Easier with a full or empty colon.

I find this statement rather suprising: obviously the water flow is easier if the colon is empty, and thus creating no cramps. I always empty my bowels with a small soapy enema, before enjoying a larger volume (generally 2 quarts), and then, no cramps!

I find if I take a small very warm enema for my first enema and hold it for some time it helps to take out the hard stools. Also I take a break about 10-20 mins between enemas..I find this to be very helpful to take on the enema.

I have to say that both have their own pleasures for me. When I'm planning on an enema series, I'll often fast for 10-12 hours beforehand for the easiest and quickest cleaning, and I'll have a movement first if possible. However, other times I've just been more spontaneous about it and just wanted to fill up right then and there, and on those occasions it's more likely I'll be willing to try starting with full bowels. When I was younger I would start off with 0.5 - 1 quart, repeated two or three times, for an initial cleanout. However, more recently I've gotten adventurous and started off by just taking as much water as I can hold, usually 2 - 2.5 quarts on my first fill - typically very warm tap water, but occasionally with soap added as well. The pressure in my already full colon can be a bit intense, and I feel very full, but the release is a rather amazing rush. Feeling everything rushing out, and getting out so much of all that material, just gives the feeling of such a good cleanout. I prefer larger volumes, and I'd say just about any volume of enema is easier with an empty colon. Once I'm cleaned out I can often take 3.5 quarts or more.

I do an enema on Sundays and Wednesdays and have no bm's in between. I fill with 4 qts of plain tap water using a 3' or longer colon snake with no difficulty getting either the snake or the 4 qts in, which takes perhaps 20 minutes. I do not have any trouble retaining the water for ten minutes, after which time I feel it has worked its magic and besides, I am getting bored standing around doing nothing. So, I spend the next 10-15 minutes expelling the water and the feces that goes with it. If I have time, I give myself a second, even a third 4 qt filling which comes out fairly clear.

hankb

Whenever possible I start with a full colon. I really enjoy the forceful evacuation of my bowels. Plus, knowing that the enema flushed out all feces makes me feel cleaner. Feeling clean and empty is one of the many reasons why I enjoy enemas!

I pretty much always at least try to do a bm before an enema. Not always successful, but I do like to pass larger stools on my own when I am able. When they start getting harder to do I know that I am coming due for an enema.

I often get an enema with a full colon, not necessarily by choice but due to inability to have a bowel movement on my own prior to the enema. If I do manage to go first, I still follow up with an enema that usually will produce even more.

Sometimes I will take a suppository first before an enema, because it is easier for me to take an enema if I have had some sort of bowel movement first.

Probably the easiest is a partially full colon!

I take most of mine empty stomach, but essentially full or close to it colon.

A complete bowel cleansing with a really full colon is a special experience but this one will not be possible in taking enemas.

In many cases to start with 2 quarts when full or constipated is not possible. After about a quart you can release it and then do more for the second one after some space is cleared.

My sub is sometimes full. In that he hasn't "gone" for a few days and would like some help to go.

Other times he isn't. Those are the surprise or just for fun enemas. Both have a good point to getting, he is getting an enema. Both can be difficult to take, just depends how the water flows through.

I prefer to have a small enema or suppository first, to get the "big stuff" out of the way first, then proceed with the proper enema. The small enema is done with the same bag as the later one; I just stop when I feel the need to evacuate. I don't use chemical-based Fleets for the initial small enema, but might now that they have gone to saline.

I don't use chemical-based Fleets for the initial small enema, but might now that they have gone to saline.

Saline just means that it is a fluid containing salts. Fleet enemas have always been saline, with a hypertonic solution of sodium phosphate. They are not a physiologic sodium chloride solution (0.9%).

Well, I guess I changed my mind. I wrote that I didn't like a full colon when I posted in 2017 but I have to admit now, that I like to have a full or partially full colon to achieve large expulsions.

This morning I was very uncomfortable in my packed rectum so I gave myself just a little warm enema with a bar of soap left in the bag to irritate my bowels to move out the hard turds. (If TMI, sorry.) I wasn't home for a few days and I had skipped taking Miralax to soften it. The little bit of concentrated soap water started to hurt so I sat on the potty after only taking about a cup or two of the solution. It started coming out a little at a time and I really had to grunt and push at first. Then it sort of gushed out. After that, I took a sudsy 3 quart enema. I love expelling lots of poop when I have an enema, so now my answer is "a full or partially full colon". It gives me great feelings! Just squirting out water doesn't particularly thrill me anymore. (It used to.)

