Childhood and adulthood rectal temperature

Who all here had their temperature taken rectally (in your bottom) as a child and cried or hated it but now as an adult don’t mind it and still take your temperature this way!

I remember as a little girl; whether it was done at home or the doctors office; I would most of the time cry but now as an adult it doesn’t bother me in the least and I still to this day take my temperature rectally (in my bottom) sick or not sick. It’s the only way I take it!

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@bottomsup2000 did you have your temperature taken in your bottom as a child?

Did you cry? Hate it? Like it?

How do you take your temperature now?

My twin never liked it in the bottom and still to this day doesn’t like it in the bottom!

She is appalled 😳 that I still take mine this way!!

I never minded rectal temperatures, as a child in fact I kind of enjoyed having them taken that way and as an adult I still take my temperature rectally.🌡️🧴🧻

@Luvbottomtemps I agree with you and have made the same switch at some point. I didn’t like rectal temps at all, hated them. But also started playing doctor and taking my own rectal temps because it intrigued me. Later during puberty the thought and practice started to really turn me on. Nowadays it’s still rectal only, wether it’s for play or when sick to detect a real fever.

@Dutchfellow I still only take my temperature rectal (in my bottom)….it’s the only way I can get an accurate reading on myself! I didn’t much care for rectal temperatures when I was young but being that it was the BEST way to get my accurate reading and it was the ONLY way it was done on me; I guess it just became normal and it doesn’t even phase me! Not really anyways….so #BottomsUpBaby

I all ways had my temp taken in my bottomas a child as I have asthma safer and more accurate to take it that way even as an adult now of course nurses use scanner to take temp or infrared in ear but at home still use hood old Mercury thermometer up my bum i all ways loved the feeling of rectal thermometer sliding up my bottom

Always never hated it. The nurses and doctors knew I wore diapers late into potty training. So they figured it was just better every time I was there to get my rectal temperature taken while examining my diaper area at the same time. Nowadays I still wear diapers and still take my temperature rectally. It’s accurate it’s the gold standard. And I refuse any other method but rectal only.

Growing up, rectal temperatures were common when I was home sick. I had it taken during pre admission testing to a pediatric ward and as a pediatric patient on the ward when hospitalized. Didn’t really dislike it but I did prefer a certain bit of modesty as a youngster.

As an adult I chose to return to the rectal method in my twenties. Had it taken rectally numerous times as an adult.

I prefer to have it taken if I’m getting a colonic or enema, which at times I did. Sometimes I got it while that was not always the case as some people don’t care to do it. Others did with no reluctance either as part of their procedures especially during Covid or at my request. I have also had it taken rectally prior to massage sessions.

I have a friend, a nurse who periodically stops in to see me if I ask her and she is able. She knows my preference is for a rectal temperature prior to the enemas or injections I am to get and takes it that way. She has used glass mercury, ( I prefer.

) digital and electronic.

Personally I feel it is the most accurate way to have it taken, particularly during an illness.

I have had circumstances where caregivers who had taken my temperature rectally, often remarked it was the best way. They also realized and expressed that they understood that many patients ranging from children to adults were not comfortable having it done.

I think it's safe to say that most people who grew up in the 70s and prior decades had their temperature taken rectally until they were old enough to hold an oral thermometer under their tongue. That was the case with me: I had my temperature at the pediatrician taken rectally until I was probably 8 or 9 years old. I can't say I liked it but kids didn't question authority back in those days.

I wanted to cry, but never did. Waiting for it to happen was the worst part. Knowing I had a “doctor’s appointment tomorrow” made for a night and morning of anguish. I was extremely shy, so the removal of my pants and lowering of my underpants for a nurse was excruciating.

The procedure actually happening was somewhat of a relief, and while it always gave me butterflies beforehand, a thermometer slipping into my butt usually felt really good.

I always had my temperature taken rectally as a child, both at home and the doctors. I don't recall minding when my mom did it but I just bawled at the doctor's mostly because I figured a penicillin shot wasn't far off... and I was usually right. Now I prefer taking my temperature rectally and check it most days tho I prefer taking others

Never did as a child (late 70s, 80s), but now, if the play doc says its how we need to do it, who am I to argue?

