Longest hold time

What is your longest hold time for an enema?

Hold times over 15 minutes are simply dangerous!

The body absorbs water in several ways. It is absorbing water a you retain the enema.

That's why you often have to pee in the late stages of expulsion.

If you try to hold an enema of more than a quart for more than 20 minutes, you can absorb so much water it overwhelms your kidneys, and water can build to such a level that it increases stress on the whole cardio-vascular system, and can cause it to fail suddenly.

I never attempt to hold an enema more then 15 minutes.

For me, once the enema is completed, I might be able to hold it for two minutes maybe? Or less! That seems to do the trick! I want to have sexy enema fun but I want to be careful. Around a quart or a bit more is all I can handle and I'm ready to empty out.

WOW! Only a quart for 20 minutes??? Many of us should have been dead a long time ago if that is the case.

I can retain an enema for quite a long time but only after my system has been emptied from a previous enema, once the majority of solid waste is removed it gives me more room to take more liquid and the cramping isn't as bad. Often times I will retain an enema for 20-30 minutes but sometimes when doing coffee enemas (half coffee, half water) I can retain for longer than that. I was able to retain a 4-quart enema one time for an hour, the caffeine buzz was quite intense! Lately I try to take a smaller enema when planning on retaining for a long time and in the last 3 weeks I've retained 2 coffee enemas each being about 2 quarts and retained one for just over an hour and the second one I retained for one hour and twenty minutes. That's just my experience though, many people aren't able to do that so don't attempt to retain that long if you're not comfortable doing it.

Lisak said

Hold times over 15 minutes are simply dangerous!

The body absorbs water in several ways. It is absorbing water a you retain the enema.

That's why you often have to pee in the late stages of expulsion.

If you try to hold an enema of more than a quart for more than 20 minutes, you can absorb so much water it overwhelms your kidneys, and water can build to such a level that it increases stress on the whole cardio-vascular system, and can cause it to fail suddenly.

I never attempt to hold an enema more then 15 minutes.

This is wrong in so many ways.

This has been discussed before and it isn't worth my explaining it again because it is in other posts.

I'm surprised he didn't mention the Darwin Award for doing so.

Hold times over 15 minutes are simply dangerous!

The body absorbs water in several ways. It is absorbing water a you retain the enema.

That's why you often have to pee in the late stages of expulsion.

If you try to hold an enema of more than a quart for more than 20 minutes, you can absorb so much water it overwhelms your kidneys, and water can build to such a level that it increases stress on the whole cardio-vascular system, and can cause it to fail suddenly.

I never attempt to hold an enema more then 15 minutes.

In a word...NO!

If the premise was that the water percentage and volume change associated with H2O getting into the blood stream was true, then anyone who has ever taken an IV of a liter or more of D5W would be dead. Furthermore, in a typical summertime run, I will be between 3.0 to 5.5 pounds lighter even after drinking 20 - 48 fluid ounces of water during the run. That is not body fat or glycogen that I burned. That's and equivalent of 1.35 - 2.5 liters of water. Go look at any 2-liter bottle and realize that what you are claiming is that half that volume is dangerous if not deadly.

The rate of absorption is not given by the volume but by osmotic diffusion that is governed by a lot of factors. At the simplest level, the concentration gradient of certain salts across the boundary between the colon and the bloodstream "controls" the flow. Hence, there has been an incredible amount of posting over the years about isotonic enemas. In theory, if your bloodstream were completely a static (not dynamic) system, if you balanced these salts perfectly, you'd be able to hold an enema indefinitely (ignoring the other peristaltic actions to move stuff along).

Point in fact, to answer the OP's question, I typically and routinely am able to hold a 3-liter water enema for more at least 30 minutes (usually more like 45-60 minutes). I often like to hold it longer for that simply because it feels good. The higher the volume, the more difficult it is to hold over a longer period of time. I have held 4-liter enemas for more than an hour (maybe once or twice per month) and on occasion have held 5-liter enemas for 20-30 minutes (those more than 4 liters take practiced focus). How much is absorbed over the course of the holding time and how much is retained for later absorption? Hard to say. But it comes down to between 1 - 2 liters of water simply by difference in mass before and after (noting that fecal matter also has mass).

