Drugstore enema aisle

How many people have to walk down the enema aisle in the drugstore. Just for a look or to see if someone might be buying enemas or suppositories? No matter why I go into a drugstore I always go down that aisle at least once.

I never walk down that aisle unless I need something. When I rarely do, I always ask the pharmacist very matter-of-factly in a very relaxed mood to show me the enemas or suppositories just to see their reaction to someone looking relaxed and happy to be buying enemas.

Eric

Even in our rural community, the local drug store had a huge selection of enema equipment 60 - 65 years ago--a number of open top combination syringes, and a dozen or so bulb syringes, and one or two Higginson type. I remember seeing a box with 24" colon tubes, probably 20 or 30 of them, on sale, I think for .50. By comparison, a stroll down the enema equipment aisle at the local drug store these days isn't nearly as exciting for me.

Not so much these days, but I will admit I am old enough to remember the end of "the good old days". Shortly after being married we moved to a newer suburban area that sort of enveloped a small rural town. It still had a family drugstore not affiliated with any of the major chains. It had an amazing enema section.

They had several types of bags: Combination, open top, folding latex, and an interesting blue pumpkin type of thing that was a combination ice cap and syringe.

They had several kinds of bulb syringes: Infant and adult sizes of enema bulbs, and of course, douche bulbs. Even a douche bulb with an adapter, hose, and nozzle for enemas too.

They had a case with drawers where you could find replacement items such as: stoppers, douche or enema nozzles - several types and sizes, shutoff clamps, and hose.

They had a small selection of disposable enemas: Fleet, and another one whose name I don't remember that looked like an oversized toothpaste tube with an enema nozzle attached. I had to try it just to see. Nothing special, just like a Fleet.

These days you only find the various disposable enemas, Fleet and the store brand and some glycerin suppositories. How boring.

I remember the corner drug store at times had enema equipment on display in the front window. The there was one isle with all the bags, bulbs and attachments. I admit I always walked down that isle slowly but not trying to be obvious. Things were different than. lol

Yes, I have done this. Not that I ever traveled much on business, but in the 90s when I did I always checked out a local pharmacy just to see if they had different stuff than at home. I also always went to a local sex shop to see if sex toys were any different. Although, in those days before the Internet, I had to use the phone book and look under 'novelties' to find them!

I still try to find enema equipment in drug stores but find almost nothing. I did buy a syringe at a DVS but it did have seams and split at the bottom.. Purchased another at another store and fond it too had seams so took it back and got a refund before leaving the store. Fun showing the check out why I didn't want it--explained what happened to the first one. Made the check out very nervous. HA

I remember our local drugstore having a section on one aisle, maybe 15-20 feet long, way in the back. There were many different bags and bulbs, and a cabinet with drawers that held nozzles, clamps, hanging hooks, and a marvelous stopcock shutoff valve. I wish I could find one of those now. My sister and I found that section when I was maybe 9, and we visited frequently, talking about what we liked. I also remember the thrill when Sis showed me a bag and said she was saving up to buy it. She was 14 and I was 12, and I also remember the embarrassment of trying to hide a bulge in my pants as we left the store!

I always got a little thrill out of going down the aisle with the enema equipment. That was a long time ago however since the drug stores now only have the small boxed $9 enema/douche bag. To top that off, it's in a separate aisle with women's sanitary products so I'm too embarrassed to go there. I would love to find a store that sells all of the various equipment. I'm sure that aisle would be crowded.

Always. Mostly the laxative aisle to check and see if there are any new suppository products out there, as the bag type "combination" sets or fountain top are becoming few and far between.

I also check the "family planning" section to see kind of lube they have on sale.

I usually don't unless I have to buy something in that aisle. When I do I will sort of glance to see what they have, usually not much beyond a couple packs of Dulcolax suppositories, a few prepackaged enemas, and the oral laxatives.

I do remember seeing a combination bag once elsewhere - I think it was while I was looking for a brace. Seemed an odd place to put them, in with the orthopedic and home nursing stuff, but I guess it makes sense on one level.

