Teenage rectal temps

It was the usuall method of my parents, till I was 12

@Lara88 Did they insert the thermometer themselves or did they let you do it?

I never had my temperature taken rectally as a teenager. Where I grew up, it was customary to switch children to oral readings at around 5 or 6. However, I never fully accepted the transition and was always hoping my mother or the nurse at the pediatrician’s office would find a pretext (e.g. coughing, nausea, swollen throat, …) to do it the “baby” way. Unfortunately, apart from one memorable incident when I was 11, it never happened. I still get excited going into a doctor’s office and seeing a thermometer on the counter, ready to use.

The policy of the practice required that all temperatures were taken rectally since there would be uniform medical records for all patients. The doctor was male and the office required that a parent or guardian was present for all exams. Usually it was my mother in the room.

I was ok with it until I was around 12 but as I got older, I was embarrassed. It was done whild I was wearing underpants and when it was time to have it done, the doctor would have me turn over on my front and he would lower my underpants so that only my buttocks was exposed.

@Mason My mother also continued giving suppositories herself for years after she stopped taking temperatures herself. I never had an explanation why.

I don't think I've had a rectal temperature taken since I was very young - under 5 years old, I think.

The Pediatrician stopped taking our rectal temps around 12-13.

The clinic I went to switched to oral at 13, but I did get one last rectal temp taken at 13 when I was sick to my stomach. And my mom was present in the exam room until age 18. There was never any question about it, she would just follow me back when I was called and take a seat in the chair. She would collect my clothes during the exam and she also took my underwear from me at the end when it was time for my shot until I protested about it at 8 after being walked in on by an entire family while I was laying naked on the table waiting for the nurse.

I guess the taking of a teenager’s rectal temperature depended on a number of circumstances.

Was it needed and obtained rectally for medical reasons? Was it a practice of parents to take their teenage childrens’ rectal temperatures at home? If hospitalized it may have been the protocol of the hospital to obtain rectal temperatures as appropriate on teenage patients. If it was a home visit, not too often done now; was it the visiting doctor ‘s preferred method for his or her teenage patient?

I seen the same pediatrician from birth until I was about 15 this was in the 70’s early 80’s. mom stopped taking rectal temperatures. when I was around 7 or so .. pediatrician office around 9 unless it was for a sick visit. then u got the red tip thermometer in the butt. I remember very vividly 2 time. when I was 15 had to go to the ER. On a Saturday night I had the worst stomach bug I was dehydrated and still vomiting. Nothing for the most part . The nurse called me back and told mom she had to go as well . We got back to the exam rooms on both sides of the room with only curtains around the bed she asked mom when this started and if I was running a fever . I couldn’t stop gagging I was so nauseous. She said she was going to go talk to doctor see if they could give me something to help an start a IV. she said she would get another nurse to come in get my temperature . She ask if I could put on a gown . mom said to just take my shirt and pants off leave my underwear on . 2 nurses came in and said we need to get ur temperature she was holding a thermometer in her hand then the other nurse said we need you to go ahead and remove ur underwear to take ur temperature I was embarrassed to move here I was in some what a open room with other people walking by laying on the table with a thermometer in my butt . Then on top of that got a suppository too

I had my temperature taken rectal until I was 18. I went to a pediatrician until then and the normal procedure of any exam included a rectal temperature reading. It was part of my annual well visit and whenever I went to the doctor when sick

Hello, being quite new here I am taking a leap of faith. I was given rectal temperatures as a teenager many, many times. I guess others that were might understand the feelings that go along with it

@SubmissOne I have the same expiriences

@kgf. yes I think the nurse and dr were getting off on doing your RT.

Last time I think I got rectal temp from my dad I was probably 18. I had a really bad flu my senior year of high school, and it was another experience with the colon tube for me.

Most of my visit at the pediatrician included a temperature check. In the 80s it was pretty normal in Germany to take the temperature rectally. My mum always did it that way. I never questioned that a thermometer could be used in other places than the butt. So getting a rectal temperature at the pediatrician was not a surprise really. At the age of 12 it started to get quiet embarrassing never the less.

One Saturday I took my bike over to my grandmother's. She was a retired Registered Nurse. She had a small kitchen with a washer and dryer. Despite having a dryer, she usually hung her clothes out to try on a pop-up close line. Before I started doing the lawn that day I was stooped. Her side door opened, and she asked me inside. Immediately her hand went to my forehead. I was told to go upstairs to a specific room. Then strip down to my underwear and she would right there. I obeyed my grandparents. I was standing there in my briefs we she entered the room. She sent down a tray on the table adjacent to a couch . On that tray was a rectal thermometer, Vaseline and a damp washcloth. My grandmother then reached over and took down my briefs leaving me naked before her. After that she removed the thermometer and shook it down. Now seated on the couch I was motioned to come and drape myself across her lap. Opening the Vaseline and lubricating the thermometer in it went. Parting my cheeks in went the thermometer for 3 to 4 minutes. She removed and said my temperature was only slightly elevated. She left I got dressed and did the lawn.

@Alec123 ,

I like your story.

How old were you when this happened ?

Did it happen just once or was it some kind of routine when you visited your grandma ?

What were your feelings as the thermometer registered ?: Did you fell schocked, embarassed, ashamed, humiliated or turned on ?

Did your grandma usually take your rectal temperature ?

Did you enjoy this temperature taking session or did you hate it ?

Thanks for your answers or any comments.

I had mine taken when I was 13. I was told it was due to not being able to get a reading on the oral thermometer due to my breaking problems. I was normally the oldest kid at my doctors office still with a thermometer in his ass. The worst part about it was none of the rooms had doors & anyone could see this at anytime.

Untill the age of 14 my mother took my temperature rectally. One day she told me to mesure my temperature by myself without giving any recommendations concerning the method how to do that. Since I didn't mind having something in my rectum at that time, I kept the habit of taking my temperature rectally. That hasn't changed since then.

My pediatrician was very attached to rectal measurements, so sometimes, up to 13 years old, while he was examining me if I had a fever, he used the rectal thermometer. Every time, someone was always present... I was accompanied by my grandmother, or my mother, and later my stepmother or my aunt;

Just noticed the most recent posts, including jimcarroll of a few months ago. Had my temp taken rectally at the clinic through 14 after cheating on oral. There were 10 exam rooms along a hallway. They had doors, but they were sliding pocket doors. Some were sticky, and the nurses didn't always close them completely. The exam tables were arranged so that the patient's feet pointed towards the end of the room with the door. There were many times when a patient passing by had a glimpse of me with a thermometer in my bottom, and I caught a few glimpses of others as well.

My temperature was taken rectally at home by my mom and at the pediatrician until I was 13 or 14, which was quite 'standard' at this time!

Always rectal at home and in hospital on respiratory ward in case asthma started coughing so safer rectaly

I remember when I was a teenager, I had to insert the rectal thermometer by my self. My temperature was taken by my mom or dad until I was 11 and suddenly one day I was instructed how to take my temperature rectally. If I refused, my mom or dad persuade me, prepared the thermometer with vaseline on the metal tip and handed it over to me for insertion...

Definitely not as a teenager, although I had some friends who did. I thought it was pretty weird that a teen would be subjected to that, and I was thankful that I wasn’t among them. My fetish didn’t start until I was in my early twenties.

At home, never as a teenager. When I was hospitalized, yes. Whether it was because my fever was so high or whether I may have been in a pediatric ward where it was standard procedure for everyone I couldn’t say.