Glycerine Enemas

I once took a 2.5 liter glycerin enema where I poured 250 ml into the bag and allowed the glycerin to fill the Higginson pump and the hose and then allowed what didn't fill the hose and the squeeze bulb remain in the bottom of the bag. I then carefully added 2.25 liter of warm water.

Interesting technique.

The results are impressively harsh.

My goto for a proper cleanout is 1/4 to 1/3 cup liquid glycerin to 2 liters of water. Regardless if my rectum or large intestines are filled or not, the cramps are pretty consistent and it usually can be 1 and done as long as I am not gassy. Usually always do a 2nd or 3rd with clear water as I love filly my empty guts and watching my skinny tummy look like I am pregnant.

I’ve started using Fleet liquid glycerin again in my soapy starter enemas and am enjoying the rising sense of urgency of the cramps🤪It makes for a very effective cleanout🤗It works well in my rinse enemas, too😍

I like 4oz of glycerine in a two qt bag. Good clean-out with two or three extra evacuations.

I tried something new🤗No soap, just 30ml of liquid glycerin and sea salt in 3 qts of warm water held in with my buttplug retention nozzle as my 1st enema😍An easier retention but still a thorough expulsion🤪Another 3 qts with more salt and 15 ml of glycerin was great, then a wine enema of hot water and a liter of Chardonnay made for a very “happy ending”😍

Not really an enema as such, but I loved squirting a little 20cc syringe filled with liquid glycerin up my backside, and then quickly diaper up.

Cramping would begin after only a few minutes, and I just laid back and enjoyed the wonderful building up urge to expel.

Sadly the store that sold the little bottles of liquid glycerin no longer carry them ;/

I've tried well over 30 solutions over the years because I liked to experiment, but I've never tried Glycerin.

I tried something new🤗No soap, just 30ml of liquid glycerin and sea salt in 3 qts of warm water held in with my buttplug retention nozzle as my 1st enema😍An easier retention but still a thorough expulsion🤪Another 3 qts with more salt and 15 ml of glycerin was great, then a wine enema of hot water and a liter of Chardonnay made for a very “happy ending”😍

Using your data, for the record, your first enema was just a little over 1% glycerin by volume.

The second enema would have been just about 0.5% glycerin.

Neither have much difference from plain warm salt water enema for the vast majority of people. A personal observation is that it takes somewhere between 5% and 8% to produce any noticeable reaction that is different from plain or salted water.

I’ve found roughly about 10% or 12% to be the sweet spot, and I don’t tend to go very high volume when doing a glycerine enema. For example I’ll typically do about 3 or 3.5 oz glycerine in a quart (32 oz) water. It gives some cramps but very manageable and (imo) pleasant

These were traditionally given to children as very predictable results quickly achieved. I still use this method when needing some help and it never fails.

Hi everyone! I have just registered at this forum and would like to share some (not very pleasant) experience with glycerin enemas.

Starting from the conclusion: When using osmotic laxatives in enemas, if you didn't get the desired effect, don't rush to increase the dose. It may lead to unpredictable and rather nasty after-effects.

Now in detail. A few days ago I have purchased a pack of bisacodyl suppositories and the holiday period was pretty much the only time when I could experiment with those, so I kind of got carried away and rushed things. First, I inserted two bisacodyl suppositories, waited a few minutes until they melt in my colon and gave myself a 2.5 liter plain water enema. It was not so bad, but I expected I would have more cramps from it than the modest amount of them I actually had. I held it in for like 15 minutes, but after I went to the toilet to expel it, I felt like I could not do it completely.

Then I gave myself a second enema of 250 ml glycerin mixed with 2.25 liters of tap water. That's just 10%, it should be fine, I thought. In fact... First, after I took it all in, I noticed myself feeling a bit... tipsy. I wonder if anyone else gets a similar sensation from glycerin enemas. I held it in for 10 minutes or so too with almost no cramps appearing. After I expelled it, I felt a rather nasty headache, not unlike a hangover. It continued for the next ten minutes or so, and only subsided after I drank some water. After that I gave myself a plain water rinse twice, but the water didn't quite want to get expelled, so to trigger the cramps I gave myself another enema with concentrated solution of baking soda. It was 5 tbsp of baking soda per two liters of water, or so.

