Laxatives before an enema...

If I want a really thorough cleanout, I usually take a purgative dose of a strong laxative Castor oil/orange juice emulsion and wait for it to work. Once the laxative has done its work, I start a laddered series of SSE's: 2 qts, held until cramping is strong, release; then 3 qts, 4 qts, and maybe 5...all held through at least 4 waves on cramps. Finally, two 5 qt rinses of saly & baking soda. The laxative kick starts my whole digestive tract, emptying the small intestine into the colon, then cleaning out the colon. The enemas wash out residual material, and normally my last rinse comes out completely clear, although lightly straw colored. Anyone else doing something similar?

When I do a total system cleanout, I start at noon the day before.

The day before, at lunch, I eat, but only half the amount I normally do. No solid food after 4PM. No alcohol. Caffeine consumption stops at 7 pm.

The morning of the cleanout, I wake up and take 6 bisacodyl(generic Dulcolax) tablets, for a total of 30 mg. Usually in the 5AM hour. I make sure to drink plenty of water, but NO caffeine, or alcohol AT ALL, no excuses!!

Then I start the enema phase between 7 and 8 AM, with the goal of being cleared and in recovery by 1PM

LisaK

Even in taking 6 Dulcolax pills you will not be able to cleanse the bowels completely für these ones will act exclusively in the colon. For a really effective complete bowel cleansing you ought to swallow 2 oz Castor Oil, this on an empty stomac, early in the morning not having breakfasted,

I usually take 4 (max. 5) dulcolax pills just before going to sleep. About 6h hours later I start to wake up due to some gas or discomfort on my belly. Usually I'm able to sleep again, but the discomfort keeps me waking up from time to time. About 8h after the pills have been taken I can't sleep anymore, not only because of the discomfort, but also because i'm excited with what's going to happen. I stand up, have breakfast and start doing my normal life (not leaving home as obvious). I start to feel the cramps and the urge building up, and when this happens usually I don't have much time, because soon after I'll got to go and it's really violent: start's with some solid stuff, and then very soft to liquid, and it's a lot! During the rest of the day I still have some liquid returns 😉

TanyaClister

For me it is a comparable experience in swallowing 2 oz Castor Oil, this early in the morning, not having breakfasted. In contrast to all the other laxatives like Dulcolax, Castor Oil will not work directly in your intestines by irritating them, but indirectly by activating or synthethizing certain substances of the human body. So it will be never possible that the the laxative effects in swallowing a good dose Castor Oil will diminish.

Finally: It is very exciting to lie in the bed on your back or on your front while the Castor Oil does its work in your bowels.

Ricini: This is done on an empty stomach, and the first enema is a 3-qt Epsom Salt and Soapsuds retained 15 minutes

The second enema is just soapsuds but the bag is not rinsed in between,so that there is some Epsom salt left, but not too much.

The soapsuds enemas are repeated until a clear return is achieved. Always at least two more rounds after the ESS, but really however many it takes. Typically, the bisacodyl "kick in" happens around the time of the third enema. In any case, I keep working until I get it. Then once the clear return AND the bisacodyl "kick in" have both happened, I wait about 30 minutes just to let everything settle down, and drink a Magnesium Citrate. That close to cleared out, it usually starts working in 45 minutes to an hour. After about 2 hours I get dressed and can do a few things around the house, never straying far from the bathroom. Part of what comes out over the next 4-6 hours is soapsuds from the enemas. I wait another couple of hours before eating anything, and I take it easy at first.

If we are doing our monlthly full cleanout, Sis and I take 6 Corrctol pils at bedtime. The bisacodyl works overnight, and we are having mild cramps at dawn. We Go about breakfast and morning chores until the cramps are strong. To get a bit of extra "kick", we insert 4 Dulcolax suppositories in each other, then diaper up. We make no effort to hod back, and usually fill our diapers in 10-15 minutes. Afyet we clean up, We give each other two 3 qt Epsom salts enemas. These are followed by 4 qt SSE's until the results run clean soapy water. This usually only takes two enemas, but I remember going four on rare occasions. We finish with two salt & soda rinses, taking as much as we can hold. For me, that may be 6 qts; Sis likes to take 8.

