Has anyone here tried to lie or otherwise avoid RT

I was in summer camp when I was nine years old (196😎 and wasn‘t feeling well and had to go the infirmary. The nurse asked me how they took my temperature at home and i pointed at my mouth. My mom and I still lived with my grandmother who always took a rectal temp. The nurse took and oral temp and I felt like I had won the loterry. LOL.

Had a similar experience 10 years ago, but the question was rhetorical. I had pointed to my mouth, the camp Nurse already had a rectal thermometer in hand. I never lied about it at home or the Dr because it's well, “resistence is futile”.

For me, it was the opposite. At that age, I was already doing everything I could to get back to having my temperature taken the “baby way". Unfortunately, despite drinking lots of cold water and coughing, it never seemed to work!

I was a 60's kid. They never asked, it was always rectal for kids, where I lived.

I was also a 60’s kid. Rectals at the doctor stoped when I was six in first grade.

One of my brothers, who was very much Jekyll and Hyde with his moods, often would be uncooperative for doctors and dentists and one time he pointedly refused to be still and cooperate for a rectal temp at a routine physical. Our dad had to step in and tell him to do what he was told.

My doctor's nurse started to ask oral or rectal at age 13. Before that, it was always rectal at every visit. I turned 13 in 1971. I grew up in the Rapid City area of, South Dakota.

I've only received a rectal temp once by my aunt when I was little younger, I'm pretty sure I tried to fake not being sick anymore and even tried going to school to get out of it, but she wasn't having it lol. She pretty much forced me over her lap.

Generally speaking…back in the Good Ol' Days (1950--60) getting a R.T. was not open for discussion. It was the way it was done. In the current age of enlightenment…I would go with whatever the Pediatrician advises and make sure it was wrote down in the paperwork…