At What Age Did Rectal Temps Stop For You

At the doctors office I think I was about 12.

20 hours ago. However, this will repeat in less than 20 minutes 😉

I was 10 or 11

At 12 years of age

They didn't.

Age 17 was the last one mom gave to me. Was congested

Mom stopped when I was 5; however, the two times I was hospitalized in the pediatric unit at ages 9 and 13, and once in a clinic at 12, temperatures were taken rectally.

Mom stopped around six but i started taking my own at 12

I was about 8 or 9, at the doctors office. Why I remember this time was because there was a Candy Striper there with the regular nurse learning about nursing. If anyone doesn't know what a Candy Striper was or is, not sure if they still run this program, it's girls in high school who want to become nurses and join this program called Candy Stripers and they help out in doctor's offices and hospitals to see if nursing is really what they want to do. Saying that, the Candy Striper was there in the exam room with regular nurse while my temp was taken in my butt. To say I was embarrassed would be an under statement.

I think my last rectal temp was at the age of 13 taken at home by my mom.

I can't remember the age as a kid when my rectal temps stopped... I can remember, it was just routine to strip to my shorts, lay down on the paper covered exam table and wait... The nurse...while talking to my mom, would be lubing the thermometer, yack, yack, yack...slip my underwear down, spread my bottom, and IN IT WENT. It was such a routine event, THEY paid it no mind and just kept visiting. For ME, I always enjoyed the sensation even though I had no idea what I was really enjoying THEN...one visit...while still sitting on the exam table, the nurse asked me..."can you keep this under your tongue for me?" RT's were over at the doctors office that day.

Last time as an adult was by myself earlier this week. Wasn't feeling well and...you know, better check. Have 3 rectal thermometers from ebay. As a child last one I recall was age 5 or 6.

I think the last time I had a real rectal thermometer in my fanny at, the doctors office when I was a kid I was probably 12. I went for my last set of shots at the pedetrician's office before entering 7 grade. So, I protested a little bit during the whole thing as my mom was in there with me for the entire procedure as well. Mom and I have always been close, but I was still a little more than uncomfortable to say the least. i can't even remember how many shots i got that day, but if memory serves me correctly, I got three of them in my tushy that day.

Now as an adult, in a play setting, well, is there really any other way to have them taken? I don't think so ,lol.

However, once about 2-3 years ago i went to my Doc's for a very complete physical for a job and a very good job that i really wanted. Well, I had to pass the physical first. My friends had already clued me in that the physical was very in depth, so make sure I washed all my naughty bits because they would be being inspected as well.

Well my rule of thumb here is that no one touches me like that except my real Doc. Finally they agreed to let him give me my physical. They handed me a thick packet, which Doc ordered me not to open until he could see it first. Well I knew I was in trouble because when I went up to the desk to register, the office manager told me I was his last appointment of the day, that apparently the physical requirements for this new job were a long and complicated very detailed exam, In which Doc has me blocked for a two hour appointment slot at the very end of his already very long day. I still hadn't seen what was in that packet, but he had, so that's when I started getting bit nervous.

Well a few minutes later, Doc came to the waiting room to fetch me back to his exam room. So far so normal. He sat on his black stool with his computer in his lap or up on the exam table while I was sitting on the chair beside the exam table. He asked me all the normal doctor questions he needed to ask about my recent history, and my current medication lists etc. Then the clinical part of the exam was going to start. He pulled out a gown and handed it to me, he simply said everything comes off including socks and panties, hop up on the table and I will be back in in few minutes. And he was back in a few few short ,minutes. When he returned I was still sitting in the chair and he told me to hop up on the table as he continued looking over the scads of forms the employer sent to him., I won't go into all the details of that complete, and I do mean complete physical since we are only talking about rectal temps in this section, but then he said, "interesting" and I asked him what was so interesting. He then showed me one of the first lines of the paper which was for the patients vitals. The normal things, blood pressure, pulse, respers, 02 sats and then temperature, but beside temperature there were three different boxes to pick on, oral, tempanic, and rectal. Beside them was line to write which one he did. His phone beeped and he excused himself for a moment and when he returned he went right over to the drawer beside the sink and pulled out a packet of lubricant. I immediately scooted back a bit as I watched him pull out the glass thermometer from his pocket and shake it down in front of me. I could see the red tip on it. I immediately started to balk at him. He in a stern doctors voice said, "now, you have been a very sick girl, just had major surgery, and you are sweating, not to mention the coke you have sitting on my counter. What would you expect me to do and as a nurse giving these circumstances that you have presented to me today, how would you take your patients temp hon? Seriously, what would you do? I pondered that for a second, knowing that having my temp taken rectally made the most medical sense, especially since I was less than a few weeks out from pretty significant kidney surgery, I had to be honest with him in my nursing judgment and tell him that I probably would opt for the rectal route. Then he said, okay you know what needs to be done, up on your belly hon, or you can just lift your gown and bend over the table for me if you want. I sat there for a few minutes giving him my best stare down and "no way in hell look, but instead of backing down like I was sure he would have, he took a step closer to me and shook the thermometer down again. His face was stern, and he made me feel his authority that day just though his body language. I knew he meant business and wasn't joking around. So the next thing I knew I was up on his table, gown pulled up to my lower back exposing only what I needed to to give him access that he needed to take my temp in my fanny. He sure took it there alright, left it in for the full 3 minutes too.

