Feeling Like You Have a Fever, But You Don't

Ever feel like you are running a temperature, but when you take it, your temp's normal?

I can usually tell when I have a fever, but it's usually low grade.

Yes, I had...

Yes, it happens to me a lot, actually. I've also been surprised when found to have a fever.

Frequently, I feel warm and like I have a fever but don't!

That's the beauty, of those readings isn't it? You can always turn back over and slide it back in just to check once more 😉

How one feels doesn't always (or even mostly) correlate with one's temp as registered on a thermometer. That's the point of taking a temperature -- and with rectal you don't have to worry about accuracy. Why not check more often?! BTW, blood pressure is the same (how one feels doesn't correlate at all with actual reading but isn't nearly as much fun to check.

There are many times where i've felt like i've been a bit on the "warm" side, but when actually checked, my temperature was on a low side of normal for me, typically around 98.1 or so rectal.

That happens to me and it's only 98 degree range.

My girlfriend does, quite often actually. Always ends with us having sex

Yes it has happed to me

I can usually tell if I have a fever or not. No problem checking to make sure, however. Also nice to know how high my temp actually is.

That has happened to me a few times. My mom would feel my forehead and I would feel hot and she would go and get the rectal thermometer and I would drop my pants and lay over my mom's lap and she would insert the cold thermometer into me and hold for five minutes and find out that I had no fever.

Yes lots of times, wish I knew what cuses it, it's wired, it even cause me to go see my doc or vist the ER.

Yes, it happens once in a while...

Yes many times over the years.

Yes.Quite a few times.Maybe i just wanted to have my temperature taken so my body was deceiving me.

Never the less temperature was always checked.

I have no problem with it.I would much rather have my temperature checked and find out it's normal than find out there is something wrong.

Yes, particularly when there's a strong or sudden temperature shift. It's prone to making me feel feverish, if only mildly, but without an actual fever to back the feeling up. Not that I'm ever regretting an excuse to check.

Yes I do often feel like I am coming down with a fever. But after taking my temperature I see it is normal, so I use a different thermometer just to make sure. I will use a glass thermometer first, then a digital just to confirm the glass was right.

I feel like that today. But no fever.

My random phantom elevated temperature presents as Hot Flashes, due to the meds I'm on. The pharmacy literature so states. Hormones can certainly play tricks on your body.

It does give me a chance to ensure my rectal and digital thermometers are working properly.

It does happen.

It also happens my wife thinks I run a fever and checks it, and it's normal. Same for kids ("I'm sure the baby has a fever! — Oh, after all, not.")

It happens to me very often, I take my rectal temperature but lovely ass has no fever. 😃)

This sometimes happens to me after a workout and at other times if I feel stressed. I will take a rectal temp and find the temperature is normal. It can also happen after a "play doctor" session with my girlfriend.

That happened to me today. It was weird. The doctor took my temperature orally, could that have not registered a fever but rectal would have? That once happened to me with an underarm temp.

There have been many times when I felt hot or just not right and I took my temperature rectally and it has been 99 or so.

As an adult maybe once. I had a bad cold, feeling awfull and a normal temperature.

As a kid it was vice versa. I often thought I have slighly a cold but no temperature. After getting tge temperature taken by my mom it turns out that it was at least over 38 degree.

@keks97 Kids, I think, are more prone to have high temperatures than an adult, for the same severity of illness.

I can usually tell , if get a headache, I usually have a fever, it's always been that way for most of my life.

For me, I might feel hot or flush but when I’m sick especially with the onset of a bacterial infection ,I know it. That’s when I know and appreciate the worth of a rectal temperature taking .