Thermometer feeling cold during the insert of a rectal temperature

I remember how it was like. My buttocks are separated with two fingers and the thermometer is inserted. Slowly, but without any hesitate, the thermometer is inserted bit by bit into my rectum until only a tiny bit of the glass thermometer sticks out. First I feel the cold metal tip… iiihhh…. But the cold feeling of the metal tip disappears in a few seconds, and then the wider shoulder part of the thermometer is also inserted to make the thermometer properly in place...

Trying now to reminisce. It was a long time ago! I don't recall the thermometer feeling particularly cold at home. It may have felt colder in hospital, I have a faint recollection of that. In retrospect, I suspect the thermometer was stored in some kind of alcoholic solution (it stank violently, perhaps camphor alcohol?), which would evaporate and cool its surface when the thermometer removed from the container.

That brief but delightful cool feeling as my RN mom slid her glass rectal thermometer into me was one of my favorite feelings as a kid. Nice work, mom.🌡️🍑❤️

Eric

That was something typical I felt while getting my temperature measured rectally: the thermometer was cold when it slipped in, it heated up during registering time, and it felt very warm when it was pulled out.

No memory of it at the pediatrician’s office.

But when my bff used to do it to me, omg it felt not just cold but electric… many sensations I’d never felt before at that point in my life.

Yes, it felt cold, until it rises to the temperature in the rectum. I do notice that a K-Y lubricated thermometer feels colder than a Vaselined one.

I can only remember getting my temperature taken rectally one time. One of the things I remember about that one time was the cold feeling of the thermometer sliding in me.

Yes, it felt cold, until it rises to the temperature in the rectum. I do notice that a K-Y lubricated thermometer feels colder than a Vaselined one.

Vaseline would insulate the galss a bit during insertion making it feel less cool, but warm up to body temp after insertion for a while. At the doctors office back in the 50's the theroeters were kept in jars of alcohol, they would probably cool them off when taken out due to evaporation, then lubed with KY or something else non-greasy that is easier to clean so feel cold

Yes always when I was sick for me. When I was a kid and toddler it was always the same thing for me. Mom feels my head it’s warm and then I get my rectal temperature taken. But I’m put on my diaper changing table and pants come off along with my diaper and I’m placed in diaper changing position. The slow insertion of rectal thermometer as it penetrates my rectum I can feel it warm up inside me. 5-10min pass the thermometer is removed followed by a suppository and a diaper change. I still wore Huggies and Pampers diapers past potty training phase because I like the soft and secure feeling of having a diaper on me plus with the care I get and diaper checks by mom and adorable designs both diapers have.

While the cod sensation was always very noticeable, it as much the sudden feeling of the bulb end slipping in that was the surprise. Has anyone ever tried to get up when you first felt the thermometer slipping into your bottom? I would feel a hand on my back holding me in place.