For those of you that take enemas daily or almost daily..

Is it safe to assume that you NEVER have a properly formed BM because you're essentially washing it out in bits-n-pieces? In my limited experience after I pump water up there I won't get a proper solid BM for several days. Just curious.

It's been awhile since I've been able to take an enema daily. Nowadays I'm lucky to get an enema once a week but it does seem like it will take a day for my bowels to "reset" after an enema. Not more than a day for me personally but I think some people take longer. I eat a higher fiber diet probably than most people and am very regular.

NEVER can be a very long time.... I don't get the chance to do an enema series daily, but when I do a series, it is always to "running clear" as far as my clean-out.

I can almost set my clock that 22 to 24 hours later I will have a BM with a well formed stool. Your results may vary.

Initially, due to health issues, I take enemas every other day. The routine was established by visiting nurses during recovery from six surgical events. The series consist of two 2 qt. castile soap enemas and then two 2 qt. salt & soda. --sometimes a 2 qt. tap water rinse.

the boxcar

I'm not regularly a daily user of enemas, but I have had instances in the past when I've need one near daily including a few of days in a row sometimes.

When I need an enema that frequently... Trust me, it's still more than just "small pieces" I'm getting rid of, it's regular-to-starting to get large bowel movements that I have trouble with.

A while back while on a week long vacation I did daily enemas in the late afternoon on the chance that me and wife would do anal play on me in the evening. We did get lots of anal play in and I was clean due to the enemas. I always have one or two BMs in the morning before noon so the enemas did not take the place of my regular BMs. But still I was amazed that a single 2 quart enema with a tablespoon of castile soap in the afternoon did not really affect my system all that much as far as being able to go regularly the next morning. That was the only time I have ever done enemas for several days in a row.

My regular enema schedule is about once a week. And this is what I have noticed over the years of doing enemas. One 2 quart enema has little effect on my system- regular BM the next day. Two 2 quart enemas will usually result in only a small BM the next day. A series of three 2 quart enemas will usually result in not having a BM the next day but back to regular BMs the second day after.

I am guessing when I pretty much clear my colon after my regular morning BM with a series of 3 enemas, it takes a full two days of recovery before my system gets back to normal. I do enemas for pleasure and not health and so I do not want to develop a dependency on them to have a BM. So I always allow plenty of recovery time between sessions.

@ProV1

I am curious.

Are you thin and do you eat a lot of veggies?

I am 6 feet 1 inch 188. I do eat a fairly high fiber diet with emphasis on green vegetables.

I am 6 feet 1 inch 188. I do eat a fairly high fiber diet with emphasis on green vegetables.

That's what I expected. I expected you to be slim and have a high fiber diet.

Otherwise you would not have a good BM right after your enemas.

I find it takes me a full day sometimes two very occasionally 3 to get back to a somewhat normal bowel movement. This is one reason I am careful about the frequency.

OK, wait one...if you take enemas daily, how would you ever get a "normal" BM? What would be available if you pump your colon full of water every day? As for my experience, things return to completely normal after 2-3 days. My "normal" BM has the consistency of soft-serve ice cream.

My rule of thumb is no more than 2 a week. Many members here exceed that limit so I guess it all depends on their tolerance. If I am meeting for play I might exceed that a bit but the next week it is back to normal. I have heard that you can get lazy bowel if you do them too much but there are plenty of posts where it is disputed. I guess it is whatever floats your boat.

I take a small enema every morning (it's an old fleet enema bottle I refill. I think it's the bigger bottle, 7.8 ounces). Water with a tiny amount of soap mixed in. Plus I take a weekly 2 to 3-quart enema. It makes me feel great.

It all depends on the size of the enemas.

I take single bulb enemas whenever I feel hard stool which is reluctant to evacuate, because I dislike the feeling down there. This sometimes may happen several days in a row. Eventually things will return to normal.

As for large volume enemas, when I take a 2 quarts enema (never more than one at a time), a regular BM will come 2 days later, sometimes even on the day following the enema

An enema a day keeps the doctor away!! At seventy seven years old, I have not seen a doctor for ill health for years now. My last Colonoscopy was two years ago with no pollyps or discolorations. Regular colon cleansing washes toxins from the body waste. These materials otherwise can pass through the colonic membrane by osmosis into the blood stream. Blood circulation them then takes them through the body, including the brain. Thus you have a diagnosis of, "Sh_t Head!"

