I always felt humiliated and age regressed every time mom decided to take my rectal temperature. I was convinced all my friends had oral temps. The thick layer of vaseline that was left between my buns after the temperature taking always felt strange. Like so many others, I later became addicted to the whole ritual, and always enjoy reliving those times.
I was raised by a much older cousin who had limited experience with kids. Looking bad on it, I think she used temp. taking as kind of a "time out" for me. She was always very hands-on with my care but somewhere around age 8 I realized that she just started taking my temperature a lot. I think it was because I was starting to argue back with her, but she would say I was being fussy and so out would come my little blanket and the vaseline and she would start undressing me. It seemed much worse when I was in 4th grade, I kept telling her I was fine but she always wanted to check, I hated her babying me that way.
As a boy, I never associated rectal temps with being babyish. While I had seen my Dad with a thermometer in his mouth, I knew that all of my friends, and even some of the older siblings of my friends got their temps taken with the thermometer in the bottom. My memories of my first oral temp was that it was just after my 6th birthday and my Mom saying "lets try it this way". Nothing about being a "big boy" or being "just like Daddy". I manged to bite down and I thought it pinched under my tongue, but I did successfully complete a couple of oral temps. The third time I just lost my concentration, and the thermometer slipped from my mouth and shattered on the floor. My mother let out an exasperated "Oh Trent", but she didn't yell at me. She did have difficulty getting my younger sister and I to move out of the way as we were both fascinated with the mercury that had beaded up into silvery balls on the floor. After everything was cleaned up I was on my tummy with the rectal thermometer in my bottom. I was back on rectal temps for another 18 months before she decided to try the oral thermometer again, and it did not bother me at all.
Having my rectal temp taken as a teen was definitely embarrassing and made me feel like a little boy. When I was 13/14 and in puberty and mom was still taking it rectally, I knew this was not how most other kids were getting their temps checked. It was like she did not want me to grow up and wanted me to stay a boy. All I could think about those last few years when my briefs were down and the thermometer was in me was how I knew I was too old for it to be taken the same way as when I was a kid.
Not sure how a baby feels :-)but yes, it was kind of embarrasing. if the bare butt presented, laying across the lap, the words used or not seeing but feeling something in your backdoor or getting care therefunny, when playing, it was different feeling.
I never knew about a rectal thermometer till 6 when I broke the oral then came the big surprise the hiney variety thermometer. I was scared at first but loved it after the 3rd time. i Told my friends and said they haden't had it in years so I kept silent. then I went to the library to look at baby books then found out the truth I liked it the baby way. I still do to this day glass n vasoline Giggles
I only remember having one rectal temp taken and it was a traumatic experience for me (I already posted about this in another thread).I think that the reason I love it so much now is because it makes me feel like a baby! I take a chair and place pillows on it to lay over. I make sure my hands and feet can’t touch the floor. It makes me feel like I’m over my mother’s lap. I insert the thermometer and let it sit in my rectum as I hang over the pillows, sometimes I insert it a little deep just for the pleasurable sensation.My second favorite thing to do is either lie on the floor or on the bed. I lift my legs high in the air and pull them towards my head. I like to cross my ankles sometimes to open my hole more and make it feel like someone is holding my legs up for me (while putting one hand around my ankles). After that I insert the thermometer in my rectum, I push it in semi deep so it doesn’t come out. Sometimes I clench my anus to make it seem like I’m trying to resist it.I haven’t had the opportunity to get a rectal temp from someone else (that I recall after that traumatic event) and it is definitely a fantasy!-Brittany
I am still treated as a baby girl, by my mommy and or older sister. I am always in diapers and wearing very baby girlish outfits. Whenever I am fussy or cranky and feel like I may have a tempy. Both my mommy and sister, either put me in the diapering position or over one of there knees. And my diaper is lowered or opened up, and that is the only way my temp is every checked rectally. So do I feel like a baby, YES!!!!
Yes, that was my argument to my mom. My older sister was getting the oral temp, and at 5 I thought I was too old for the rectal thermometer. I also had a fearful association with rectal temps and receiving enemas. I believed that the dreaded enemas would stop if my temp was taken orally. I soon found out how wrong I was.
@ babyginagirl1even though I was or am not a baby anymore, my mother always measured rectally ... she simply meant that this would be the best way to measure accurately ... so your mom and sis do a very well job - even if they give you suppositories 😉 they are the best to and for you 😃surely it´s a little bit humiliating to get the temperature taken ractally but even more humiliating is the spanking you get if you dont let your temperature been taken this way
No, for me it wasn’t really a bad thing to have my temperature taken in the bum, because I always really enjoyed the process. So with that said I never felt like a baby
The majority of my rectal temps were taken at the doctor’s office. I can’t remember a rectal temp at home. Mom always used oral. What I do recall is wondering why, every single time I went to the doctor, for whatever reason, the nurse would come in and take my rectal temp. I remember after a pretty nasty bike wipeout, my mom taking me to the doctor. In comes the nurse. As usual, she tells me to pull down my pants. She needs to take my temperature. “Really???” I thought. I’m here for some stitches. Why do I have to have my temperature taken in my butt? In front of my mom to boot. I must have been around 8-9.
