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Subject: How old was u the last time u had a rectal temperature


Author:
Mike
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Date Posted: Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 07:43: am

For me I was 12 or 13 in the hospital ER. I had a stomach virus and was vomiting a lot . The nurse tried to get me to hold it in place under my tongue but I couldn’t for gagging. She turn to my mother and said I’m going to have to take it in his bottom . I for some reason didn’t understand what she had said . She said she would be right back and left the cubical . Mom told me that I was going to have to remove my pants. I quickly ask why she told me she going to take your temperature in ur butt . I was to sick to argue the point . When the nurse returned there was 2 other girls with her the nurse had me lay back on my back she undid my pants and removed them leaving my underwear pulled up. She then had me to turn on to my stomach then one of the other nurses pulled my underwear down and placed a sheet on my legs . Then I felt the thermometer 🌡 slide into my butt . This was in the early 80’s so pretty sure it was glass . Then about this time the Doctor and another nurse walked in started talking to my mom about how long I had been sick what was going on I looked around the room the curtains had been left open in the front the people on the other side could partly see in . When the nurse pulled the thermometer from my butt I had a fever and started Vomiting again and dry heaving. The Dr told mom he was going to give me something to ease my stomach. And something for the fever ..I’m seated upon the table with a nurse holding a pan . Dr then tell them to start a IV and he began the exam listen and pressing on my side and stomach. The nurse came back in with a tray . One nurse has me to remove my shirt and they put in a IV line . Then the nurse has me to turn back over She then gives me a shot in the butt . The one of the nurses walks in tells mom she going to give me 2 suppositories for fever. I can’t believe this is happening I remember getting my temperature taking this way at home and the pediatrician office but that stopped at about 7 or so . Mom had giving me a suppository but that had been when I was younger . The nurse pushed the first one in then the other with her finger going in . She told me I could turn back over now and raised the head of the bed after a couple of hours and 2 more temperature checks in the butt I got to go home .. with a prescription for suppositories mom had to give me a couple more that day and night .

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[> Subject: Re: How old was u the last time u had a rectal temperature


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Jerome202
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Date Posted: Thursday, May 13, 2021, 08:15: pm

I was 11 years old the last time I got my temperature taken rectally. My father's girlfriend, who was a school doctor took it. She made me lie on my bed on my side and pulled down my pants, then she pushed the thermometer in my butt and left it for 3 minutes.

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Clint
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Date Posted: Friday, June 11, 2021, 05:36: pm

I was 33 two year ago when I had the flu. My wife insisted on taking my temperature rectally because I was vomiting at first, then coughing relentlessly. It pays to marry a nurse that can take family health matters in stride. Had I not been so sick with nausea, I probably wouldn't have let Kristen within a mile of my butt with a thermometer. I'm glad she did it that way to be honest though. I could turn over and rest while she took my temperature. No having to hold my head up for an oral temperature or hearing an ear thermometer beeping away. It was completely painless every time she took it rectally because she was super gentle. A lot of men, or wives for that matter, would've died of embarrassment over doing something like this. If you can't bare your naked rear end to your wife or husband without being embarrassed, then how healthy is your marriage really? I don't want to have to have it done that way again, but Kristen wouldn't hesitate to do it if I ever get that sick again. I'd do the same for her without hesitation.

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[> Subject: Re: How old was u the last time u had a rectal temperature


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Jimmy
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Date Posted: Friday, July 23, 2021, 01:04: pm

The last time I got it rectally, I was about 13. I entered the hospital for a hernia repair and they put me in the pediatric ward. The first room had four beds and they told me "this is where we put our bigger guys."
A really cool male nurse came in to take my vitals. When he pulled out the thermometer,
I looked at him apprehensively and he assured me it would have to be in the butt this time. He kept that promise for the rest of the day.
The next day he must have been off since the girl nurses took it rectally.
That night an attendant came in at four am to shave me and an hour later I was awakened again for an inspection of the job.
Upon returning to my room after the recovery, the rectal temperatures took up again.

I do recall when I was little, my mom would always take my temperature rectally. She'd take my pants/PJ bottoms and my undies down to mid thigh and place me over her knee.
After lubing the glass thermometer with petroleum jelly she would take one hand and separate my bottom cheeks and with the other gently insert the bulb of the thermometer about an inch into my rectum.
My favorite part was when she rested her warm hand on my bottom with the thermometer between he middle and index fingers for the recommended four minutes and I just laid there patiently awaiting the time.
When I was six I began playing doctor and taking rectal temperatures in much the same way. All my games were private ones with Just my patient and myself so that's when I would do it OTK like my mom did.

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[> Subject: Re: How old was u the last time u had a rectal temperature


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tate
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Date Posted: Tuesday, July 27, 2021, 09:03: pm

Mike, when the nurse gave you the shot, what did you do or say? Also, what did you do or say when the nurse gave you the suppositories?

