Unexpected rectal temperature

Have you had the experience where you were sick at home, went for a doctor visit, either sick or wellness check up, trip to the ER and much to your surprise, possibly chagrin and perhaps, disbelief, wound up getting your temperature taken rectally?

I had it happen s number of years back on my job at a VA hospital.

Oh I am sure that this is something that many of us have experienced. I also think that one may expect it but yet be shocked or experience it as unwelcome and embarrassing. Thoughts of disbelief are stronger when this happens. “I can't believe it still is being done.” Such thoughts for me are very intense and clearly anxiety provoking as I adjust to the probe nesting in my rectum.

It must have been 30 years since I had to go to the hospital with suspected appendicitis. During the examination, the temperature was first measured under my arm, then the doctor said he had to measure my bottom for comparison. I was very surprised because I hadn't expected that. However, I was too sick to enjoy the situation.

As I have a strong rectal temperature fetish, an unexpected rectal temperature imposed by a doctor would be a dream come true.

I hope the person taking my temperature would a young sexy female intern or nurse. And I would like the temperature taking to be with an old fashion glass thermometer and last several minutes.

But I am afraid we are in total fantasy.

I would love for that to happen. However, that would never happen to me. All my local doctors don’t even want to see patients these days.

I had it happen when I went for my physical just when doctors office opened up again from covid. Since it was no facial contact and I had a mask and face shield on. The male nurse told me to turn around and bent over so he can take my temperature. He said with covid he couldn't take it orally so down came my briefs and he spread my cheeks and slipped in the probe. After a few minutes he took it out and I pulled up my briefs and waited for the doctor to come in.

Not from a doctor but from a partner.

Don’t I wish!

At e.r. years ago when having extreme toothache(infected). Nurse entered room and said rather than taking it orally with my condition o n she would do it baby style integrally.

I complied and played on my left side with right side leg bent toward my chest and saw her lubricating it up as she approached me with a slight grin upon her face in advance of my humiliating procedure about to occur.

Many years ago but still very vivid in my mind. Fretter

I never really had this happen but if I did it would be very surprising

No has that never happened to me when I went to the doctor I would be very surprised.

True story about and unexpected rectal temp. In middle school I came to learn that I was in the minority of pre-teen kids who were still having their temperatures taken rectally during doctor visits. The town where I grew up had three other family doctor’s offices where I would occasionally go if my doctor was booked up or unavailable. Whenever I had an appointment at those other doctor’s offices my temperature was always taken orally which made me realize that other doctors had different temperature taking policies. Prior to that I had always assumed rectal temps were routine for all kids my age no matter where they went. In 8th grade I remember being in the school cafeteria having lunch at the table where my friends sat. It was a group of about six kids and one day we started discussing which doctors we went to in town. I told them Dr. Cardullo was my doctor and a girl named Tina who was sitting with us said “Oh my god I hate that place… I just went there for a sports physical and this old lady nurse like totally stuck a thermometer up my ass!” Every kid at the table started laughing hysterically but I was so embarrassed now that they all knew I went to there. The discussion continued and I confessed to still getting rectal temps there and they were all astonished by that. They couldn’t believe kids our age still got rectal temps since all of their doctor’s offices did temps orally. Tina was indignant over it saying how the nurse wouldn’t take it orally because she was too young at 12. She was a feisty and boisterous type of girl with a great sense of humor and I remember her telling us how her mom teased her about it for days. She said her mom kept calling her “thermometer butt” and everyone at the table laughed again. Till this day I still often think about Tina’s little tale imagining what a shock it must have been for her the moment when the nurse inserted the thermometer.

It appened when i delivered. They where afraid that i had fever so took my temperature rectally each hour during at least 12 hours.

Happened once in a military hospital. I was butt up/head down on a tilt table waiting for the dr to do a sigmoidoscopy. The nurse came in and said she didn't get my temp during vitals8, and since my cheeks were wide open, she took it in the most accessible place.

