How deep does a 2qt enema go?

Good afternoon everyone.

I've been doing 2qt plain warm water for many years now and on average it takes me 4 bags to get clear.

What I actually like to know is, how deep does the water go and how deep will i be clean?

I think the descending colon should be clean with 2 qts but I'm not sure.

BTW I'm only taking enemas for anal play, and can reach about 18-19 inches depth with clean lubed toys.

Thanks in advance.

Erin

Well to my understanding (and a bunch of experience) that without soap or some other additive to stimulate the inner linings, that water alone really won't do an effective job of cleaning on. You are really just moving water in and out for the most part.

But that's what works for me.

Elaine

Obviously, individuals vary, but here is a site that has some average info:

https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?s=n&v=3&id=111127

“large intestine diameter 4.8cm; length 190cm cm”

Assuming the colon is round, the cross section area is about 18 sq. cm. and the volume about 3400 cc.

That number does not seem unreasonable because many people can just about take that in a mighty fill, if they have previously been petty well cleaned out by prep enemas, poo'd out.

An average poo is roughly 1-¼" in diameter, so has a cross sectional area of 8 sq. cm. So, if the person is full of poo, it might be 100 cm long (about 40"), so it's volume is about 800 cc. That allows about 2600 cc of space for water in a petty constipated person… a bit less than 3 quarts.

So, a 3 quart enema should petty much fill an average, pretty constipated, person petty full. This is not really a surprise because the numbers agree closely with what has been practice for over 100 years.

Stay in knee-chest position for the whole 15 minute retention and it should reach the top of the large bowel.

@Erin you are taking 18-19 inches!! Wow that’s amazing I would so like to see that. How flexible is the toy that you’re using?

@Analstim i have one very soft 1 inch diameter with a length of I think 36 inch

My others are anal snakes that are like medium soft/hard.

After a good 3 to 4, 2 quart bag flush my sphincters are relaxed and I can easily push about 15 to 16 inches of my 18" double ended dildo in me... especially if I have not released the last 2 quart bag. The water has my intestines expanded so the dildo just slides into a water filled tube LOL

@Ms_Erin May I ask you about your 4 bags? 4 bags in what time interval? Or 4 bags in a row?

Thanks.

@regsy i take one 2lb bag, empty it, another one and empty, so i Amy usually clean after 4 x 2lb bags, in about 45 minutes to one Hour

2 Quarts in my experience can go "all the way" into the colon, into the ascending colon on the right hand side. I often inject about a pint of air with my enemas (either prior to with a large enema bulb, or at the end if I have an inline Higginson set up), and when I roll from side to side while holding the enema I can feel the water sloshing and flowing through my entire colon, including all the way down my right side. That is as "high" as any enema can go.

This, however, certainly does not mean that anybody will be cleaned out properly after a 2-quart enema by any stretch of the imagination. I can take 3 large enemas in succession and there will still be some brown gunk coming out by the end of it. I have done complete fills, releases and refills in a bathtub using a shower shot attachment, and it takes at least 5 or 6 cycles of complete filling and releasing before the expulsions become clear without any visible waste material in it. No wonder they don't use enemas as cleanout prep for colonoscopies anymore.

The question interested me because I've begun shopping for a new enema bag.

What I found seems to match what most folks report. The average large intestine (ascending, transverse and descending colons) holds about 100 liquid ounces (US). That's just a little over 3 US quarts. I wonder if the intestine walls are flexible enough to accommodate an additional quart for a total of a gallon.

Keep in mind that any solids working their way through the large intestine will reduce the available space for liquid introduced via the back door.

@Mullanphy :

Not everyone's capacity is the same, but my usual enema is a gallon, and I've occasionally gone to six qarts after a thorough cleanout.

@Mullanphy :

Not everyone's capacity is the same, but my usual enema is a gallon, and I've occasionally gone to six qarts after a thorough cleanout.

I DID say AVERAGE, which leaves a lot of room above and below. Basic math.

Two things here: Enemas are "retrograde" so the water is reversing direction, which means it will be harder to clean out the further reaches. Secondly, assuming you are eating reasonably regularly there will be additional chyme discharged into the cecum periodically.

Even though it wouldn't be good on its own I think I would still prefer to use some enemas at least at the start of a bowel cleanse for colonoscopy or whatever to clear out most of the colon and reduce the amount of lavage you would need to drink. Probably more fun as well, though since you're also not eating at the time and probably hungry it might not be as fun as you'd think.

