Not all enemas are made in heaven

Admit it or not, every enema we take is made in heaven. There have been times when I didn't feel "much better" afterwards. I think we sometimes romanticize the benefits of a "good enema."

Fact is, I've had enemas that made me feel worse -- not the norm but enough to recognize that my body doesn't always love me back when I'm tied up and stressed and feel the need to do a cleanse.

That happened during the height of the pandemic when I felt that I needed a good clean-out. I released for over an hour, and I felt fine initially. But then overnight, I began feeling like the stomach flu, and it didn't let up for the next 24 hours. Maybe I did have a touch of something. Maybe the enema session (mild castile followed by natural salt rinse) stirred up "toxins" that needed to come out. Whatever, I was pretty miserable, and it took a while to recover.

Any similar experiences?

This is not unusual for me. Many times and for several days, I will have what feels like cramping. The stool is loose and once in awhile, it will actually cause a slight constipation effect. Other times, it's fine.

@Vicki_V , I'm so glad you posted on this topic. I, too, have had those times when an enema did not do the trick and I continued into a spiral of feeling worse and worse. Those times are rare, but the cold hard truth is, they still occur. I actually had it happen to me last week (that's why I didn't write about it). I wasn't feeling all that good to begin with and decided what I needed was a major league cleansing. A soapy enema followed by two rinses did little to nothing to make me feel better. In fact, as the afternoon wore on, I felt worse than earlier in the day. The thought of stirring up toxins crossed my mind as well.

Probably a dozen years ago, a girlfriend who was seriously into colonics related that her therapist often warned her that a session could stir up toxins and that she might feel as though she a light case of flu. And periodically it would happen to her. But she was over it in 24 hours.

And perhaps, that's what you and I both wandered into with our enemas. Who knows? But within 24 hours, I was feeling fine.

Deb

Vicki, that's a very perceptive observation. While most of us here appreciate what this simple pleasure and procedure offers, there are times when we experience some negative sensations or reactions.

I experienced some of those last week. I deal with kidney stones periodically. I had found that a very hot bath and enemas can sometimes help move them along This is one of those natural health suggestions of old and has worked previously for me.

Last week, I had a couple of fairly rough days. While I normally enjoy a nice warm/hot enema, I managed to move the stone into a worse position. Additionally, I created a constipation issue that I could only relieve with strong soapsuds.

Needless to say, I possibly triggered more discomfort until the stone and large hard turd finally exited to some loud cheers.

I cramped and sweated off a few pounds, but probably could have used some strong meds from the doctor.

Thank goodness I am able to return to some “heavenly” indulgences!

I ran into this a few times with my late partner. I would take her out for dinner and then give her another a few hours later and that usually did the trick. If not, we just laid off for a day or so. It always passed eventually.

In fact, as the afternoon wore on, I felt worse than earlier in the day. The thought of stirring up toxins crossed my mind as well.

Vicki, that's a very perceptive observation. While most of us here appreciate what this simple pleasure and procedure offers, there are times when we experience some negative sensations or reactions.

This is not unusual for me. Many times and for several days, I will have what feels like cramping.

I ran into this a few times with my late partner.

Thanks, everyone. Glad I'm not alone, and I didn't think I am. That's why I don't quite believe all those ladies (and guys) on the internet who are in love with coffee enemas. They claim to be feeling so amazing after each session. I'm not a coffee drinker anyway – I consume very little caffeine – so I'm not interested in shooting it up my butt.

As a veteran of tens of thousands of enemas, from 4 oz to 6 qts and everything in between, and from salt and soda to herbals, coffee, and, of course, soaps, mostly Ivory and Dr Bronner's, I can remember a few times, certainly fewer than 100 when the enema made me feel no better or worse. On those occasions, I've just waited a couple of days and eased a two or three qt Ivory SSE into my poop chute. I don't recall any of those causing problems; most had the desires effects.

Vicki.

I agree all enema sessions don't bring a feeling of calm and good feelings after. I try to use the Bicarb and sea salt mix.

I have found over the years the soap used can alter your system in a harsh way. Also the soap solutions take longer for your bowel to return to normal.

Will

Vicki V said:

That's why I don't quite believe all those ladies (and guys) on the internet who are in love with coffee enemas. They claim to be feeling so amazing after each session.

I would like to comment on that. I fully agree with the previous comments that sometimes an enema does not make you feel like you hoped it would. I have taken many, many enemas over the years and sometimes even though you use the same solution, same position, and same equipment, it does not turn out like it has many times before.

But as related to coffee, which has become my favorite enema over the years, I have less unfavorable results with one quart of coffee with one tablespoon of baking soda in it than I do with soap or salt. Is it a mental thing? Perhaps.

Just like some of us like Ivory, or Dr. Bronner's, I like coffee. Some of you do not like what coffee does to you. That's OK.

I have yet to take 2 enemas that really were exactly alike.

I go in expecting a certain amount of uncomfortable cramping. As well as mild to moderate nausea.

