How long was your longest constipation?

How long was your longest constipation? How did you managed it?

When I was a kid my Mom kept a close check on my bowel movements. Any time I missed a day she gave me a dose of laxative at bedtime. If that didn't make me go as soon as I woke up the next morning I got a suppository pushed up my bum and if I still hadn't produced a big bowel movement in about 20 minutes she gave me a hot soapsuds enema, so the longest I was constipated was 1 day. As an adult I'll sometimes go several days without a movement and then take a laxative or sometimes a suppository or enema if I can't afford to have lingering diarrhea from a laxative.

Funny that this should come up today. I usually do not have this problem, but I have for the past 4 days. I will try a suppository and if that doesn't work an enema. I prefer enemas, but seem to never have the time or opportunity.

5-6 days. Enema, 2 liters, after unsuccessful attempts with glycerin suppositories and some oral laxative.

We had a man come into us at the hospital who had not gone in four days. We had a chair taken to the room. As we needed it closer than the bathrooms. Then we tried enemas, and suppositories to no avail. So we gave him a methylnaltrexone injection. Oh, he went. He told us to please never do that to him again, PLEASE.

@Tabitha32 He had consumed opiates?

Jacana

Yes

@tabitha Does it work or is it used for non opioid induced constipation as well?

Ten days without a bowel movement multiple times. I was 11 the first time it happened. My mother administered a tap water enema with me on my left side in the bathtub. It was about 3/4 of a bag as I recall. The enema and the resulting bowel movement were quite uncomfortable. This happened several more times in childhood and early adolescence. An enema was always given.

Eleven days. Ran a fever after 10 days. I was in so much pain, Iwasn't able to move the slightest bit.

5 days post surgical on heavy doses of opioids. Day surgery and post surgical follow-up offered no relief. Tried an enema while standing up and it didn't work. Eventually had a huge turd emerge which caused an anal fissure, which needed treatment. Swore I would never let this happen again. Now I alwys insist on inpatient procedure and make sure a soapsuds enema is part of discharge.

If I remember correctly it was three days, I was taking pain pills for a head injury. My mother gave me a SSE with little to no results so she gave me my one and only M&M enema and the results were glorious but I thought my insides were coming out along with the impacted feces. WOW! It gave a new meaning to blown away! I actually passed blood!

Being enema dependent, I normally move my bowel every morning. However when I am due for a colonic I go without. After three days I am bloated and gassy. After four I definitely need that appointment!! Five and I'm no longer capable of doing anything except wait.

The year I turned nine, my siblings and I started having more trouble than usual with constipation. Primarily, because we were holding back at school, waiting until we got home to use the bathroom. It had started a few months before school was out for the summer. So consequently, mom was having to giving us enemas more frequently. Once school was out for the summer, as normal, mom took us to grandmas for a four to six week visit. Our grandmother was a retired RN, so naturally, mom told her about the issues we’d been having. The first evening we were there, grandma had her two younger daughters give each of us a soapy followed by a rinse enema before our evening bath. A few days later, she gave each of us our first 3H enema. Then, the following evening, she had the girls give us a rinse enema before our evening bath. This routine continued every evening for the next couple of weeks, before returning to normal. Up until that point, we had always gotten enemas with an adult rectal nozzle laying naked across the girl's lap. After the 3H enema, grandma had the girls switch to a long-curved douche nozzle with a bulbous head in the knee chest position for those and any enemas going forward.

My colonic hydrotherapist tells some horrible stories. She had one new client come to her whose bowel had basically shut down. She was living on pizza and coke. My therapist said "she expected me to sort her with one session. All I could do was to start to hydrate her bowel, urge her to change her diet and book her two more colonics"

Never been constipated

@Timmypro said,

Never been constipated

You’re lucky. My grandmother was a retired Registered Nurse from the 20’s through the early 40’s. Nurses of that era used what they called a 3H enema to totally clean patients out. 3H stands for “High Hot and Helluva lot.” A regular enema nozzle isn’t used, they’re given with a 28 to 36 French colon tube 24 to 36 inches long, that’s totally inserted. And consist of one soapy and one rinse enema. For example: If a patient normally takes two-quart enemas, a 3H enema would consist of a three-quart soapy followed by a three-quart rinse enema. My first one was shortly before I turned nine, and trust me, it wasn’t any fun. However, it did exactly what it was intended to do, it totally cleared me out.

Good timing, working a forest fire for a week, not a single bm, just gas. Just got home. All plugged up, just took a suppository and three laxative pills for a start. Then will start with some small one to two quart enemas. Can't believe I gained little weight, the action should start soon, I hope. The hoseman

Rigel

It can be used to induce a BM no matter what caused the constipation. But usually, lesser means work.

Never more than 2 days as a child, My mom would give me an enema. As an adult I have gone 3 days but I an very miserable at that point, an enema always works!

Only recently for 6 days, taking terzepitide and had mild gastroparesis. My GP(who also works at that hospital) said go to the ER. They wanted to give me a SMOG enema! Say what? Excuse me nurse, what's in that exactly? SALINE,MINERAL OIL,GLYCERIN. Thanks a bunch, I can handle it frome here and ran the hell outta there. Called my GP and asked if she knew they were gonna give me an enema and she said yes, she called the ER doctor on call to prescribe it! I told her I left and did it on my own. Worked like a charm and made me miserable, i then quit the medication. She said she was mad but not as mad as I was when they wheeled in the IV pole with an overflowing enema in front of the whole ER. I made sure everyone saw me leave, cursing up a storm.

I went more than a week without pooping. I ended up in the hospital and had 3 enemas. It was horrible!

10days before decision to manually remove impaction was made

What does it take to educate people.

Human beings have to take a crap on some sort of a schedule.

When that schedule is interrupted and you do not have a bowel evacuation what the He11 do you think is happening.

And when you go to the ER what do you think they are going to do.

The crap has to come out of you before you blow up and die.

So they will shove something up your ASS most likely and hopefully that will produce the evacuation you have to have.

It is pretty simple, if you eat then at some time you have to take a crap.

If you need some help call me. And I will provide you with what is needed.

I will make house calls.

At home max 2-3 days thanks to our caring mom who was giving us glycerin suppositories and enemas if we had no poo for two days. With sister simple we had no chance to experiment how long we can keep. As per our mom's and aunt's rulebook, if no poo, the next day it was declared as constipation emergency, so the above mentioned procedures were applied. If I had to count the number of "relief" suppositories were administered I have to take a few days holiday.