Have you continued the RT tradition?

For those of us who were raised with RT's With newer options out there, do you still consider RT's to be the best method?

I take my husband's as well as my own temperature rectally as the primary method. Besides being the most accurate, it's also the easiest way if the sick person is trying to rest. If my husband is sick, I can insert the thermometer rectally, and he doesn't have to be bothered to hold the probe under his tongue. He can just lie there and go back to sleep if he wants. I was taking my son's temperature rectally till he turned 4 this year. He hates having it done, and I usually have to struggle with him. I recently stared using a temporal artery thermometer, but if he starts running a fever high enough, I'll take it rectally just to be on the safe side. Better to see him cry a minute or two with a thermometer up his butt, than to see him convulse with a fever.

I do not use then on kids but adults always get it in their behinds

Oh, yes. My mother did the rectal temperature on me until I was around 10. At that time (in the seventies) it was with a european style mercury thermometer (wide "shoulders"). It hated that cold glass tube up my butt.

Today I still do the rectal way, both for real and pleasure.

Yes, my wife used rectal temps on our boys to age 7. Since that time, the only rectal temp was given to our older boy when he was 11 by nurse when he came down with a very high temp (102.5).

Unfortunately no.

I was indeed raised with RT as my overprotective mother used to take my temperature every time she though I did look ill or tired, so that was about once a month. When my mother stopped taking my temperature, I started to take it myself as I enjoyed it a lot.

I was married a fairly long time to a woman who hated RT. I have not been able to convince her to try it, neither on medical indications, neither as part of our sexgames, we had few of them anyhow. She refused of course that our son ever got RT and we had endless discussions when she by chance saw me taking my own temperature rectally.

She claimed my taste for RT was just another proof that I was in fact gay.

We eventually separated and I now enjoy a happy relation with a girlfriend who shares my taste for RT and we use it often in our sexgames, and we have a lot of them.

I have not even discussed the subject with my son, who is now in his twenties, but I am afraid he never had his rectal temperature taken. I think he misses something.

Speaking in general terms, I suppose the development of, not only ear and frontal thermometers, but also devices that monitor your temperature without contact wil probably kill RT at least in its medical applications. LOL as my son would say. .

My mother also checked my temperature just about every time I coughed or sneezed. It was always done rectally until about age 6. When our children were young my wife always took their temperature rectally. This was in the early 80's when the ear thermometers were starting to be used by medical professionals. I do remember our kids having their temperature taken rectally at the doctors office when they were quite young. We now have 6 grandkids and all three of our kids used rectal thermometers on them until about age 2-3.

I was raised with rectal temps until I was 13 or 14...

... my boyfriend convinced me again to have my temp taken this way when a had a tough flu in my twenties.

Yes I do Brett. Its still the best way to get an accurate reading. Its the way I've been getting them since I was a baby.

My mother did the rectal temperature on me until I was around 9. Since that time, the only rectal temp I was 13 by nurse when I came down with a very high temp (102.5).

Maybe not the popular or trendiest way, but RT is the "best" if what you want is accuracy. And for those of us currently just taking our own temp, there's no reason to do it any other way.

It is the most accurate and fool proof way as we all know.

It is still the most accurate method...

Oh yes

Definitely

I started with 16 years to take my rt.

It´s the most comfortable and acculturate way.

I now only do it this way.

Best and my favorite.

Rectal temps for me when sick

I do them frequently

Yes only accurate way to take them and its more enjoyable too

My temp. was taken rectally at home until around 5, I'm guessing. Even the doctor discontinued them around that age. My re-acquaintance with rectal temps. began in my early 20's, when I was introduced to it, by a g.f. who was a nurse. I'm almost 60, and for me, it's the only method that I use at home. My wife doesn't like them, so I'm on my own.

Years ago in my 20s I had a serious illness when my temperature was taken rectally by nurses and then my husband at home. Due to a chronic asthma condition, taking my temp in my bottom if I'm sick and congested just became routine.

Every morning after getting up and before my enema

Since I have found out how inaccurate my ear thermometer could be I always go for a rectal temp myself. My boyfriend still hates it though. But I got him so far that I can take his temp rectally when he is really sick. So you could say I went back to the RT traditions since I didn't start with it but found it is the best way to do it.

I consider rectal temps the "Only" way to take an adult females temperature. What fun would it be to do otherwise? Please come here, lower your panties and lie on your stomach. I will be back with the vaseline and rectal thermometer shortly. If you are a bit warm, you may need a cool water enema.

When I was really little, my mom took my temperature rectally. Then I was given the thermometer to take it myself, also rectally (rectal temperatures were quite the norm in France at that time). I've kept this habit to this day.

I'm not the only one: when I was younger, I had a girlfriend who felk sick in her university dorm room, I bought a thermometer so that she could check and I was amused when she took it below the blankets and turned in her bed to insert it. Unfortunately that girlfriend, though not ashamed to take her temperature in front of her boyfriend, was not into anal play.

For our children we did rectal when they were little then switched.

And yes, today, we do use rectal temps in our couple. My wife grew up in the US so did not have any since being a young girl, but she soon got used to it.

I last had a real RT when I was 3, but I consider them to be most accurate.

Absolutely. Only rt in our house.

Only for play sessions...