When Travelling?

After initially filling the bulb syringe, squeeze it holding the nozzle up until water comes out then immerse it to fill it completely

After travelling is a necessity, I often feel a bit bloated and not quite right after overindulging in different food.

If I travel for anything longer than a week I pack the enema bag in the checked suitcase, I learnt the hard way after becoming constipated in Spain and only being able to get a stupid fleet disposable at the pharmacy.

Thank you @alberto6536! Of course, no sooner had I researched techniques, assembled my bulb, and begun its initial fill than I heard my husband return from the gym.

You wouldn’t know it from reading my posts here among friends, but I remain quite embarrassed to take enemas within earshot of my non-enema-afficionado husband. And by “quite embarrassed,” I mean “truly horrified.” I would need to be in serious pain to do that.

Given my very dull stomachache, my husband’s return, and our need to meet family for a timed museum ticket, I simply emptied out my bulb without using it.

But I appreciate the advice on the double fill technique and can hopefully get going with it sooner tomorrow. Days of my inability to resist German and now Dutch cheese are creating a situation.

@novot01a: One thing I noticed is that in Japan and China you could buy fig enemas which consisted of an ampule filled with glycerin everywhere. They were actually called enemas. I heard that young women actually carry them in their purses for instant relief.

The first time I went to Singapore the trip took 25 hours including connections plus being half way around the world it was the 12 hour time change which really upsets BM schedules. On my very first trip this backed me up and to get relief I went to what I can only describe as a medicine stall which was an amazingly tiny place in a corner of a shopping center. Surprisingly they sold red combination syringes but instead I bought a package of those glycerine figs and wow! do those things really work. Fast too! I bought and used those every trip over the course of 6 years.

I was in LA for a trade show where I was to give a presentation before a large group of professions. I had flown across 4 time zones. I was nervous about giving the presentation. The evening before the presentation I realized that I hadn't voided for two days. I couldn't find anything in the hotel shop other than Ex lax, which was out of the questions. I grabbed a bottle of pills, poured them out on the dresser, called the concierge, told him that I was out of allergy pills and needed to go to a pharmacy. He arranged for the hotel limo to drive me to a pharmacy, where I bought a travel syringe. When I got back to my room, I gave myself an enema back at the hotel and the presentation went off without a snag. Since then, the syringe is a permanent fixture in my suitcase.

Seems like I'm frequently looking back in time to my younger days when enema equipment was more commonly available, but here I am again. Many, many a trip that included a hotel stay began with a side venture to the nearest Walmart where a Cara combination enema kit could be purchased for less than $5. Sure it came with the crumby white ribbed plastic hose, but the convenience and availability of provisioning my enema habit with no more effort than picking up some toothpaste or shoelaces was a solid winner! ...and when it comes time to head home, (in deference to MsLog who might help unpack), everything can just head to the local trash. Anyone that travels has wasted $5.00 on far less entertaining activity! Far less!

Sadly, a trip out to locate an enema kit, in an unfamiliar town today could turn into a entire afternoon's project and still leave you sitting in your room with nothing more than a hungry feeling in your butt.

@ddell2: Since then, the syringe is a permanent fixture in my suitcase.

Yes, that inexpensive folding bag got packed for many years. We no longer travel like we used to and I suspect that the syringe is stored in a box in the attic at this point. All of my enemas these days are either from a regular bag or an enema can and we have both at home and the lake house.

SweetestRelief:

I know it won't help your immediate situation, but try a disposable enema bag, like the ones shown below on Amazon. They used to be sold in any drug store as a Fleet Disposable enema bag but I don't think they are made by Fleet or sold in drugstores anymore. You could buy these and have them delivered to an Amazon drop box if you don't want them delivered to your home. They are great for travel since they are totally flat in your luggage. My wife travelled overseas by herself and I bought some and sent a couple with her. She thanked me when she returned since she used one for travelers constipation on the trip.

