How long can you hold your enema?

Do any of you set a time for holding your enema do you try and beat the time you did before.

Unless it's coffee for theraputic reasons, I don't try to hold it. I figure my body will tell me when it's ready and I listen!!

I don;t usually make my clients hold it either. I invite them to go whenever it's comfortable for them. Unless of course, they've been bad....

I've been able to hold 2 qts for about 20 minutes.

I can't hold a full size, 2-1/2 - 3 qt, enema for very long. However, I think I don't really try. Perhaps if I had someone encouraging, or ordering, me to hold it, I could. Does anyone have experience in this area? Is there any position that's better for holding? Better with the nozzle left in or pulled out?

The problem with trying to hold it for a long time is that the primary function of the colon is to remove water from its contents and push what is left toward the exit. When you try to retain water, the colon will absorb it and you will just pee it out.

I am encouraged by by these comments. I have difficulty holding an anema and it certainly is very uncomfortable when I try. Previous correspondance has lead me to believe holding on was an essential part of the process. Now I shall give in to the need to relieve myself without feeling I am a failure.

Dave

I have held a 2 quart warm saline enema for just over an hour twice... I was sweating trying to hold it in for most of the time, and masturbating the whole time to ease the pressure and hold off the cramps... But boy did it feel like quite an accomplishment to hold for that long. I usually hold my enemas for 10-30 minutes depending on how I'm feeling.

The only time i try to hold an enema is when it's a coffee one...from what i've read you need to hold them for about 20 minutes to get the full benefit

Holding an enema for an extended time has no clinical benefit. Holding for a few minutes with abdominal massage to loosen everything up and get it moving is all you need. You are better off taking a second or third enema, holding each for a minute or two than holing one for 15 minutes. you will have spent the same amount of time doing it, and gotten better results with two enemas not retained than one retained a long time.

That being said, with a double balloon rectal catheter, I have held 2-3 quart enema for a couple of hours. I could have held it longer, but eventually, we have to expel it and get on with our lives!!

Wow holding 3 quarts for a few hours is really something. Did you use any salt in the liquid or was it just plain water by itself? I would assume and hope you added salt to avoid excessive water absorption.

20 min? I must be doing something wrong. I can't hold it more than maybe 4 or 5 min.

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wow holding 3 quarts for a few hours is really something. Did you use any salt in the liquid or was it just plain water by itself? I would assume and hope you added salt to avoid excessive water absorption.

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I use plain water. I'm not a big fan of salt. I never had a problem and I don't worry at all about electrolyte imbalance from enemas, especially holding one for a long time. Eventually the water in the colon equilibrates with the rest of the body and electrolyte transfer across colonic membranes slows a lot.

It's kind of fun to take a nap while holding an enema with a double balloon rectal catheter and later be awakened and masturbated.

I don't try to retain for any great amount of time, BUT having a double balloon rectal catheter in place and then awaking to some sexual activity has definitely given a good reason for doing so. Of course that would be something best shared with an enemate.

I take 2.5 litres of salt-walter and hold it for 20 minutes. the next enema I am going to have will be 3 litres and I'll try to hold it for 30 minutes. I always try for a bit longer each time, but can't always manage more than 20 minutes.

This is highly variable. Sometimes with smaller enemas, I can hold them almost any length of time. Ususally the warmer the water, the longer it can be held. As I have gotten older it seems the time limit has gone down, but I guess that is to be expected.

I don't really hold enemas very long. The pleasure comes from taking and expelling an enema.

I always figured the time would be better spent taking another enema! 😁

My main event enema of a session after several cleanout s can be held for a hour and a half.This enema has a two bag or container setup that includes a sixteen onces of a brandy mixture in a smaller container and a second large container of 3.5 qts of saline solution.Both connected with a Y connecter.The idea here is to take the brandy mixture and then wait and wait until the buzz starts,then slowly add the saline solution from the large enema container as the buzz feeling increases.This system slows down the alcohol effects as more water fills the colon.When the enema is completed,the total volume is about 3.5 qts and a hour and a half have passed.You have to remember,this enema is possible because the colon has had at least five cleanouts whereby each seceeding enema has increased voluume to expand the colon to except a higher volume making holding over three quarts for a hour or so,a breeze.I must add,that the relaxing effects of alcohol enemas can in some cases allow some people to tolerate a higher volume for a longer period.

Let the good times FLOW

I take Dr Bronners peppermint soap in my solutions and fine it really wants to get OUT!!. if I only use plain water then I often 'lose' much of the solution and neve pass it PR but only as urine later

I usually can't hold a 2 qt. plain water enema for more than 5 minutes.

When I use Dr. Bonners, don't get in may way to the john! I've tried plugs but they always leak.

I'm a wuss, I usually only hold it a minute or two unless someone is encouraging me. Once though as it finished flowing in me my mom called and I didn't want her to hear so I held it about 15 minutes.

I've held 3 quarts in for over 2 hours, and I'm always trying to beat my old records 😃

I think its necessary to set a time and hold it or get another bigger one till you do

I'm probably in the running for the shortest time for my first bag. But the second one

about 10 -15 minutes.

Not being into world records for this or repetitive, I wrote something regarding the subject in another thread. http://www.zity.biz/index.php?mx=forum;ox=display;topic=22882.msg377709#msg377709

G.N.

If its a big enema, say 4qts, its a short hold. A couple of quarts, Half an hour is no problem at all!

Very slow import of 2000cc up to 15 minutes 20 minutes, it is a second enema

I usually can't hold as long as I'd like, but I have a very crampy bowel, it seems. And I also tend to take my enemas faster than promotes holding them for very long. A lot of this comes from gaining enematic skills as an adult, with no model for proper enema-giving-taking as a child; they were verboten in my mother's house.

I agree that usually the first is the most difficult to retain--I have to go jiffy-quick despite my desire to hang on for a bit. Each successive enema is easier to take and hold. The other helpful factor is having the enema given by someone else; a little encouragement or swat or threat can make a big difference!

Sjors21c

I find that about the maximum that I can retain a 2 quart soap suds enema is about 2 1/2 minutes before I really begin to cramp up and I have to expel. There are a few times that I can retain the solution for five minutes but under much distress.

Judging by some of the replies I am not alone.

Depends on the type of enema and if i use a plug or not.