Rectal Temps at a Doctors Office

Lilmissrectaltemp23,

Just a side thought, depending on the trust/communication with your current physician, you could ask to have it taken rectally on your visits. Put the request in such a manner that there is no room for doing it otherwise.

G.N.

Will they? Won't they? isn't as much the issue as is the fact that many folks still have a rectal temp fetish and probably wish they still did, lol. My temp is taken out side the doctors exam room by a nurse, it's electronic and oral. For those folks who still enjoy rectal thermometer play, another question to go along with...'What position do you prefer to have your temperature taken in' is...what memories/fears did you have going to the doctor when you were younger. Many sights, sounds, smells, sensations haven't gone away for some folks...they're alive and well and contribute to the exitement of Med-Fet play like rectal temps.

Haven't had it since I was a baby. Almost 100% of the time now it is by some other means.

I stilll ger the rectal temp at my doc because I have asthma and I guess my doc is old fashoned it is embarassing but kinda fun 2 lol -Linda

I grew up in the 80's and 90'a and I never had my temp taken rectally at the doctors office. Even when I had strep throat it was always an oral thermometer.

I grew up in the 50's & 60's and I had a few in the doctors office and in the hospital when I was 5 and had my tonsils removed. I think it was standard procedure back then for just about any kid 5 or under. Now with the ear, and forehead to temple thermometers, I doubt that the rectal ones are used very much.

Only as a child and it was at my stepmoms office she was a nurse. Once at the hospital i was 13 or 14 not sure why they felt the need she just did it at home before we came that one was embarrassing

When i was 18 i had my temperature taken rectally at my school for a sports physical. It was incredibly erotic... the only downside was the doctor was an ugly older woman, about 40 years old. I was totally in shock when she told me she planned to take my temperature rectally, as it was the first and only time I've ever been subjected to that. Thank god I somehow resisted popping a boner... that's about the only way it could have been any more embarrassing.

I know they use it for adults when they are unconscious, having or may have a seizure or when they have a high fever. I had a high fever and they couldn't make me keep it in my mouth. It still is the most accurate for core temperature.

I don't really think doctors do rectal temps anymore except for very unique circumstance. Even for babies, there are machines that take ear temps almost instantly now.

Both my gyno and my family dr take mine in my bottom, it is by my request though.

Never in a doctors office (none that I can recall), but had my temperature taken rectally every 4 hours for about 5 days while laying in the hospital, waiting for the swelling to go down on my broken leg, before they would apply a cast. I was a senior in highschool at this time. Not sure if the nurses did it for their personal enjoyment, or if this was just standard pactice. Have to admit, it did feel good.

Mine was always in the rectum til about age 10..then oral

With today's electronic thermometers, I can't imagine any of my doctors taking my rectal temp during an office visit, even if I'm congested. Urgent care or ER, maybe, as I've had that happen during a migraine attack when I was throwing up.

The only time I have seen rectal temps being taken in a physician' office these days is when a patient has been vomiting. It is just not done anymore. Electronic thermometers are very common in offices and most don't even have a rectal thermometer. Most offices are so busy that even if they could take rectal temps, they would spend the extra time necessary.

I have never had that happen to me.

RT at the doctor's was very common when I was Kid this was 50's and 60's early 70's I have never had rectal temp from a doctor after age 13.

Never had such an experience since Childhood. Even then it was all digital temps orally/ear

I have never had that happen to me

I had them from the dr in the 80's

A medical staff taking a rectal temp. on anyone older than an infant these days should raise eyebrows. I'm almost 60, and haven't had one taken by a doctor since age 5. I've spoken with female friends about OB/GYN exams, and have been told that they don't take your temperature....period. Besides, I thought that ovulation temperature, was only accurate when taken upon awakening, first thing in the morning.

I agree that rectal temps appear to be getting rarer by the day. I still can remember how different things still were when I lived in Manhattan in the late '90s. There was a little bodega not far from me, and behind the counter where the cash register stood I distinctly recall a BD glass rectal thermometer--the one with the lime green casing--on display. I very much wanted to buy it, but couldn't muster the courage to do so. Even just a few years ago, after the Geratherm non-mercury models began to be sold in this country, from time to time you'd find a red rectal kind being sold alongside the standard green. But I never see that anymore either. Still, I do believe, especially in hospital settings, that rectal temps still do take place, albeit less frequently. When my wife was pregnant with our first child ten years ago, we were told at one of the birthing classes we went to that, at the hospital where she'd be delivering, if she contracted a fever while in labor her temperature would be monitored rectally. I remember thinking the teacher seemed to get a little kick out of telling us that, knowing that some of the women might very well blush at the thought of it. (These being first-time mothers, they had yet to realize just how insignificant, embarrassment-wise, a rectal temp during delivery would be.) And when one of my nephews was suspected of having appendicitis about 7 years ago or so, they took his temp rectally at the hospital. So, it still does happen. At least, it did as recently as 5-10 years ago. Things are changing fast.

I don't remember ever having my temp taken back there at the doctors office even when I was young. I wish I did have some of those times to remember though. I have greatly enjoyed reading some of the other posters before me who have. I do remember getting them at home though when I was little, and they were always done by my mother.

I think it is highly unlikely that a rectal temperature would be taken during a routine physical for male or female.

I have a idea how to get it:

When I be in a other country for holidays I go to the doc or the doc visit me at the hotel, I say I feel not good and think have fever but I have no thermometer to take it.

When the doc say we take my temp than I quickly expose my butt while the doc gets the thermometer and than I hope I get it in my butt taken.

I agree

Do not involve real practitioners with your fetishes. They have real work and real patients to see.

Really if you want your temp taken that bad see if you can find a nurse or some sex worker to dress like a nurse to do it for you on her own time. I am pretty sure in the little area I live in I could find someone if I tried.

There are real sick people out there, and real emergencies, and doctors and their offices are generally backed up more than enough with them.

What you are doing is like the medical equivalent of arson. Just not cool.

Had several at home as a kid but never at doctor's office

I think that they should be a requirement for every one at their annual physical .

Last time I had it done I had to have been at least 5 or 6