Rectal Temps at a Doctors Office

I'm going for a physical, and I've heard horror stories where young women in my age group, the early twenties, still get temperatures up the butt. Is that true? If I have to have it done in my butt, can I ask for a female working there to be present?

Not sure that there are any left that take it rectally ... is that how you prefer?

It varies from doctor to doctor.

It is truely an exception that a rectal temp is taken these days...to many issues. Also, with the new electronic thermometers, oral temps take just a few seconds.

Never had that experience either.

Good luck.

Relax! No doctor will do this, if you don't want.

Na, they use ear thermometers or they take it in the mouth. I you are very sick they might do it rectally, but only because a rectal temperature is the most correct method..

It really depends upon where you live, but I would seriously doubt that you will have a rectal temperature done at your age. Every doctor that I go to use a digital thermometer, and many of them are now using one that rolls across my forehead and gets an average across several inches of skin.

I doubt that it would happen. It's not such a common practice anymore. Depends on the doc though.

Never had a rectal temp taken in a clinical setting (as I recall). Now a days I am sure rare enough with all the other means available 😢

I went to the Doctors office to find I was the last person to be seen, I could hear the Nurses & Doctor leaving and wonder who I would see. Finally a nurse came out to me and took me in to what seem to be more like a pediatrician room and said all the Doctors had left and my Doctor had my orders ready for her to take care of. I felt odd since I was 32 yrs old. She had me take my cloth off except for my underwear and get on the examine table. She took my vitals and she to lay on my stomach as she needed to take my temp, she pulled my underwear down to my knees and lubed the thermometer w/ vaseline and spread my ass cheek and insert the cold glass, it was erotic, she rubbed my ass and pulled out and in. Later she gave me a injection and would rub me more. I always would look at the 2 different thermometer on the counter and wonder which they the nurse was going to use. I find it very erotic. I have always wonder if more people did also, I do think some of the nurses enjoy looking at a youger guys ass. I must be erotic to them. Maybe it is control or power over the patient.

What a pitty that rts are now longer used at the doctors!

Oh how I wish this was the norm..RT's done only..over the nurses lap!

I havenever had my temperature taken rectally, actually I've never had a rectal exam before either 😢

Nowadays - everything is about "patient flow" you have to keep the patients moving thru the system. I'm afraid the rectal thermomter is going to go the way of the metal speculum. Infra-red ear thermomters meaure in 3 seconds. Hand on to your "stubbies" as medical antiques! Mash a beautiful summary

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He probably needs some time for it to "sink in". A lot of men do not realize that some women have a medical fetish. In my opinion, both as a man and a play doc, I do NOT think that having a medical fetish is abnormal. Having a pelvic exam (Pap and rectal) does have strong sexual overtones for many women... insertion of instruments/gloved fingers is very 'suggestive' of sexual play.

Haven't had my temp taken rectally for over forty years. Last time was at home.

As a kid being taken to the pediatrician for any reason, it always involved a rectal temperature.

I was always taken to an exam room, told to take off all my clothes except my underwear and sit on the table. The nurse would later come in and take my height and weight on a doctors scale in the corner of the room and then it was back on the exam table where I was told to lay down on my tummy while I could hear her snap on a single exam glove and produced a rectal thermometer clasped between her fingers. "Bob Up" was always the command while she quickly pulled the briefs down to my knees in one quick tug followed by "just relax" as I felt sharp fingertips part my cheeks and the glass thermometer slide in deep. And like before, after 3 minutes it was pulled and looked at then reinserted for a short time later to ensure it didn't change. If there was any thought it was not complete, it would go back in a third time which sometimes happened. Some nurse would stay at the table and hold the thermometer (I could feel their fingertips at my bottom) while others would let you lie there with it in while they were doing something over at the counter. When she was finished, she would say you could sit back up now. I always never knew whether to pull my underwear back up or just leave it around my knees.

I didn't know till later the thermometer was lubed with Vaseline to make it slide in easy. I don't think they has KY back in those days.

I used to go home and play "rectal temp" in the bathroom after an exam with our home thermometer and Vaseline. Our thermometer didn't look like the stubby tipped ones they used at the doctors though.

My dr still takes mine in my behind, it is the most accurate way and for me most comfortable. I prefer it and my doctor doesn't mind.

I wonder why they don't take temps rectally more often. The standards of practice for AMA and ANA (last time I paid attention) were rectal temps were standard practice for any patient after a tonsillectomy or nasal surgery, those with upper respiratory symptoms that made breathing through the nose difficult, pts with a seizure disorder, those not mentally competent not to bite/break the thermometer ...and the list goes on.

So ....maybe we just need to find a practice that follows the rules/guidelnes of their own professo

My doc. would be willing to take an RT, but I do not know how to ask without sounding pathetic...

When using a glass thermometer, a youngster's temperature is taken orally by default. However, a less functioning youngster at any age is disqualified to have his oral temperature taken orally and is therefore rendered to have his temperature taken rectally for own own benefit. Youngsters at the age of 5 or 6 are are considered not suitable for an oral temperature and thus are required to have their temperatures taken rectally across the board.

Since the vast majority of medical practices use electronic thermometers of various kinds, with the most common being probe electronic thermometers, the need for a rectal temperature is unfounded. Even those rare medical practices where glass thermometers are employed are transitioning to electronic thermometers at such a rate where the use of them will be nonexistent in the next few years. Suffice it to say that the interest in taking rectal temperatures with glass thermometers will become extinct in the generations that follow.

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Actually, even with electronic thermometers, in instances where the patient has to breathe through their mouth or in cases where the patient can not reliably cooperate with an oral temperature, it's taken rectally. Nothing "unfounded" about it.

Doc

Maybe, Bluebelle. But you can find it in here. Nobody here thinks you're nuts. Most of us enjoy ... like you. 😃

I'm sure I was relieved at the time, but one of my great regrets today is that I never got a rectal temp at the doctor's office. At least, not at an age that I would have been able to commit it to memory. I had two psychologically formative bottom-related events that took place at the doctor's: a penicillin shot a few months shy of my 9th birthday, and my first rectal exam at the age of 12 when they thought I might have appendicitis. I wish a rectal temp could be added to the list.

Never had one taken as an adult in a clinical setting.

Has happened only once in the study of the doctor who visited me when I was a child

Had them at home, but never at the Dr. - not even as a kid.

It's been many years for me but wish I could still the feeling to insertion!

I still get my temp took rectal at the doctor's office, thankfully for me the female doctor I go to is a good friend with my girlfriend and wasn't sure how to ask her nurse if she would take it rectally as it just felt wrong in a clinical setting...but after my first few visits I asked my girlfriend if she would ask the Doctor if it was alright too take it that way and she said it was a weird request but for tabby boy would be honored...so next time I had a appointment and the nurse took my vitals she said the doctor ordered for now on to have your temperature took in your bottom and I was like ok and when she had me roll over I had a big happy grind on my face.