At What Age Did Rectal Temps Stop For You

I only had them done routinely at the doctor until about age 4, but I still got them occasionally at home from my mom a couple times after that even as an adult if the situation warranted, i.e. having coughing fits or after oral surgery. She did oral most of the time but would pull out the rectal if there was a real reason to do it that way.

I might have been 12 years old, when my mother took my rectal temp...

I was about 6 or 7 when my temperature was last time taken rectally.

I can not remember about my last rectal temp as child.

But Suppository´s stopt at age 14 or so.

I'm thinking around 6 or 7, which is kind of odd because I had the stereotypical "Old Country Doctor" as a child and he was VERY conservative in every other aspect of his practice as far as I can remember.

Last time in the hospital was age 10 while in for appendectomy. Still taken at home by my wife who is an RN.

Probably about 5/6. No memories of them at home, only vague ones at the doctor.

Mom did it till I was 8 or so, but I would have let her longer. water enemas till 11 or so were not unusual either

Lately I'ver been recalling things from my youth better than what happened yesterday. This thread reminded me of a number of accounts, some that I hadn't thought about for forty or fifty years. As events started to reveal my juvenile sordid past, I started to put them down and when I finish proof-reading it I'm going to release excerpts to the Zity Library. For now though, two things came to mind.

I stopped having my temp taken rectally when I was about five. I was sorta relieved and exhilerated that I was being treated liker a 'big boy', but there was something inside me that longed for it, just not who was doing it becausse it felt uncomfortable with Mom, but still not as uncomfortable as when I was younger and our family doctor took me over his lap to take it (in our home)(Yet relieved I wasn't getting a shot in the butt.) .When your pajamas are pulled down, your bare front is exposed to the doctor's rough trousers and that preoccupies your mind over the rectal thermometer. Sorta kills the moment. Even with my mon's stern demeanor, being bent over her lap, usually her skirt was hiked up enough that I'D EITHER FEEL SOFT MATERIAL OR SOME BARE LEG. Then one day she pulled out the oral themometer and it was broken I remember because the little beads trickled out on the floor and I was chasing them around the floor while my mom yelled at me not to touch them.. After that, Out came the rectal one again which I used for years afterward as per instruction, but I was told I was old enough to install and hold it in myself while laying on the bed. As I got older I mistrusted oral thermomters mainly because they never indicated fevers when you thought you had one. This preference carried on through my married life. As my wife and I shared child rearing as we both were working professionals, I made sure there was always a rectal thermometer in the house, and she, an oral one. She was as dead set against the rectal ones as I was against the orsl. Needless to say, a lot of them rolled out of the medicine cabinet to shatter in the sink or floor. It resulted in me accruing a collection of rectal ones (Cont.)

Must have been age 8. I have specific memories of having rectal temps taken in my first bedroom. We moved when I was 8 and I don't remember getting a rectal temp in the new house. Temps at the doctors office also switched about that time (it was the same doctor, we had just moved within the same town.)

Must have been age 6 to 8. But i remember getting a suppository when i was about 9

I was a 15 and my step mom made me insert it myself

I think about 9 or 10 years of age. after that the doctor switched me over to oral method. cant remember rectal temps done after that.

The last time I remember having my temperature taken rectally was about 3 or 4 over my mother's lap in the doctors office. I remember kicking and screaming for them to take it out.

For me it was around 9, I asked my mom to stop taking it because all of the other friends took it orally so I felt out of place. I secretly wanted it but was too afraid to ask. we secretly loved the hiney thermometer after we discovered it at age 6. there was something special about seeing that rounded tip thermometer covered so thickly in vaseline. :-)

I never stoped! Only in the situations that I have people at home and I do not have a necessary privacy. Rectal temps for me it's a pleasure and a secret!

Never stopped for me, I get my temp took rectally daily from my strict nurse girlfriend!.

In a Dr's office setting it stopped when I was 12. I did end with a flourish though because I remember having it taken in front of the doc and my mother with a guest appearance by his nurse!

I still take my wife's and she mine rectally at home. We also play Dr where the ole rt is part of the game.

About 8 or 9 at the doctor's office, however it hasn't stopped in my adult years!

I don't think I ever got a rectal temp as a small child. But I went into hospital when I was 14 in the Sixties because I had rheumatic fever. A nurse was about to take my temperature "normally" - and she looked at the notes. "Oh," she said casually, "You have got to have your temperature taken rectally like the little ones do." I was so embarrassed. She was about half an hour looking for a rectal thermometer - leaving me to sweat. But she was quite sweet and gentle. She complemented me for being so compliant!

But having my temperature taken like that three times a day by girls some only two or three years older than me for the next six weeks was embarrassing in the extreme. However while I didn't get used to it, I did get to like it.

I can not remember one single instance of ever having my temperature taken rectally. Not at home nor by any doctor. It´s possible that I have simply forgotten all about it, but I really doubt it.

I do know that I was always awfully embarrassed when I heard about other children in my class or of my age having that done to them. So had it happened to me I surely would have had a memory of it.

I don't really remember having an rt taken, so it must have been very young. I do remember the thrill I got, though, when watching my three younger sibs get theirs taken. There was enough age gap, that I was even allowed to take my younger sister's rt, and knew early on, that the erotic feelings I had were not something 'normal' to most.

Having one for any real medical reason... I must have been around 5 or 6. I just barely remember it.

Mine was always taken rectally at the beginning of the exam by the nurse until I stopped seeing a pediatrician at 16. It was a standard routine. I had 3-4 different doctors in places we moved and I always had it that way except once and they had rectals but I guess used an oral because I was older. I never had it taken rectally at home. The doctor's was the only place I always saw those "stubby" thermometers and they had drawers full of them.

At home it never stopped. but at the doctors it was never checked.

I guess around 9...the first time my grandpa took me to the doctor. The nurse asked if she should take my temperature rectally or orally... my grandpa gave me the choice and I said I was ok with oral and I know how to do it. Since then, the nurse did it orally.

At the doctor's office the nurse stopped doing it around the age of seven. I take it myself when I think I have a fever and let girls take it for fun.

There suppose to stop???? Who knew!!! lol

I was seven the last time I had an r/t at the doctor's. It was at our neighborhood physician's office and not our pediatrician. I had an ear infection and our pediatrician was unable to accommodate us, so my mother and I walked down the street to his house, a few houses away from ours. I thought I'd just get a prescription and no more, but the nurse took my vitals and then announced she was going to take my temp - rectally. I got a bit apprehensive; I'd had a traumatic experience the last time it was done that way at our pediatrician's; they gave me a shot in the rump just before the thermometer was inserted and the needle stung so much that I cried the wole time the thermomeer was registering.

This time I had no time to react and the next thing I knew the thermometer was inserted. Well, that experience planted the seeds of a fetish that still endures to this day. While I never had another r/t at the doctor's (and often wonder what would have happened had I asked for one), I still take my temp rectally on a regular basis.

I was 11 the last time my mom took my temp rectally