Age during first rectal temp for doc

I was about 4 years old when the doctor came to my house. He put me up on the kitchen table,put me into the knee/chest position. Then pulled of my panties and told my Dad to grab hold of my ankles and spread them. Then I remember feeling a cold and moist stiff rod going in by butt..And being told to hold still. After that temperature, the doctor said he needed to give me an enema, to bring my fever down. Before, I knew it the doctor inserted a long thin hose deep in me...then I heard the water start in the sink and he filled a bowl of water and started squeezing a bulb and started to fill my belly. I was so scared and remembered the cramps that followed. The doctor told my Mom and Dad to repeat for the next few days.

No doctor I know puts a 4 year old on the kitchen table and "inserts a long thin hose deep inside her" to give an enema.

I'm with Susie. No doctor would take a rectal temp in the knee chest position or give an enema for fever. This is most improbable. Was this wishful thinking?

Liquidsky: When I was a child, the thermometers were made of glass and took minutes to register. Nobody in their right mind would take a temperature in the knee-chest position (unless for kink), because this would involve holding the thermometer in for several minutes.

The position taught by my mom for taking my own rectal temperature was rolled on the side, and I've seen her take my younger sibling's temperature on the stomach, and for infants in the "diaper" position.

As for enemas for fever, I think they were advised in the "home doctor" kind of books, but decades ago. I'm sure the practice died earlier in the actual doctor offices than in the home, because people sometimes tend to do to their children what they experienced when they were young.

I would imaging younger than I can remember, as that was typical of a baby's check-up. I suppose I remember them back as far as age 5 or there about and they continued until my teens.

The FIRST time?! Most of us would've been babies, how are we supposed to remember that??

I agree! Can't answer that one, since I always got it taken rectally at home and at our doctor's office.

Don't remember the first. Remember the last when I was about 5 years old, because I got a shot in my butt at the same time. I posted a story about it on a different thread. Check my profile if you're interested.

(Hi, new guy here.)

I guess my intro was as a kid (2nd grade? I was always a voracious reader) looking at the childcare encyclopedia and seeing that THIS WAS SOMETHING THEY DID. But none of the magic kicked in until 4th grade, when I had my appendix out. FIRST, I got my appendix checked from the INSIDE my a male nurse with a pony-tail, my mother watching. It was a BITTER experience, as I was already in a lot of pain.But then, while recovering, there was a kid in the next bed at the hospital. The Doctor and another male nurse came by and told him he was going to get a "pill in his bottom" to make him go to sleep for the operation. He didn't want it and FOUGHT. They had to hold him down to get it in, and he was thrashing and yelling for like 10m until he konked out. So THAT had an effect on me. Didn't know whether I wanted to be the doctor or the restrained boy! Tried in both ways, in fantasy, to figure it out. This actually came true for me, in an odd way. I worked doing health care for brain-injured patients for 2 years. One old retired doctor needed a suppository for constipation. I was tasked with giving it to him. Naturally I was careful. At the end, he thanked me "For being a Gentleman." So THAT was my job-satisfaction moment for the year! ---1970's boy.

My temperature was taken during my toddler years; ages 3 and 4 and rearly during my infant years.

Only when i was a child

I think 0 - 8 years

Never had it at the doctor (but when I was a little older I sneaked home an info sheet on temperature taking from the doctor's office). The first and only time I remember having it taken rectally was when I was about 5 or 6, one evening when I was sick and my dad was taking care of me. There was a childcare booklet in our home that said that kids up to 5 or 6 could have their temperatures taken that way and I remember thinking "If I don't get to try it now I'll never know what it's like." I asked my dad to take it rectally and for whatever reason he agreed. I remember him holding the thermometer in while I looked at a book, lying on my side on the carpet, with my knees bent. I think I liked it but don't remember a feeling of intense enjoyment--mostly curiosity. But a year or two later the fascination reawakened and I started sneaking temperatures on my own.

At the pediatrician there was only measuring in the bum. I switched when I was 16. He took my temperature before the shot and when I was ill (esp 10 pneumonia, 13 prostatitis, 15 tonsillitis)

First one I remember at 3

It must have been when i was very young, but they continued to age 13, at the doctor's office.

The first time I can recall a medical professional taking my rectal temperature was very early in life, made around age 3 or 4, but it was in a hospital setting and nurses had me on my tummy quite often during my stay.

My first time i think it has been about 10 years old. I didn't liked at that time

I was 5 years old

I believe I was 5 or younger.

Actually a nurse took it and I was three, I remember her taking it on two different occasions

I only remember two instances and both times a nurse did the honors. Now, when I was three, I spent eight days in the hospital with a bout of Asiatic flu. Couldn't hold anything down and they fed me intravenously into my right ankle (I still have a scar). While I have no doubt my temperature was taken rectally several times a day during my stay, I have no recollection of that.

Although I do not remember it too clearly, I would estimate at about 15 minutes old! I probably had my eyes closed for it and more than likely cried my way through it, as well! But, all-in-all, I don't think I posed any viable objections.

Play safe!

I think the better question might be - "At what age were you when you had your most recent temperature taken rectally - and describe the situation?"

I think it should be what's the oldest you were for a rectal temp.

I think it should be what's the oldest you were for a rectal temp.

I was age 4 when I got my last rectal temperature taken due to having a procedure done on my ears.

While I’m sure the first time was when I was born, I have no recollection of that.

However, I do have memories up until age 5 or 6 where the nurse took my temperature in my butt using a digital probe thermometer.

The first time I can remember was age 6...in the hospital. I was kind of shocked when the nurse explained what was about to happen, but after she inserted the theromometer, it felt really good!

I would say around age 3.

My first memory from the doctor taking my temperature is when I was 5 years old. My parents had taken my temperature just before so I knew what it was about even though I wasn´t very fond of it. Now when the doctor was going to take it on me again shortly after I was not happy at all. But it was nothing compared to the treatment he gave me afterwards which gave me lifelong memories and started my fetish for "doctor games" including temptakings.

@recxams37 what did the doc do?

I suppose that it started with my first visits at the pediatrician that I do not even remember and it continued until the age of 13.