@ LisaK - what kind of quantity are you taking that causes nausea? Once in a great while on my final fill of my weekly series (green tea) I've taken more than I should and can get a bit nauseous but that's around the 5 qt mark. Funny but I have to do that now and then just to remind myself not to take so much.

This morning when my lovely wife was giving me my enema, I became kind of sick to my stomach and couldn't take more than 4 quarts. I had just come in from working in my vegetable garden. It was rather hot outside, but I have never experienced anything like this except when I decided to use lemon juice in my enema. Horrible cramping… nausea… cold sweats. Today's enema was not quite as bad… but…

2+ qts of warm, not hot, soapsuds by the 3rd round usually will produce mild nausea.

I don't know if this is true, but there ARE reports of bulimics drinking soapsuds to make themselves vomit. Seems to me it would be hard to drink enough of it!

Only one percent of all the enemas I was given or took myself were because of need. All the rest were for pure pleasure. I enjoyed every part of the enema experience from retrieving the can, preparing the solution, the nozzle insertion, the flow, the holding and the release. Most I felt well before before the enema and usually felt well after If not I will be fine be the next time.

In reply to Bigjane.

My standard enema now, and for some time now has been 3-qts. I hang it at the right height so that it injects at a rate of about a quart per minute.

MIker: Lemon enemas

One summer my older brother were preparing for Boy Scout camp. This required a physical. Mom took us to the doctor and when he finished he told Mom to give us a Lemon enema. One lemon in a pint of warm water old for a few minutes then expel and an hour later a regular rinse enema. On the way home she picked three lemons, Mom put the ironing board on the bathtub and we got, for the first time on the left side. Mom picked be first as I was always willing and did not fuss. She gave me the enema and it was very different but not uncomfortable. While I was expelling she was giving his enema. While he was expelling younger brother, who was not going to camp, got his. This was the first time we were all in the bathroom together getting our “Lemonade” enemas. We had a ball and I think Mom had fun also as we were all well to start with. Our rinse enemas were given in private

Many years later we had an old orchard lemon tree and as it was never harvested we had lemons year around. Two lemons per quart was great.

The reasons that have been posted is exactly why my enemas are always the same. One and one third quarts of plain warm water. Might be boring for a great many of you but it works for me.

Indeed not! Some end or are much delayed by things like a broken tab on the bag. The hose pops off. Balloon catheter bursts. Then there's the miss measured ingredients producing instant but unwanted results.

If you play with enemas for long and are adventurous enough, you WILL suffer a calamity. Just clean it up and keep syringing boys and girls. Because it feels good. May the flow be with you.

Years ago, back in the mid 80's, a friend of mine got into long distance running and wanted to lose a lot of weight. He started taking enemas, frequently. We never discussed the frequency or what was in the water as it was considered too sensitive of a topic. But, he did get a heart attack and he believed it was from the loss of electrolytes over the multiple enemas. I think that it is possible to overdo the enema, by quantity, volume and/or solution.

Some years ago I have been aware of the fact that even in taking high enemas this will not be the optimal manner to remain healthy in being worried for a well-preserved immune system. I discovered that this one should be possible by swallowing castor oil in a regular manner, at least once the week.

Remember: Nobody is able preventing to absorb toxins from the environment, in the most cases with the food - and these ones will be deposed for the most part in the liver. So detoxifying the liver is a lifelong task in order to remain healthy. It is well known, that the optimal manner to detoxify the liver is swallowing castor oil - nothing else is comparable.

Personally, I don't subscribe to the detoxifying nature of an enema or multiple enemas.

The vast majority of my enemas have been for my pleasure and perhaps sharing online with a friend. I have rarely tried to use them to “make me feel better” if I am suffering through an illness. I think I've tried them once or twice when I have flu-like symptoms that involve a fairly high fever. The water is cool enough to feel the cooling effect but not so cool as to cause cramps. Sometimes that cooling effect provided some temporary relief from that hot feeling of a fever.

I've taken enemas when I have a cold or cold-like symptoms. Sometimes I feel better for a brief period and sometimes there is no change. The feeling better may be related more to the release of cumming (and the effects of orgasm on certain cold nasal symptoms) rather than anything else. There have been a few “blah days” where an enema has felt good. If anything, I won't go wit a really strong enema under these conditions.

The idea of taking an enema while I am vomiting my guts up isn't all that appealing, either. Blowing out at both ends when I'm sick isn't particularly erotic or appealing. I have triggered nausea from a particularly strong enema so that I'm worried about both ends, but that's a different story.

Fortunately, there have been very few “bad enemas” in my lifetime of enemas.

