seemed like an eternity for that three or four minutes. I complain though this time I go poop. It was much pretty much the same as a kid, no drama or threatening tone regardless of position OTK, or laying on the bed.

Robin 3000,

Assuming your post is true, Can you.tell where this clînic you work at is located ? How do patients react to your rectal température policy ? Do you impose à rectal température to someone coming for a vaccination shot ?

I need a temp on you upstairs to your room young lady and lay on your bed. I knew the drill and what was coming.

First thing a nurse or aid came into my room asking how I wanted my temperature taken. Alas, I requested oral, & that was how it was done. Ironically if she had just told me to flip over I would have, because I expected to have things put up my butt in the hospital. That was how things were done then.

Just a simple “Time to check your temperature”

I don't think I have any ground-breaking terms other than if my mom felt my forehead, it was not long before I was called to her room to undress and "get your temperature taken".

Pretty much the same as @Passivetemp said, but mom would take my rectal temperature in my bedroom with whatever I was wearing for pants lowered to about my knees, while lying on my belly on the bed. Rectal temps stopped for me around eight or nine years old, and then was only taken orally.

My Nurse Girlfriend tells me to either assume the position or roll over on your side for your temperature reading. Mostly depends on what kind of mood she is in and so use too it now as it is the only method she will take my temperature....love it and not going too ever complain!

When I was a kid, my mother tended to be overprotective, so fairly often, she would say: ''you look pale ( or ''sick'' or ''tired'') lets check your temperature''. And then, I was afraid, not of the temperature taking itself, but of having a fever and my mother calling the doctor. That was often the case

Nowadays, with my girlfriend, things are differents. When she is in the mood for it, she will say, with a horny smile : ''lets put a thermometer in your ass, sweat heart'' knowing that, if I agree to her taking my temperature, I will demand to take hers after.

I need to take your temperature

My parents would always say “I need to take your temperature.” I knew the drill and would lay across their lap crying b/c I didn’t like it but didn’t have a choice!

Also sometimes mom would have me lay on the floor as if to change a diaper and would take my temperature then give me a Tylenol suppository!

It was usually by the nurse around after she weighed me. It always stressed me out because I never knew when it was coming. It could either be before or after getting my other vitals taken & I really think she enjoyed the humiliation. She would normally say lie down & I would always fight it. One time, I was sitting on the table & wouldn't let her. She said we could do this the easy way or the hard way & gave me to the count of 3. When I didn't budge, she somehow pulled my legs out from me & the next thing I knew, I was laying face down with her pulling my pants down & inserting the thermometer into my rectum. After that, anytime she told me it was time, I just pulled my pants down & let her do it. What was really humiliation was that she had this weird smile when she would take my temperature. Like she got off on it.