Have you ever had a colonic irrigation or colon hydrothotherapy?

Yes, I've had both open and closed. I prefer the closed system. I get them occasionally and sometimes if it's been awhile I'll get a series where I might schedule 1 per week for 3 or 4 weeks.

I have, many years ago, and knew right away it's not for me. A relaxed and stimulating enema session with a like-minded partner is where it's at for me.

I've had a few colonics, all with the "open" system. Although effective at cleaning the pipes, I found them too clinical. I prefer a series of long slow relaxing enemas with stimulating nozzles and some masturbation.

My gastroenterologist said that there is no medical benefit to a colonic irrigation. That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed the one I had in Sedona, Arizona. Given all the new age vibes in Sedona, it just seemed like an appropriate place for my first colonic.

When I arrived for my appointment, she gave me a pair of white boxers with a hole in the back to wear for the procedure. She used a closed system. I made sure of that when I booked the appointment. Of course I enjoyed the speculum insertion. She pumped water in and out of my colon a number of times and I could see what was coming out of me in a glass tube. I told her when I started cramping and she would stop and wait until it's subsided and then continued. I'm not sure how long the procedure took perhaps 45 minutes, plus sometime for getting dressed and undressed and processing my credit card, about an hour all together.

It's hard to describe the feeling after I left but there's an old word from the'60s that seems to work. I felt "groovy", a little bit like I feel after a massage. If there were a practitioner in this area with a closed system I would do it again.

I had many colonics from several different people years ago. I think these are all gone now.

These were incredible experiences, but they were not even remotely sexual. They boarded on spiritual, and I had some incredibly psychic type experiences, but that is not happened in any other context. The woman giving the colonics in both cases, expected it to happen and said many people came to her just for this reason. She was very unclear initially, but then talked about spiritual issues and the body being clear.

I had one experience that was just so incredible. I can't even really think about it but that's not the reason I was going to them. I had developed what was then called chronic fatigue syndrome. And my naturalopath wanted me to take them. He was actually a licensed chiropractor, but had gone to medical school in Russia for a while and became well-versed in all sorts of alternative things.

Yes, I said, I think these people are all gone now. It seems there was some rule that the government was using to outlaw them. The only ones that really worked for me were the "closed" system ones. The others were just really enemas..

As the previous post said, regular medical doctors had no knowledge of these and would tell you that they were bad.

I just saw that at @Running7 posted that they had gotten recent closed system colonic.

I didn't think there were any of those left, at least in the Dallas Texas greater area. I think there might be some state of Texas problem.

Can you tell me where these people you go to are located?

Thank you!

@jpfamg My favourite colonic hydrotherapist, Sue the Twinkling Granny, is a committed Catholic. A treatment by her was a physical and spiritual cleansing event. Amazing

I have not but would like to try. Unfortunately, those clinics are not common around the Greater Boston area

@DocTemplar

You may want to check out these places:

Refresh Wellness – Brookline, MA

A wellness center offering colon hydrotherapy with emphasis on comfort and a safe, hygienic closed system experience.

Inner Health Colonic Hydrotherapy – Mansfield, MA

Medical spa providing professional colon hydrotherapy (closed-system style sessions) to Boston area residents.

Internal Wellness Center – Braintree, MA

Offers colon hydrotherapy services; check with provider for specific closed system details.

Healthy Spirit Cleansing - Colon Hydrotherapy – Lexington, MA

Certified provider using an FDA-registered closed pressure system per their practice description.

Hope this helps.

I created a very simple system to make a sort of hydrocolon. I purchased the blue speculum (the one with the balloon) from medtech3000.de and connected it to a 25 liter tank that I can use either with an immersion pump (a 12V camper pump) if I want more pressure, or by gravity, placing the tank on the bookcase. The drain, with a valve to open and close, is connected to a closed 30 liter bin to which a 6mm tube is connected, with a John Guest fitting, which takes the outgoing odors to an activated carbon filter; this way no odor in the room. Although it is fantastic, I use it very rarely because I have to keep it in the cellar, every time assemble everything and, above all, then dismantle it, empty the tank, clean everything and take it back to the cellar. For this reason I can only do it when I am sure that none of the children can suddenly come home and when I have the opportunity to enjoy "the after" without having to dismantle everything immediately. The best is when my wife manages everything (not assembly and disassembly) who, moreover, is tempted but can't bring herself to try.

