Have you heard any suppository stories about others?

My mother told me once that my older sister got very constipated when she was almost two,because she gave my sister two much food. She didn't go for 4 days and she cried often and said something like 'mommy can't poo poo'. Then my grandmother said my mother give her a suppository,made from a cabage talo wet with olive oil. She said she put my sister in bed on her back and her butt over the diaper. Then my mother lifted her legs and stimulated her anus with the suppository. My sister cried,my mother said it was a hard one and had to help her by pushing her legs up her belly. She finally pooped and was very relieved.

This is interesting - how did the cabbage work? Does it contain some chemical that irritates and/or lubricates the anus? And how safe is it?

All my life the only good homemade remedy I've known about has been the soapstick. Is this a reasonable alternative?

I have used a soap stick up my bum when I have run out of suppositories.

I think the trick is not the cabbage but the olive oil 😃 It's something common in Spain, to stimulate a constipated kid's rectum with a rectal thermometer wet in olive oil 😉

The trick with a lubricated thermometer was used on me when I was little! Too young to remember it but my mom mentioned it when I was much older...

Cabbage might just have been a relativey soft "holder" of the oil.