Have you ever had a glycerin suppository not work?

As others have replied, glycerin suppositories will only work if there is a (probably) hardened bowel movement in or close to the rectum, which would have been ready to be expelled. If there is nothing close to or in the rectum, the suppository (one or more) will have little effect on producing a bowel movement for you.

@KennyT But if you keep the melted glycerin in your rectum, and some waste descends into your rectum, which may happen a while after you had the suppository, then you will feel a strong need to evacuate. Delayed effect!

It happens to my girlfriend. She needs more than 2 sometimes.

Well sort of, I've been using a lump of saddle soap which I think can be better than a glycerin suppository. But I'm sure my body gets used to them, so doesn't work well after sometime. So it's back to glycerin suppository, til they don't work, and so on.

New to suppositories and for those who haven’t tried them they are affordable, effective and readily available fun at your local drugstore. Have only tried Fleet so far.

Another time when glycerin did not work.

I had a bike accident 15 years ago, and had to get surgery on my leg. They gave me painkillers. I realized that I had not moved my bowels since the accident. Some oral laxative and glycerin suppositories were tried, to no avail. Finally, my wife ended up giving me an enema to unclog the situation. First time I was that much constipated.

If for experimenting on myself then yes I have taken fews . But if for real use like constipation then no

Glycerin suppositories do not work for me, they have no effect. The liquid ones work in about 5 minutes. If necessary, I use Dulcolax suppositories and in 10 minutes I am on the toilet.

I remember when I was about 12 years old I didn't poop for several days, I started having cramps and my mother put a glycerin suppository. It had no effect, but the pain stopped. Hours later, my mom put in two more glycerin suppositories, pushing deep. This time it worked.

Yes, this happened. It seems I get very constipated easily if taking opiate painkillers, and in that case just taking a glycerin suppository won't do it. Fortunately, in cases I took opiates, the pain subsided rather fast so I was able to stop them early. I however had to take an enema in one occasion, at least to ease the stress of not having pooped for a number of days.

Well they do work, but i think their effectveness weares off if you use enough as i do for fun, so i switch to saddle soap which def works for a time, then back to glycerine supps and so on.........just what happens with me, maybe not everone, ccomments please.

Growing up there was one or two occasions when my mom believed that getting out the bag, making an enema, and administering it was a lot of bother so she tried using glycerine suppositories. After several occasions of not having one work and then making an enema anyway she gave up and it was warm soapy water from that point on.

The glycerin suppositories worked okay about 10 years ago, but now days if I am really 'bound up' I either use my glass syringe (The one I have has a longish blunt tip...) and pull 20 to 30ml of liquid glycerin into it and administer it. I usually get 'results' in about 20 minutes.

My 'preferred' clean out method is either about 30ml of glycerin / or 10 to 20mg of bisacodyl (as in 1 or 2 suppositories - sometimes I just administer the suppositories) in about 1000ml of warm water and a tablespoon (or so) of baking soda to make it somewhat isotonic.

Sanne .You mentioned Bisacodyl suppositories. Are they the same as Dulcolax? Supposedly , they are much stronger than glycerin ?? A female friend of mine told me a few months ago she gave her female partner 4 glycerin suppos. and no result. So her mother, who was a nurse, came over and administered 1 Dulcolax suppository. Apparently it worked like a damn but she said her partner had " terrible terrible cramps" and sat on the throne quite a while. She said it was worse than an enema. How does this fit with others experiences ?

Sanne .You mentioned Bisacodyl suppositories. Are they the same as Dulcolax? Supposedly , they are much stronger than glycerin ?? A female friend of mine told me a few months ago she gave her female partner 4 glycerin suppos. and no result. So her mother, who was a nurse, came over and administered 1 Dulcolax suppository. Apparently it worked like a damn but she said her partner had " terrible terrible cramps" and sat on the throne quite a while. She said it was worse than an enema. How does this fit with others experiences ?

They can burn and they can cramp, and they don't soften the movement at all. Had a couple times when even they didn't work (stool was backed up above the rectum, so the suppo just gave churn in the rectum but didn't expel anything).

Well they do work, but i think their effectveness weares off if you use enough as i do for fun, so i switch to saddle soap which def works for a time, then back to glycerine supps and so on.........just what happens with me, maybe not everone, ccomments please.

Heard you talk about those several times. While they sound interesting I'm not willing to try them over here as "saddle soap" is completely unregulated in US and who knows what would be going up my butt.

They rarely work for me in a meaningful way. Sometimes one will get things moving well enough in a pinch but I'd must rather use an enema if I have the time for it. Guaranteed to work and a much more satisfying cleanup.

Had many glycerin supos over the years and ducolax glycerin dousnt all ways work stright away like ducolax find saddle soap works every time my mother often used green household soap if no glycerine supos handy

It doesn't happen alot but yeah happened several times for me but it work after some hours later

@Mary1 If you used a glycerin suppository, and it didn't work until a few hours later, it means that you probably weren't very constipated near your rectum, but perhaps farther up into your intestine. So eventually it began to work, as your bowel movement moved down into your rectum, and that triggered the glycerin from the suppository that had melted in your rectum earlier to cause you a need to evacuate then.

Glycerin supps never did much very fast. Mom used the long skinny ones and would slide them in and out of my anus for long periods. She wasn't very patient and would push it all the way in with her long, skinny fingers. I liked the feeling & it wold make me erect... it never worked do I would end up getting a soap suppository which I didn't like at all.

The liquid supps are another story.

I inserted one 15 min ago and it's not working. After 3 days of constipation.

I inserted one 15 min ago and it's not working. After 3 days of constipation.

Sorry to hear this !! - then you will need a good mixtured enema, including liquid glycerin and peppermint soap !!

For the most part they work but if they are old and drying up they don’t always work.

I think people react differently to glycerin, be it suppositories or liquid glycerin. Some people seem to get a very strong "urge" while others are waiting 30 minutes and nothing is happening. Probably if you don't react to glycerin suppositories, I'd stick with the biscodyl variety, like Dulcolax.