Sweating after a heavy enema session

On a few occasions I have experienced heavy sweating after a series of powerful enemas using Dr Bronners peppermint soap solutions and water that was just comfortably warm

They have ben large enough and potent enough to induce coniderable cramping and I have to admit that the room has been warm too but the sweating has been enough to make drops drip from my face and I have felt a bit faint with it

On one of the occasions I was being worked on by an experienced professional enema nurse who was willing to give me a third one but I felt I had to decline!

I just wonder whether any of our expert contributors can relate to this? and would bbe most interested to have opinions on whether I am doing anything wrong

This is an educated guess but don't some people sweat when they get bad cramps and having warm water in your colon combined with a very warm room can exacerbate it?Repeated series may have that effect and sometimes not.There may be another cause to your symtoms that I'm not catching but there is someone on here who can answer that better I'm sure.I know I can sweat sometimes if I have any type of bad cramping as I get hot and my body is trying to fight the cramps.

Thank you for your observations and interest. I note your comments which I think sound to be accurate. I shall probably slow down a bit! and cool off!

I had a problem sweating while having an enema on a hot humid night a few times.I now use cool solution on hot days especialy after working outside on the yard.I find cool enemas great for the first couple of cleanout enemas because they expell much quicker.

Let the good times FLOW.

Yeah, that happens to me a lot...I feel like my temp. skyrockets and a feel a bit shaky sometimes. :'(

If I have a rather hot enema in a hot bathroom, I have had the sweats. You got all that heat inside, heat outside and your body wants to cool off. It is going to happen. A cool enema will help cool you down and you will at some point stop sweating.

A really cold enema may cool you down really quickly and cause lots of cramping.

I tried an ice cube and cold water enema once, wow, now that was really something. I stopped the flow really quick. Didn't feel a bit good. Much rather have a nice warm enema.

If you take an enema with hot water, and the room is warm you will

sweat, and quite profusely. The hot water has raised your body temp, and your body needs to cool down so it sweats. Its ok, but

be care full not to have the water TOOO hot. you will easily give your insides a burn...As a rule of thumb, if you drip some of the water on the inner part of your arm and its too hot, then its too hot for your butt. At any rate if you take a cool water enema after the hot water one, you will then lower your body temp.

Many doctors prescribe Ice cold enemas for patients with a high fever, to bring that fever down.

Thank you to all who replied to my post. I can assure you that the solution was only just a little above blood heat but the room was fairly warm. Lets face it, who wants a fill in a cold room!

I still dont feel sure why I sweated so much. it was dripping off my face

I would hazard a guess that this was a vagal reaction (like fainting) from colon distention and irritation from the soap.

I rather favour that explanation too but I didnt think of it myself! I must be getting old!

Thank yo for your helpful suggestion

I have experienced heavy sweating a number of times. I think this occurs when I over do it with water too hot, too high and too soapy. Too much Dr. Bronner peppermint soap guarantees that I will cramp badly, have a hard time expelling and break into a dripping sweat all over my body. I sometimes will feel faint and have lie down. I have now expeienced this with any solution except soapsuds. I don't like this feeling, so I try to be moderate with my enemas.

That happens to me all the time, but I do like my enemas large, 4 quarts, hot and soapy so that's probably why! Barry

Your body is telling you that you are overdoing it. Time to back off. Wait longer between rounds.

Regular large volume enemas do this to me occasionally - time to rest up for a few days and let the body get back to normal - can also make you light headed at times.

I sweat sometimes when doing a series of enemas. This is caused by your core temperature being raised by the water that is warmer than body temperature. If you get light headed and sweaty you may be using too warm a solution. If you want to stop the sweating take a cool warter enema and it will reduce your core temperature and the sweating will stop.

Ooh my yes sweating and cramping go together,,my wife always tells me now I k what a woman feels,just like menstrual cramps or pregnancy Labor pains ,as the cramping sensation begins she will talk mr though them telling me it will be okay just take deep breath and tell me now I understand what women experiences

To the OP and to everyone else who has experienced similar issues, you are definitely not the only ones. I am a big fan of intense, large, hot and pretty soapy enemas, and my favorite soap is indeed the Dr Bronner’s peppermint goodness. Because of my number of GI problems, enemas are not only a gloriously sensual to be intimate with my partner, but they are a medical necessity (my doctor is aware of my enema use and, on multiple occasions, he’s told me how much safer and overall enemas are better for my bratty and untamable lower GI tract compared to just about anything else, which makes me feel like even the rougher experiences have an ultimately salubrious effect and are worth the discomfort).

