Rectal temperature experience

It happened with me 2 years ago when I invited my friend to my house at night, actually I wasn't feeling well and she noticed & she asked me if I have a fever, I told her I didn't know, then she suggested I take my temperature. When I did have a normal temperature she said there is something wrong you appear to have a high temperature and told me she usually takes it rectally because it is more accurate.

I told her my mom used to take it that way a long time ago but I don't know how to take it myself. My friend said I can do it for you which was to surprise me, I didn't reject the idea at all. I ended up on my bed in my room, she shook the thermometer and lubricated it with alcohol and ended up inserting it in my bum. It was an amazing feeling, then after 3 or 4 minutes she took it out and read it and told me my temperature is a bit elevated, it was amazing experience and I really liked having my temp taken rectally a lot especially from a girl. I like to take girl temp too.

I had a similar experience many years ago, with a girlfriend who was a nursing student. This was back in the days of glass rectal thermometers, and before the advent of having to be PC about everything, including rectal temps. Those really were the good old days !

I hope she didn't really use the alcohol for lubrication. wiping it down first with alcohol is fine, but i seriously doubt that it would make it slide in easy. if anything, i think it would be harder for it to slide, let alone how much it would sting.

I think as perhaps many of us can attest, we've either heard or expressed the sentiment, "You're putting that thermometer, where?!!", knowing it was a temperature taking to be taken rectally. Well I had a circumstance where the young lady whose rectal temperature I was to take, didn't lament where the thermometer was going, as I told her it would be best if I took her temperature (she wasn't feeling too good) rectally. She said that doing it rectally was not an issue for her. Well after the three minutes was up,I removed it, read it, wiped it off, though didn't shake it down, and set it on a piece of tissue. She picked it up, looked at it, as I didn't immediately remark on her actual temperature, and she knew how to read it, and did, but then let out quite the outburst..."This thermometer is from India??!!"" I looked at it, and said, "Apparently it is, as that's what it says."

Well after she calmed down she said getting her rectal temperature taken wasn't an issue, but if the thermometer was made in India, she didn't want me using it on her. I asked why. I guess I wasn't up on my geo political information as she very calmly said, I'm from Pakistan, and ...then she went into a bit of a diatribe. Anytime after, if she needed her temperature checked,(it was taken a few more times-US made B-D thermometer) I made sure it was a thermometer not made in India!

That's an interesting reaction. If someone doesn't like China, as another example, then they would be extremely limited in almost all product choices. The last time that clinical thermometers were manufactured in America, was probably well over 50 years ago.

Yeah, and be grateful for E-bay and other such sites, and estate sales, and the occasional stroke of luck! That's the most likely places to acquire a glass mercury rectal thermometer. But I'd have to say my then g/f's reaction wasn't one everybody would have. They're either willing and want it taken or in the case of many, they don't and just want the ordeal ended.

When I was younger Mom always took my temp rectally that was the norm. Now that I have a play partner she will always insist it be taken rectally and makes it fairly formal. I either lay down on couch or bed with my butt up and bare as she goes to retrieve the thermometer then she'll wipe it with alcohol then lube it up with some ky and insert it nice and slowly then move it back n forth just a little, 3 min later it comes out and she reads it, if I do happen to be running a temp she'll repeat the process again later on.

My 15 month old son had a slight fever and congestion a few weeks ago, so we bumped up his wellness check up and did a sick visit. He was feeling pretty good as the nurse did his vitals, but when the nurse checked his temperature she did it with one of the forehead thermometers and it only came up as 97...but she didn't bother to recheck it. A little while later the nurse practitioner came in to do his exam, she was a gorgeous girl, early 30s, brunette, super friendly towards me and my wife and absolutely loved my son. But she also had that slight no nonense down to business attitude most doctors have which I found awesome.

As she is checking over my son She says that he feels a little warm and asked if the nurse checked his temperature...my wife said yes but the reading was probably inaccurate, so the nurse practitioner said she will check his temperature rectally to get a more accurate reading. My heart was pounding out of my chest at those words, but I played it cool and kept my son busy while she went to go get the thermometer. She came back a minute later with the medical probe thermometer with the red tip and put a probe cover on it...then she opened the drawer next to the bed and grabbed a small tube of a ky like lube and squeezed a little on to the paper on the exam table.

She dipped the end of the probe in the lube and with her other hand she undid my son's diaper and while on his back she told him he was gonna get a tickle in his butt...she lifted his legs up and pushed his knees back and slid the probe into his tush...he just laughed at the funny faces she was making,and it beeped after about 15 seconds, she took it out, removed the cover and said his temperature was 100.3..just a little high but no cause for concern...well anyways he is better now and all I can think about is how I wish that was me in his place!

My experience of a rectal temperature is just being relaxed while my mom inserted the cold thermometer into my hiney and holds in place while it regesiters the temperature. I never recall my mom dipping the thermometer into a cream or anything. It was covered by a sleeve but, it was still cold when being inserted.

so the nurse practitioner said she will check his temperature rectally to get a more accurate reading. My heart was pounding out of my chest at those words

Why was your heart pounding when you found out that your infant son was going to be getting his temperature taken rectally...?

It was just being sick and had to be checked for fever during my infant and toddler years.