Was your temp taken rectally until an older age than your siblings were?

Was your temp taken rectally until an older age than your siblings were? If so, did it seem unfair to you? What was the reason given, if any?

I only had one sister that was two years younger than me, but my temp was still taken rectally five or six years after she progressed to the oral temps. When I was 10 i was sick with a high fever of 106. I had to have rectal temps every four or six hours around the clock until it broke. after that my parents were reluctant to let me go back to oral. When I was 11 I had to get rectal temps several times at the docs until I had this minor procedure done. I remember a couple rectal temps at home right after that.

My temp. at home and at the doctor's office, was taken rectally until around age 5. My guess is that my sister, who is around 2 years older than me, had the same experience. I hated having a thermometer shoved up my butt, as a kid, and it seemed that my mother was obsessed with taking my rectal temp. a little too often. I would throw a fit. Fortunately, oral temps. became a normal part of my childhood, from a very young age. You'd better believe that I figured out how to hold it under my tongue.

My mom took my younger brother's oral temp starting at age 14, and as I never minded rectal and never asked to change she did mine rectally till I joined the US Navy at age 18. After I discharged from the navy. I went to college and my roommate and I talked about childhood doctor visits and I found out my college roommate also had rectal temps till he left home at age 18. This actually lead into us taking each other's rectal temps when sick and sometimes just for fun. We both also had rectal temps at our doctors as kids. My doctor's nurse asked how you wanted it after age 13. My roommate said about the same happened at his doctor. We both grew up in the midwest United States and both were age 13 in 1971 for me and 1973 for my roommate. We never found it at all odd that we ended up taking each others rectal temps, we even gave each other enemas when needed for constipation, and didn't see anything odd about that either.

My 3 years older brother mentioned it several times that he is no kid anymore, last time when he was 14. But he always freaked out when he should get his temperature measured. Our parents and at the pediatrician his and my temperature were always measured rectally.

My relatives live in Turkey and my cousins are younger than me. I remember when I was 12 that I got ill during our trip in Turkey, so I got several times measuring. My cousins sometimes saw me lying there with a thermometer up my bum, they were 11, 10 and I guess 8 and 4. The missing privacy was embarrassing, on the other hand the parents from them told their kids how brave and compliant I behaved and that I would be a positive example for them. Later two of them became ill, too, so they all got RT as well. I felt like being the hero for my cousin that I supported them morally 😅