Teenage rectal temps

Quite a few taking my own and a couple with friends for fun. Also had it taken as part of a medical test as a teen where accuracy was needed. A friend helped me with that, which was pretty memorable.

Well not sure if you meant on my own for enjoyment or real medical reasons? On my own absolutely as often as I could. For medical reasons past like age 8 I can only remember a handful of times. Like when I was 12 I had my tonsils out I remember the nurse doing a rectal temperature in post op. I actually remember the whole thing very well and will probably post about it later. But otherwise just a couple times when I was really really sick high fever etc and it was always in the hospital.

Yes my mother and when visiting my aunt i always received rectal temps all thru high school

I’m glad I’m not the only one who got rectal temperatures from a aunt too. Did it seem more embarrassing from your aunt? It definitely did for me. Way way more embarrassing.

Till age 13. Not from an aunt but from gram, gram lived with us for while and gram always used to help mom when I or my brother was sick. gram usually thought if you had a fever you also needed an enema to cool you down. I'm sure my fetish came from all the RT's, and enemas from mom and gram. I didn't mind the RT's or enemas. It was not the embarrassment factor, it was the feel of the thermometer or enema pipe in my butt that was the turn-on.

Side note my bother 1 1/2 years younger, on the other hand never got the fetish and actually hated both RT and enemas with a passion. He couldn't wait to be changed to oral and he never wanted to play doctor or do any kind of RT or enema play. Many times I worried he would find out, I was sneaking RT's and enemas, which i had been doing since age 9 and rat me out but with luck it never happened.

My last time was when I was 12 in the doctors office. I had to strip naked from the waist down then roll onto my stomach. The nurse spread my buttocks and inserted the thermometer into my rectum. It was horribly embarrassing. My mom was in the room and she and the nurse were talking. I remember laying there and looking back over my shoulder and seeing the thermometer sticking out. The doctor came in and removed it. He had me roll onto my back so he could feel my abdomen. I wasn't draped in any way. I had pubic hair at that age and I was mortified that everyone could see it. He had me roll onto my left side and bring my knees up to my chest. I thought he was going to take my temp again but instead he put some lube on my anus then performed a rectal on me. He then told my mom that she should give me two enemas. I didn't know what that was at the time. Mom gave me two fleet enemas while I was laying on the bathroom floor.

Yes twice. Once when I was 13 i had to go get a tetanus vaccination for school and the nurse told me that she had to take my temperature rectally to be sure. You cannot get vaccinated if you have a fever. I got so embarrased and refused but she reminded me that every time i went to the pediatrician my temp was always taken in my butt before vaccinations. It made sense, it wasnt too bad and then i guess it groomed me for the second one at 17, had strep throat and i was on fire so i didnt think twice when the nurse said it needed to be rectal. Between 13 and now i pretty much stuck with rectal. I dont have time to argue about a temperature, they have tried so many times over the years to come up with a thermometer that will rival a rectal measurement cause people are squeemish. Vaginal and rectal exams, colonoscopies and the ever popular enema is no problem but heavens no, a rectal thermometer! Kill me now Ill stick to the no drama temp that has been recommended by docs and nurses from the beginning.

Totally agree with the last post. Great discussion. Thank you.

Yes my mom was a very busy woman and she didn’t have the time to take care of me and my my sister so when we were sick she would send me to my grandma's. She was a no nonsense lady so when we were sick it was a rectal temp, suppository, enema or shots on the bot. So as you can imagine I got my temp taken a lot in my teenage years. Most of the time it was taken over my grandma knee. Iften after the temp it was turn over for the suppository and the enema. The absolute worst was a fever and 2 big shots per day.

Temps were given in our family until the Age of 14

... The absolute worst was a fever and 2 big shots per day.

Do you know what was in the shots? It sounds like your grandmother was serious about getting you well..

It was usually rectal for me in childhood then it was switched to oral later. Then when I was in my late teens, my older brother got married. My sister-in-law was a very strict lady who convinced my family to make it rectal for me till I lived under their roof. Unfortunately for me, my family agreed.

Nothing as a teenager. I had the fetish but didn't act on it until my teen years as a giver vs taker. Had a girlfriend who loved rt and spanking. Never had sex as we were late bloomers, both of us but many a temp in her hiney and spanking.

My sisters and I had rectal temps taken by our mother into our teen years. At our Pediatrician, we got them till age 13. Apparently the story was that there was a 12 year old patient who had bitten into a mercury thermometer. Hence the Doctor created the policy of all temperatures were to be taken rectally for all children 13 and under. I can remember being embarrassed about this at 13. It was pretty much routine that when the nurse would take my mother an I into the exam room, she’d tell me to undress to my underpants. Which I did. After the nurse checked my weight and did the other prelims, she’d say, “Ok Donald, lay down on your tummy on the table”. Once in that position, she’d take my underpants down to around my knees, then prepare the thermometer. Then I’d feel her thumb and forefinger on my bottom spreading my cheeks apart then feeling the cold of the thermometer being inserted. Then she’d make small talk with my Mom, but I wasn’t listening because I felt embarrassed having It taken this was at the doctor. As far as mom taking my rectal temp, the last time she did it I was 15. I was very sick with a flu and high fever. I remember her coming into my room with a jar of Vaseline and a thermometer. She told my to lay on my tummy and removed my pj bottoms. She inserted the thermometer into my rectum, but what I remember mostly is that she placed her hand on the small of my back to comfort me. She was always loving and gentle when she took my rectal temp.