Costco has the digestive aisle right next to the pharmacy pickup, so while I'm waiting to get my piss pills I'm spending part of the time staring at the Mirilax, Metamucil and Fleets. Then I'll spend part of the time staring at the pharmacy counter, then a bit more staring at the soaps and cosmetics on the other side. It's rather a boring line.

When I sold for the S.E. Massengill Co. one of my jobs was to get the pharmacist's permission to put one packette of Massengill Powder in each box containing flat rubber goods, or douche bulbs. I got to open each box and do this, wearing a suit and tie and having a catalog case filled with boxes of Massengill Powder. Anyone watching me would assume I had legit business doing so and never suspect I was a mad "klysmo".

This was in the late 60's- early 70's and most stores (especially mom & pops) had a large selection of flat rubber goods, usually made by one mfg.; BF Goodrich, Davol, Faultless, U.S. Rubber, Rexall, etc. I usually left the drugstore with a raging erection that I had to hide with my catalog case. GOD! I LOVED THAT JOB!

I will always try to cruise by the feminine health section to see if there is any enema equipment. I have to be honest, I have not seen any traditional bag douche/enema bags in the major chains like Walgreens, CVS and even Walmart. I am not sure if this is a regional thing (live in FL) or has there really been a move away from carrying these enema rubber goods products.

That is why I really am a big fan of online shopping. You get high quality equipment that is much more suited to an enema enthusiast like ourselves.

Yes. I always walk down the enema and laxative aisles. It's a bit of thrill and just the off chance that I'll see someone buying or a new product. I do remember the local stores having a much larger and varied selection. Today it is mundane.

I try to walk down that aisle whenever the opportunity presents itself. Usually I'll take a small slip of paper out of my pocket so that I appear as a guy sent there on a mission by his wife and is clueless as to what he is looking at. That gives me some time to not only check out the items on the shelf, but also the women shoppers. These days there are not many shoppers looking for enema equipment, so a really attractive female buying a large box of tampons is exciting.

There has been more than one occasion when I have engaged an attractive store clerk in conversation, especially if I seem to have been looking over the shelves for some time and they ask if they can help me. Once a really cute young clerk asked if she could help and I told her that my wife needed a box of tampons, but I didn't know what type. Without hesitation the clerk took a box off the shelf and said that these were what she used. I wasn't expecting that much information.

Not so many years ago, I wasn't just ready to retire after selling my business and took a job at a new local pharmacy. One of my routine assignments was to re-stock the feminine products aisle. On one occasion, the pharmacist asked me to help an elderly couple locate the Fleet enema section and to hand the product to them. They were clearly embarrassed; I was not and offered a friendly smile.

Whenever I go to the aisle with the enemas, it's to buy a box of Fleet enemas. I am one of the few in this group who occasionally uses a Fleet enema and I feel like I always need to have a box available.

Does it make me feel uncomfortable? Yes, and I've been purchasing my own Fleet enemas for over 30 yrs now. You'd think I'd be used to it, but I'm not. I was buying them on line for awhile, but then the prices seemed to go up and delivery with noseie people around became a hassle. Now I just get them at Walmart. They have the best price and I can do self check out. Still, since they now come in a box of 4, the box is too big to hide in the cart, so it's the last thing I get.

The worst was getting them at the drug store and standing in line to check out with the box in your hand. Still, if I'm on travel without equipment (a situation I try to avoid) and an enema is needed, I end up going to the drug store enema aisle and standing in line to check out holding the box.

If I go to the enema aisle, whether at Walmart or the drug store, I have a specific purpose for being there. And I also have anxiety from the time I lean down to pick up the box to the time I leave the store. It's just one of those things I need to endure from time to time.

I did a very brief stint helping out at a local drug store about 1960. Sometimes I ran the register when it was just the druggist and me. I had the occasion of a couple of classmates coming in to buy sanitary products. I watched one girl pick up a box, and when she saw who was on check out put it back. A few minutes later her mom came in and made the purchase.

But, on the other hand, another classmate came in to buy a box of Tampax, walked right up and said how much better things were now that she was using Tampax. I probably blushed pretty deeply, but it actually help me be a bit more open and understanding of "Aunt Flo."

A year or so later when I was dating a young woman who was a tampon user, but many of her classmates were under the impression virgins couldn't use them! Or their mothers would not allow them to use them. How things have changed, now many girls use tampons from their first period.