As I write I'm thinking that I have to find a way to bring everything into the bathroom and connect the drain directly to the toilet. This way I would no longer eliminate odors, but I could use more water and, above all, do it much more often. I have to think about it...

I’ve made a home colonic set that I’ve tried now with a few friends. It consists of the following:

- Earthlite Avalon XD folding tilting massage table

- stainless Waterdrop 3-stage filtration system and all associated adapters to hook it up to a shower

- 5L Optimal Health Network silicone enema bag

- 3/4” ID x 1” OD latex tubing

- A section of 3/4” clear schedule 40 PVC as the viewing tube

- A few PVC barbs and a ball valve to control releases

- A folding Sitz bath which sits in the toilet bowl. I’ve fitted this with a rubber 1.26” to 0.98” reducer that fits into a hole in the center. Through this, the waste tubing is threaded, and that exits into the toilet below the water line. If you push the waste tubing further down the toilet into the trap area, expelled waste will actually flow all the way down the drain without flushing the toilet and without any smell. This has worked quite well in the two women’s homes I’ve tried this setup in, provided of course that the massage table fits in the bathroom and the shower and toilet are both close enough.

This system allows the administration of in-home gravity colonics using the filtered water from the shower to refill the bag continuously or nearly so. It’s a bit to manage with the somewhat small 5 liter capacity, but generally it’s enough for one large or two to three smaller fills. As an advantage, there’s no risk of over-pressurizing the colon in this system, as only gravity is providing the pressure. It also allows both myself and the woman receiving the colonic to see how much they’ve taken in a fill. It’s also easy to add additives like chlorophyll, coffee, tudca, MSM, heal-all, ginseng, NAC, etc right to the colonic solution given the open-top nature of the fountain syringe enema bag.

I’ve had good results with this system and though I currently just do this for free in my spare time, I’m considering getting I-ACT certified and doing it professionally. As far as I know, no one else offers in-home colonics or even enema series.

I’ve just been sanitizing it by scrubbing with Hibiclens, but I definitely see the appeal in a disposable speculum and waste tubing. The metal and latex work better IMO though, especially since the latex waste tubing can be manually pumped with a hand, and you can really feel what her colon is doing with your hand on it. On our last session, I could feel her heart beating in the waste tubing, granted she was fairly excited. Pumping it to stimulate peristalsis is quite fun though, and since you can feel everything, the releases are almost as satisfying for me as they are for them.

I’ll try to grab some photos of the next session with this setup.

YES, several times - and I liked it

@faultless50

Thank you, I will investigate them.

Michigan - I enjoy getting an occasional colonic. I got the courage to first go at 19. I was super nervous, but thrilled. I prefer the closed system as it actually cleans me out by pushing water in and making me hold it for while. I don't like the open system as in my experience the water just keeps running out. The best colonic I got was a gravity colonic where the therapist used and older style metal speculum that was sanitized between patients. Sometimes I'd think about how many butts the speculum was used on loll

I have had numerous colonics over the years. Very relaxing and enjoyable. I used to go to a lady who did colonics out of her home. She gave the absolute best colonic, and very reasonable. If you are scheduling a colonic make sure it's for the closed system, in my opinion much more effective than the open system.

Yes many years ago . It was pleasant and relaxing but not an erotic experience. I was given a nice massage afterwards.

I have recently been going for colonics to deal with the constipation caused by a GLP-1 medication.

My local place uses the open style Libbe machine. I find that I do better when the water is 102-103 degrees F and I have figured out that I am taking about 3.5-4.5L per fill after the first few fills which simply clean out the lower bowel.

I always feel better after the session and I notice that things are moving better now, but still not perfectly.

My colonic hydro therapist recommended doing 12 sessions over a period of 3-4 months to see how that improves things, then we can make a plan after that. I just did session 6 last weekend and I can tell a difference already.

