Enema Dependence

I suspect that “dependence” may have as much to do with desire, enjoyment, orgasmic bliss, relaxation, and recreation, as it does with a physical or practical need. Many of the older physicians who wrote newspaper and magazine columns, made reference to “the enema habit”. I've certainly had a habit of using enemas, over the last 60 plus years, when I felt the need.

There are no clinical studies or scientific/medical peer reviewed trials/papers that indicate in any manner that frequent enemas cause dependency. Unless someone can provide links to such studies/trials, I'll stick with this opinion.

Here is a link that debunks several of the enema myths told so often some folks believe them: https://www.bodyandsoul.com.au/health/7-lies-youve-probably-heard-about-enemas-according-to-a-colon-hydrotherapist/news-story/b15ce2dfafea296d8bf428de6fb655c3

That said, enemas can be dangerous if safety practices are ignored. Keep equipment clean. Don't use someone else's equipment unless you sterilize it. Don't use toxic ingredients. I didn't look, but maybe there is a thread or article on Zity that concentrates on the safety aspects of a good cleanout.

Never had any issues here, as I have been using them 4+ times a week for ?? years.

I have used 2-4 quart enemas for almost 50 years, sometimes more often than others, and have never had any problems from it. Always able to go good when nature calls. A bad case of the covid almost 2 years ago caused me to have an anal prolapse that has caused my sphincter to not be able to hold shut as tightly as it should so now I take enemas every other day to prevent the unthinkable. Sometimes I can’t get to it until the third day and then I always have a good healthy poop all on its own. No problem except I have to be aware that day that it will arrive and I better be ready to get it done or else disaster. Taking a 2-4 quart double flush every other day hasn’t caused any problems, It’s a blessing and my cure ( and a hell of a lot of fun too).

I have been doing enemas between two and three quarts for seventy plus years, and have never had an issue going normally when nature called. During those seventy plus years there were times when my enema usage dropped to nothing, and other times, I was actively doing enemas two or three times a week, sometimes more. For example, as teenagers my siblings and I gave each other enemas two or three times a week from Junior High through the end of High School. Plus, at the same time my girlfriend and I did enemas together three or four times during her period, while she was having cramps. So, depending on the cycle between my sister and girlfriend, I sometimes got enemas every day for a week. Years later, when I was first married, my wife and I used enemas during foreplay and after sexual intercourse sometimes. In the beginning, it was two or three times during the week and multiple times on weekends. After the first six months or so, it dropped to a couple of times during the week an at least once on Saturday and Sunday. Never once, during all those enemas, did any of us ever have an issues going naturally within twenty four too thirty six hours.

From my own personal experience, I can tell you unequivocally that enema dependence is REAL.

I think that the above warning from @Moms_Egirl should be taken seriously. I knew an old lady who spent her later years with a colostomy bag. For countless years she had been given, and later needed to take, laxatives. The thinking way back in her earlier days had been that being regular on the toilet is healthy, so a daily laxative must achieve that same goal.

The problem however is that making the world fall out of your bottom with zero effort every day makes your bowel, a muscular tube, vitrify. Like people who can no longer use a limb see it wither away. Use it or lose it as they say.

Her bowel likewise stopped working, she became dependent on laxatives and in the end had the bowel replaced with a colostomy bag to end her problems.

I am not knocking anyone here for occasional enema use. But if you are doing these daily, even several times a day as in the original post, consider where that might lead.

The problem however is that making the world fall out of your bottom with zero effort every day makes your bowel, a muscular tube, vitrify. Like people who can no longer use a limb see it wither away. Use it or lose it as they say.

Her bowel likewise stopped working, she became dependent on laxatives and in the end had the bowel replaced with a colostomy bag to end her problems.

Not a doctor here, but even with a colostomy something has to move feces through the bowel. If the colon muscle has atrophied, wouldn’t it take some other stimulus to move the bowels?

Not a doctor here, but even with a colostomy something has to move feces through the bowel. If the colon muscle has atrophied, wouldn’t it take some other stimulus to move the bowels?

@Rigel - I was referring to the last few inches of the gut, the rectum. If that does nothing much day after day, it will cease being able to function as the muscle it needs to. Daily enemas, like heavy laxative use, will liquefy what exits your body and so slowly render your rectum an inert pipe, causing the dependence.