Reasons why your temperature was taken rectally

Like most others in my age group, I had my temperature taken rectally because in the 60's that's the way it was done by our moms.At the time, I hated it and would fight and cry when it was done. I guess I felt humiliated and helpless. I also stood up for myself when I started kindergarten and begged for it to be taken another way. My mother then started taking it under my arm and eventually I proved to her that I could be trusted to hold it under my tongue. As I got older, I found the old rectal thermometers in the dining room cabinet drawer, and started playing around with them. The rest is history...In high school I was lucky enough to date a couple of girls who actually enjoyed taking my temperature for me. Maybe one day I'll meet someone that would enjoy RT as I do.

The nurse at the health department said," If you are coming in this health department for a physical we take your temperature by your age. But if you are coming into this health department because your sick or get vaccinations everyone regardless of age have to be taken rectally just make sure that you don't have a fever.

35 Years old.Went in for a sore throat.Was asked to undress and to put a gown on.Nurse came in and asked me to lay on the exame table.I layed on my back and said she needed to take a rectal temperature.I layed on my back with my legs bent,she came over and spread my legs apart and then she took her two fingers and spread my buttocks apart and slid the thermometer into my anus.While she was taking it another nurse came in whith a question for the nurse and watched as my temperature was being taken.

Accuracy would be my first guess. Rectal temps gave a true indication of internal body temperature that did not require any mental efforts to adjust an oral reading. Also, rectal temps elliminated differences that may have been caused by recent oral activities such as eating or drinking.

In those ago times fevers were serious health issues and an easy way to diagnose an infection. IIRC, running 101F or more required a doctor visit. The pediatrician office used rectal temps as a matter of course, plus it put you in a perfect position to receive an injection.

When i went for college physical nurse took it orally and when doctor came in he said it had to be accurate and took it rectally

To see if I was sick

My temperature was taken rectally until 17 at home. The pediatricians office had a policy of rectal temps for children 12 and under. I guess that was common when I was growing up. My mother give me enemas otk with the red bulb until 12 and it was same with rectal temps. PJs or pants and shorts to the ankles OTK, pear bulb mercury thermometer labeled rectal lubed with vaseline for 3 minutes and sometimes back for a second reading to confirm, the accuracy. I didn't like but you did not question my mom on things like this. It was just the way it was done. My grandmother, took my rectally and also my aunt who was a nurse rectally at times when I was sick as well.

When I started to go into puberty, it was still rectal but on the bed on my stomach, pjs or pants and shorts pulled down to expose my bottom. Last time was 17 but I think was really to check confirm I was faking so I could skip school but I got to stay home from school that day but there were other consequences of this which I will leave to another time.

At the pediatricians office, when we went for a check up or for sickness, they head nurse Nancy, always asked if I had temperature and how it was taken and would then if appropriate, she would confirm rectally as well.

I always have considered that the reason was because this was the way my mom and others around me considered it should be done. My parents were not my friends there were my mom and dad and I had to trust and obey them. And I guess I did. This was not abuse it was just the way it was done. I know some of friends got rectal temps as well because sometimes it would come in conversations but it was not a big deal. I was a different time in child rearing but it did cause many of use to have a fetishes.

As an adult, most of my rectal temps are in role play with other women and men but when I not feeling well. I always take my temperature orally with a digital thermometer and rectal with a pear bulb rectal mercury thermometer lubed with vaseline and compare the two reading.

It was for accuracy

Recently I went to urgent care and told the nurse if she can take my core temperature and she said u mean in the rectum?? And I was like yup....she had the biggest smirk on her face and laughed alittle....afterwards when she was done with the vitals she said are u ready ?? I hesistated but said yea....pulled down my pants and underwear and bend over the table....temp came out to 100.7 mild fever that I never knew I had soooo thank god I told her to take it that way cuz doc gave me Tylenol afterwards

I would have laughed at you too and then I wouldn't have done it unless you were incapable of keeping a thermometer in your mouth.

Please do not use us medical professionals as pawns in your medical fetish fantasy world. We don't appreciate it.

Mashie

A rectal thermometer was all we had. Sis and I have thought about it and we never saw mom or dad take their temp. I think I told this before. We were all up there visiting and my sisters' girlfriend started coming down with something and had a temp. I went and got the thermometer and brought it back to her. My sis was in the restroom. I started doing something and I hear sis say, "what are you doing?" I turned around and her girlfriend had it in her mouth under her tongue. She thought we were joking at first when we told her it was a rectal thermometer. Once she was over the initial ew and we told her that we never saw mom or dad use it we all started laughing.

Whenever I had my temperature take rectally, it was probably because my Mom or the doctor or nurse, were afraid that I would bite it and break it. That was with a cold or flu and if I was coughing or something. Otherwise, they would take it under my arm or orally.

