Bed pans

My wife and i use a bed pan when we have our enemas my question is does anybody else use bed pans?

We use bed pans when we make our enema videos. Not every enema is a video enema and the bed pans are used along with our medical table. My patient is in the stirrups with the bed pan under her bottom after she receives her enema. She expels and moves her bowels into the bed pan and all is made into a movie. We plan these events and the preparation and anticipation are just about as much fun as making the video itself 😃

That is something I never thought about. (using a bedpan) But it seems like a good idea, especially, lying on the bed, and leaking a little, the bed pan saves a mess.

Both my husband and I have used an old fashion hospital grade stainless steel bedpan following a enema. The plastic disposable units used in hospitals today just will not hold the volume from a good high soap suds enema. I think we paid $10 for it on eBay.

I was a nurse back in the days when just about everyone getting an enema was placed on a bedpan. This was the 100% standard on childran wards. Adults were made to use than when you needed to chart how the enema worked. Most of the times I let patients used the toilet resulted in an extra enemas as they would flush before I could inspect the results.

I hope all you younger married couple that plan to be together in your Golden Retirement years get over any reservation of handling a bedpan for your spouse. Enemas, bedpans and diapers are all part of the aging process for most of us.

Sara

"Enemas, bedpans and diapers are all part of the aging process for most of us"

I like this. I use a bedpan and a urinal and wear diapers.

I think when you release on a cold bedpan all the good feeling will be gone immediately. The erotic feeling is always connected to the warm feeling inside and outside.

My mom had a white enameled bedpan to match our enema can, but the two were not always used together. For my first few enemas as a child on my bed, she kept the pan close by, but I was always able to make it to the toilet 15 feet away to expel. I guess she knew how much soapy water I could take safely.

I am sure some nurses enjoyed giving enemas, but I think very few enjoyed emptying the bedpan.

Never used one, but one day perhaps, only thing i need help on , is when i use the toilet to expell my enema, there is one hell of an explosion, will it not splash back out of a bed pan ?

If using a bed pan, make sure you put a pad preferably water proof under the pad. Try sitting on it first to make sure you don't slide around. Pillows to prop you head up make it more comfortable. Careful getting off the past post procedure for obvious reasons and careful carrying the thing if its full.

I have a couple of red rubber inflatable bed pans and they are not as cold as the enamel ones and also soft and bouncy and love the smell of the rubber which all adds to the rubbery aromas of the rubber bags and hoses!

I take one with me into the tub so I dont have to get out for the toilet nor do I have to lie in the mess!

I like retaining enemas, and I like retaining on my bed, I find the bathroom cold and uncomfortable, while my bed is super comfy!

Only problem: the bathroom is quite far from the bedroom. For this reason I bought a bedpan, initially just to feel safer, I didn't intend to use it.

Then I tried a couple of times, and it turns out that I like expelling in the bedpan.

Nowadays it represents my golden standard for a good enema! 😃

Bedpans are a mixed bag (pun intended). They can be awkward, uncomfortable, or fun.

If you are in hospital and cannot get out of bed and have an urge to poo, they are pretty much one of two options... use a bedpan or go on a Chux pad.

Most hospitals have two types of bedpan available, the "fracture" and the "pontoon". Here are pics:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Jones-Fracture-Bed-Pan-No-385-NIB/163709626594

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Jones-Relax-Bed-Pan-Enamelware-Enamel-Bedpan-/184164421784

Those shown are vintage and are made of enameled steel, but modern plastic versions are common. the problem with either is they are uncomfortable to use and kill your back, even if the head of the bed is elevated while you on them. Also, it is by no means easy to poo on a bedpan, since your body is not positioned to "bear down". In my experience, unless you have the runs, some "help" is almost always needed to be able to poo... ie: a suppository or enema. A Dulcolax suppository or Fleet enema is the usually choice. Or lots of Colace.

There are more comfortable bedpans, such as this, available but are likely not available in hospitals:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bed-Pan-The-Most-Comfortable-Professionally-Recommended-Anti-Splash-Bed-Pan/173642969721

There are other problems with bedpans too. When one poos, the poo does not fall away as it does when sitting on a toilet, so one often ends up sitting in a pile of one's own poo.

Also, the capacity of bedpans is pretty limited. They will all hold the results of a Fleet, but have difficulty with a 2000ml enema, perhaps not during release, but a spill is likely when the bedpan is being removed. When expelling a large volume enema, you will be sitting in pooy water. That's certain.

The inflatable bedpans have problems of their own. For example, a sidewall can be compresses and the result is a mess.

I'm not saying you should not use a bedpan, but do be aware of the problems... it is certain to be a mess, especially with large volume enemas.

The alternative of pooing on a Chux can sometimes be a better option, especially if the help you get is about 500ml or less. This can include Fleets or a Lactulose enema. The person lies on their left side on several Chux pads, the enema is given, and the person stays left lying until the enema hjas worked. The pad absorbs the released liquid. It's actually a pretty good way of making someone poo.

At 5 ft 11 The toilet is only about 20 steps from the bed.

No incentive to use a bedpan in that context. Least of all with the need to keep things clean.

Given my experience with having vomited into a dishpan a couple of times during a 4-qt enema, I can't imagine how you would keep it neat!

Matron, at my Preparatory School (age 8 to 13), kept a Slipper Bed Pan in the sick room. I managed to avoid a ride on that. What I didn't avoid was a sit on the large china chamber pot she produced that day which launched me into a life of klysmophelia. For a while I had such a pot nested beside the toilet in my bathroom, but on meeting the lovely girl who is now my wife I decided that this might be just a bit too much. Wasn't too sorry to see it go. Far cleaner just to poo in the loo, particularly after a large volume enema.

A big chamber pot is probably better, and cleaner, than any bedpan for having a poo, whether it's a result of a large volume enema or not. I'm not sure which is more comfortable for the user.

I can honestly say that I have never had to use a bedpan for any of my enemas. But, after the first adult enema that my Mother ever gave me she made me expel in a large chamber pot instead of the toilet. She wanted to see if the enema that I had been begging her for was really because I was constipated or was it because I was perverted. I guess I convinced her I was constipated because she gave me two more that morning!

If you had to use a chamber pot, rather than a bedpan or toilet, for releasing your enema, did you actually sit on the pot or hover over it?

A chamber pot is actually a very good way for the giver to see if the enema was fully effective and/or if it was really needed. They obviously cannot be "accidentally" flushed to conceal the results... a common trick to conceal the fact that an enema didn't produce results or wasn't really needed.

Requiring a person to use one is also powerfully submissive . To bad that most households haven't had one in decades.

When my Mother made me use the Chamber pot to release the enema that my Mother had given me... I always sat on it. I wasn't a very big boy then.

I sat on the chamber pot, like a good little boy does when told to by the school matron. She busied herself elsewhere while I released, came back after a while to ask how I was doing, handed me some tissue to clean myself, examined the results, told me how well I had done, and then bore the pot away to the adjacent toilet. These days I receive similar complaints from my wonderful colon hydrotherapist as I release, and release and release.

The "sitting", when pooping on a pot is more like the squatting position achieved with a Squatty Pottie stool, which we have. The latter is much to be recommended. Every toilet should have one.