Prunes

Been awhile since I've visited, but yesterday and today provided some interesting results you might enjoy.

Instead of lunch yesterday I had about a dozen prunes I've never experienced a laxative effect from them, the are sweet, and I like the taste, so some dried fruit and water were lunch.

Oh no!

I drove into the city to pick up some tent poles from a friend and as we talked in his garage the first cramp hit. My insides gurgled and I knew I wasn't going to make it home in time. I said my 'good byes' and started the 45 minute drive. Grumbling insides were nearly constant, and cramps & urges came closer and closer together and, five minutes from home, I was ready to surrender. But I made it, ran inside and didn't stop until I was in the bathroom.

Oh my god - that was the most violent expulsion I've ever experienced! I sat there for at least 10 minutes as liquid & feces first gushed then dribbled from my behind. Finally, nothing was left and, amid still-gurgling intestines, I wiped, flushed, and then went about my business - for, maybe, 10 minutes. I repeated the process three times before I was really empty.

From lunch to onset of first cramps was about four hours. I must admit that with each wave of cramps I envisioned being at a woman's mercy, which might not have been the safest way to drive in rush hour traffic. But, the experience was absolutely delicious!

This morning I decided to repeat it and ate about a dozen prunes for breakfast while I checked email and enjoyed my morning tea. I donned a TENA Super brief, pulled some constrictive panties over it, then went about doing the things I usually do in the morning.

This time the discomfort began in just half an hour. I kept imagining a Mommy telling me that if I messed my diaper I'd be punished. As the discomfort increased in severity I waited apprehensively for the cramps to begin. I just knew they would be worse than yesterday. At the three hour mark it happened, almost without warning. It wasn't so much and expulsion as it was an explosion. I was standing when it began and involuntarily crouched a bit as the first wave gushed into my TENA. I didn't dare move. The second wave was as strong as the first and I thought I could feel the hot liquid splash against my cheeks. There was no way a diaper could retain even a fraction of it. It quickly ran out between the diaper and my thighs and created two puddles on the floor.

Luckily nothing else escaped as I carefully made my way to the bathroom for clean up. Strong squirts hit again as I closed the door. Clean up was yucky, and after my shower I got into dry clothes and attacked the mess on the floor. EW! Wiped up the majority of it then got out the carpet cleaner to finish it off.

My insides are still gurgling and there is some discomfort, yet, so I know there is more to come. But, no diaper this time. Clean up was more work than I envisioned for this experiment.

Remember, prunes are just dried plums. Imagine eating a dozen fresh plums. That should give you the idea of what is happening to you. Actually, this is probably as safe and effective a flushing as possible. No irritant chemicals like bisacodoyl, no foul tasing salty solution like citrate of magnesia and no revolting oil like castor oil.

If you do this very regularly your body will adjust and the effect will not be so urgent or violent but still enjoyable.

Very nice. I'm going to have to go to the store later this week and buy a can of prunes and try this out myself. I'll post the results here.

I have been drinking "prune nectar" in the morning for the past week or two. It has a good potassium content. The effect is looser BM's but not diarrhea. Except this morning I woke up having to pass gas, and half way through it wasn't just gas any more. I didn't realize till my diaper was well messed, it was just loose enough to feel like gas so it was a real accident. So I guess it could be attributed to the prune juice. Prunes contain sorbitol and chlorogenic acid, both thought to contribute to the laxative effect. (BTW there's no chlorine in chlorogenic acid). Interesting articles if you Google it.

I suppose that the results in moving the bowels by prunes is comparable to take 2 oz Castor Oil.

~ Ricini

As an aside, prunes taste really good with peanut butter.

My mom made me eat prunes a few times when I was little and constipated, but they didn't seem to do much good. I think you have to drink plenty of water with them to make them work well.

Ricini, prunes and prune juice are not in the same class as castor oil - no comparison!

Can eat plums in season off the tree till i look like plums, they have no effect, but never tried prunes....

Vstar, everyone's body is different. I drink prune juice in the morning occasionally and have tried prunes at night to help promote getting yourself to go. The best advice I give myself is that if I am constipated, eat 3-4 prunes before bedtime and the next morning on an empty stomach, drink a 5 oz glass of prune juice and add a little bit of water to it. If you wait about an hour before eating breakfast, it is an effective way to start your day off right.

I want to try prunes with peanut butter, per Sunny, and emjaybe's prune plan, too. Is it possible to be too anal?

@lzrd Not on this site!

Wow thanks for Sharing this as it has happened to me in a similar way - I was wearing my diaper at the time & yep it's a messy clean up.

Shane

Fred

May I ask you upon the difference in moving the bowels by taking prunes and prune juice or in taking castor oil?

~ Ricini

My experience with prunes and similar things like dried apricots was always eating too many of those when i was a kid, could start munching them like silly and go through a decent-sized bag.... i spent the next few hours farting up a storm, but then my belly bloated and normally could not make it to dinner before making the first trip to the loo. it was the first of many, for sure, and i did get little sleep... prunes are like castor oil if you over eat a little bit....

