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Subject: has a problem with taking my temp please help


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mandi
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Date Posted: Saturday, July 21, 2012, 11:16: am
 itake my temp rectally cause it is most accurate, i been taking it often right now cause i am sick. but when i take it i feel kinda bad for taking it that way. when i take it rectally i feel kinda weird, i kinda feel that i am perverted for doin it that way, i also feel that people will say i am weird if they found out. so how can i not feel like this when i take my temp rectally? i mainly only take my temp when i am sick
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[> Subject: Re: has a problem with taking my temp please help


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Criss Gant
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Date Posted: Saturday, July 21, 2012, 02:35: pm
Hi Mandi .. I think that u r normal .. u don't have a fetish or something and also u r not a bad :) .. if u r comfort with it do it and of course it's the most accurate way to take the temp. and by the way .. iam a medical student and now i Assist an old doctor that take the temperature rectally from the children to teens .. cuz he belive that is the most accurate way .. but it's a little bit embarrassing :)

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[> Subject: Re: has a problem with taking my temp please help


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Catherine A.
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Date Posted: Saturday, July 21, 2012, 03:42: pm
Hi, Mandi: You should not worry about about it. You're not weird, and you're not hurting anyone else. If you're sick with a fever and feel you need the most accurate temp reading, use a rectal thermometer.

When growing up, I used to get a strep throat infection about every other winter. Strep made my throat and swallowing soooo painful. Strep is sometimes accompanied by an elevated fever, so Mom kept me in bed until the meds kicked in and took my temp rectally. I never gave it much thought.

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[> Subject: Re: has a problem with taking my temp please help


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mandi
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Date Posted: Saturday, July 21, 2012, 06:06: pm
thanks chris and catherine, i guess u have a point chris, but it still feels kinda weird to do it that way

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[> Subject: Re: has a problem with taking my temp please help


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Steve
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Date Posted: Saturday, July 21, 2012, 10:14: pm
You will get used to taking your temperature rectally. It does feel a bit strange at first, but can quickly become routine. I take mine every morning before I get out of bed...started several months ago. Trying to get my metabolism up, so maybe I can lose some of my excess weight. BTW, my average is slowly coming up.

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[> Subject: Re: has a problem with taking my temp please help


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marc
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Date Posted: Sunday, July 22, 2012, 04:15: am
Mandi you told me that you like rectal temps and enemas and then come out with sh#t like this....no one needs it done that way anymore...we just do it coz we all like to! So get over it

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[> Subject: Re: has a problem with taking my temp please help


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Criss Gant
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Date Posted: Sunday, July 22, 2012, 09:47: pm
you are welcome any time :) ... and yea it's weird but funny :D this is the most favorite part of the exam to me and i do jokes with the patients to break their embarrassment ... dont think it that way .. and if u have another questions u can mail me Crissgant88@gmail.com and skype : Criss.gant :)

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[> Subject: Re: has a problem with taking my temp please help


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Rich.
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Date Posted: Monday, July 23, 2012, 03:21: pm
Mandi-
If you really felt bad about taking your temperature rectally, you wouldn't do it. And as for others knowing; well other than this board, if you are wise, you'll not bring the subject up with anyone, except perhaps a medical person who you deal with. And if you believe it's the most accurate method, then I would tend to agree. If you feel you will continue to monitor your temperature rectally, it does not make you weird or perverted.

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[> [> Subject: Re: has a problem with taking my temp please help


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mart
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Date Posted: Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 09:05: am
mandi is full of it...she used to be on another website rt something, i cant remember, but she used to make up all kinds of stories. she should have changed her name.

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[> [> [> Subject: Re: has a problem with taking my temp please help


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Marc
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Date Posted: Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 03:30: pm
Mart agree.....told me when we chatted that she takes her temp all the time and also does enemas then she comes and posts stuff like this on the forum....such BS!!!! She is just looking for attention.

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[> Subject: Re: has a problem with taking my temp please help


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mandi
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Date Posted: Saturday, August 04, 2012, 11:47: am
mart and marc i do not know you so i do not know where you got your information from. and if i did talk to you i never ever said that i like rectal temps, i just do them cause of the accuracy and that is it. so please do not come here and bad talk me like that

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[> [> Subject: Re: has a problem with taking my temp please help


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Steve
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Date Posted: Saturday, August 04, 2012, 11:29: pm
Mandi - I also take my own temperature rectally because of the accuracy. I have tried simultaneous rectal and oral temperatures, and the temperature spread is not consistent, so I stick with rectal. The secret is lubrication...not a lot, but enough. You will get used to it eventually. I am charting mine for metabolism monitoring(basal temp.). My charting goes back to this past February. Good luck!

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[> Subject: Re: has a problem with taking my temp please help


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mandi
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Date Posted: Sunday, August 05, 2012, 01:34: pm
steve so do i. i try oral it is like 97.2 and then will take it rectally and it will sometimes be like 99 something and sometimes i will have a small fever rectally and not orally. and i am asthmatic and get bronchitis alot and taking an oral temp when sick and coughing is not good cause i start to cough when the thermometer goes in so i started taking it rectally cause of that. i guess i do not mind doing it that way i am jsut worried if i get caught doing it that people will think i am weird and think i am mental for doing it that way. i am also afarid that people will think i am kinky or something or gross and i am not i just take my temp rectally cause of my asthma and coughing and that orally is not an option and under the arm takes to long and is not good either. sometimes when i tell people on line they say gross just take it orally and i say i canlt all i have here is a rectal thermometer and can;t get out to get another one. like i said i only do it rectally cause of accuracy.

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Steve
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Date Posted: Sunday, August 05, 2012, 06:55: pm
You are NOT gross or kinky. Rectal is what works for you, and nobody needs to know. If you call or visit a doctor, you do need to inform them that the temperature was taken rectally, so they know, and they won't think you are weird. BTW, the "normal" for rectal is 99.6 degrees, not 98.6. It is the only way that gives me the consistent accuracy I require for metabolism monitoring. The newer ways of taking temperature were developed for ease of use and social acceptability, not accuracy. Unless it was considered "normal" for people's temperatures to be taken rectally, they would feel strange and squawk about being told to drop their pants to have their temperature taken. Hypothermia patient's temperatures are always taken rectally, because true core temperature can only be ascertained that way, and the goal is to re-warm their core.

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mandi
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Date Posted: Monday, August 06, 2012, 11:42: am
steve i know it is not kinky but other people might think it is. and as for the telling my doctor part number 1 i usually do not get fevers so not a prob there and 2 people told me if i told my doctor that ido it rectally then they might have me commited to the psych ward for it. i only get fevers when i get stomach bugs so not to bad. and i do not see why people have a prob with rectal temps they are by far the most accurate and only take like 5 minutes.

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Steve
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Date Posted: Monday, August 06, 2012, 10:28: pm
My doctor was fully supportive when I told him I take mine rectally. He knows I am dealing with low metabolism, and has suggested possible ways of gradually raising it. I know the main two reasons for my low metabolism are low testosterone levels and low thyroid levels.

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[> [> [> Subject: Re: has a problem with taking my temp please help


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mandi
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Date Posted: Tuesday, August 07, 2012, 08:50: am
steve my doctor would prob be ok with it but i am a little to nervous to tell them

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