Thanks Erin. Your routine sounds exactly like mine. Each cycle take about 20 minutes minimum, so, as long as I am diligent and stay on-task, I expect about an hour-and-a-half of cleaning before I'm ready to play. After a good clean-out, I can usually go for several hours before things start to get dirty again. If I do the process before I eat in the morning, then don't eat until the afternoon (because I'm "busy"), thenI can go the better part of the day experiencing good clean fun.

Although everyone is different in terms of actual capacity and the degree of stretch to one's various areas of the colon, let me preface this by noting this my observations are from my experience either standing or sitting upright.

At 2 quarts, with a nominal sized nozzle, the liquid fills my rectum and my sigmoid to the base of the descending colon. I have what is classified (genetically) as a "long Sigmoid" so I apparently can take a bit more volume because of the longer distance through that turn. It takes about 3 quarts for me to fill my descending colon to the splenic flexure. Somewhere around this volume, the liquid overtops the splenic flexure and begins to flow down and across my transverse colon. It depends upon how clean / empty the Sigmoid and descending colons are. Regardless of that clean factor, the liquid overtops by 3 liters.

I like enemas in the 3 - 4 liter range. After a previous cleanout and chance to completely expel, I can take liters pretty comfortably. Getting above 5.5 is challenging and I don't do it often. I've only been above 6 liters three times, each time with an enema that contains baking soda. It is challenging to hold for more than a few minutes and the initial gush is quite the rush. I think at these volumes, there can be backflow through the ileocecal valve.

If your goal is to do a deep/high enema, then are a few tips I have learned from doing enemas for decades.

The first tip is to do a series of enemas which is at least 3 enemas. The first two are two-quart enemas. I will use either baking soda or epson salts- 2 tbs in a two qt enema. I use warm tap water not hot. The third enema will either be a 2 qt. or 3 qt. enema.

The first enema will be slow with some stop and starts with flow until I take the entire enema. So, the total hold time is at least 10 minutes or more from start to finish for the first enema. The second and third enemas will go a bit faster thus less in hold time.

And here is my best tip. I lay on my back on a yoga mat on the bathroom floor with the enema bag hanging from a towel rack about 4 feet above my anus. As the flow begins, I will raise my hips off the matt so the enema will now be draining down-hill into my colon. That gets the enema deep into the colon.

Another tip is to space the enemas maybe an hour or more apart. This allows the current enema to be expelled before you start the next one. This means each enema will have more room to fill your colon without competing with the previous enema.

Lasty, by the third enema, my expels have no solids and is a yellowish liquid. This is about as clean as I can get.

A word about nozzle types. I use a Silicone Nozzle butt plug nozzle which has a depth of about 5 inches. Now I do sometimes use a colon tube which can reach as far as 15 inches deep or more, but I would only use the colon tube on my third enema because now my colon is clear of solids. The colon tube will easily slide very deep with ease. The colon tube enables you to fill the colon very deep and this really gets you very clean.

My final word of advice is to practice frequently giving yourself enemas and pay attention to how your body reacts to the enemas. Be observant as to which little tricks work best for you to achieve your goals. If you enjoy enemas, you will enjoy the journey.

When my siblings and I were growing up, I first took a two-quart enema the summer I turned nine. My grandmother (a retired RN) gave me a 3H enema using a 30fr 24inch colon tube completely inserted. The first one, was a soapy enema made with Ivory soap. And the second one, was a rinse enema made with salt and baking soda. Both were two quarts, and I could feel the warm water on both my right and left side each time. So, I’m sure grandma had me filled from rectum to cecum both times.

That was the first summer grandma gave all of us 3H enemas. Something she did every summer afterwards until I was sixteen, when she gave us our last one. By then, the volume she gave us, had increased from two quarts to three quarts.

With my 32inches colon tube completely inserted I can deliver 2qt of solution in my ascending colon. I can feel the water flowing

When I reached 22 years old and my mother increased the size of my enemas to a full 2 quarts I could feel the hot soapy water going in as it went up my descending colon across my transverse colon and into my ascending colon to fill my large bowel completely. She then made me retain it for 5 minutes before expelling it and I could feel it gurgling and giving me strong cramps throughout the whole length of my large bowel. It was definitely worse than the smaller enemas she had been giving me before that, starting with a pint at 4 years old, increasing by half a pint every 3 years until I turned 22 and she started giving me the full 2 quart bag.