Yes .As a child of the late 60’s though the 70’s and very early 80’s. I had my temperature taking in my bottom with a glass thermometer. For the most part mom didn’t switch to oral thermometer until I was around 7 or 8. If I was sick nausea ,vomiting or coughing. She would get the butt thermometer and Vaseline. The same for my 2 sisters who are a couple years older than me.I seen both of them as well as they seen me with a thermometer in my butt . Home and the pediatrician office. We lived in a small town with only a few Doctors. Most everyone went to the same pediatrician from birth to really when ever 17 18 19. Pretty much though high school. For the most part if you was sick needed to be seen it was a walk-in wait thing ..sinus infection, sore throat, coughing, or virus type visit they just worked you in. Physical exams or return follow up visits by appointment. The office was nice about 20 or so chairs around the wall . Books, magazines and a play place for smaller kids… The receptionist desk like most offices behind the wall with a sliding glass window right by the door the nurse would call you back from. The office had 2 sometimes maybe 3 nurses working. When you got called back you went though the door and to your right a open room with a counter a couple of different type of scales . Couple exam tables with curtains around the sides . You would get your weight the nurse would ask about your visit then she would get you to one of the exam rooms that was available or depending on what you had going on the Doctor seen you right there in that room. The nurse would tell you to have a seat on the exam . table. If you got a room. The next thing was temperature time I remember her asking mom if you had been running a temperature and if so what method was used taking it. If you had been given any medication. Most of the time if u was under 13 there for a sick visit the thermometer was going in your butt. Then a shot or 2. Or even a suppository pushed in your butt.

I had a rectal thermometer in my butt at the emergency room when I was 15 because I was nauseous and vomiting. Then I had a temperature probe put up my butt in my mid 20’s from heat related illness I was about as close to a heat stroke as it gets . Didn’t remember a lot about what happened it was super fast paced clothes cut off fans going water packs under my arms between my legs I wasn’t even aware the thing was up my butt until later when the nurse removed it .

At home my wife and I play Doctor talk about medical issues and what happened we take each other’s temperature both with a oral thermometer and a rectal thermometer. She has even had a friend of hers play as a nurse with us that was interesting play date .

I always had an ambivalent relationship with rectal temperature taking as a child. I didn't really like it, but when it happened, I could never deny a certain fascination and interesting feelings in my lower abdomen. It was always very interesting when I saw it in others, for example at the pediatrician or in the hospital. But I never hated it, and I certainly never cried.

I to enjoyed getting a rectal temp taken, I used to tell my mom I wasn’t feeling well just so she would take my temp. There was something about her lubing up her finger and inserting in my ass that I loved and then the rectal thermometer. I loved being so exposed and vulnerable to her.

OH yes! My Mother and my Aunt, both insisted that this way was the ONLY method to take a youngster's temperature! Of course, if you complained & squirmed too much, a few swats on your bared bottom "fixed" that real quick.

I cried once during a rectal temp at our pediatricians. They gave me a shot in the rump at the same time, and the sting from the needle made me cry. I put two and two together and associated the sting with the thermometer instead of the needle. Two years later, I had an r/t at our neighborhood doctor's when I developed an ear infection. But this time there was no shot and I was stunned at how good it felt. My rectal temp fetish began in earnest that day.

I had my temperature taken rectally until around 4 or 5. I absolutely hated it. It was uncomfortable sometimes, and not so much at other times, but it was humiliating always. Much later, during my early 20’s, I had it taken that way by a girlfriend, who always took her temperature rectally, since she grew up with a single mom, who took her own temperature rectally. She said that she always had her temperature taken by mouth, at the doctor’s office, but that she was more comfortable taking it rectally at home. She liked the way that it felt, and she said that it also helped her to relax and unwind.

The penetration felt a bit uncomfortable even though the thermometer was dipped in Vaseline but I never really resisted my Mom taking my rectal temperature. She always did it that way from when I was a baby until I left home in my mid 20's.

I remember mine being taken until 10

Years of age I never complained or hated it always just thought that was the way it was how the hospital did it too so didn’t think much of it.

Now a days I still do it or my daddy dom sometimes does too