Then I finally managed to expel everything, but after that session I started to feel lightheaded and a bit nauseous. I know that this is not an uncommon side effect of enemas, but that lightheadedness continued for three days straight! Only on the fourth day I started to get better, even though I made sure to drink a good amount of water, but now is the fifth day since that session and it has not subsided completely yet.

So yeah, play safe when it comes to osmotic laxatives - looks like they can easily wreak havoc on your electrolyte balance with long-lasting side effects! As for me, I think I will stick with only using glycerin for low-volume enemas to induce cramps for now, that looks more interesting.

P.S. As that bottle of glycerin was a freshly purchased one, I was also anxious about what if it was contaminated with diethylene glycol. It was marked as a food additive, kosher, halal, vegan and whatever not, but given that I live in Eastern Europe, who knows how strictly the regulations are actually followed. Also, few people in the reviews stated that they bought it as a food additive - there were a lot more people buying that for preserving leaves, to soften rubber and whatever not - for technical purposes. Thankfully, I didn't have any definite symptoms of intoxication, so it was all OK, but the anxiety was killing me for three days straight. Whoever buys glycerin from online marketplaces, I believe you might want to check the reviews from those buying it as a food additive.

@Leo_the_Handyman

First of all, welcome to Zity.

Everything you described suggests to me that you were drawing water out of your system through your colon, except when you drank water and effectively began to replace it. Glycerin enemas, by their nature, will draw water out of your system even when they are relatively dilute. In addition, glycerin, on its own, will usually enhance peristaltic contractions as an irritant to the colon. From experience, I know that if I can weather and ride out those peristaltic contractions that occur as waves, the muscles wave action will eventually become exhausted so that the contractions become random rather than in the coordinated wave action that often occurs for about 15 to 20 minutes before such contractions become uncoordinated and spasmodic.

Although baking soda often calms the muscle action, taking the baking soda at concentrations that produce a hypertonic solution drawing even more water out of the blood and tissues into the colon. The condition is termed is hypernatremia and it can be nearly as deadly as hyponatremia. It can also create an imbalance with blood potassium levels (hyperkalemia for high blood potassium, hypokalemia for low blood potassium) as there is a balance maintain is the blood plasma for these alkaline electrolytes. A third alkaline balance also important to heart function are calcium levels.

You are correct that you do need to be aware of the compounding effects on the osmolality effects of some of these additives. The fact that the effects lasted more than just a few hours suggested that you might have been borderline on finding your way to hospital to quickly determine these critical blood plasma balances and some treatment regime to counter the effects. Note that unrelated to any enema effects, I recently had to send my wife to our local hospital because she passed out cold and was unresponsive for between 5 and 7 minutes before she became conscious again. She had a heart beat and was breathing but was completely unresponsive until just before the paramedics arrives. Her diagnosis was hypokalemia (the "ka" in the condition represents the letter K for potassium in the periodic chart of elements, just as the "na" in hyponatremia represent the sodium as Na in the same periodic chart). My wife has experienced both at different times in her life. One had her admitted for 6 days as they slowly raised her blood sodium levels. The most recent event had her in hospital for 6 hours as they raised her blood potassium through two IV infusions of potassium chloride.

@Enema_Runner

Thank you for the reply! I also wish your wife and you good health.

What you wrote in your message were exactly my thoughts. I even considered walking to a lab to take a paid blood test for electrolytes, if it was not closed due to holidays and require up to three days since the test to send me back the results. Afraid that I might've been losing potassium, I also bought and ate a few bananas, that are, as I know, particularly rich in it. But while being extremely watchful of how i feel, I didn't experience anything alarming beside lightheadedness and maybe slight nausea at times even though I had to walk quite a bit that time, so luckily I didn't have to rush to a hospital. That was surely an alarming experience though, and that's specifically why I wrote about it to warn others.

I first came across hyponatremia as a long distance runner where I could lose so much sodium salt at marathon distances while trying to maintain hydration. I was mindful of that (it's more insidious at lower running temperatures than higher.

As an interesting aside. my wife routinely eats a banana nearly each day. So, it was a real surprise to us that her potassium levels were low. It turns out that she may have a genetic predisposition to sodium/potassium imbalances as her mom had these sort of issues later in her life.