At What Age Did Rectal Temps Stop For You

Rectal temps at home and at the pediatrician stopped around the age of 8. I came down with strep throat right before my 8th birthday. My mother took my rectal temp at home and then brought me to the pediatrician for another rectal temp followed by a throat culture. During my recovery at home, my mother decided to try oral temps on me for the first time in 18 months after I had broken an oral thermometer. I managed to master oral temps just in time for my 6 year old sister to be switched to oral. A couple of months later I had my check up before starting 3rd grade. My temperature was taken rectally at the pediatrician for the last time on that visit. I did have one more rectal temp just before I turned 10 in the ER. That story can be found in the discussion of the most memorable rectal temp as a kid.

They never stopped.

At 11 or 12, my mother stopped taking m'y température and décidéd I was old enough to take my température, but still rectally. I quickly realised I enjoyed having à thermometer in my butt and that it made masturbation more exciting.

Now at 67 I'll still take my température rectaly when I am sick or just for fun, alone or with my girlfriend who shares this kinky interest

At 9 years old asked for it at 13 did rectal on my own had a craving and loved it so much do it today at 59. liked the playmates made it more special was 2004

For me it was 9+ around March 1960.

I was 18 and it was while at my doctors office.

The last time my mom took my temp rectaly was at 18 over the knee, she took it five time this day and gave me one Enema and five suppository

I don't remember ever having it taken that way, so it was probably stopped when I was a baby or less than age 3.

I really do not understand why these rectal temperatures would STOP!! your never to old to have 1 taken after all rectal temps are so much more accurate

Maybe because of working as a EMT and a mom of a special needs son that I feel rectal gives the best temps. Rectal should still be a Golden standard for rectal temperatures. Your never too old for them. But now days everything such a fast pace and advanced technology. I think those who are use to the new technology if it fails would be in trouble in the medical field and not know what to do.

My mother insisted on it, saying it was more accurate and how else would you know you were sick without a accurate temp. I lived at home till 17 and yes that how my temp was taken

Can't answer this question, because we still take each other's temps rectally. Mom stopped taking mine rectally about age 7, but Aunt Ruth continued s long as we played together.

This morning at age 69. Until the next time.

I don't think I ever got it that way at the doctors but my mom always did it at home. When I moved away to college I bought an oral thermometer and just used that. After I moved back home mom insisted on checking it in my bum again. She told me the oral thermometer isn't accurate enough which is ridiculous but her house her rules.

Rectal temperature taking by my mother stopped after an incident.

I was 12 and not feeling well one evening between Christmas and New Year and my mother took my temperature, rectally as usual. She told me my temperature was 38.0 and told me to go to bed.

The next morning, my mother checked my temperature again. She told me it was 38.1 and said ''we better call the doctor you don't want to be sick for New year's Eve do you''.

Two hours later the doctor came and asked what my temp was. And my mother answered: '' 38,5 yesterday evening and 38,6 this morning'' I did not say a word but I was shocked to see my mother had lied to me. After the doctor left, I burst into tears and cried to my mother: ''why did you lie to me ?''. ''That was for your own good, she said, for you not to worry''. The whole day I was in a terrible mood against my mother. Eventually in the evening my mother and my father came to my room and my father said :

" May be you are just a bit too old to have your temperature taken by your mom, so from now on you will take your temperature yourself '' and he handed me a brand new thermometer for the occasion.

Was this growing up ?

I’m 22 my mom still take my temps once a day , at the doc, I’m still going to the same doc so why stop he all ready see it all

Mine stopped around 9 or 10 to my dismay. If I was sick, Mom came into my room, put me on my belly, pulled down my underwear, then stuck the lubed glass up my behind. It was a triangular type, and since a kid like me tries to push it out, she twisted it back in place.

If I was over 100, I had to wait for a call to go to the bathroom for soapsuds enema session over her lap.

I still have this thermometer today.

For me it stopped soon after I turned 4. We had some people over at the house and for some reason my mother decided that she needed to check my temperature. I don’t remember why since that was not a common thing for her to do. She called me into the bedroom and asked me to lay on my tummy. I refused to do so telling her that I was afraid that someone would come into the bedroom and see me. Even at that age I was very body-shy. She assured me that would not happen but I still refused to cooperate. That was out of character for me since I usually did what I was told, even though I was never spanked. Finally my mother relented and told me to open my mouth so that she could place a thermometer under my tongue. I sat still, kept my mouth closed, and the oral temp went fine. I remember thinking how surprised I was that I had “won” and that she did not keep insisting that I bare my butt. From that day on I never had another rectal temp. I guess that she realized that it was not required at home anymore since taking the oral temp went fine. When I went the doctor and they asked her how it was taken at home she would say “oral” and that’s how it was done there as well...this was in the mid-1950’s. In fact, I remember going to the doctor for an exam before I started first grade in 1957, I was 5 1/2. I was nervous how my temp would be taken by the nurse, but she took it orally after checking with my mother about how she took it at home. I was the youngest of 3 boys and after that incident when I was 4, we only used an oral thermometer in the house.

Not until I was around 15. Until then, it was always up the “heinie”

Age 10 for me

My last time was at home. I was 17 and faked being sick so I could skip school. My mom waited until by brothers and sister left for school then arrived with the rectal thermometer and vaseline. I knew arguing would no good, so I rolled over and she pulled my PJ bottoms down and inserted the thermometer and held it in place for three minutes. Then announced well you have temperature so exactly what is problem. I said I don’t, I just don’t feel well. Fifteen minutes later, I was being called into the bathroom and told to take my PJ bottoms off. The red enema was filled with hot soapy water.

Technically, rectal temps. stopped for me at around age 5, but resumed in full force after a gf re-introduced me to them over 40 years ago, and have since become the only way that I take my temperature, when in the privacy of my home. As I've mentioned, I would never allow it to be taken that way by a doctor or nurse, however. I don't care about the accuracy, as much as the pleasure that it provides. It's great for body and mind. There aren't too many ways to enjoy a fantasy and craving, without spending money, breaking the law, risking your health, or hurting someone's feelings, these days. It's amazing what a glass rod, some Vaseline, and a little imagination can do. All the better, if you can share it with a willing partner. To the women who contributed to my rectal temp. fetish...you will never be forgotten !

It stopped a few month before my 12th birthday. And I actually restarted with a real thermometer with around 19.