https://www.amazon.com/Enema-bags-Kit-pack-4/dp/B072BQWZ4R/ref=sr_1_3?crid=39Q5514RUKAHY&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.h4tilp3VX3VUmE3mZv5YG-twYN6h4nebiuM2gByJhRf9xu0JYM-3IIQOaw5u7BgpQ-0c4yvGRVREG6U3qTtnjCQBa8f_Y4Evf9RgDPyAxaION-IvwalMsr2PvEWW77SPkMEzMKHppdEiLXZLKyxwNxHHbpV43vFGCEel7QRdG2XibYRX8cbFc5pKH159cz5e3UKa3dWmwHGL4H4k4W2v2kCWfUW6EOVYqRpwwjO2mIDY0W-2EJ-nVIbiIoZzhwnTtTStiZ9aW8v9455yUR6_KyGKujv8tnxo6iEkKZgo18A.WrxqPVzJZJ04tBw1p6MTA5-GanS9upJxKSFn-crD2pA&dib_tag=se&keywords=disposable+enema+bags+for+colon+cleanse+for+women&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1787064784&sprefix=disposable+enema+bag%2Caps%2C212&sr=8-3

It depends on the type of trip, the duration, whether I’m traveling alone, and whether I’m flying...

Usually, if I’m not flying, I bring my bulb syringe along (I’d rather not have to open my suitcase at the airport...). If I can’t bring it, I take suppositories or buy them at my destination.

I usually give myself an enema before leaving—sometimes even multiple times in the days leading up to the trip.

If you ever travel by bus any long distance that will really screw up your innards and sometimes by train too!

I always take enema gear with me when traveling. The red/orange colon tubes have radioopaque dye in them so they can be located by X-ray if they break off inside, so will show up on the TSA X-ray gear, but who cares? They have seen it all, for sure. The big problem is where to hang the bag in hotel rooms.

Jon

I’ve never traveled with anything like that, but I would imagine that you might get extra scrutiny from customs and airport security, in some cases., if you’re flying. On an X-ray machine, even coffee will raise a red flag.

Going off at an angle years back I had to replace a valve guide on my 1971 Triumph motorcycle & on a whim drilled a hole in the old one so I could use it as a key ring. A machined piece of bronze an inch & a half long with a 5/16" hole through the middle it didn't exactly look like ammo, a weapon of destruction, or anything but the fuss airport security made! Same time a load of orthopaedic steelwork in my leg set off the less discerning metal detectors of the time. I know you're supposed to keep cool in these situations but eventually I blurted out "Look keep or bin the key ring if you want. I'll walk through your detector naked as well but it won't make any difference!!! Not sure what happened next but they just suddenly lost interest & waved me through...

When I traveled I always took an enema bag with me. A few enemas in the hotel room was always very enjoyable.

When I traveled for work, I either took a bag or found a local drug store and bought one. I love to privacy of a hotel room and often took up to 3 2-quart enemas a night. When I was checking out, I’d leave it in the trashcan in the ice/vending room. I sincerely miss traveling like that now that I’m retired.

Just reporting back that even with good instructions I am a D- student of the hotel shower self-administered bulb enema. I’m still incredibly grateful I packed a bulb and finally had privacy to use it in.

Somehow I managed to inject a lot of air from some secret reservoir in the bulb, the process was a slightly undignified mess, I wasn’t able to fill much beyond my sigmoid, and the resulting expulsion only just cleared my rectum.

I’m assuming one needs a larger water reservoir and to really smash the stuffing out of the bulb between fillings. I wasn’t comfortable using our rather dirty sink so worked with a small water glass, and I thought I’d compressed the bulb enough.

Cramps had started and this will let me soldier on for at least another day, but you can imagine I’m plotting a personal enema-palooza the moment my can and I reunite.

The can and Higginson are light enough that I resolve to once again bring them on every trip. There’s no worry about hanging a bag, and it’s rare I don’t check a suitcase.

@Emom

@ddell2: Since then, the syringe is a permanent fixture in my suitcase.

It's like my Americn Express. I don't leave home with it. lol

Each year i have from 5 to 15 trips that are mostly mixed business and recreation. Sometimes it is pure outdoor sortie. I really don't know what i hates more: using WCs in public places (gas stations, airports, ...) or using bushes as a WC. Moreover that slowly creeping toilet urge is very annoying for me.

So there is a planned rendezvous with enema bag before each travel. It is usually something like 3 liter of hot water with salt and soap. It gives me that exact flush that completes in 1-2 visits to a toilet.

For 1-2 days trips it is usually enough. For a longer trips i care about good hotel with good WC even eagerer.

During the travel itself i prefer not to use enemas, even while it is feels excitingly kinky.

So i don't take enema equipment with me. I find the bulbs not very usable, at least in solo. And reasonable size kit is large and can attract attention that i don't need.

From time to times i arrive home quite constipated.

But most of the times just after i came home i became much more relaxed and body does it things quicker than i decided to have an enema.