My last rectal temps at the doctor's was totally unexpected. I was seven and had developed an ear infection, probably from swimming too much. Our pediatrician switched you to oral when you were seven, but he couldn't see us on such short notice. so my mother called our neighborhood doctor, who was also a parishioner at our church. He said he could see me right away. so we walked to his office, which was at his house down the street from us.

When we got there, his wife. who was a nurse. asked some questions, then said she needed to take my temperature - rectally. I had not expected this at all and became apprehensive, remembering what had happened two years earlier when they gave me a shot in the rump as the rectal thermometer was registering. I associated the sting of the needle with the act of rectal temp taking, and was afraid it might hurt. I didn't say anything as I lay face down on the examining table, and just like that, the nurse slipped the thermometer in.

To my utter astonishment, it didn't hurt at all. In fact. it felt incredibly good. Looking back, (no pun intended, I didn't look over my shoulder), the bulb must have been tickling my sphincter muscle. It felt so good that my breathing grew heavy. I just focused on that incredible sensation. Nothing was said during those five minutes as the thermometer was registering. All too soon it was over and the nurse withdrew the thermometer. The doctor wrote a prescription for ear drops and we were on our way home. I never said word about what had just happened. My rectal temp fetish began on that very day.

Has any guys ever had their temperature taken rectally didnt expect it or by surprise or at an exam> How did it go? How did you feel when it was being done?

Always had rectal at the doctor's, as a kid, so no surprise.

This is a fantasy of mine! Even just getting sick in an unfamiliar place and the only thermometer is a rectal one. Seems less and less likely now.

This thread has made me remember a true experience. Some years ago I was on a work assignment in Italy and was living in a rented apartment, part of a large house owned by a middle aged rather severe single woman. I got to know this woman in a a casual way and learnt that she claimed to be a doctor, although she no longer practised. I contracted food poisoning or caught some stomach bug which gave me cramps and the runs. On a temporary work assignment I didn't have a doctor and didn't consider the symptoms serious enough to go to a hospital, so went to this lady's apartment to ask if she could recommend some medicine. She invited me inside and I sat on her sofa while she asked me some questions about my problem. She replied that as I had abdominal pains, she suspected it could be appendicitis and she first needed to check whether I had a temperature, to which I agreed. She went away and reappeared with a rectal thermometer saying that this was the most accurate way of determining if I had a fever. I was now a deer caught in the headlights. I had asked this “medical professional” for help and she was my landlady and I didn't see any way out so as she sternly instructed, lowered my jeans and underpants. She was close-by watching me and had a good view of everything before I lay on the couch with my naked butt facing her. After applying some lube with her finger around and in my anus, she inserted the thermometer.

Turned out I didn't have a temperature and after some antibiotics the problem cleared up. I never knew whether she was being professional or just having fun with me.

I believe it’s very common in the medical field when checking for appendicitis to palpate the abdomen and also take a rectal temperature.

Only one time as an adult. I had my temperature taking as a kid and early teen at emergency room and pediatrician office. The one time as a adult I had a heat related emergency. we were on a job site very hot and humid. I had ignored the warning sign of heat stroke. By the time I had gotten to emergency room I had past out couple times . I remember nurses removing my cloths they had packed ice packs around me . I remember feeling like a finger or something going up my butt . Turned out to be a temperature probe. at the time I was to sick to care at all

A method for diagnosing appendicitis that was very often used in the past was to measure the temperature difference between the armpit and the anus. With acute appendicitis, the temperature difference is 1 degree or more. I used this measurement once, but I don't know if it's still done that way.

@curtina Yes, she did actually take my temperature under the armpit before the rectal temp! I left that out as I thought not relevant.

Never had this happen unfortunately. It would be very erotic!

@Othomas34 Noted for your exam! 😃

Never had this happen unfortunately. It would be very erotic!

@Othomas34 : It would real be very erotic, but not with a painful appendicitis.