@Moms_Egirl what a lousy experience; I’m so sorry you had to go through that.
I haven’t had a similar experience because I’ve never trusted any of my physicians with that info, which means we also don’t discuss my IBS.
Ideally I’d like help identifying more of my trigger foods and beverages because I don’t have things managed 100% with enemas, but I strongly suspect I’d leave with a lecture not to take enemas and prescriptions I don’t want.
In the meantime I have learned on my own to avoid diet drinks sweetened with sugar alcohols (for me, two in one day is the path to abdominal pain so intense that I would have thought it could only be triggered by some cause requiring surgery!) and I suspect that wasabi, radishes, and mustard might worsen if not create flares.
I’ve had a clean CT during a long-ago flare we all thought was appendicitis, and I’ve recently had an unremarkable colonoscopy, so I have high confidence whatever happens to me is purely functional.
Meanwhile I’m still working with my physician to try to solve more pressing issues with silent reflux that can ruin my sleep and irritate my respiratory tract, and we haven’t fixed that at all. So far the lifestyle changes recommended by people on Reddit have been more helpful than the drugs we’ve tried.
We also discovered I’m hypertensive and are in the process of controlling that with medications and lifestyle changes on my part. The encounter system of medicine seems to force clinicians to work on one problem at once, and something I can mostly manage with enemas hasn’t risen to my “one problem” level.
So, while I don’t avoid medical care or drugs that work when I need them, I would only tell a physician I took enemas if I’d somehow injured myself taking one and it became need-to-know info.
No one could convince me enemas are just a fad at this point—for me they’re an essential path out of pain and discomfort, with a side benefit that they can also be fun when administered by a partner.