Suppositories treatment for ongoing illness as a child

Has anyone had any experiences with getting medicated suppositories as treatment for an ongoing illness, as a child ?

I mean not one-off suppositories, but more like suppository treatment prescribed every x hours for some days.

I remember I got that when I had pneumonia (don't remember how old I must have been, maybe 8 - 9 years old), as home treatment. I don't remember how frequent the suppositories were meant to be administered but I remember it had become a habit, a routine if you will for those several days. And the interesting part is this: normally I would make a whole lotta fuss when it came to one-off suppositories but this time, as it had become a habit and I slowly adjusted to the idea, I don't remember making a fuss at all. Probably I came to accept the idea (or I had grown older). I remember only one instance of the "treatment", one evening my mom glanced at me smiling out of the doorway of our kitchen, and told me "it's time for your suppository, isn't it darling?". It was my queue to direct myself to her bedroom, with no fuss. I would lie down on my stomach on her big bed, with my legs dangling off at the edge. She would come a few moments later, push my pants and underwear down and insert it, after moistening the bullet with some soap, because there was no lubricant back then, and nobody had a clue that was even something that helped. But my dad, after many wailing cries of mine in the past, and probably spurred by the ordeal of having a whole suppository treatment every several hours to be received by me, told her it's wiser to moisten suppository with the soap so it slides in more easily. And so she did, and even though I don't particularly remember the burn, I do remember waiting for her to unwrap the foil, while I was face down with my bottom exposed on her bed waiting for the inevitable . . .

Did anybody else experience getting suppositories as a child as part of an ongoing treatment (like having a suppository every several hours or so) ?

Just curious if it was only me that got used to the idea (maybe that was even the time I started liking it but not fully aware of it, not sure), or if it's a normal effect, like with anything else, we get used to anything.

. . . and the reason you couldn't tale a pill is . . . ? ? ? ?

Nope never did for myself but my cousin who was about two at the time she got extremly dehydrated, the doc prescribed a suppository regiment for her dont know why but that's what they gave her.

Suppositories for other things than constipation were, unfortunately for me, popular in France 35 years ago, especially for treating children.

I recall being given over-the-counter and prescription suppositories. I recall the prescription because I once made a face at the doctors when she announced the list of medications on the prescription and there were suppositories. My mother and the doctor smiled at me benignly and I still got them.

The ones I recall best were those for throat ache. They contained eucalyptus and other pungent herbal extracts. They stung a bit in the rectum! I would I thing get two or three within a day (morning, after lunch, bed-time) depending on whether I ate lunch at home, until the throat situation improved. I hated them.

Switchablesusie: I have a very, very vague of having gastroenteritis and being given something like aspirin or acetaminophen rectally because I was throwing up. That may be also her case.

Yes, for nausea or vomiting, suppositories are often given every 4 to 6 hours. So if one had a stomach virus, as I did, I received many suppositories over a few days.

@PecanNutjob: how do "eucalyptus and other pungent herbal extract" suppositories help your throat????

Soooooo tempted 😁

@That_Australian: so was I, but I thought better of it.

Lots of potential there, though.

Rijames99: I don't know how these suppositories were supposed to act, I'm not a pharmacist or a physician. Brands of such suppositories include Coquelusédal and Pholcones. They were more common 40 years ago and more brands existed.