Your highest rectal temperature ever measured? And time kept inserted?

What was the highest temperature you ever recorded on yourself ? under which circonstances?

105.5 rectally. It was back in the winter of 1999, i had a bad case of the flu. At the ER, they took an oral temp which was only 101, so they didn't believe me that it was that bad and just sent me home. One of the many reason's why rectal is the only method that I use and trust.

I got chicken pox as an adult, not fun. i was about 35 at time and ran a 103+ fever for about 4 days i went to the ER, they did an RT with the electronic red probe it was 103.8 they gave me a shot and told me not to scratch the sores. Took about two weeks to clear up. I hope I never get shingles.

102 something i don't remember exactly what.

I am pretty sure the highest temperature I ever had was 104.

Bill

107 and it went up after that (that's the point at which they stopped taking it as the thermometer didn't register any higher). Estimated peak was 109. I had a kidney infection and an infected kidney stone lodged in my left ureter. Required an emergency ureterolithotomy (done under sedation and local anaesthetic due to my high temp) to remove the stone.

103.4 , i had a light case of sepsis.

103.9. I had pneumonia.

A nurse said it was "over 104." I had returned from a college biology class field trip to Mexico. That night my face and throat swelled up like a balloon, and I started running a fever. I could barely talk. My mom was in a panic and called our next door neighbor who was a nurse. She came over and examined me and took my rectal temperature with a glass thermometer that mom had had since I was a baby.

Within an hour I was in the ER getting meds by IV, and I was there until early morning when the swelling began to subside. In the ER they took my temp every hour with an electronic probe in my bottom. A nurse turned me onto my side each time, and it took only what seemed like a few seconds to hear a beep. I was released to go home with two prescriptions. One was an antibiotic that I had to take for 14 days; I remember because it upset my stomach. My fever was down to 101 when I left the hospital. Mom continued to take my temperature rectally for the next few days until it was normal, and it was then that I discovered for the first time that Tylenol for fever can be given in a suppository.

When I was about 5 I had a rectal temperature of 105. I remember being so weak I had to be turned over to have it taken, turned on my back for the doctor to examine me then back on my belly for the most painful needle I ever got in my rear end. I remember being sore back there for days. the soreness of the needle and the slickness of the vaseline from all of the times I had my temperature taken stands out in my mind to this day and turns me on.

My highest rectal temperature i ever had was 105 i lost my eardrum my mom Gave me a cold Enema to bring Down the fever i cried so hard that i cough up blood the doctor said i should have died that when i had the measles

For me, it was about 103 when I had the flu. I felt like shit. Tylenol helped.

When I was about 13 I had a rectal temperature of 103.5 upon hospital admittance.

104.8 a few years back

101, but I've been told about 104 and 106.

104+ when I was in my 20's. I had some kind of virus that was a bear to get rid of, and was very sick for the first couple of days. It would come and go from one day to the next, feeling good one day, and if I over did it, I would have a good headache and low grade fever the next day.

The highest mine ever shown on a rectal thermometer was 103 degrees, 3-5 minutes,(Usually a whole five min)

checked it myself at home before mom took me to a Medical Clinic.

I was about 20 yrs old at the time, (1981),,, Gee how I wish the Nurse there at this medical office would have chosen the rectal thermometer!

I would have to say it was in the 103 to 104 range when i had chicken pox.

It was in the 103

104.8 - bronchitis in 3rd grade

When I had the flu once, my wife took my rectal temperature, and it measured 104.3F. We went to the emergency room because the Dr.'s office was closed for the weekend. A nurse there took it orally....103.2F. She asked my wife if she was sure it was 104.3F when she took my temperature at home. My wife told her it was, but the nurse couldn't figure out why there was such a difference (nearly a degree F) in readings. My wife didn't tell her she took it rectally.

I was about 5 years old and fell violently ill. I remember being so sick I was carried to the doctor's office and once once on the exam table I had to be turned over to have my temperature taken. I remember shivering when my pajamas were pulled down and the thermometer was inserted. It was probably 3 minutes but felt like forever. I remember the nurse saying my temperature was over 105 and the doctor might order me to stay in the hospital. I was too weak to roll back over when the doctor examined me and the nurses turned me on my back again. The doctor finished the exam, ordered the nurse to do something and they both left the room. When she came back in with a tray, I was turned over again. I watched her fill up a glass cylinder with a purplish liquid. I thought it was another thermometer when she approached me with it and the other nurse pulled my pajamas down again. Instead a thermometer I felt something cool being rubbed on my rear end and then i got the most painful needle I ever received by a medical professional (I gave myself some painful ones later on in life to recreate the experience). I remember being so weak and not even being able to cry as I lay there while the medication was slowly being injected. My pajamas were pulled back up and I was sent home. I was sore back there for days and for years I had developed a fear of lying on my belly, even to sleep. I actually had to be held down when the nurses when they sedated me before surgery when i was in the hospital to have my tonsils out. The fear was so bad I was scared of nurses and even to this day I still get butterflies when i see one. Now i get butterflies because the thought of having it done again turns me on.

I think mine highest shown rectal temperature may be something about 40 - 41 C. It was when I was 9 years old and had a flu...

103.5 at age 60. Severe prostatitis with sepsis. Ended up in ER than admitted to hospital on IV antibiotics for 4 days. Admitting doc told me that if I had arrived a few hours later, I probably would have bought the farm. Since then more prostatitis attacks with fevers over 102.

In 1994 I had food poisoning from food eaten at a Christmas party. My fever climbed to 103, accompanied by nausea. The ER took an oral temp., placed me on antibiotics, and sent me home. That was the last time that I've eaten anything without looking it over very carefully !

I don't remember exactly, but when I was about ten my temperature was 102 degF. That isn't high for most people, but my parents said I looked terrible and cooled me down with wet cool towels. I can't recall the last time I had a fever, but since the distant past, it was never above 101.

It was 40.5°C

103 when I had meningitis. 5 minutes, taken by my wife.

It was 102

Around 40.1C (105ish), maybe a bit higher as that was an oral temp. I had meningitis...