I was so mad at him for doing that to me at the moment, even though I knew it was medically warrented and was the exact corect thing to do. I was embarrassed. And oddly enough, he's done that same thing to me hundreds of time in a play setting and I loved each one, but this was so different because it was the real deal.

He finished out my complete physical that day, and I was still miffed at him for it. It wasn't the temp that got me, it was the fact that he beat me at my own intimidation game.

However looking back on that now, I was about 38 at the time, and that incident still and will probably will always be my favorite memory of any real life doctor experience. I will have dreams about it at night, and have thanked him multiple times for giving me that experience.

Mashie

Rectal temps for me stopped at the age of 16. At that point they came out with the gadget to take your temp in the ear.

Rectal temps stopped for me at home around 6 or 7. I found the thermometer and started using them myself by age 9. I never remember having a rectal temp taken at the doctor's.

Hi from momther and older sister at 15 and i still get them from wife iam 63

About 14 i think

9 for me.

At home rectal temps stopped when I was 10 at the pediatrician with 14. The doctor took it always in the knee to chest position.

I dont exactly remember but it was around 2nd grade so i must have been around 7ish...i kept on doing it during doc plays though

Never had it taken at home, but pediatricians used to do rectal on me til I was about 10 or 11. Then oral but there were a few times they reverted to doing it rectal the last time being at 16 then in ER at age 20. Always hated it, but developed a real thing for doing it to others.

Was a sad day but I was 9 at the time. I was a late comer when first getting them at 6 years old, never knew about them before, so secretly enjoyed all the temp times I had with mom, so was sad when I went back to the oral glass thermometer at 9. Kept on thinking about/missing them and ended up doing them myself at around age 12.

I got rectal temps at home until I started kindergarten at 5. The rule at the pediatric clinic was rectal until 8 and at the discretion of the nurse thereafter (it was a large clinic with one doc, and four or five nurses who did most of the work). About that time I started taking the bus to the clinic because my dad took our only car to work (it seemed a safer time). I also started trying to keep the oral thermometer from showing a fever at home in hopes of not being sent to the clinic and being grounded if I was sick. I seemed to fool my mom, but I was usually sent to the clinic anyway because of whatever symptoms prompted checking my temp.

The nurses were suspicious when the appointment notes said something like cough but no fever. I didn't have a good poker face when questioned, and I was soon face down on the table with a rectal thermometer in my butt though I was nominally old enough not to. They must have made a note in my file after a couple of times because they took my rectal temp without any options until I was 15. I never complained to my parents. I was just glad that the clinic never told my parents that I tried to cheat. I would have gotten a good spanking if they had.

Rectal temps ended when I was a teenager, about age 14-16 I guess.

I m 27 now . 2 years back while nurse taking my temperature,the next patient had watched the whole procedure.after the procedure she blushed at me. its quiet embarassing but i loved the procedure.

No, though I certainly wouldn't mind.

Wouldn't mind if they were all female

Actually at age 16 but have had it done twice since then too once at about 23 yrs old and also at about age 20, by gay male nurse in emergency room. talk about embarrassing. I asked for the female nurse but he said he would have to do it. He was real nice about it though and not rough with it.

I'd say my childhood rectal temps stopped when the old doc who made house calls retired. I guess I was around ten years old. At that time I was so glad to be done with that stuff, but by the time I was 20 years old I was ready to start again.

It stopped for me at age 8, I would say but then I went back to giving it to myself at the age of 18 and on. It has never stopped for me.