I used to enjoy the occasional colonic and the lady that I went to would sometimes use my bag to give me an enema prior to the colonic. We talked a lot about enemas and she was a frequent user herself. She eventually got out of the colonic business and moved on to other naturopathic stuff that I didn't care for. She sold her equipment to another lady who didn't have an interest in the added bonus of enemas, and the prices went up, much more than I thought was reasonable. In fact, everyone around here increased their prices, so that was the end of colonics for me.

Twice with a closed system. The lady was not too involved it seemed and I didn't consider them erotic.

I just received my first colon hydrotherapy session. I use enemas for health and eroticism but haven’t been doing them much recently due to living with others so there’s less privacy in the bathroom.

I have been traveling for the past week and got super off so I booked one in Berlin with a lovely naturopath named Monika Graf. I would highly recommend her. She’s been doing the work for 30 years now and is very gentle and skilled at using massage to evacuate stool during the procedure.

I enjoyed the experience as a cleanse. It was quite pleasant and seems to have help reset my dysbiosis a bit which is great. However it was not very erotic which I personally didn’t mind. She was very proactive about keeping me covered and there was no invitation to remove my shirt or anything of that sort. She did allow me half an hour of privacy with a hot water bottle resting on my abdomen which was very nice.

The only thing I wished for more was the ability to know how much volume each fill was injecting. I didn’t want to push things too far given the pressure of a closed system, but I would like to push my limits of capacity in the future.

She recommended I do maintenance colonics once of twice a year if that felt right for me and I think that I’ll start including that in my health regimen. It’s a shame I won’t be back in Berlin though. She knew what she was doing and I highly recommend her to anyone looking.

@GraceT with respect to your question about colon hydrotherapy being supported by studies, there are some studies out, but it’s definitely an under-studied treatment modality as are enemas in general. As the gut microbiome becomes more of a focus of research, I hope that interventions like this also become more sought-after and the work is done to establish their benefits (and risks) more concretely.

Here I have included some links to studies and publications on this in the literature. Many of them are very recent. The last one is a study that is still ongoing at this time. These studies specifically focus on constipation and colonoscopy prep.

https://www.mdpi.com/2624-5647/8/1/6

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11922272/

https://ichgcp.net/clinical-trials-registry/NCT06438068

I frequently check for new trials to participate in. It would be a dream of mine to participate in a trial like this, receiving free colon hydrotherapy or enemas and (hopefully) demonstrating their benefits for the medical community so that they can become more prevalent again.

@pgculp So interesting! I have also been reading papers recently and also found your first link, "Usefulness of Transanal Irrigation and Colon Hydrotherapy in the Treatment of Chronic Constipation and Beyond: A Review with New Perspectives for Bio-Integrated Medicine". Here are some others I found really interesting recently:

The tip of the iceberg of colorectal perforation from enema: a systematic review and meta‑analysis - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Piergiorgio-Fedeli/publication/342942041_The_tip_of_the_iceberg_of_colorectal_perforation_from_enema_a_systematic_review_and_meta-analysis/links/5f2516cd92851cd302cea1e9/The-tip-of-the-iceberg-of-colorectal-perforation-from-enema-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis.pdf

Long-Term Outcome and Safety of Transanal Irrigation for Constipation and Fecal Incontinence - https://web.archive.org/web/20190223084709id_/http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4c94/10b67e0c6dfc1c730aba6d7ef40207041253.pdf

Consensus review of best practice of transanal irrigation in adults - https://www.nature.com/articles/sc201386

@loolay I’m really enjoying some of these. Let’s create a new thread with recent literature on TAI/enemas/colon hydrotherapy in medicine!

I enjoyed these as well. Thanks to both @loolay and @pgculp for the links. I was particularly interested in the paper which explored the use of TAI to treat adults with chronic constipation. I have decades-long slow transit constipation and have always though that TAI every other day might be the long term solution to the problem.

Yes, I had one at a location in New Braunfels, TX. Closed system aqua cleanse. Keep trying to post photos of my therapy sesh on here but idk if it blocks be for not being a bonus group member.

Even got a coffee enema via an infusion tube.

I highly recommend Moya Body Care in Torrence, California. The session starts with an essential oil back rub and then the speculum is expertly inserted and colonic begins under steam and red light therapy. Truly a magical moment for me. If you decide to follow up tell Dr. Mo that Phil sent you.