I love my enemas to be crampy and hard to hold and my colon is so “lazy“ (I have gastroparesis and IBS-C, among other things) that enemas which don’t contain strong stimulants, or not enough of them, will just linger inside me, causing a great deal of discomfort and even pain. It’s gotten worse with time and the last year or two have been particularly challenging as far as the gastroparesis goes but I have adopted the approach of making lemonade out of some pretty nasty lemons: that has lead to many series of 3-4 quart bags full of extra minty solutions that are very appealing at first, and simply phenomenal when given by my partner, but accompanied in either case by profuse sweating, occasional dizziness and nausea, and cramps that are so strong that they almost take my breath away. The temperature of the solution does not seem to make much of a difference and, if anything, a very warm enema helps me get better results in terms of thoroughness of cleaning me out and relaxing my colon which, in turn, allows me to take progressively larger amounts of solution with each consecutive “filling“. I’m very sensitive to the cold and I need to be in a pretty warm environment to relax my bowels and give myself or be given by my partner the type of enemas I want and need. In the summer in particular or even during a tough session I will be drenched in sweat and moaning loudly as a way to release the tension and cope with the pain in a more effective way, and derive more pleasure from the whole process. I’m also fairly tired after a few quarts and the necessary rinses and feel both better and wiped out. Balancing the solution with the appropriate amount of salt and hydrating (Gatorade zero is perfect for this) throughout the session helps a lot but I don’t think I can avoid the not so pleasant side effects that what an enema that does its job brings along.

Play safe,

B x

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Yeah, that happens to me a lot...I feel like my temp. skyrockets and a feel a bit shaky sometimes. :'(

Yes I too have experienced the body temp spiking accompanied by the sweats where for a moment you think you go close to passing out . . .Then sitting there breathing steadily until the feeling passes

@vito, I think you are on to something. I’m not sure why I hadn’t thought about it myself (possibly because my reactions that are similar to the OP’s are not always vasovagal ones, but just “rough-enema-syndrome”, like my doctor calls them) but vasovagal responses are definitely a possibility.

Looked up the lit and, after a quick search, found this:

http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.ijim.20130202.01.html

It’s not the ultimate truth about anything but I thought it was interesting and wanted to share it. I’m sure there’s more comprehensive studies on the topic but it is still good food for thought.

Thank you for the insightful suggestion.

I've worked up a sweat to various degrees many times. With me its probably because I'm more cold natured and have warm to hot water inside me raising my core temp.

I've worked up a sweat many times taking very crampy enemas. Two recipes especially, a large milk and molasses (like half a gallon of milk and a large jar of molasses) and strong lemonade (3 oz lemon juice per per quart). For me, these cause intense peristalsis along the entire length of the colon and maybe even the small intestine. When you think about it, its actually a very large muscle working extremely hard, and along with the warmer than body temp enema solution, its going to raise your core temp and cause sweating.

@TheBriannaYouCrave it sounds like we have the same or very similar conditions. Mine has gotten worse as time passes, only now I have bad hemorrhoids from the uncomfortable pushing and straining. (Which definitely takes the enjoyment out of anything being inserted in my rectum.) I have to have my water hot and soapy to make my bowels release. It is particularly hard during a flare-up. I have sweated, been nauseous at times, put a rolled up towel under my stomach when expelling. So I can definitely understand what you deal with. That sure takes the pleasure out of an enema but it's the only way you can go!

This has never happened to me. Usually, after an enema series I get the chills.

Not this applies to others, but sweating and nausea in my case during the expulsion and build up of powerful cramps from an strong enema turned out to be a sign of an underlying heart condition I hadn't been aware of.

I don't pretend to be a regular, nor an expert on much of anything other than what I have experienced, but I also have had situations when I broke into a sweat. I believe it occurred with me when I had a stronger solution mixed because it happened when I did not have the temperature as warm as I often use.

Sounds like electrolyte depletion.

You might want to wait longer between rounds

Throughout my years of enema adventures, a 110 degree soapy bag in a warm bathroom makes me a wonderful tingling sweaty boy/man. After a series of clean outs until clear, my finale of an alcohol enema(3 ½ qts. of beer, wine or peppermint schnapps at 6%) means a exquisite session of sweaty sexy fun🌋🚀😜

If you Google, ‘vagus nerve’ and read its description you may recognize what can be happening. When the vagus nerve is stimulated it can lower blood pressure and cause heavy sweating. GI disturbances frequently stimulate the vagal nerve and can cause blood pressure to drop low enough to cause loss of consciousness. You may want to consider backing off using enema solutions where sweating occurs.

Review the graphic at the following link: https://www.verywellhealth.com/vasovagal-reflex-1945072

I used to get colonics from a chiropractor in San Diego. He used a gravity table with the big cone shaped glass jars on the wall and a bowl-shaped basin you released into. The flow was continuous and it just kept running in while you pooped.

He would put a half cup of hydrogen peroxide in the water. It made me cramp, poop. and sweat like crazy, hence no gown. It also gave me imediate rock hard erections which usually released without touching.

The sessions were about 1.5 hrs long and included a couple refills of plain water to stop the cramping.

Has anyone had hydrogen peroxide used on them? Do you think the hydrogen peroxide caused the erections and subsequent release or was that just me?

I find using peppermint extract in my enema solution helps with nausea and not over doing the soap on the big enemas helps.