Expelling Question - Enema getting "stuck"

This is why I don't take plain water enemas. Plain water gets stuck in me for up to 3 hours. Using soap will get stuck but only for a few minutes and only the first 2 enemas. After that, soap enemas come out quickly.

You can also do a small enema of cold water and this will usually make everything release.

One or two or more air enemas with an 8 ounce bulb can also do the trick.

Sometimes just moving around helps my sub to get a stuck enema moving. It doesn't have to be strenuous, just walking around the house can help.

My colon and rectum are bit difficult because they're so sensitive to irritation from enema chemicals or repeated nozzle/filling/expulsion cycles. However, in this respect on this thread, it's pretty reliable and easy. All I have to do if an enema feels stuck is to get up from the commode and just walk around the house, sometimes as little as walking around the bathroom. It almost immediately makes me run back to the commode to release the next gush of enema. I've never had to do the cold water enema to coax it out, but I might try it one of these days just because it sounds like fun.

Eric

There are times when I take a large volume "rotating enema" that the solution doesn't immediately release from the highest part of my bowel. As many have stated, it will come out at some point or be absorbed. The only down side is when I have activities to attend to and won't be near the terlet. I am careful to avoid rotating positions if I have plans for the near term.

In any case, if I need to assure a more complete evacuation, some cold water enemas, in smaller volumes, will usually trigger a complete release. I sometimes do these while seated on the toilet. A pint or two, with immediate release, usually does the trick. It is a bit more time consuming so plan your session accordingly.

On larger enemas (anything above 2 liters), whatever solution I am using has the ability to fill me through the descending colon and can begin to flow across my transverse colon if I'm in the upright (and locked) position. On my back, on my stomach, or on my knees, the enema solution may flow throughout my lower intestine. Not necessarily "filled" but liquid everywhere.

These smaller upright enemas generally clear completely or nearly so. Once above 2.5 liters, and certainly above 3 liters, the liquid will fill all areas of my lower intestine. Soap, glycerin, or soap/glycerin enemas usually are stimulative enough that most of the enema will be emptied on its own. Part of the reason for those solutions are the reactive and stimulating effects on the colon muscles. Using water or baking soda enemas may have some retention and require a little massaging of my abdomen to push the enema back towards my rectum.

Only rarely does a large volume refuse to empty. It gradually will either be absorbed and then taken out as urine or will drain out with some help of massage. I recently had a 3.6 liter baking soda enema that was the rinse for a soapy enema. After pulling "the plug" by deflating the plug inflated in my rectum, only a small amount was draining out of me. About 3 liters were held up inside me. Most of it drained in about an hour although there was still about a liter held in my ascending colon and part of my transverse colon. Allow enough time to thoroughly drain.

EnemaRunner,

Sounds like fun, but I hope you didn't have a race you needed to empty out for.

Eric

When this happens with a high volume enema, you can keep your hips facing forward and twist your shoulders to the left, then back to the right a time or two. Often, that will let the splenic and hepatic flexures "open" and release water from the ascending and transverse sections.

EnemaRunner,

Sounds like fun, but I hope you didn't have a race you needed to empty out for.

Eric

No, I try to keep my my volumes and run/race times from interfering with each other.

When this happens with a high volume enema, you can keep your hips facing forward and twist your shoulders to the left, then back to the right a time or two. Often, that will let the splenic and hepatic flexures "open" and release water from the ascending and transverse sections.

You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around. That's what it's all about.

I also get my enema "stuck" with a 4-quart enema. One would not think so but it does happen. With one gallon of water up my ass, one would think that it would all come out at once. It doesn't happen that way. I might on the can for 30 minutes....knowing that I had more to expel. I just give up and I expel it in the morning. Perhaps several times in the morning. I never get all of the water out after the enema. I enjoy getting it better than expelling it. I think that my wife is going to give me a two-bagger tonight.

Just like there are some times when I can't get much in before it needs to come out, there are times when the enema won't come out when I want it to. It is impossible to predict, but it seems to me the times it doesn't want to come out clean are when you don't have time to screw around waiting for it. As a teenager experimenting by giving myself enemas, there were two times when the enema not coming out clean and quickly resulted in my mom knowing exactly what was going on.

The first was when I was twelve. Mom went shopping and I stayed home alone. I decided to give myself an enema and I had a lot in me when I heard her come home, much earlier than I expected. Mom started calling for me and I answered that I was in the bathroom. I tried to push as much out as I could but not much came out. I quickly put things away and went to the kitchen. While she was showing me what she had bought, my stomach started to churn and gurgle and I had to take off to the bathroom running. When I was done, mom made some joke like, "I hope everything came out alright." She knew what had just happened but was not mad, however, she did not give me any enemas after that. I guess she figured I knew how.

The second time a few years later was a disaster. My sister talked me into trying a wine enema one evening when our parents were gone. Only half of my wine and water mix was out when they came home. A few minutes after I had gone to my room it started coming out, leaving a red trail on my way to the toilet. Mom thought I was bleeding (red wine) so I had to admit what I did. Mom and dad were super pissed. I think I was grounded for two weeks. I did not try wine again for about twenty years.

The one aspect of enemas I enjoy the least (o, ok. Dislike!) is the delayed evacuation syndrome. There is always some left over water high up. So even with a couple of rinse rounds, I usually get another huge surge from somewhere deep up there an hour or more later on. And then I want to rinse again, but by then the equipment is all cleaned and put away.

For me, the following will cause retention:

- Too much volume. 2.5 qts is my sweet spot. I can do 4 qts, but I'll retain at least a qt of it.

- Salt. The more salt, the more retention I experience. I use nothing but plain tap water now.

- Gas. I have to do multiple fills, gradually increasing volume. This does a better job of clearing out gas pockets.