Long-term Use of Enemas

I've used recreational enemas for over 50 years as recreation and sexual stimulation, especially as I've become older (now 67) for orgasm stimulation. I used 2-2.5 quarts for decades and in the last few years have increased to 4-4.5 q occasionally as much as 5 one time, held for 30-60 minutes, with never any problems but I've also been very careful not to ever induce any pain. And no increase in my known IBS and diverticula disease. I hope to continue for several years to come.

Eric

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You can OVERDO absolutely ANYTHING!

More than anything you need to have a break between enemas.

Several days at least of enema-free bowel movements. Don't have to be large.

can't help but think things stretch out over time.

My first-hand experience is that this is true. When I was 20, 2 quarts was about all I could take. In my 40s, I crossed the gallon mark. Now at 61, I can take almost 7 quarts. A few years ago a doctor commented about a sonogram that I must have had an awful lot of severe constipation and, since that's not true, I can only assume that his comment was based on distension.

My first-hand experience is that this is true. When I was 20, 2 quarts was about all I could take. In my 40s, I crossed the gallon mark. Now at 61, I can take almost 7 quarts. A few years ago a doctor commented about a sonogram that I must have had an awful lot of severe constipation and, since that's not true, I can only assume that his comment was based on distension.

Alachua,

I'm not sure it stretches much by itself. You may be like me, in that after joining Zity I gradually increased my enema bag size from 2.5 to over 4 quarts, and up to 5 quarts just one time. However, I gradually increased my enema intake size over a few weeks to be sure I was comfortable and not causing any pain or other ill effects. 4 quarts is now my usual volume which is very comfortable but does give me a lot of enjoyable pressure and distention without pain.

Eric

The important thing is that you get some days of normal movement without any enemas or laxatives between enema sessions.

I totally agree with Lisa K, you shouldn’t let enemas determine your bowel movements. They should be natural and not become enema dependent! I’m no doc, however mom was a registered nurse and said the same thing.

I went for long spells using enemas exclusively for BM's. My dependency was simply the result of my love of enemas. No problems when I stopped; returned to normal. Sometimes I'd get hemorrhoids from all the time spent sitting, and then I'd have to stop.

I have been using enemas for all my life … 68 years and I can honestly say that if I don’t take an enema for 3 days, I will have a bowel movement. That was not the case 40’years ago.

you shouldn’t let enemas determine your bowel movements. They should be natural and not become enema dependent!

Funny thing, that is exactly what I wanted to happen (become totally enema dependent) but try as I would, it never happened.

I’ve been given or taken enemas for over seventy years and have never had an issue with normal bowel movements in between enemas. When my siblings an I were teenagers, we gave each other enemas two or three times a week from Junior High School through the end of High School. Not once did any of us have an issue with going normally. After High School my enema usage went way down until I got out of service. When I returned home and started college, my enema usage pickup a little, but no where near the level it was at as a teenager. It wasn’t until I got married in my late twenties, did my enema usage pickup again to the level it was at during High School. It remained at that level for the next five or six years, only slowing down once we had kids. With two kids, we simply didn’t have time an our usage dropped to a couple of times a month or as needed, where it remains today.

I am 80 now , have been getting enemas since about 10 years old . About a quart and a half has been my volume most all my life . With help from my current health aide who gives about a pint , as first warm up enema , can sometimes coax 2 quarts in , on second try , its usually bout quart and a half , that's the way it always been for me , Have never had any bad enema issues outside a cramp or two . Relief of tension is main goal , and that works quite well for me . Everybody is different , its not a competition !!!!!

My colon therapist has told me she has some clients who are only able to move their bowels on the colonic table. They simply cannot poop on their own. Don't know if this was simply a bowel problem or something brought on my too many enemas/colonics. Suspect the former.

I've often mentioned how my taking lots of very strong Ivory and other soap enemas never caused a physical dependency - I'd be back to normal once I stopped. But in the last couple of years I would be lost without my shower enema attachment as I'm unable to go without help from it. I attribute this to having a large hernia that has rearrange my colon.

I agree with Lisa K that you should have a break. I do only because my wife gives me my enemas and she doesn't like doing it more than once a week and I'm fine with that. There have been times where I've talked her into doing twice in a week but not very often. I use the enemas for an explosion orgasm and by waiting a week in between makes it all the more pleasurable.

The OP asked…

Just wondering if you can damage yourself taking large enemas, like making your intestines explode or something. Anyone ever had a bad experience?

I would guess that continual use of excessively large enema quantities could stretch ones colon. Possibly making it not function as nature intended.

My sub can only take just under 3 quarts when pushed. It isn't a normal amount, which is 2 quarts, but a very rare amount. It is just not something is comfortable taking.

