Requesting a rectal temperature

Has anyone here actually asked for a rectal temp on themselves in a medical setting?---I would not have the nerve to do that myself. I would be afraid that my doc would put in my records that I was a nut case.

Has anyone here actually asked for a rectal temp on themselves in a medical setting?---I would not have the nerve to do that myself. I would be afraid that my doc would put in my records that I was a nut case.

I moved this post to another thread where the question had already been asked and discussed.

Thanks also to @Kermit79 for identifying the correct thread.

For a clinical setting I have ask my girlfriend who is friends with the doctor and nurse I go too if I could have my temperature took rectal and first time I went it was done oral and after that it has been tooken rectal everytime since and told my Doctor and my Nurse thank you for granting my wish at the doctors office of getting my temp took like I do at home, they both just said "what our you talking about as in this clinic you will only get your temperature took that way", I said "oh really and why the first time I got it took oral and explain that" and they both just smiled.

I know my Girlfriend had set the whole thing up and they were just playing along and not mad about it one bit!

Now before going to her friends I had a Doctor and just never had the nerves to ask her nurses if they would take it rectally and didn't want to seem like a freak so never said nothing for all the years I went to her. She retired so that is why I moved on too my Girlfriends Doctor Friends office.

When I was a young teen, after a visit to my new docs for stomach issues, in the car on the way home I produced a new baby pamphlet open to a page of graph paper designed to track a sick baby's temperature, symptoms, etc.

I told 'Carl' my last step/foster/momsOldBf/uncle that I lived with, that the doctor had put me on a program where, in addition to the weekly enemas I was already getting by faking an earlier order, I had to have my body temperature tracked. When he said 'so' I said 'well, it has to be tracked a certain way'

He must have noticed me glancing at the pamphlet, now scribbled with the best hurried doctor hand I could manage while in the waiting room. Clearly marked out on a month of Tue and Thu slots were carefully written notes:

TUE, THU

2 large volume enemas 1 soapsuds, 1 tapwater (full rectal exam on thu)

When the book was opened to the carefully folded open pages of the health chart, it was hard not to notice the words:

RECTAL TEMPERATURES ONLY (per Dr Howln)

Emblazoned across the top of the page in red ink

Which was right where Carl had opened the book to when he snatched it up off the seat. I was embarrassed. I just knew he'd know that I had written those 'doctor's orders' with the Sharpies from his car. I braced for a guffaw but heard only a soft chuckle escape his lips.

He said it shouldn't be a big deal if I had to have someone do that to me since it would probably be done by the same person who would give me the enemas. He then took me to the drug store and we picked out a new, Q-Tips brand Baby Thermometer in a pink case, a box of Feverall suppositories, a box of BD Temp Away rectal thermometer covers and a brand new red rubber enema bag because Carl said I should have my own now.

The twice a week enema sessions I received from Carl without fail for an entire month. He was also very prompt about filling in the rectal temperature log. Even after the diary had gone away, it wasnt too long before he would appear at my door, thermometer and Vaseline in hand. (And it wouldn't be too long at all when a rectal thermometer wasnt; the only 'instrument' he inserted in my mouth and rectum. But that's a story for another day.