Does simply considering an enema make you have to poop?

Happens to me every now and then. I’ll decide on an enema and before I can even hang the bag....I need to go to the toilet.

Advantage is, then I can usually take a larger volume on the first enema. Anyone else?

Back when I was a kid, looking at the bag and hose hanging from the towel bar on the back wall of the tub drying out had a laxative effect on me as I sat on the toilet looking at it. I think mom knew it did too and that's why she'd leave it there for several days.

Nope. My gut is more obstinate than that.

If it works then it is going to be on its own terms or with significantly more persuasion than the mere sight of a bag.

Not just considering.

As recently as college I could fantasize about taking an enema, and step myself through and within half an hour I would have to poop.

Not exactly. When I'm beginning to think about and prepare an enema it doesn't send a tingle or any urge down to my LGI tract. In other words I don't feel any actual urge to defecate. However, in the interests of both a cleaner nozzle or catheter as well as less to eliminate during the enema, I almost always go sit down and eliminate whatever I can before inserting the nozzle. It just feels cleaner and more pleasant not to have anything in my rectum.

Eric

Yes, often when I think about an anal/rectal/colon session an enema is always first on the list. My gut sometimes pre-reacts in anticipation

It has happened to me, although it's a lot rarer now. Happened more often when I was a kid, if I did a bm I wouldn't have to have the enema.

Happens to me every now and then. I’ll decide on an enema and before I can even hang the bag....I need to go to the toilet.

If it's a constipation enema, I would consider that to be a pretty good thing... Although now I would probably take the enema anyway just because I had trouble. If it was a for fun enema I would still do my bm first and then have my enemas. I pretty much always try to do a bm before enemas.