Is 3am my "favorite time" for an enema? I'm too tired to think. I was lying in bed last night for two hours awakened by sudden nausea waves in my gut. What's going on? Went to bed at 10:30 and felt fine. Dear husband is in Seattle on a business trip. I hate being sick in the middle of the night!
Sat twice on the throne trying to get the bug out. Stabbing gas pains, nothing else. I totally dislike Pepto B., a bottle which I was holding. Should I take this stuff? Maybe I was a little clogged up, and Pepto wouldn't help that.
I wonder how many women today, guys also, when faced with this discomfort, would take an enema? Yuck! After going back to bed and not being able to sleep, I thought let's try an enema. It feels what's in there needs to come out. I'm pretty experienced with an enema bag, and this time it was unusual. Just a few seconds after I opened the clamp, I had to stop, take out the tube and go sit. Just that little bit of warm water broke through and opened the floodgates. First I felt the hard stuff pass, then the lake poured out of me -- and it continued on and off for the next 20 minutes. Should I get back down on the floor and continue the enema? No, I think nature took its course. It just needed a little boost, and anyway I was exhausted!
So, by around 4 o'clock I was feeling better, weak but cleaned out. No more waves of nausea. We on this board are supposed to enjoy enemas. Seriously, this experience wasn't so enjoyable. But it proved once again to me that an old-fashioned method that's fallen out of favor to most people can still work wonders. No drugs, just some therapeutic warm water to which I added a pinch of natural salt. And it didn't even cost a few bucks for a Fleet.
I poured the rest of the water out of the enema bag and left it in the sink to clean and hang in the shower to dry.