Suppositories stored in the refrigerator

Suppositories other than the glycerin ones are basically drugs dissolved in grease, and the grease is to melt in the rectum, so they are sensitive to temperature. In the summer especially, if one wants to keep them rigid for introduction i (and not end with up with a half melted suppository between the fingers), one can store them in the refrigerator. That's what my parents did, at least in periods when suppositories were in use.

Reading Zity, I understand that some parents did likewise with the glycerin ones, perhaps to make the gelatin they are made from more rigid. Indeed, they tend to be elastic and prefer to slip outside of the anus rather than to enter.

How was it your home?

The refrigerator...is there any other way to store them?

Sundaybrunch: Even for glycerin ones?

Even for coconut oil suppositories, yes, they must be kept below 60 degrees if you hope to insert them in one easy push...

.without melting in between your fingers before being sucked into your rectum completely.

My experience with suppositories always involved the feeling of that cold bullet penetrating my rectum. They were always refrigerated.

Always remember them.being in the refrigerator. Still to this day I store them refrigerator.

Yes, stored in the refrigerator. I was embarrassed when friends were over and went into the frig to get a drink.

"American" glycerin suppositories (stearate-based) are hard and don't melt. They do sweat glycerin, and I'm not sure if the refrigerator helps with that or not.

Our were always in the refrigerator and I enjoyed feeling the cold, glycerin suppositories enter my anus as they were pushed out of the plastic suppository inserter and then slide into my rectum. When I didn't want them and tried pushing out, they went in even faster once the applicator deposited them in my anus.

In our family my mom has never stored the suppositories in the refrigerator. Our suppositories were always stored in the box with other drugs and I don't remember them melted even in the summer during hot days. Maybe there aren't too hot days in the Czech. 😃

My family used to keep suppositories in refrigerator .

Growing up my mother always kept them in the refrigerator (hard glycerine ones, before Australia switched to jelly). I do the same, even though it means visitors opening the refrigerator will see them on one of the shelves in the door. Added frisson, I suppose.

Yes, in the fridge. It's hard to find acetaminophen adult 650mg suppositories in local pharmacies. Our pharmacist does a special order for a box of 12. We still have Phenergan RX from about 3 years ago. Expiration was Nov. 2018. It probably still works -- relieved the nausea from the headache but made me very sleepy.

The acetaminophen supp begins to get soft pretty fast just holding it. Best not to take too long getting it from the fridge into the butt! Lol

Medicated suppositories are kept in the fridge. Laxative suppositories in the bathroom cupboard.

We have a jar in our fridge. In the back.

Suppositories were in parent's medicine cabinet, not fridge.

Though when I've played doctor I always put the thermometer in a glass of water and put that in the fridge before my "patient" or "doctor" arrives for the exam. It makes the temp taking experience so much more special.

@Vicki_V said

Yes, in the fridge. It's hard to find acetaminophen adult 650mg suppositories in local pharmacies. Our pharmacist does a special order for a box of 12. We still have Phenergan RX from about 3 years ago. Expiration was Nov. 2018. It probably still works -- relieved the nausea from the headache but made me very sleepy.

The acetaminophen supp begins to get soft pretty fast just holding it. Best not to take too long getting it from the fridge into the butt! Lol

Trust me, they DEFINITELY still work. If you stored them anyplace besides your attic, they are fine and will be for at least 20 years into the future. Tablets and capsule will work perfectly well as long as there isn't visible deterioration of the tablets or capsules. Expiration dates on drugs on one way the FDA, who requires expiration dates to just about everything these days, helps big pharma by making people think old drugs are dangerous and/or no longer work.

Phenergan old or new will make you sleepy. That is part of what it does.

@Vicki_V Pjenergan is a Phenothiazine "major tranquilizer" neurolepric, antipsychotic,anti emetic ,antihistamine , pick a name, its a relative of all the old school typical antipsychotics of low potency like chlorpromazine , they consider sedation a side effect however it tends to be used as shut up primary effect for many patients . All my suppositories are in the fridge 200 generic bisacodyl, glycerin, CEO two, muse its a regular peep show in my fridge. Leave a quater on the freezer when your done

I never keep my glycerin suppositories in the fridge, even during the summer time. They are in a cabinet in the bathroom. In Spain they are the rigid trasparent kind of suppos and never melt, even inside the rectum. I have noticed that this way the suppository sweets a little in the box and makes the insertion easier and also is much more effective

Vicki: Is it difficult to find acetaminophen children's suppositories in the US? Here in France they are readily available and we found them very useful; unfortunately both kids, at a certain age, tended to spit back oral medicine, and paradoxically it was way easier to just slip a suppository in.

My parents kept a box of glycerine suppositories on the top of the bathroom cabinet. It was a pretty big box, sitting there for everyone to see.

I don't think they placed it there to scare us. However, every time I sat on the toilet I happened to face the box, which filled me up quickly with both fear and excitement.

My parents always kept the box of suppositories in the refrigerator. When I was smaller I really disliked it to see them there, however I started to like it later on somehow. I also remember getting the suppositories which were pretty cold when they were inserted into my butt.

@Pecan_nutjob et al, Not all suppositories are a grease as you describe them with drugs. There are many types of suppository bases that are used commercially. Some only melt due to moisture inside the rectum or vagina, yes others are temperature based.

When I was a kid, my parents would keep them in the refrigerator, but I also now do not keep them there.

Glycerine suppositories do not melt even in summer, and so there is no need for keeping them so cold.

Moreover, a cold suppository is not that pleasant at the insertion, I pretty much prefer it entering while being at room temperature.

My introduction to suppositories was getting medicine that way while visiting family in Montreal as a kid. I quickly learned that if I heard the fridge door close and someone walk upstairs it might well be medicine time for me.

On a subsequent visit I saw boxes of the cough medicine I was given in the fridge, and also saw some prescription boxes with suppositories for my cousins. I was quite curious, but didn't ask them about it. The medicated ones definitely needed to be refrigerated to stay solid. I find that Tylenol suppositories are usually ok at room temperature. Same with glycerin suppositories.

Some need to stay in the refrigerator due to them needing to stay firm. Especially remember my parents putting them in the fridge during the summer.