My own experience has been that if I don't take a four quart enema from my Jugbag daily, I feel sluggish with a fowl oral taste, constipation and flatulence. Once a week I use my Colon Hydrotherapy machine for an our long colonic irrigation. These procedures leave me feeling clean with a physical and psychological a lift in the morning that I can't experience any other way.

Try it! you'll like it

There are four words to describe enemas and colon irrigation to rid the body of toxins.

TOO LITTLE TOO LATE.

Whatever makes it to the large intestine has already been through almost the entire digestive tract and has been absorbed.

You guys are all fooling yourselves if you think there is a real health benefit to enemas.

An enema a day keeps the doctor away!! At seventy seven years old, I have not seen a doctor for ill health for years now. My last Colonoscopy was two years ago with no pollyps or discolorations. Regular colon cleansing washes toxins from the body waste. These materials otherwise can pass through the colonic membrane by osmosis into the blood stream. Blood circulation them then takes them through the body, including the brain. Thus you have a diagnosis of, "Sh_t Head!"

My own experience has been that if I don't take a four quart enema from my Jugbag daily, I feel sluggish with a fowl oral taste, constipation and flatulence. Once a week I use my Colon Hydrotherapy machine for an our long colonic irrigation. These procedures leave me feeling clean with a physical and psychological a lift in the morning that I can't experience any other way.

Try it! you'll like it

I enjoy enemas too and don't dispute that they make you feel clean, energized and healthy. However, I do seriously question the claim that

"Regular colon cleansing washes toxins from the body waste. These materials otherwise can pass through the colonic membrane by osmosis into the blood stream. Blood circulation them then takes them through the body,"

Name of toxin(s), origin in the body, scientific references for existence and effect of each toxin? Good luck, but I won't hold my breath.

Eric

OK, K2mmw, you have an anecdote about your body, to which you attribute a causal relationship to your enemas. There are other anecdotes on here of people who take enemas often and either have polyps removed all the time or have had colorectal cancer, and the same can be shown in the population that doesn't take enemas. That is why you use controlled studies. No, there aren't any controlled studies about enema use and neoplasms, and there can be multiple reasons, one of which (a likely one) is that no doctor or researcher has informally noted enough of a correlation to warrant setting up a study.

When I was about 8 or 9 yearsz old one of the neighborhood kids came down with pin worms. That prompted several of the mothers to give their kids a daily enema to clear the worms. My Mom followed this. I got an enema every evening for a couple of weeks.

Early in our marriage I was getting constipated fairly regularly. I convinced my wife that I needed enemas to keep me cleaned out. At first they were only done every other week or so. She was working afternoons and I had the house to myself. I took an enema about every second or third day. One day I left the enema bag drying in the bathroom overnight. The next day I got home from work very late and after my shower I gave myself another enema. While I was in the middle of the fill my wife came home early and caught me. She asked me if I was taking an enema every day. That if I was I should stop doing that. My bowels needed time to "recover" from the enema.

From then on for the next few years she would give me an enema about once every other week. Eventually her enemas stopped but I continued to take them about once a month.

Now, we both have IBS. She has IBS-D and I have IBS-C. So, now I take about one 2 quart enema about once a month. Once in awhile my wife will ask if I need to take an enema since it's been awhile since I've had a cleaning out or cleansing.

When I give myself enemas on a daily basis, I simply do not have a normal BM. If I don't give myself an enema, how long before I have a regular BM is dictated by the last enema session I had. If, for example, I give myself two 4 qt. enemas and two 3 qt. enemas on Monday morning, I will likely have a normal BM on Thursday evening or Friday morning assuming no other enemas in the meantime. If I give myself 3 enemas of 2, 3, or 4 qts. every 3 days (think Monday, Thursday, Sunday, etc.), I'll never have a regular BM.

I used to take enemas every day, I've slowed down a bit, now it is down to a few a week. It takes me at least a week to have a normal BM after all those cleanouts. Unexpectedly, I had to leave town a couple weeks ago, was unable to use my enema bag, had just been cleaned out the day before leaving. I knew I wouldn't have a normal BM so I ate as much fruit with my meals as I could. After a few days, started farting a lot but no urge to go #2. After a week, I sat on the toilet, and bingo, actually had a normal BM, was fairly soft. I wasn't sure I could do it anymore.

Almost a whole week!

the hoseman1