On the douche bag/enema bag side, I remember being asked if a bulb or a bag was better for douching, I recommended a the bag, which the woman bought. That was the only bag I had the pleasure of selling.

A conversation in college, there was some popularity of bulb syringes because they could be used for masturbation, back when there were no "toy stores."

One of my wife's friends had a "toy party," kind of like a Tupperware Party for sex toys, this was about 1992. Women were buying vibrators to give to their daughters. How times have changed, I believe for the better.

I just HAPPENED to note that, two days ago, Walgreen's has their enema bag for $16.49, while Walmart still sells their bag for $4.96. I believe that this indicates a problem -----

Always, and was heartbroken when many national chain stores stopped carrying enema bags!

The last time I was in Walgreens, I couldn't even find enema bags or douche bulbs in the feminine hygiene aisle. Walmart still carries their brand of combo bag.

A trip down the enema aisle is required.

I'm going to keep my eyes on that aisle.

Seems to me that a trip down the drugstore enema aisle is of but a short duration these days. Mostly Fleets which I have never been a fan of or utilized to any extent. Yes ... I know that this will date me, but back in the day I recall the drugstore "E" aisle being well stocked with mostly combination syringes of many manufacturers. Moms often with kids in tow, seemingly taking their time to read the particulars on the boxes. There was a good selection of large rubber ' douche bulb ' configured syringes as well on the shelves and as with both of the above referenced products, moms were most discreet when browsing the ' enema aisle. I did view a few quick purchases at the checkout counter with the male pharmacist giving the purchasing mom a nod and polite smile along with the cash transaction with little eye contact from the purchasing mom. These beauties were, I am certain, purchased for immediate use possibly replacing an aging combination bag, which had by virtue of some serious use seen its better days .

I always check these aisles out, just hoping something comes along that I can use, usually nothing though. The best is home medical supply stores. They usually carry all kinds of suitable supplies; tubing, lubes, bags, catheters, and all sorts of fun things. I can get aroused in these stores just thinking about using this stuff.

I'm with you... I always go down the feminine hygiene aisle of our local drug stores just looking. But the drug stores of today, sure are not like the ones that I remember from my youth when there were lots of enema bags, of different varieties displayed, many of which were actually in store front windows. Newspapers had drug store ads that proudly displayed enema syringes. Sure wish those days were still around. Sad, that our pharmacy industry and our culture has changed so much thanks to the almighty dollar. But, I sure still enjoy taking enemas with "old" syringes like Mom had when I was younger.

I used to always walk down the aisles where the enema equipment was and check it out even if I wasn't buying any that day. Today I don't bother I have lots of equipment that I've always wanted.

That's just weird!

Most stores now put their disposable enemas with the other laxative and put the enema syringes either with the ban-aids and rubbing alcohol or with the Feminine hygiene products, especially disposable douches. One of the things security watches for is people lingering inappropriately long in one aisle.

I'm usually trying to watch two early school age girls and an infant. This limits the time I have to linger in a particular aisle.

It would be a teachable moment if I see it, I would point it out to my daughters and teach them why it's creepy.

If someone is in that aisle, that's when you stop and look! You could even make a joke or comment (if it's a woman) about 'that time of the month' (as many women get constipated during their period) or something to see if you met a fellow klismophile.

I will check out that aisle most times when in a pharmacy, which is rare. But now that everything is either a Rite-Aid, CVS, or Walgreens, there's nothing new. I'd love to see a woman checking out the enema goods, but that hasn't happened.

When I was scarcely more than a teen myself waiting in line to pay at a drug store I heard some giggling behind me. I turned to see two very cute older teen girls purchasing a twin pack of Fleet enemas.

Whether or not they were for one or both girls I'll never know but I sure would have liked to

We have a "local" Mom & Pop pharmacy that is a fairly large one (it even still has a cafe). About every other time I visit I "check out" the aisle with the E toys. The store usually has several fountain sets and just red bags. Just the other day I was delighted to find a Cara brand bag set on display there. Never seen that brand there before, just the store brands. Now I am waiting for the still Made In USA Cara bulb to arrive there. May have a long wait because bulbs have lost favor.