Around age 5 or 6 I suffered from constipation and was prescribed suppositories.
Initially I had kept it hidden from my parents and eventually reached a point where, after a long while without a bowel movement, I found myself needing to go but the monster shit inside me felt like it was tearing me in half. After several minutes of alternating between desperately trying to get this thing out of me and desperately trying to hold it back, my crying alerted my mum. She held me and encouraged me to get it out, and after seeing the size of it, immediately made an emergency appointment with the doctor.
Doctor checked me over, determined that the damage wasn't too serious but I was still quite backed up. She gave me a suppository then and there, and we left with a prescription for one a day. I remember being nervous to have anything inside me as I was still sore but the doctor was very kind and gentle with me.
I don't recall how long my mum was giving me suppositories at home. Every evening she'd summon me to her bedroom, I'd drop my underwear and lay face down on the bed, she would part my cheeks and insert it.
The consequence of keeping my constipation hidden so long was that the next several years I had to tell my mum every time I went for a poo and she would go to the toilet to check. The next time, she caught it early and we managed it at home through diet, which I sulked and complained about until she informed me that the alternative was going back to the doctor for more suppositories. Then I shut up and ate my prunes.