I've had nothing but bad luck with suppositories!
Get them all the way in, though and they dissolve. The delay can be as long as with oral laxatives.
Now that I am an adult, and a college graduate, my father, who raised me as a single parent, relayed me this story!!!!
It will drive anyone away from suppositories!
I was working the 2-11PM shift at a job site a little over an hour's drive away.
I got up one morning feeling like I had to poop, but couldn't I did not want to miss any work time having to go to the bathroom at work. I took a generic Dulcolax Suppository at about 6:30 AM.
That time, I didn't get any burning, but 30 minutes or so later, I got a small poop. I figured it had done what it was going to do, and went about my day.
Things were uneventful, but at lunch, I got a little more noticeable "gut rumbling" than usual.
I left for work as usual, and I was not under way 15 minutes. I was glad I was in the car by myself, because I started passing large amounts of gas! This was around 12:30 or so! As I got closer to work, I started to feel like I had to poop, but I decided to wait, since I was not that far away.
Once I got to work, that was where the trouble started!!!
I had to hurry up and clear security, and head directly for the restroom! Once I got there, it was as though the entire content of both upper and lower bowels had liquefied!! It took me so long to finish I was actually a couple of minutes late. That was not enough to get noticed but, I had to run to the restroom every 30 minutes, and pass liquid. By 6 PM, I was passing pieces of undigested food!
I had to make up a story about food poisoning, and even though I was able to sell that, I got written up for excessive bathroom breaks! By the end of the shift, the running to the bathroom had stopped, but when I got home, I still had one loose bowel movement!!
Next day, it was over with, thank god! things were normal!!
Still, I now only use suppositories as a pre-enema, no longer use them by themselves! It's enemas for me if I get into that situation again!!!