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Subject: Re: Has Anyone Ever Gotten Tricked Into Getting A Shot Because Your Mom Pretended You Were Going Somewhere Else?

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Julie

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Date Posted: Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 09:02: am
In reply to: Tim 's message, "Has Anyone Ever Gotten Tricked Into Getting A Shot Because Your Mom Pretended You Were Going Somewhere Else?" on Monday, April 28, 2014, 06:35: am

Yes, growing up I had a similar experience of being taken to the doctor by surprise "because you might need some medicine" since there was an outbreak of hep at a local supermarket. I didn't know what to expect and the doctor we saw had several exam rooms so it was common for it to be a busy place and you usually saw some kid or teen looking sad. I got really upset when the nurse told me to remove my jeans and she pulled down my panties and took my temperature. I protested and asked why because I wasn't there for a physical. Then I learned that the medicine was a shot and that it was to be given in my butt, which caused me to tear up and cry. There I was lying on the table, 14 year old, and shaking as she removed thermom and stuck me. I was very sore after.

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Rich
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Date Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2014, 03:02: pm

Julie,
Were you referring to a hepatitis outbreak?
Before anything was done especially if you'd not been a patient at the facility you relate here, you and your Mom should have been briefed on what was going to be done.(the protocol of exam/treatment).

It would seem unnecessary unless there were other factors that did in fact necessitate the obtaining of your temperature rectally, it probably could have been obtained by mouth. And being you were 14 (surely could hold a thermometer under your tongue)and no doubt a shock and embarrassment to you when it was taken rectally.
But if I understood your post you did get rectal temps during physicals. Were those too, upsetting for you?

As for the shot, if the doctor deemed it necessary and felt it so, the gluteal area was probably appropriate depending on your size, age and muscle mass. It has been shown that many medications given via the buttocks don't always get to the muscle which for this hepatitis shot was probably an IM shot that needed to be given.

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