At What Age Did Rectal Temps Stop For You

My rectal temperature days stopped during the age of 4.

I can't remember ever getting a rectal temp taken at home or at the doctor's office, so it must have been well before the age of four. At around age 7 or so, I found the family rectal thermometer and, out of curiosity, decided to give it a try. Been doing rectal temps ever since!

Rectal temps by my mom at home stopped at about 9/10 years old. Self administered rectal temps resumed at about 13/14 and have been going on for me ever since.

Rectal temperatures I received from my parents stopped at age 13.

I had my temp taken rectally at home until I was about 10 years old, it's just the way it was, I didn't made much of a fuss about it.

At home I was switched at 9 and at the pediatrician I was switched at 14.

I don't ever remember getting a rectal temperature. The thought of getting one turns me on though.

My temperature stopped being taken rectally when I was 12 by my doctor only. From 12 to 16 everytime I walked into the doctors office was the doctor looking up at me and quickly getting a shot ready for my butt. This was before I could tell him what was wrong or why I was there.

I never remember rectal temps at home. The first I ever remember was when I was about 6 or so when I was taken to the hospital to have my tonsils removed . Rectal temps about every 4 hours

I don't remember getting a rectal temp, so they must have stopped around age 3 or 4. I like the idea of receiving one though!

Grandma was the one with a rectal thermometer and since my mom worked, granny used to take mine in my bottom. Certainly by age ten that method all but vanished except when I was fourteen, I had a serious flu and once again grandma's glass thermometer was brought into action.

I don't recall my pediatrician taking it rectally past kindergarten.

Mine was taken rectally through high school years. I guess it depended on which doctor you went to. Everyone had their own policies. It was not something I looked forward to but I just accepted it.

About 5 years old

At home from mom, age 16, but I never stopped taking them myself.

For me at home I was switched to oral or under the arm at around 8 or 9 for the regular temperature checks. I did have a couple of temps taken rectally later at the doctors when I was sick with strep.

Stopped? What are you talking about? Stopped? hehehehe

Ha,Ha @ becca'srn mommy

I still take it rectally. At doctor; it stopped at 16

I still take it rectally. At doctor; it stopped at 16

In the other thread you said you have a strong gag reflex and he does it rectally.

Your doctor must be at least 90 because docs don't take anyone's temperature by any method. Nurses do that.

At what age did it stop? Fortunately at no age xD

Only at the family doctor's, because until I went to him as a 16 y.o. he only askes me, 1 time he used an ear thermometer.

We still love to play with rectal thermometers. The last official was when I was a sophomore in high school. I was sick and home from school. I don't remember being sick but had a fever. My mother came to my room with both types, one in each hand and smiling asked how I would like to do it, "the rectal is more accurate".

I couldn't remember the last time I had it taken rectally but at 14 or 15 with raging hormones and a strong Oedipus Complex I pointed to the rectal. She told me to lay on my stomach and started to pull my PJ bottoms down. By now I had an erection and the waste band got caught. I thought I would die of humiliation. Without breaking stride she told me to lift my hips and worked the material over my embarrassment.

Aside from that it felt like it was one of the best 5 or 10 minutes of my life. I vividly remember her hands parting my cheeks after she dipped the thermometer in the Vaseline jar, inserting it and keeping her hand on my ass for the prescribed time. After she removed and read it she took a tissue and wiped my hole and told me to hike up my bottoms.

A rectal temperature taken with a glass rectal thermometer is not necessary for a youngster age six years old and beyond used unless the youngster is considered unsuitable for having a glass oral thermometer placed in the mouth.

Rectal stopped for me at age 11

I don’t remember getting a rectal temp. I suspect they ended by the time I was three. Mom was quick to stick a thermometer under my tongue.

My temps stopped about the age of 9 although I continued to take it on myself through high school. For some reason my mom always kept the rectal thermometer up until I went to college at 18.

All of my RTs were taken at the doctor’s office by nurses only. We didn’t even have a thermometer at home. I believe it was too embarrassing for my mother to consider such an invasive procedure.

Rectal temps stopped for me at age six, shortly before starting school. I recall the very day I ruined getting my temp taken with my face down and butt up at the doctor’s office.

I learned how to squirt a glass thermometer out of my butt with some velocity. I learned to spit them out like watermelon seeds! I was told by both my mother and nurse that day to stop pushing the thermometer out. After pushing that triangular piece of glass out of my butt three or four times, the nurse reinserted it and held it in, which is what I wanted all along. It unfortunately backfired on me. That day I graduated from rectal to oral thermometers at my doctor’s office. I maybe could have gotten another year of rectal temps had I not screwed it up for myself.

I am now 46 and rectal temperatures have never stopped!! Denise

I learned how to squirt a glass thermometer out of my butt with some velocity. I learned to spit them out like watermelon seeds! I was told by both my mother and nurse that day to stop pushing the thermometer out. After pushing that triangular piece of glass out of my butt three or four times, the nurse reinserted it and held it in, which is what I wanted all along.

My late partner would shoot a thermometer out unintentionally. I guess she would squeeze inadvertently and it shot out so far I thought about wearing safety glasses. We had lots of fun with that and I never failed to kid her about it. As far as my rectal temps, I think they ended as soon as I could hold a thermometer under my tongue. I'm sure mom thought it was more sanitary to do it that way and quicker.

@Denise: Lol, they never stopped for me either...

My mom stopped taking my temperature rectally at age 10.