GripeingAnd

For me moving the bowels in eating prunes or dried apricots if far more worse than swallowing a good dose castor oil - I think that this is not comparable.

I love prunes and prune juice. Though they don't love me. I don't get the laxative affect from them. Was constipated when I was pregnant (both times) and it did nothing for it. But oh the gas and smell they produce. Whoeee, it is noxious and toxic. My sub won't let me eat prunes for that very reason. Oh well.

I glass of warm prune juice works like a gallon of go lightly on me.

Stewed prunes used to be my mothers treatment for constipation. They don't work very good for me. They are about the same as eating any other fruit for me. Oral laxatives don't work that well for me when I'm constipated. Enema bag or glycerin suppositories works much better. I prefer the enema bag always produces a good bowel movement.

We always have prunes in the house and get them in the big bag from Costco. If the conditions are just right that I am constipated, I will eat 3-4 as an evening snack and most of the time it does help. If I still cannot go the next day, I consider doing an enema, depending on what is going on for the day.

A couple of weeks ago I drank a glass of prune juice in the morning, and ate a few prunes later in the day. That night really uncomfortable cramps but not much of anything else. A few days later half the amount and the results were surprising. You never can tell.

If I was constipated as a kid, my mother would give me prunes and/or some kind of grease that lubricates the bowels after eaten. No stronger oral laxatives, mom thought they wrecked the bowels. I think liquorice candy too had a laxative effect. I do not recall very strong effects as described here but the doses were not as high. If I recall correctly, treatment continued until I had "normal and regular" bowel movements.

If I complained of feeling plugged up or about hard stools she would give glycerin suppositories in addition to these oral laxatives.

Stewed prunes are a pleasant enough departure

Add on the prune juice to your dessert & you'll know soon enough 😁

One of my wife's doctors recommended prune juice over laxatives - at least as a first resort……. It worked!

I've tried prune juice but can't stand the taste. But for some reason I like prunes. And they are a great laxative.

I was thinking to try a little space forced mess experience and for that I was thinking to eat only prune baby food and drink formula or even prune juice for a whole day. Do you think that it would be an effective way to induce a nice bowel movement?

I can also add some slight laxative to the prune juice if needed, what do you suggest? Are there any other laxative baby food that fits the mood?

(Quick edit: I also read online about an oatmeal spiked with bulk forming laxatives like Metamucil, is it really a thing? Or just fantasy?)

@Kinky_John you do not need to add laxatives , prunes(plums) dates .figs,raisins , apricots ,cherries , pears. Are just a few of the delicious fruits that have a natural 1 2 punch 1 is lots Of fiber 2 they have sorbitol ( sorbitol is given as a standardized syrup to control peoples bowels ) it occurs naturally in dried fruits . Eat a few servings of fruit or juice and wait you will fill your diaper beyond little space . sorbitol is a sugar alcohol and sweetener , your body breaks down and metabolizes sugar no big deal , sugar alcohols are not broken down or absorbed by the body therefor they are sent entirely to your bowel dragging water with them ,zyour gut bacteria attempt to break them down thus creating gas and building laxative effect . I take the other sugar alcohol syrup by Doctors prescription for obstipation . It gives me no choice in having 5 bowel movements a day . Very few people need to eat a bunch of fruit and supplement a laxative , most people can’t resist going from just the fruit and naturally occuring sorbitol without giving it an assist . Trust me eating a normal diet with the addition of a couple extra servings of fruit will yield a large soft messing .

My mom used to put a glass of prune juice at my place at the breakfast table and, a fa as I can remember, it never failed to make me poo, big time, in the afternoon. What I only found out much later in life was that mom secretly added a full dose of Castotia to the prune juice. The combination of laxatives, Sorbitol in the prunes and Senna in the Castoria, were certainly very effective.

My mother used to make me eat prunes as a toddler, and a young boy! Hated them! Hated raisins also! Still hate either one to this day!! 🤮

Ok but will baby's prune food be enough ? Or I have to eat regular prunes in order to maximize the effectiveness? I mean maybe the baby food dose isn't enough or it's mixed with apple or something like that.

For these reasons I was thinking to add the laxative. Just to be sure. Maybe a little dose of lactulose would be enough.

If you are only eating a baby serving of prunes and you want dramatic action then yes I would take 50 ML of lactulose at least 1 hour before you eat , you will have a very large very urgent bathroom need within 3 hours.

I take Miralax & Lactulose 1 hour before I eat a meal and generally within 2 hours of eating my aide needs to change me , if you don’t seperate the lactulose from the food , the food makes the lactulose onset much more variable as to time and effect . So unless your able to devote the day to being by the toilet or can fill a diaper randomly without consequences.

I eat a normal diet and take 17 grams Mirilax 1 X’s and 40 ML of Lactulose 3X.’s a day awake or asleep I fill 5 diapers a day ,

for me Lactulose doesn’t create an urge because my nerves are dead , so lactulose thinks I am ignoring it , so it ratchets up the urgency and laxation until you go to toilet or make a mess For me since there’s no nerves I am blietully unaware of needing or going until about 15 minutes later .