Was your rectal temperature ever taken two or more times in the same day?

Yeah, throughout the first year of Covid, it was. Once in the morning after I woke up and before bedtime. More if my body felt warm to the touch or if there were any other cold symptoms. Even during subsequent waves of Covid in my country, my anus got probed twice daily and a chart was maintained.

Yes, best way to keep an eye on it

Enjoyed reading your post. On one or two occasions I was scanned, then got a rectal temperature measurement.

if I use a facility where I can get a massage, enema or colonic, I respectfully request my rectal temperature be taken. More times than not I had it taken. This is where they want to scan you.

I tell them I want To see the difference between the scan and a core readin.

Yes, when I was about 23 yrs old, I was in hospital for meningitis and nearly died. Temp was taken rectally over and over and I dont know how many times the first day and night cuz I was real out of it, and barely conscious, but I do remember parts of it being rolled on my side and one or two nurses opening my cheeks and talking and slipping thermometer in my butt, but I didnt protest , too sick and weak. But I was real embarassed. The second day after IV of penicillin took effect and fever came down, they still did it like every few hrs, and I think every nurse in there had their turn on me at least once. This went around the clock for several days. It was so humiliating and embarassing I couldnt look any of them in the eye after that and just ducked or hid under sheet. After normal temp returned, it still was done once a shift, so thats 3 times a day. In the middle of the night, I'd be awakened by someone rolling me over on my side and opening me cheeks and sliding that cold glass rod around my hairy ass hole and plunging it in. I pretended I was not awake. When they hold it in I can feel them twisting it around or moving it. I know I got hard on that they could see from the front and some of the young foreign nurses would get a giggle out of it. I was well enough to get hard and again , so humiliated I just pretended to be asleep. I felt taken advantage of being in such a vulnerable position. But I had a really ripped body, and I suspect they were having a good time with me, being ‘asleep’ etc.

Yes 3 or 4 times a day when I had covid.

When I was sick with a fever, my mom would check my temperature several times a day

Oh yes, especially when I was actually sick. Our mother was a bit overprotective/concerned about our health, as she took our rectal temperatures every two hours, at least.

Yes. If I were sick and had a temp. I would get Tylenol and then I would get checked in a couple of hours. This could go on into the night.

When I was really young, around 4-5, my mom apparently had a “thing” about taking my rectal temp. on a daily basis. She would even bribe me, if I balked at the idea. Yes, she did have a host of mental illnesses, which I clearly realized with age. I raised such a fuss, at one point, that she just gave up, and stopped doing that to me. In a prior era, this would have been considered normal. Today it could be considered to be sexual abuse.

On the rare occasions that I did not feel well, my temperature was taken rectally by my mother. If higher than normal, it would be repeated to confirm the high reading. Then, I was usually given an enema series (soapy and rinse with water) after which I almost always felt much better in a short while. My temperature was usually retaken and the high temperature was almost always gone. Medical Science would likely deny that the enemas had anything to do with me feeling better, but they seemed to work for me growing up and as an adult. Maybe it is more mental than we realize. Denise

As a kid and a teen my parents took my temperature rectally min 3 times a day when I was ill. It was normal for me. And same in hospital.

I took my wifes rectal temperature every morning when she was trying to get pregnant

Preceding a rectal was the feel your forehead. If there was even an inkling of warmth, I rectal temp would follow. Our household used the gold standard of rectal thermometers, the pear bulb and the thermometer was marked rectal. The standard was Vaseline. As i kid, I knew the two went together. When you were sick, it was generally four times a day. When you woke up in the morning, mid-day, late afternoon and before you went to sleep. So that was realistically ever 4 hours or so. There was no ceremony pj bottoms down or off. We did not wear undershorts under PJs. Then OTK for a good five minutes. This was way it was till about 12. Then PJ bottoms off laying face down on the bed with mom sitting beside me til 17. When you were not sick but a rectal temp occurred, usually a second time would happen just as a check.