The enema “not made in heaven” happen to my wife and I while having sexual intercourse one evening. It's roots went back to the previous summer, when my wife an I visited her best friend for a week. On the second night, my wife an I kept her best friend awake after we'd all gone to bed with our bedroom activities. The next morning she said something to my wife about it and suggested we have a threesome that evening. When my wife told me in private what her best friend had suggested. I was floored she even entertained such an idea, because she was a very private person in that regard. We had a long discussion about why they wanted to engage in this activity, assuring me she really wanted to do it. Explaining, that her best friend had heard about something she really wanted to try, but couldn't, because she was without a boyfriend at the moment. She explained her reasons for wanting to do it, and I agreed with her. At the end of our conversation I asked her, “Are you sure you want to do this?” She replied, “I'm sure.” Then asked me, “What about you? I detect hesitation in your voice.” I replied, “It's not hesitation, I'm just surprised you even ask, that's all. As long as your ok with it, I'm ok with it.” After supper that evening, the girls got things ready for the evenings activity in the master bathroom. They got an old blanket, plenty towels and three or four pillows to make a soft bed on the bathroom floor, and finally their enema bags. Once the bed was made, we started kissing as we undressed each other. As I did the girls, I kissed and ran my hands down their bodies ending with one hand between each girls legs. When the girls did me, they kissed and ran their hands down my body end with their hands between my legs. When we finally laid down on the bed of towels, my wife an I made sure to put her friend between us. Once the initial foreplay was over the girls wanted to do enemas. Each of us giving the other an enema with the douche nozzle. When it was time for her friends second enema, I knew what the girls wanted to do. So, while my wife fixed her friends second enema of the evening. She went over with me exactly what she wanted to do and the position she wanted to use. I was intrigued when my wife briefly explained it that morning and it amazed me, I hadn't thought of it first. So, when her friend went over it me, it really peeked my curiosity an interest in given it a trying. When my wife hung the enema bag up her friend got in the knee chest position. I watched as my wife inserted her index finger in her friends anus and moved it around for fifteen or twenty seconds before replacing it with the douche nozzle and started the flow. Then she told me to mount her friends vagina and go slowly until she’d taken the two quart enema. When the bag was empty, my wife got another douche nozzle, and as her friend started over the edge with my penis deep inside her vagina. She slid the other douche nozzle in my anus, moving it slowly back and forth, putting me over the edge. The instant I shot cum deep inside her vagina, her vagina clamped down hard on my penis until her orgasm was over. All this while her tummy held a two quart enema, my penis going slowly back and forth deep inside her vagina, and my wife moving a douche nozzle slowly back and forth deep in my anus. When it was over, my wife removed the douche nozzles from both of us, allowing us to get up, so her friend could get on the toilet and expel the two quart enema she held in her colon. Once her friend was finished on the toilet, the girls switched places. This time my wife was in the knee chest position getting a two quart enema from her friend, while I was having intercourse with her, just as I’d done with her friend. When the bag was empty her friend did as my wife had done. She got another douche nozzle and slid it in my anus as my wife began her orgasm, slowly moving it back and forth, causing me to shoot cum deep inside my wife’s vagina. Which in turn caused her vagina to clamp down on my penis until our orgasms were over. Her friend removed the nozzles, so my wife could expel her two quart enema. When my wife finished on the toilet the girls fixed my second enema and told me to lay down on my back with my feet pulled up to my bottom. My wife watched as her friend inserted her index finger in my anus, moving it around for fifteen or twenty seconds before replacing it with the douche nozzle and started the flow. As the water flowed into my colon, she told my wife to mount my penis, while she gave me a two quart enema and slowly moved the nozzle back and forth in me. When the bag was empty and I had a two quart enema in my tummy. The girls switched places again and her friend mounted my penis for the second time that evening. My wife took over the douche nozzle movement until I had an orgasm, shooting cum deep in my wife’s friend vagina for the second time that evening. This really turned my wife on, so we continued the practice of taking enemas and holding them, while having sexual intercourse.

Moving forward to the Spring of the next year and the enema “not made in heaven.” The evening it happened, I was laying on my back in the bathroom on a bed of towels hold a two quart enema with the douche nozzle deep inside my anus as my wife rode my penis. As she got close to her orgasm, her movement on my penis got a little too fast, causing her to came down too hard on my tummy. The douche nozzle popped out along with the two quart enema inside me. Flooding the bathroom floor. The only good about the whole affair was, we’d each taken a couple of enemas beforehand, an our colons were clean, but it was still a big mess to clean up. Afterwards, we got a couple of good butt plugs and once the two quart enema was in, we took the douche nozzle out and replaced it with a butt plug. Once we had the butt plugs, we got another enema bag, so we could take our enemas together, allowed us to both hold a two quart enema while having sexual intercourse.

Oh yeah, had some times when strong cramps started really fast (sometimes proceeding to nausea), and sometimes when my “colon is on strike” (not sure what else to call it) and it just doesn't want to push anything out, enema or not. Once or twice both at the same time - cramps and nausea, but not coordinated enough to be productive. Ugh. Actually just had that this morning after a long weekend of bowels not working.

Re: Toxins. True toxins are generally fat soluble or otherwise not going to be touched by an enema or similar (heavy metals will not be affected either), or they are able to be handled by the body on its own.