I guess an old lady has the right to change her mind, doesn't she? (As long as it makes her feel good.) ?

I always sit down for a regular BM before inserting my nozzle or balloon catheter, but I've always been very lucky, in that I rarely take more than 2 enemas, usually one, and have no trouble getting in as much water as I like even on the first enema. Every time I do 4 quarts or the one time I did 5 quarts it's always the first or only enema of that day and it flows in all the way to my cecum without any difficulty and feels wonderful. The internal sensations and enjoyment are the same except for the number of splashes I produce on emptying starting with a full or pre-cleaned colon.

Eric

The more space, the higher volume can be taken. It is obvious. But if you want to be satisfied with the effect of enema to flush your insides or enjoy the cramps with it, it may be better having more contents in your bowel before the enema. It depends on what really you would like to get by the enema. In my case, because I like to receive higher volume, I cleanse my rectum and beyond by warm water stream from a shower nozzle before recieiving measured water intake. This process also helps outing gas inside. So the first trial like 5 liters can be achieved everytime. If it is carefully controlled to expel everything by the first one, there is a chance to get higher volume with the second one than the first one. This is just for high volume lovers like me though.

In an effort to simulate what enemas were like when I was young and very constipated, I would withhold BM's for a few days and then give myself a full bag soapy enema... It's be a long time since I that, and honestly can't remember what it was like..

@Moms Egirl; any lady has the right to change their mind (or so I've been told)

A nearly empty colon does provide more space for greater liquid volumes if you are into large numerical values.

However, I take enemas because I like the feeling of a nice (large) nozzle inserted and locked into my ass, the feeling of the warm enema solution of choice flowing into me and filling me, the feeling of being "full" and holding as long as I can (maybe to an assgasm or well beyond the first orgasm to the second cumming), and then the release in long and powerful contractions shooting out a stream of "spent" enema solution. I must admit that I do like the sensations of stool softened by the enema working its way down my descending colon, through my Sigmoid and out of my ass. Soap softened stool is particularly enjoyable because the muscle contractions from the soap are more intense as is the sensation of movement through the colon.

Besides, whether the volume is occupied by liquid or by "solids," volume is volume. The difference is just a matter of localized density.

The only "problems" I ever had with a full (or nearly so) colon is that liquid flow may have to be slowed appreciably to allow the liquid to find its way around and through the contents of my colon. That isn't really a problem with a partially full to nearly "empty" colon. However, as I fill, the liquid finds channels to flow through and around the contents. The only other problem I've run into deals with either adequate sealing at the base of my rectum (through a large diameter nozzle WILL push the contents back up into my rectum) or threading a long colon tube into my colon around (or through) the contents of a full colon. Small diameter colon tubes could be stopped. Large diameter tubes (like my 1.6 inch diameter) has to push the contents back up the colon until it gets to the point where it can either push through or around the contents. My mid-sized long tubes work best in this situation as the 1-inch (2.54 cm) is able to through through even when my colon is the fullest. These conditions usually make for a very messy tube when extracted, but shit happens in these situations.

I must admit, though, it is a very pleasurable sensation to have such a volume of liquid on the "other side" of all the contents of a full colon to push out the contents from the far end of the colon.

YMMV!

Recently I've been taking between 1/2-1 qt to start, then empty, and then 2-3 qts to fill the colon and get the water up high. As I've written somewhere else, I find that my constipation now takes place "higher up," primarily with me just slowing down so that I'm never really empty, and that the emptying of the rectum makes it easier to get the best fill so I get a better emptying. I really prefer 3-4 enemas consecutively, but I usually only have time for one or two.

Since my last post, I've gotten accustomed to more easily taking large fills for my first enema even when my colon is full of material and gas. I usually take it standing or in knee chest, and there tends to be a bit more cramping and sensation of fullness and gurgles as it slowly works its way through me. But I'm still often able to take 3 or even 3.5 quarts on my first fill, even with a full colon. It's an interesting sensation but also time-consuming and sometimes crampy and painful, and not really what I prefer. Once I've gotten the material and gas fully cleared from my colon it's a lot easier and more relaxing to just let a gallon of warm water steadily flow itself deep into my belly.

I prefer it to be empty or as empty as possible. Sometimes and if I have time, will take a ducolax or glycerin suppository the day before my enema. Being empty allows me to take a series rather tha just one enema