@Denise On the rare occasions that I did not feel well, my temperature was taken rectally by my mother. If higher than normal, it would be repeated to confirm the high reading.

Mom started taking oral temps when I was still pretty young – around 5, I think. However, while I was in high school I had a respiratory infection and bad cough, Mom took my temp rectally at least three or four times a day until my fever was down. I still have that thermometer, and it's still accurate.

Yes when I was 5 years old and in the hospital for a week I had it taken 3 times a day . The nurse's that came in first thing in the morning and took it in the diaper position, one holding my legs up and the other nurse putting the thermometer in I can't remember how long they kept it in, but it seemed like forever ! What made it even worse was the way turned and twiddled the thermometer

I have no doubt my temperature was taken rectally several times a day during my hospital stay for Asiatic flu in 1960. Unfortunately, I don't remember any of them (I was only three).

When I was little (1950s), the nurse would come in in the morning and take everybody's rectal temp and again at night. At night, she would also 9ask if you had a BM. If you said no, you got an enema. All the other kids would laugh.

When I was sick and home from school for the day I remember having at least three rectal temps. Mom would take it rectally in the morning then call the doctor. I would usually end up in the doctor’s office getting a second rectal temp then mom would take it rectally again later in the afternoon. Sometimes there would be a fourth one before bedtime as well. Another memory I have is my mom and dad coming into my room at night to take my temperature. Since I shared a room with my brother they didn’t want to turn the light on so my dad would hold a flashlight while my mom put the thermometer in my behind. Kind of funny actually. I remember this also happening to my brother in the bed next to me. I would close my eyes really tightly pretending to be asleep hoping that I wasn’t next.

If we were home sick there was no doubt it would be more than 2x in a day. The first would be when you complained about being since - so in the AM then if there was a Dr appointment involved it would happen there, followed by a least a couple more during the day and night. If you were home more than a couple days the process would repeat itself. Plus the enema which would usually be given as soon as everyone was out of the house

At home, if I got an enema, I always knew id get an RT before and after the enema, it's just how both mom or gram did it.

As far as I remember my mum took my temperature several times a day when I was sick. I‘d say at least 3 times. First after I woke up. The second time at the afternoon and the third time before going to sleep. I wasn‘t very keen on getting my temperature taken to say the least but I really hated the evening measurements as they were often combined with getting a suppository to make me sleep better. They always burned like hell.

When I’m on my play date we take each other’s rt multiple times during our time together. Growing up I never had a rt taken except when I was in the ER at 4 & that was one time

Most definitely when I was 12 during hospital stay for internal injury. Once admitted and taken to room once I undressed and put in gown by nurse made to lie face down for the initial humiliation of it. Had several before discharged.

@Liane it was the same here. The most embarassing Part was if it was done in the living room

Same as @Liane when me or sister got sick. daily 3-4 times were mom's routine, and the smallest sign of fever we got suppositories right after the measurement.

Yes indeed.

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When I was sick at home, mom would feel my forehead and if she suspected a fever, she would send me to my room to put on pajamas and get in bed. She would show up in a few minutes with a rectal thermometer and a jar of Vaseline. If I had a fever, she would also give me a suppository. She would check me about every four hours during the day. I remember a few times when my friend next door was sick she tended both of us so we had our pjs down in front of each other which was embarrassing and exciting at the same time.

When I was home sick my Mom would take my rectal temperature at least 3 times a day and after the first time in the morning she would give me a hot soapsuds enema to keep my bowels cleared out. This happened every day until I was well enough to go back to school.

When my forehead felt hot, Mom took my temperature three or four times a day. Was not a bad thing for me, because I loved the cold tip of the thermometer in my fever hot anus. That changed never in my live, and today my wife does the same to me when I have a fever, or often to my pleasure.

Because of my asthma mum take my temp morning and night on normal day if picked up infection and home sick get them hourly