I remember when I was a child having my temperature taken rectally. At the Pediatricians office with the nurse.Me being naked laying on my belly and the nurse with globs of jelly inserting the thermometer deep into my anus.
No I did feel like a baby because that was the way my temperature was taken at home and the doctor. I take my temperature rectally now that I am a adult.
Retired US MD here, age 70 (in 24 days). No, never, not even once. Why would having a bona fide medical instrument placed in its normal position passing through your anus to rectum make you feel like anything but a patient? It might remind me how young I was when I first had them in the 1950’s, but nothing more. It was the gold standard of medical temperature monitoring for years and decades. My RN Mother used either a Mercury-in-glass rectal or oral thermometer to take our temperature from at least the late 1950’s to the ‘70’s, depending on which one she had on hand. Other technologies such as skin strips and digital readout skin and/or eardrum thermometers pushed RT’s aside somewhat as they came online but RT’s are still done today, though often digitally. Having my temperature taken with any of these methods to this day just seems normal, depending on the circumstances and technology available wherever I happen to be accessing health care.Eric
Retired US MD here, age 70 (in 24 days). No, never, not even once. Why would having a bona fide medical instrument placed in its normal position passing through your anus to rectum make you feel like anything but a patient?I think for many of us, having our bottoms bared and presented to someone, for any reason, makes us feel childish. Also, while growing up it was a fact that adults did not get their temps taken rectally unless there was some kind of extenuating circumstance, but for me and other kids that experienced it, it was taken rectally every time, regardless of circumstance. So that implies that we were not being treated like adults, and we knew it. That made it feel juvenile, perhaps even babyish. Especially being left with a goopy bottom that needed to be wiped…. brings back memories of being changed.
For me, I felt very much like a baby at the doctor’s office. Lying face down as an older teenager was very embarrassing. At home, I never really felt the same way. I don’t know why, but I just tolerated it better.
Why would anyone feel like baby during a rectal temperature check? We used that same orifice to poop as babies, but who feels like a baby when they poop now? Isn't this more looking at what we have been taught about ourselves than a valid reason for emotional discomfort?The only doctor that checks/records my temperature during a visit is my primary care physician, and that is done with a no-contact infrared thermometer pointed at my forehead - probably the most imprecise method available. I don't see any wisdom in performing a temperature check ever visit.
Yes, i felt like a baby and embarrassed, especially when I was more aware about what happened as a teenager.
I don't think I felt like a baby at all. The feelings I got were excitement, as well as a bit of embarassment when I was going to have my temp taken rectally.The excitement came from the anticipation/butterflies in my stomach because I knew I liked the feeling of a thermomter in my butt and was looking forward to it. The embarassment came from always having an erection when it was being taken. Before I was ‘aware’ of things going on down there, and before the hormones kicked in, I had played Doctor with the neighbor girl down the street, and she was fascinated by it. I thought, foolishly at the time, that if she liked touching it while we took our rectal temps etc then it must be a bad thing when mom, or the nurse, saw it when they were taking my rectal temp.Glad I got that all figured out later on down the road lol.
During rectal temps as a pre-teen I not only felt like a baby but also felt I was being treated like a baby. At that age I badly wanted to be like older kids and thought that rectal temperatures infantilized me. In middle school I remember the humiliation of sitting in my pediatrician’s waiting room where most of the other patients were toddlers and K-5 children. Although I felt much older and way cooler than them it was so humiliating to know that in a matter of minutes we’d all be having our temperatures taken with rectal thermometers. All of those motherly female nurses also contributed to the feeling of being coddled and babied. They always spoke to me like I was still a baby saying things like “ok, hun I want you to lay on your tummy for me so I can take your temperature, okay” or if I requested an oral temp she’d say “I’m sorry sweetie, but the doctor wants me to take in your bottom today”. It’s funny how they still talked like that even when I was 12!
Yes, very much so. My family had stopped rectal temps for me after a point but my sister-in-law insisted I continue getting it that way till I lived under their roof. So unfortunately for me, rectal temps were re-introduced and continued till I left home after completing college. It was highly embarrassing and humiliating for me but I had no say and any resistance was silenced with a good spanking by her or my older brother or parents.
What arguments did your sister-in-law use to convince everyone that your temperature should continue to be taken rectally, @Aura1?
What arguments did your sister-in-law use to convince everyone that your temperature should continue to be taken rectally, @Aura1?She said I was still a minor and when I was no longer one, she argued that as my elders, it's their responsibility to be very accurate with my health.