When you are not feeling well how often to you take your rectal temp?

When you are sick and not feeling well how often do you take your rectal temp?

If I suspect I’m getting sick, I take an initial reading. Depending on what is shown and how I feel as the day passes, are the determining factors as to how many times I will take my temperature.

If i have a caregiver, it is their call on how often my temperature is taken

All readings are rectal.

I always use the glass pear shaped bulb in my bottom. Why use any other method than the most accurate one?

When my rectal morning temp is elevated, this is for me 37 or above (normal is 36,4), then I check during that day every 3-4 hours. It can also start during the day if I suddenly get sick like with the flu. I continue doing this until my morning temp is back to normal and also during the day I’m back to normal temperatures. Usually my morning temps takes 2-3 days to go back to normal after I don’t have fever anymore during the day.

I usually take my rectal temp about three times per day if I am not feeling well, starting after I take my morning dump.

I generally do my rectal temp 2-3 times per day when I’m sick. Usually I use my glass thermometer with Vaseline, love the greasy feeling that stays with you! But if I do an enema afterwards I use KY jelly.

I usually take my temperature in my bottom each morning with a glass mercury thermometer. If I am not feeling well, I take my temperature every 4-6 hours until bedtime.

Now 2-4 times a day when I am ill. When I was a kid/teen my parents took my temperature usually 4 times a day, in hospital it was done 3 times a day

If I’m sick , I always take it rectally . Hey I’m not feeling well, so I may as well add some fun eroticism and brighten my day .

If I am not sick, I’ll still take it maybe 1-2 times a week for fun 😊

If I was home sick from school growing up mine would be taken maybe every 2-3 hours. Now if I am not feeling well, I might take it 2-3 times during the day

About four times a day.

About every 2-3 hours. I will always use the mercury rectal thermometer but will sometimes use the digital one to compare temps. The digital thermometer consistantly reads .6 degrees lower.

Depending on initial reading and symptoms either every 6 hours or every 4 hours.

If I am not feeling well, I usually take my rectal temperature in the morning when I wake up or when I go to sleep at night. Sometimes during the day as privacy permits.

Every four hours

Typically, every four hours or so, with possible exception, if a fever is high and our doctor advises to give Tylenol. There are times when you need to see if a fever reducing medication is working, so you might take a temp more often. Tylenol orally usually takes a couple of hours to begin reducing a high fever. We’ve had acetaminophen suppositories work within one hour. They can be a godsend when a mom has a family member who is very sick.

For me it varies maybe every couple hours or so always rectal and in diaper changing position

Typically every 4 hours, but if my wife has a high fever I will take it every 2 hours for her.

@Brbr ”Typically every 4 hours, but if my wife has a high fever I will take it every 2 hours for her.”

You are a good nurse. This sounds like my husband. I’ve had elevated fevers on occasion, and he’s such a worry wart. Any temp that I’m running over a normal degree or two, and he’s taking a rectal every couple of hours.

He says that our doctor wants an accurate reading, but what I really think it is he just enjoys taking my temperature in my bare bottom. I”m sick at the time, but I rather enjoy his TLC. We’ve been married nearly 40 years, and I love that our fires are still burning!

Typically three times a day: morning, noon, night. Sometimes more if I think there's been a change. I try to do twice daily when healthy to keep a general average in my Apple Health app for reference, so anything more when sick is just monitoring what's going on.

Every hour if possible

I take it whether I am feeling sick or not.

I usually do it every 3 or 4 hours, it's how my mom or Gram did it when I was a kid too. 🌡️🧴🧻

Depends on how high the temp was. If it was high above 102. After taking meds I would take it again in an hour and then again in another hour. If it is low grade every four hours.

Do you use a pear-shaped, glass rectal thermometer?

When I am sick or the wife is sick we take it under our arm every four hours. If it is over 101 then we slthen check rectally.

I think that when I was a kid, if sick, my temperature was checked right after I mentioned symptoms, and then when waking up in the morning and at some time later in the day, or more if I looked like I had a fever spike.

Now… well if I had somebody doing it I guess I would like a similar routine, but alone it's not so fun.

I'm a hypochondriac. As soon as I think my temperature is rising, I immediately run to measure it. I only take my temperature rectally as it is the most accurate measurement. I use two electronic thermometers from different companies and compare the results. I take my temperature every hour and use the cream.

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I get mine taken 3 to 4 times a day if I’m feeling under the weather