diff --git a/litellm/proxy/auth/auth_checks.py b/litellm/proxy/auth/auth_checks.py
index 794029f0596..e607c99db34 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/auth/auth_checks.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/auth/auth_checks.py
@@ -2519,7 +2519,7 @@ async def get_user_object(
         raise Exception("No db connected")
     try:
         db_access_time_key: Final = f"user_id:{user_id}"
-        should_check_db: Final = _should_check_db(
+        should_check_db: Final = bool(check_db_only) or _should_check_db(
             key=db_access_time_key,
             last_db_access_time=last_db_access_time,
             db_cache_expiry=db_cache_expiry,
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/auth/test_auth_checks.py b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/auth/test_auth_checks.py
index e0cb3966ae2..d11fe407505 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/auth/test_auth_checks.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/auth/test_auth_checks.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import asyncio
 import json
+import time
 from types import SimpleNamespace
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Final, Literal, Optional
 from unittest.mock import AsyncMock, MagicMock, patch
@@ -915,6 +916,32 @@ async def test_get_user_object_wraps_db_outage_as_valueerror_preserving_context(
     assert isinstance(exc_info.value.__context__, ConnectionError)
 
 
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_get_user_object_check_db_only_ignores_recent_miss(monkeypatch):
+    """A database-only read is never answered by the per-worker negative memo: a row created after a miss on
+    this worker is returned within db_cache_expiry seconds instead of raising UserNotFoundError, so the token
+    exchange mints for a user JWT auth just accepted."""
+    from litellm.proxy.auth import auth_checks
+
+    user_id = "memo-probe-user"
+    monkeypatch.setitem(auth_checks.last_db_access_time, f"user_id:{user_id}", (None, time.time()))
+    db_row = LiteLLM_UserTable(user_id=user_id, user_email=None, user_role="internal_user")
+    mock_prisma_client = MagicMock()
+    mock_prisma_client.db.litellm_usertable.find_unique = AsyncMock(return_value=db_row)
+
+    result = await get_user_object(
+        user_id=user_id,
+        prisma_client=mock_prisma_client,
+        user_api_key_cache=UserApiKeyCache(),
+        user_id_upsert=False,
+        check_db_only=True,
+    )
+
+    assert result is not None
+    assert result.user_id == user_id
+    mock_prisma_client.db.litellm_usertable.find_unique.assert_awaited_once()
+
+
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_get_user_object_upsert_includes_user_email():
     """Test that user_email is included when creating a new user via get_user_object upsert"""