@switchablesusie is likely to weigh in with a more informed opinion than my more basic one.

Edit: she already has.

Half the time LisaK doesn't know what she's talking about. 😈

Maybe 10 minutes for myself .

How long to hold it? Only long enough!

Back when, I went home after a night on the town and took two quart enema then fell asleep. I inadvertently had retained the full two quarts without expulsion but by that morning did urinate some of it. The rest may still be floating around in my circulatory system?! This short tale is true and is forwarded as evidence that enemas are not dangerous, poisonous or otherwise harmful. It is also my premise that you never get back all of the enema water that you inject. What of those times when you did a long series where water was retained. For me, that retention is important to curtail a period of dehydration on a day like today where the temperature (86F/31C) is on the rise and everyone looses water.

On such a warm day, a cool retention enema hits the spot with lower body temps and regulated hydration.

Again, cool enemas on a hot day warm enemas on a cold one and don't forget to retain some of it, because an enema a day keeps the doctor away!

The longest I have retained a one quart coffee enema is ninety minutes with no apparent ill effects other than having to pee more often the rest of the day. Most times I like to hold it twenty to thirty minutes. The longer I hold it the weaker the urges to expel are. After the thirty minute mark I can hold as long as I have time for. I have noticed that the amount of enema absorbed varies. I supposed depending on whether my body is dehydrated or not. I use coffee the same strength as I would drink it and do not get a significant buzz. I have tried diluting the coffee to make a two quart enema but that just makes it much harder to hold.

I like about 10 minutes for a hold time. This gives the enema plenty of time to work and makes for a nice clean out. Petal would always have to pee after holding a couple quarts is no more dangerous than drinking a couple. The water does get absorbed and results in more trips to the potty.

Professionally, retained enemas are called implants and might never be expelled. It's sometimes used as a method to deliver medications. I have used implants to inject alcohol for a buzz to relax or herbal stimulants using a ten ounce bulb syringe . An other popular implant is coffee but the popular pharmaceuticals delivered in this manner only goes to show how modern and up to date enemas are.

This type of enema should be added to your recipe book because an enema a day keeps the doctor away!

A while back I was doing a series of enemas all 3 quarts each. I had done the first two and was pretty clear and had an empty colon. I had just completed my third 3 quart enema and my wife who was working from her home office called out for a coffee refill. I put on my T shirt and gym shorts and delivered a fresh cup of coffee to her and she was none the wiser that I was very full with my last enema. After delivering her cup of coffee, I headed back down to the bathroom and let go with the huge gushes of my expel.

That was one enema series I will remember for quite some time.

Wow!!! Thanks for the posting about the danger of holding an enema for a long time. Years ago, I held a 2 quart enema for at least an hour (was not very easy to do) due to an urgent phone call that came in just as I had filled up completely with plain water. I had no ill effects that I was aware of but rest assured, a longer holder time than 15 minutes will be avoided in the future no matter the urgency of a phone call or other urgent matter. Denise

Unless the enema solution has a powerful cleansing effect, such as milk and molasses, overuse of soap, or similar, an enema can be retained indefinitely, until dealt with by the kidneys and bladder. The kidneys surely aren't overworked with a retained enema any more than with the beer I drank in my twenties!

Over the years there were occasions where I retained a two-quart or larger enema for hours without any subsequent ill effects. I have often done that with an enema mix containing wine and gone to sleep wearing a diaper and slept soundly (and should add that I never use more wine than what I know to be within my personal limit under any circumstance).

If you have a compromised renal or circulatory system you should be careful. While a healthy person should be able to deal with the fluid absorbed without any problem, if you're not healthy it can be a problem.

While a healthy person should be able to deal with the fluid absorbed without any problem, if you're not healthy it can be a problem.

There are always exceptional cases as with diabetics et al with various and assorted health issues. In a general sense for a healthy person, there should be no health risk as regards retention.

