I can usually take most, if not all of a 2qt. bag. If I haven't had an enema in a few weeks, I sometimes even have a little trouble getting a quart in me on the first enema. But I never try to over do it, or push past any limits. I take all that I can hold, but I don't stop on the first cramp either unless it is truly unbearable.
Having said that though, there was this one time that I got a coffee "infusion" from the colon hydrotherapist that I used to go to many years ago...
We had discussed coffee enemas during a colonic session one time (she thought of course that they were a good thing) and I asked if she offered anything like that. She said that she did, it was $5 more (her colonics were only $22 a session), and that I had to let her know when I made an appointment that I wanted that, so she could have the coffee ready, of course. Next appointment I made, I requested the coffee. 😃
I was kind of surprised that her opinion was that the coffee should be administered first, prior to the regular colonic. She said that the coffee would absorb better through the colon if the colon had not already been saturated with water during the colonic. So I was basically going to get a coffee enema before the colonic; not after it.
The coffee was administered with the same equipment (speculum, intake and outake hoses), except that the coffee was in what looked like kind of a "modern" plastic enema can attached to the wall. It looked large enough to hold a gallon of liquid, and had a graduated scale on the side of it that I couldn't read from where I was laying.
Anyway, I laid there on my back (the usual position for her colonics) and she administered the coffee. After a few minutes she asked if I was feeling full and needed to release. I didn't. She kept the coffee flowing a few minutes more, then asked again if I was SURE that I didn't need to release - she said that I had taken nearly 4qt.!!
That surprised me too. I told her that, "wow, really? I don't feel THAT full" ... And I didn't!
So I told her "yeah, maybe we should (release)." (I kinda guess we were probably about to run out of coffee too, lol)
I had no recent clean out just prior to that coffee enema from her. I got the regular colonic after the coffee. I took other coffee enemas at home after that to see if I could match that volume again - I couldn't, aprox. 2qt. seems to be my regular limit using coffee also...
So how or why I was able to take that much that one time is still a mystery to me. I guess a person, maybe even most persons could probably take 4qts. of liquid in their colons under the right circumstances. I swear though that I would have never guessed that I had that much in me. I felt some pressure of course, but no real discomfort.
And, I have never come close to taking in that amount since then.