Colon tubes and expulsion

My last three enemas with a colon tube have been good but have taken me FOREVER to expel. I sit on the toilet after the enema and I think I’m done and within the hour I’m cramping again and need to rush to the commode to let more go. Another hour and I’m holding my cheeks together and waddling to the bathroom to release another torrent. Can anyone relate to this? Didn’t used to be this way. I’m using 2 ½ qts of hot water with 1 tsp each of salt and soda.

How far into your colon are you releasing the water from the end of your tube? Are you releasing all of the 2.5 qts at that same spot? If you give yourself the same enema but from a short anal nozzle or fixed-position balloon catheter, how much less time do you need to expel it?

Eric

It’s science, not rocket science, but common sense science. The colon is roughly 5 feet long, and if you use a long tube and the water gets really up there, it’s going to take a while to drain out.

They didn’t teach me this in high school science class, but a nurse did years ago when she was caring for me at home. I was constipated to the hilt, and she stuck a tube up me which seemed like “all the way to Alaska“ (I was in Oregon, lol), and did that ever clean me out! I was still releasing over an hour later. Nurses can be science teachers, too.

I give my enemates colon tube enemas, usually the rinse enema. I Insert the tube far enough to be sure I’m into the sigmoid and begin a slow release. I may or may not ease it further as she takes the full bag.

After about 10 minutes after the bag drains, while I’m playing with the colon tube to bring her to the edge, I ease the tube out and massage her tummy as she releases.

It‘s seldom she has to run back to the potty.

A big part of the reason the water takes so long to expel, is that high insertions places the solution well beyond the internal sphincter and rectal vault. This is an area 2-6 inches past the anus where peristalsis (urge to poop) is induced.

This is why nurses typically won’t insert an enema tip more than 6 inches in the rectum when giving a patient a cleansing enema. A naturopath on the other hand might insert a soft catheter comfortably more than 8 or 10 inches into the sigmoid colon, and instill the solution slowly so the client can hold it longer and absorb the benefit of whatever is in the enema. This technique is useful for coffee, wheatgrass, and probiotics, but not so for cleansing the bowels with saline or soapsuds solution.

The salt is retaining the water in your colon, making it take longer to expel. Don't sit on the toilet for extended periods of time, get up and walk around until the urge to go comes. The cramping is caused by the soda producing gas. It's very common for the gas to interfere with the expulsion of the liquids and solids.

After the solution and poo stops coming down, remain seated on the toilet and do the hula (twist in all directions at the waist) for a bit. That should help unkink your bowel, letting solution that's trapped up high gush down and out. Do this only when seated on the toilet or you may have a very messy bathroom floor. The solution and poo can come down very quickly and you may not have any control.

@Sean Good advice, I haven't tried that yet.

Changing positions and twisting certainly aid in expelling a high enema. I will also stand and bend forward to touch my toes, or agitate my abdomen, to coax the fluid to a final exit. I also will hang my bag near the toilet and inject smaller quantities of cold water and expel quickly while seated. This often triggers those blasts of effluent that require proximity to the toilet.

I take a colon tube enema once a week. Two and a half quarts of mild soap solution. I use a Bard thirty inch FR30 tube, left side for insertion while the solution flows and finish the enema on my back. Total time from start to finish is about five minutes. Expelling takes a little longer than my two quart enemas but not overly longer. I do not have any more issues with subsequent evacuations using a colon tube than I do with the two quart enemas I take using a 15” Foley catheter. I take my time expelling, letting my colon work on its own, never straining.

@Darth: …..enemas with a colon tube have been good but have taken me FOREVER to expel……I’m using 2 ½ qts of hot water with 1 tsp each of salt and soda.

I'd have the same problem if I did not use a good amount of Ivory soap to make a soapy enema. Without the soap I get “the dreaded dribbles” which are kind of what you are describing…

I love Zity. I’ve had a number of colon tubes in my years of being an enemamanic and I’ve been using them improperly. A 3qt.soapy starter with a short plug nozzle then the OHN tube(a recent purchase) with full insertion and another two bags until clear.😛😍😜

After a preliminary 2 quart plain water enema to unblock any resistance, I'll use a 30 fr that is well lubed and attached to a 1gallon bag of Dr. Bronner' lavender soapy water waiting. A WELL lubed colon tube should snake its way up there with minimal pain.

Then… the relief.

@Nurse_Nikki A naturopath on the other hand might insert a soft catheter comfortably more than 8 or 10 inches into the sigmoid colon, and instill the solution slowly so the client can hold it longer and absorb the benefit of whatever is in the enema. This technique is useful for coffee, wheatgrass, and probiotics.

Nurse Nikki knows her enemas! About once a month, I take a probiotics solution retention enema, injected through a soft rubber tube into my sigmoid. I’ve also had wheat grass injected as an enema.

For nearly the past four years, I have been under the care of a naturopath for a lower bowel inflammation. Holistic enemas are part of her tool kit for bowel disorders, which I much prefer to the big Pharma drugs I was having, going to different G.I. specialists in past years. The retention enemas are painless, I hardly feel the tube. After the injection, I have to lie down for at least a hour while the solution is absorbed.

Having salt in a high enema solution is a good thing! It keeps the enema from being absorbed into the bloodstream, which is a bad thing. The minor inconvenience of having to sit on the toilet longer in order the expel everything is the better option than just using unsalted water.

And yes, because Nurse Vikki knows her stuff, she is truly the "Enema Queen” and gives sound advice on this subject!