Taking your temperature before seeing a doctor ?

Do you take your temperature before you visit your doctor ?

My mom took my rectal temperature during the age of 3 and got the reading of 104 and had to go to the ER.

I don’t even have a thermometer anymore. I can tell if I am running a fever or can tell if my wife is. We watch it and If we can’t bring it down with aspirin we call the doc.

My mom took my rectal temperature during the age of 3 and got the reading of 104 and had to go to the ER.

Your mom knew what she was doing! Good for her- and you!!!! Bit at that temp, she probably didn’t need a thermometer ?

More often than not, no. If I do for some odd reason, it is always orally. I only enjoy rectal temperatures during play settings. However, as a child, my caretaker (mom or grandmother) always took my rectal temperature before seeing the doctor. They would report the reading to the nurse, who would then take my temperature up my butt once again.

Not that I recalled

I don't. I see a doctor twice a year for a physical; however, when I was younger, and all through my high school years, my temperature was taken by one of my parents. If it was over 100 they would call the pediatrician and of course they would take it again at the office. The rectal thermometer was in each of the examining rooms, resting in a jar of alcohol, and was the only type of thermometer on display.

Depends on the reason I am seeing a doctor

If it's for the flu or some inflammation: yes, I do

Otherwise not

I never do that

Yes I do. I still know it from childhood that I got measured in the morning, maybe middle of the day and short time before leaving home and going to the doctor's. I asked myself why my temperature was measured there again and nearly brought same results. Maybe it was just for my parents that they have something more to report, I have no clue... Or did they want me to prepare for the feeling in my bum I will have at the pediatrician office again? So far, I noticed when we will visit the doctor when I had a fever and got no suppository directly afterwards.

Unless you thought you had a fever, why would you take your temp before a routine doctor visit? Feeding a fetish???

If I'm sick and call our doctor because I need to come in or want a prescription, the nurse always asks if I'm running a fever. I remember a phone call when my husband was sitting on the bed and talking to the nurse, in a near panic because I was really sick, upper respiratory infection. "Her rectal temperature is over 102." The nurse didn't question. Hubby was able to get me in. The nurse took an oral with a digital (IVAC, I think) and it was just under 102. There is a 1° difference between oral and rectal, the latter being higher. So, don't be embarrassed to tell a doctor or nurse. If a temperature is taken rectally, tell them. That's important.

No, I don´t. But as a child if I was going to see the doctor my parents always took my temperature before. It could be one but also several measurings depending what time of the day the doctor was going to see me.

When he asked about my temperature they said "it was a long time since we measured him so it´s better you check it again". Or sometimes they denied they had checked my temperature. I guess they liked to see the doctor take my temperature and "secretly" they could compare his measuring with their own recordings.

As soon as possible after the doctors visit I was usually measured again "to be sure the thermometer is as reliable as the

doctor´s"...

If I’m sick, I take my temp before I go to the doctor so I can answer properly when they ask if I have a fever.

My primary reason for seeing the doctor would be a high or low grade fever that lasted a few days, which could be from any number of things. I've never taken my temperature before the appointment, because it's going to be taken anyway, during the exam. I also never disclose that I take my temperature rectally. There are just some things that a doctor doesn't need to know about. It certainly won't add anything of value.

No. Not that I go to the doctor that often in first place, pretty sure the last time was more than two years ago. But as others have pointed out, there's not much of a point if you're at the stage where you actually need professional treatment.

Yes I do.

Only if I am going in because I had a really high temp earlier for a few days and cannot break it. But for a regular checkup no.

If I had to go to the doctor for a fever I would take my temp before appt and write it down on piece of paper and give it to him....I’m sure doc will check again if orally is higher then what is written on the piece of paper then I’m sure the rectal probe comes out....I will have to get undressed to my undies and put on the paper gown open from the back and wait for nurse to take out the oral probe and connect the rectal probe on the welsh allyn electronic thermometer 🌡.....then nurse will tell me to get in position...that’s up to me if I want to be bend over on exam table or sims position or on your stomach....I think being on stomach is better for me.....so I slide my undies all the way down and take them off and throw it on my clothes pile and climb up on the exam table....while I lay down the crinkly paper is making a lot of noise....then I lay down on my stomach and my paper gown protects me from getting stuck to the crinkly paper (phewwww 😌 😅)....since I didn’t tie the paper gown My backside is all on display while I wait for nurse to insert anal thermometer....nurse tells me to spread open legs alittle wider but I get embarrassed because what if she sees my vagina!!! Lol I’m sure she can see it either or lol....I spread my legs very wide almost hanging off exam table and nurse spreads my butt cheeks wide open and inserts butt thermometer in one swift movement....I feel pressure going in and I open my mouth wide of being shocked and make a face while it’s going in....nurse holds the thermometer while it registered....15 sec later it beeps and she withdrew thermometer....she says 101.8....u do have a fever....then she pages the doctor to come back inside the room....she tells me I can sit back up now.... lol once again crinkly paper makes a lot of noise while I sit back up again lol

I would hope my wife would tell the receptionist upon arrival (with the entire waiting room in earshot) that she had taken my temperature at home using the baby thermometer. The nurse would then want to get a rectal reading to be consistent with the baseline...

.... I would take my temp before appt and write it down on piece of paper and give it to him....

@hilenk yessss!!! That would be awesome !!! Everyone hearing that u get rectal temps hahahaha and then hearing nurse say doc will check his core temp again omggg the embarrassment !!!

Usually it was after seeing the doctor. Doctors orders for rectal temp.

Seems redundant.

It is probably prudent to take it for two reasons: 1 If you make an appointment over the phone or even today via text or e-mail you might be asked if you have taken your temperature. 2. And some of you may have experienced the situation where a temperature is not even taken; so if you were not asked while making your appointment it’s a toss up as to whether it will or won’t-but too that may depend on why you want to be seen, and the conditions you show up with. Last it’s not a bad thing to have a thermometer at home.