Almost Nonstop Gut Growling After A Hospital Enema

Has anyone ever been given a hospital cleansing enema, like before a surgery, and experienced almost constant gut growling after it was all over? I had to have a hernia surgery when I was 14. A 30ish female CNA came to my room after my parents left and told me she needed to give me a cleansing enema. She stuck a 5" long tube the width of a Sharpie pen up my butt and squirted really warm soapy water in my bowels from a clear bag. In short, I was a sobbing mess when she got through with me. It was the most intense enema I'd ever had in my life, and my mom had given me several when I was younger. After giving me the enema, she got me calmed down and ready for bed. I felt sleepy, but my guts growled all night long. I felt like I needed to fart, but I was afraid of shitting myself in bed. I finally got up and went to the toilet. It was just air coming out.

I went back to bed. I fell asleep at some point, but woke up early in the morning to my guts still growling. I think it was the soap in the enema. She probably should've rinsed me out with that second bag.

Not my story but my hubby's. In the early seventies when he was about thirty he had hernia surgery. A few hours before the surgery he was given an enema by a cute young nurse. He liked the cute nurse part, but the enema itself was two liters of strong harsh green soap. It gave him miserable cramps and days-long lingering irritation.

Beware...those wet farts!

I have experienced the gut growling after an enema several times. Not from a hospital enema but ones that I gave to myself. It doesn’t happen all of the time and I am thinking it has more to do with what I had to eat before the enema. I don’t remember it happening with an enema that I do early in the morning but more often if I have an enema in the afternoon or evening. So, maybe it is what I had to eat for lunch or dinner. Beans or cabbage?

I have found that those bowel sounds are most noticeable after I lay down when it's quiet. My gut growls depending on my food/fluid intake. After an enema, the growling/sloshing for me is an indication of leftover fluid being moved around by peristalsis. As for a hospital enema, often times the bowel is pretty quiet after surgery/anesthesia. The enema awakens the bowel, and if soapy, can keep the bowel active. I suppose that is why it is common for a nurse or doctor to listen for bowel sounds with the stethoscope/auscultation.