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tate
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Date Posted: Tuesday, July 27, 2021, 09:41: pm

Mike, in what side of your butt did you get the shot?

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tate
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Date Posted: Wednesday, July 28, 2021, 04:37: pm

Mike, in what side of your bottom did you get the shot?

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tate
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Date Posted: Thursday, July 29, 2021, 09:03: pm

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[> Subject: Re: How old was u the last time u had a rectal temperature


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tate
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Date Posted: Tuesday, July 27, 2021, 10:56: pm

Mike, how did you prepare yourself for the shot? Did you protest getting the shot?

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Tate
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Date Posted: Wednesday, July 28, 2021, 09:41: am

Mike, did the nurse put a bandaid on the injection site?

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Tate
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Date Posted: Wednesday, July 28, 2021, 12:06: pm

Mike, did you rub the injection site after the shot to ease the hurt?

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Tate
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Date Posted: Thursday, July 29, 2021, 08:56: pm

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[> Subject: Re: How old was u the last time u had a rectal temperature


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Jon B
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Date Posted: Sunday, November 28, 2021, 05:37: pm

I got my rectal temperature taken every time that I had a cold and fever -- all the way through high school. I had a hardtime keeping the oral thermometer in my mouth. So mom had me lay butt naked on my stomach on my bed while she took it.

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KenW
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Date Posted: Thursday, December 02, 2021, 06:20: pm

My RT was taken every time my temp was checked till I left home at age 18. I'm 60+ now and still take my own temp rectally so I'd have to say just this week.

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[> Subject: Re: How old was u the last time u had a rectal temperature


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Neil
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Date Posted: Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 02:26: pm

Age 8. As part of the preparation for removing my tonsils, the nurse came in and removed my briefs, then rolled me over to take my temperature in the bottom. I remember her being a very kind woman and eased me fears about the operation.

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jean the frenchie
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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 11:36: am

The rectal temperature was for a long time considered as more accurate and practical than the oral one, so at school, the permanent nurse did it each time she needed to check the temperature of a male student in my only boys school,even at high school grades.

it was generally the same at hospitals and in some doctor's offices depending on the reason of the visit, if the doctor presumed that a boy had a high temperature, he wanted that it was a rectal temperature to have a more precise result.

Everybody believed that it was more precise, even our mothers who stopped to do it about 12 or 13 age, but told us to do it after that age when we were obviously sick.

Even at the army for draftees during military service, if they went to the office of the male military doctor at the barracks after induction, it was a captain, he began always his exam by taking a rectal temperature, it was easy since the non commissioner officer who supervised you at the visit sent you in a small cabin to undress completely whatever was the reason of your coming and therefore you came in front of the doctor stark naked and each time he told you "turn around and bend over in front of the table" and you felt his cool fingers spreading widely your butt before inserting the thermometer. It happened to me a few times.

At home my privacy was respected after 12 or 13 age as long as I was not seriously sick.
Because in that case, my modesty was considered as irrelevant, my mother did not mind if i was now shy towards nudity and did not like to expose my buttocks, she told that she wanted to be sure that my temperature was the good one and like one had said it was not unpleasant to feel her warm hands on one of the cheek of my buttocks while she waited after having inserted the thermometer in my rectum, it was the same for suppositories, I was told to insert them myself but only if I was not too sick, in that case she did it.

At hospitals, I presume that I would have been treated with the same lack of respect of my modesty than it was said in a few messages, the modesty of boys was not important until at least 15 or 16 age. So I am not surprised that you were exposed naked buttocks to the view of young nurses or persons walking in the corridor, and I had heard that the rules about shaving were very strict at that time and it was standard procedure to check that the shaving was well done a short time before a surgery operation.

As regards shots in the buttocks, they were very commonly practiced on boys on the reverse of today, I don't know why,
and I remember well of a trick used frequently by nurses which was to give a slap on the left cheek of the buttocks when the nurse wanted to shot the right cheek and the reverse of course, it was according to what they said to distract the boys before the shot so that they did not expect with anxiety the shotbecause they thought to the slap, and they were surprised by the shot on the other cheek. According to them, they were learned to perform shots on the butts like that with that trick at school nurse because when there was no time to think about a shot just before it was done, it was better, it was less harmful!

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[> Subject: Re: How old was u the last time u had a rectal temperature


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dodo
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Date Posted: Monday, March 27, 2023, 03:11: pm

As routine, till I was around 8, my temperature was taken only rectal by my mom. Being around 9 years old my mom routine was almost totally changed to take my armpit temperature, but sometimes she was afraid that being taken in this way wasn't really accurate, so she insisted to repeat it rectally. The last time I was almost 13 years old I think...

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