The principal reason because my temperature was taken rectally for my mommy and pediatrician was because the rectal temp is the most accuarate ( And Always be the best option )

My rectal temp was taken when I had a cold so bad I couldn't breathe through my nose therefore being unable to keep my mouth closed on an oral thermometer for an accurate reading. I remember asking for the "butt thermometer" a few times when I know I could have done the oral thermometer.

My temperature was taken rectally to see if I was sick.

My impression was : it doesn't matter which arguments I had, my pediatrician always turned it to the fact to measure in my bum.

- When I said, I don't feel feverishly, he wanted to improve this.

- When I said, I had a fever of whatever degrees, because it was measured at home, then he asked where the thermometer was put

- - Did I say nothing, he did not believe me and wanted to improve.

- - Did I say, under my armpit, he answered that measuring has to be repeated in an accurate way

- - Did I say, I got the thermometer in my bum a few hours ago, he said, that he now needs to compare with a new temperature measurement.

When I mentioned, that I got a suppository already, he wants to check the effectiveness.

Sometimes he didn't care when his nurse measured my temperature a few minutes ago, because he didn't know, or he was not told, or he didn't find the sheet of paper with my temperature value and so on.

However, he pushed his long thermometer in my bum nearly all times, pulled up my shorts again, as I already wrote in other topics.

And at home, when I was sick or I looked like that or my parents had the suspicion, rectal temperature was quite standard for finding out more.

My wife will only take mine that way.

Years ago, I fought her on that (she's bigger, stronger & more dominate than I), but I put my foot down. She left the room & returned with a bar of soap put it down, then slapped my face a few times (I was seeing stars), when she stripped me, shoved the bar in my mouth & turned me over her knee & started to spank me (her hand felt like a paddle), then shoved the thermometer in. When it was done, she took it out & finished my spanking. I took the thermometer without arguing ever since.

I was never given a reason for a rectal temperature. Apparently, it was my pediatrician office's policy to do so and I had it done through my high school years. It was also done the same way at home. I believe the pediatrician told my parents to do it that way. I really never asked why. Actually, I did once at the doctor's office when I was 15 or 16. I asked the nurse if my temperature could be taken in my mouth. She just gave a little smile and said something like honey, the doctor still wants it taken the other way. I never asked again because I feared the rejection of being denied.

I had an older brother who died from pneumonia. After that, mom became EXTREMELY cautious when it came to my sister and I and our health. Our rectal temperatures were taken almost on a daily, if not weekly basis. All it took was a sneeze, or a cough, or to come home from playing with friends and looking a little overheated. We took it as if it were a normal routine for us to have our rectal temperatures taken before school etc. It wasn't later until we started playing doctor etc and the rectal temping became a fetish.

I thought we were both kind of 'Special ' because of how often our temperatures were taken and it wasn't until Howard Stern talked about receiving daily rectal temps from his mom that I realized we weren't the only ones.

They are developing thermometers now that they can hold and pull the trigger pointing at you and get an accurate temp from 10 feet away. The only real reason to do one now is for hypothermia. Otherwise in the US it is rarely used.

The only time that I remember, as a child, having my temperature taken rectally was because I had suffered a head injury and was out of it. I came to with something in my fanny and said, "What the hell?" My mother, who was sitting at my bedside, replied. "The nurse is just taking your temperature." I retorted, "There?" My mother said later that she was never so relieved in her life because she knew that I was rational.

The only reason my clinic where I work at takes a rectal temperature is if the patient is comes in there sick or getting vaccinated for something

My mom was a nurse and all the family add there rectal thermometer. For mom oral thermometer did not records

After age 3 rectal temps were the fetish of the parents. No reason for them

As an adult in my early 20s, my temperature was taken rectally in the hospital and by a home health nurse due to facial injuries that I suffered in an accident. And about 10 years ago, by an urgent care nurse when I had an intense migraine and was vomiting into a plastic bucket they gave me. The nurse asked if I minded her taking a rectal temperature. It was done with a battery powered unit, cord and probe, and she did it so quickly I hardly felt it. Certainly not a big deal that I would ever complain about.

No reason was given my temperature was taken rectally to see if I was sick and needed to go to the doctor.

My mom always believed it was the most accurate.

Always was the most accurate and still is.

No reason it was just the way it was taken always Rectal

I usually had an obvious high fever when taken to the clinic as a child due to chronic ear and throat infections. Also in the 60’s and 70’s, that’s just how temps were taken if you were under age six. I’m sure my rectal temp was taken at a clinic an average of fifteen to twenty times per year for the first six years of my life! I went to several clinics as a child on opposite sides of the state I live in, and every clinic I visited required my rectal temp. I have no idea how I could have obtained this RT fetish. :/