As I have posted before, when I was younger and between marriages I would would have enema days where I spent most of the time filled by 3-4 quarts of an enema solution of warm water. Even when I needed to expel, I would quickly refilled to my comfortable maximum to hold until the next cycle of expelling and refilling.

In this way I might go 6 - 12 hours with my colon mostly filled with water. Did I pee a lot as a result? Yes! But the constant fullness and the pleasure of time was one of the attractions to long hold enema sessions.

LisaK, there is a way to prevent the small and large intestines from absorbing enema water and causing the blood volume to increase, put a load on kidneys and cause headaches. It's called adding salt to the solution. By adding about a teaspoon per qt of water, the solution becomes isomotic, ie. of the same saline concentration as the blood. When enema solutions approximate this level, osmosis of water in either direction does not occur. When we prep for colonoscopies, we ingest salty stuff like phosphates or Gatorade. The extra salt in the GI tract acts a sponge to draw in extra water from the bloodstream (because the colon is now saltier than the blood) thereby ridding the bowels of material. In this case we encourage osmosis from outside to inside the colon so it works both ways.

To your point: enemas that are held for prolonged times are NOT a danger to swelling blood volume and upsetting electrolyte balance do long as care is given to add salt to the solution.

By adding about a teaspoon per qt of water, the solution becomes isomotic, ie. of the same saline concentration as the blood. When enema solutions approximate this level, osmosis of water in either direction does not occur.

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Circa 1987 I scoured a host of both medical and fetish sources for every enema solution recipe I could find, then put together a guide that was published and sent to all members of a long-defunct "club" based in Chicago. Over the years since, I have often since seen it "authored" in whole or in part by other persons who took wrongful credit, being able to recognize my own verbatim and unique comments regarding each recipe.

A recipe sourced from a medical text for an isotonic/osmotic saline solution was 4 teaspoons (20-ml.) table salt to be added to 2 quarts (2000-ml.) water. I have since seen minor variations given for a similar solution.

Weight scales seem best suited for a chemistry lab or for the illicit drug trade. The Betty Crocker system of measurement should suffice for home-based kitchen-sourced recipes.

Speaking of retention I was reading about Andre Roussimoff who was also known as Andre the Giant. He once drank 119 12 oz beers in one sitting. I doubt putting a few quarts in your ass will have any long term effects.

A recipe sourced from a medical text for an isotonic/osmotic saline solution was 4 teaspoons (20-ml.) table salt to be added to 2 quarts (2000-ml.) water. I have since seen minor variations given for a similar solution.

How old was that book? 100 years? In ancient medical history they used ounces, minims, drams and other positively stupid non-metric measures, but those days are gone gone gone.

There are zero current medical texts that don't use metric measures.

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Weight scales seem best suited for a chemistry lab or for the illicit drug trade. The Betty Crocker system of measurement should suffice for home-based kitchen-sourced recipes.

Good cooks measure by weight, especially when baking.

If you can afford an enema bag or any toy, you can afford a scale.

There are zero current medical texts that don't use metric measures.

The measures were metric. For the benefit of the 500 or so non-medical members of the aforementioned club who resided in the U.S., where the metric system is not popular among laymen (and laywomen) as it is elsewhere on the planet, I used both.

Good cooks measure by weight, especially when baking.

Yes, professional cooks and bakers measure by weight; few others do.

The measures were metric. For the benefit of the 500 or so non-medical members of the aforementioned club who resided in the U.S. where the metric system is not popular as it is elsewhere on the planet, I used both.

Don't appease or placate them by stooping to that level. They must learn metric! Besides the amounts you listed still do NOT make physiologic saline.

They must learn metric!

. . . and how do you buy gas at the pump??? 😁

(I dictate to no one.)

. . . and how do you buy gas at the pump??? 😁

Imperial gallons! Just kidding. 😄

I hate metric.especially tools. It will take over though in the end

Enema Runner, I understand your humor, but Canada switched from Imperial gallons to liters many decades ago and to other metric systems of measurement, as well. Since many of our products are produced in the U.S., both systems are in use. Additionally, since the U.S. is our biggest market, we produce many products based on the U.S.' English system of measurement. Ironically, the U.K. tossed the English system years ago.