I had rectal until I was about 10. And then switched to oral. But there were a few times as a teen where rectal was used because I was really sick with flu type symptoms. And my mom insisted rectal was more accurate.

My mother never wavered from taking my temperature rectally. Seeing the jar of Vaseline immediately let me know that soon I would be on my tummy for her.

I had my temperature taken rectally at the pediatrician until I was 18. My mom took it that way as well until I went off to college

I had my temp taken at my pediatrician till I was 17. He was very old school and that was the only way he took temps. Even when he made house calls he still took your temp in your bottom. I was very embarrassed about it till I started enjoying having it taken that way. There was many times where I was laying there with everything exposed and the door was not fully closed with people walking by. After a certain age it never bothered me. To this day the only way I will take my temp is in my rectum.

Well this isn't really on topic but when I was in my late teens I had a girlfriend who loved spanking and RT. We never had sex as we were both late bloomers in that department. (Late 60's) but she really liked to have a spanking and an RT. Still in touch via Facebook. That fun was a lot of years ago.

@serguei I know very well what you mean about the leaks from suppositories for throat ache. Mom had me wear a panty liner to catch these.

I was sometimes mad to take these in teen years (by self administration) but not often and especially I think I could get out of having to use them in the morning before school, which had happened in earlier years and was REALLY embarrassing.

It almost happened to me when I was 14. I went for the first time at the doctor's alone. I was received by a female doctor, a woman in her 30's who replaced my regular doctor. But when she asked me if I had a fever I lied and answered “No” because I was too embarrassed to have my temperature taken. I am 100% sure that you would have taken it rectally.

When I was 15 a female classmate of mine was severely injured in an accident. A few weeks later as we were talking waiting for the bus to go to school, she told me that when she was at the hospital, a nurse took her temperature rectally. She was humiliated and upset.

Never remember after the age of about 9, perhaps 10 having a rectal at home or by a medical person while in my teens.

I was about to leave an ER after slicing my hand and being sutured and the associated paperwork, and be given some pain killers.

Two RNs we’re passing by, one saying there was a 15 year old patient in an exam room and one of the student nurses would get a rectal temperature and vitals for the doctor.

So for whatever reasons I suspect it is still done to teens as appropriate and as determined medically necessary.

The pain killers worked just fine!

I have my RT tell 16 yo. It was good 4 me but one time when I was 12 a another 12 yo boys see me and pick on me and call me butt timp. boy at school So one day i kick his ass. Then he end up with a RT too because I give him a busted lip.

The only time my temperature was taken rectally as a teenager. was when I would take my temperature for fun as a teenager.

@Amarrynth

Your post reminded me of a situation where my friend., a mother of two teenage daughters told me they got HPV shots. They both got the shots and got them in the buttocks because, like you were told that before their injections , their temperatures needed to be taken. so beforere the shot(s) were given, both girls got their temperatures taken rectally , and with their panties lowered, for the temperature check, it facilitated the buttocks injections. My friend said that was what bothered her daughters the most, was having to get their rectal temperature taken; plus they got them at the same time as each girl was on an exam table in the same room that had four tables in it and they could see each other getting their temperatures taken and getting the shots, which my friend said elicited loud screams from both girls as they were given the shots!

My mom took my temp rectally once when I was 18. I was sick and when she went to get the oral digital thermometer was broken. She asked if I would let her take it in my bottom, and having not had it done that way since I was about 3 I initially refused, but curiosity got the better of me so I told her she could. She got out the glass rectal thermometer she used on us as babies and toddlers and had me pull my pants down and bend over the bathroom counter. Definitely not as comfortable as laying on a bed. She dipped the thermometer in vaseline and went to spread my cheeks. I guess I was involuntarily clenching because she told me to relax my bottom and take a deep breath. I did and she parted my cheeks and slipped the thermometer in. She set a timer and held it in for 3 minutes while I tried not to squirm and she asked me if I was ok. I told her it felt kind of gross and uncomfortable but it didn’t hurt and I could stick it out. Finally she withdrew the thermometer and told me I could pull my pants up while she read it. I was too embarrassed to wipe the vaseline off in front of her so I remember standing there flushed with embarrassment with a greasy bottom. That was the last time she took it that way but I soon discovered my oral temps were always inaccurate and since then I’ve always taken my temp rectally.

No, never as a teen. My pediatricians office took our temp the way it wan taken at home so thats how i got it everywhere until i was 8 years old.

I've never had a rectal temp. taken as a teen, although I knew friends who still had it taken that way, both at home, and also if they were hospitalized, in the pediatrics ward. I did walk in on my friend's sister, who was around 12, or 13 at the time, and laying on the bed with a thermometer up her behind. I was probably more embarrassed than she was, but to be honest, since we were around the same age, it did give me a hard on.

Here where I live, taking temperature rectally is not a common practice, especially for the children. I've read about it, and about measuring the temperature in the mouth too, but it was like a weird foreign tradition, we always measure temperature in the armpit. I had to learn that temperature can be taking rectally only when was planning have my first child - but I wasn't a teenager then (or was I? technically I was, if it's all about “-teens”).

In France, the temperature was rectal at hospital around 1975 for teenagers. It's no longer the case now. It is taken orally and more often now to the eardrum.

I have no memories of rt being taken as part of a real exam (play is obviosuly a different story altogether). I guess that means that I did not have it even before I was a teen much.