So I have no desire, nor feel any need, to find out how many quarts does it take to blow out his bowels.

@Missshinypants I would guess that continual use of excessively large enema quantities could stretch ones colon. Possibly making it not function as nature intended.

This is what I thought I might be causing with all the enemas (often 4 times a week) I was doing - so before my colonoscopy I tried to ask my doc about this, but he didn't say anything; as if he didn't hear or understand what I asking. So I dropped the subject. Since there was no mention after the colonoscopy of my having a “mega-colon” I figured my worry about stretching was unfounded.

For 35 years I took two enemas a month. Once I went thru menopause I cut it to once per month since PMS was no longer an issue. I've never had any adverse effects, but also believe that it would be possible to overdo things if you did an enema too frequently.

For 35 years I took two enemas a month. Once I went thru menopause I cut it to once per month since PMS was no longer an issue. I've never had any adverse effects, but also believe that it would be possible to overdo things if you did an enema too frequently.

I tend to agree that more than 2 or 3 in a week is too much but there are many here who do them daily with seemingly no ill effects.

I tend to agree that more than 2 or 3 in a week is too much but there are many here who do them daily with seemingly no ill effects.

Having gone on binges of 3 or more times a week - the problem I did run into was with hemorrhoids from sitting for so longs and expelling - that would then limit my use.

I have been giving and taking for over 40 years. Even on heavy play weeks I have never had an issue. Heavy play weeks for me is like 10 enemas over a weekend and a couple more per day during the week.

My issue is more psychological. I now have such a proclivity for enemas that it sometimes consumes my thoughts all day, especially if I know there will be enema play that night or during the upcoming days.

The colon is a muscle - it stretches every day with bowel material and retracts back to normal like any other muscle in your body that you stretch. More than 2-3 enemas per week is probably more of a “want” than a “need”. Happy flushing!!!

While the intestine IS a muscle, and can stretch and return to shape, there IS a limit to how much it can really do. If you over stretch it, it never goes back to where it was before.

An example would be the lower abdominals during pregnancy and the vaginal muscles during labor and delivery.

Both will go back to fully FUNCTIONAL again, but they are never the SAME! There is a part of the distention there that never goes away!!

This is WHY in most women with children shapewear is part of the normal wardrobe.

Both will go back to fully FUNCTIONAL again, but they are never the SAME! There is a part of the distention there that never goes away!!

I often thought that my mother who love enemas and did them so much so that her belly became constantly distended. Despite her dieting and otherwise good shape, her belly was disproportionate. I have the same problem of a beer belly; not from drinking but from many, many large enemas over the years…

It seems that the original post was asking more about frequent large volume enemas more than just frequent enemas of smaller size. I think that many smaller enemas might tend to make the colon more dependent on them for moving roughage along and evacuating it. The effects of high volumes possibly stretching things out should be a separate discussion. The body reacts differently to each.

It seems that the original post was asking more about frequent large volume enemas more than just frequent enemas of smaller size.

I do wonder if my using large, four quart enemas, might have in some way resulted in starting my inguinal hernia…

@reddevil said,

I do wonder if my using large, four quart enemas, might have in some way resulted in starting my inguinal hernia…

I got my first two quart enema the summer I turned nine, when grandma gave me and my brother two 3H enemas each. She got me first one afternoon, then my brother the next afternoon. First was a two quart Ivory soap enema using a 24 inch colon tube completely buried in my colon. Second was a salt and baking soda rinse a little larger than the first two quart soapy enema. For the rinse enema, she used a curved douche nozzle with a bulbous head. Making this the largest enema I’d ever received to date, and the first time grandma used the douche nozzle to give me an enema. Over the next four years my siblings and I received 3H enemas from our RN grandmother at least twice a year. After she taught us personal hygiene and enemas became our responsibility. Our enema usage went from three or four times a month, when mom or grandma gave them to us. Too two or three times a week, when we gave them to ourselves or each other from Junior High through High School.

For the next nine years my enema usage was very little, only the occasionally enema when I was home or at my grandmothers. It wasn’t until I got married, that my enema usage went backup to the level it was at as a teenager. The average enema my siblings an I or my girlfriend an I did as teenagers was 2 to 2½ quarts. Once married, the average enema was 2½ to 3 quarts and remained there for the next five years until we had kids. When it dropped to three or four times a month along with the average quantity dropping back to 2½ quarts, where it remains to this day.

Over the years I’ve taken enemas anywhere from 1½ to 3½ quarts and never had any issues what-so-ever. After I’ve take two or three enemas to clean myself out, I’ve always had a normal BM within 36 hours. There have been a number of times, I’d take two or three enemas daily for five straight days an again, never an issue returning to normal within a day or so.