And I take 10 qt enemas on occasion, and sometimes 12 qt enemas if I'm really in the mood. I'm almost filled at that point.

When I do a system cleanout, the slow-acting bisacodyl tablets are taken about two hours before the Epsom Salt and Soapsuds enema. it is part of the total cleanout process.

Want an enema to remember? inject 1 to 2 ozs of liquid glycerin with a lube injector and hold for 5 minutes. then fill your enema bag with 3 liters of 110 degree soapsuds....

My opinion does not make sense to take a laxative before enema...

Those who take the enemas should be against laxative!

The laxatives are not even used before colon hydrotherapy

I see laxatives and enemas as two different parts of the same process.

The stomach releases part of it's contents into the small intestine about every 20 minutes. The small intestine releases into the large intestine at a similar interval although almost never in sync.

When you use something like bisacodyl which technically only works on the large intestine, what happens is that the large intestine speeds up so much and pushes so much harder that much of the contents is pulled down out of the small intestine ahead of schedule. As a result bisacodyl, despite not acting directly on the small intestine does, especially in high doses empty the small intestine as well.

A total cleanse of the digestive tract involves all 3 parts, the stomach, which can be safely and effectively cleared by fasting, which is both safer and more thorough than forced vomiting, not to mention less painful.

The large intestine is best cleared by large volume enemas till clear.

The small intestine is the hard thing to cleanse. A strong laxative taken after a 12 hour fast DOES work, safely and effectively, even a laxative that supposedly only works on the large intestine.

I'm puzzled because I take an enema so I don't disrupt my entire digestive system by taking a laxative! Besides an enema is not only a lot quicker, but also a lot more enjoyable. To me a laxative just messes up a good experience.

Laxatives are a problem because you never know when they are going to work. With an enema there is know question....

Strong laxatives before an enema session may be a fine recipe for a colonoscopy prep, but I prefer a slow, relaxing, cleansing enema. About a tablespoon of Dr. Bronner's peppermint in about 2 1/2 quarts of very warm water flowing slowly from my clear Klystra bag provides just the right amount of stimulation and pressure for me to achieve those anticipated and desired results we klismo's enjoy.

Emom--Right you are on every point. An enema is a treatment that is as enjoyable as it is useful. Why mess with that.

I agree with E-Mom, laxatives totally disrupt a body's digestive system. I should know.... My Mother gave me an enema just about every day up until age 10. I acted as if I did not like them, but Mom wasn't dumb. She knew that I looked forward to each one. Then she changed doctors. The new doctor called enemas barbaric and told Mother to stop giving me enemas immediately and to help me go, he suggested Ex-Lax or the children's laxative- Castoria. Castoria was Mom's choice and I absolutely hated the stuff. I would beg her to give me an enema instead, but I kept getting that horrible tasting stuff. Then, it happened, I couldn't make the bathroom at school one day and you know how embarrassed I was. Mom felt my pain too! So, she'd give me a dose of Castoria at night and if I did not have a bowel movement before I left for school she'd give me an enema. I even got this treatment on Saturdays if I didn't go by 9 o'clock. An enema behind a laxative is no fun...But an enema instead of a laxative is really enjoyable as E-Mom said.. You are right on E-Mom!

When I was a kid my mother would give me a laxative at bedtime whenever she thought I needed it, usually Feenamint until I turned 13 and then Ex-Lax during my teens. If I didn't have to go as soon as I work up the next morning she would give me a Glycerin suppository to help it along, but if I still hadn't had a big bowel movement about 20 minutes after that she would get out the enema bag and give me a large hot soapsuds enema to empty me out.

When I'm in the mood for a thorough clean-out, disrupting the digestive process is part of it. I like to start with a strong oral laxative (castor oil, epsom salts, etc.) and then, when I can feel it moving into my bowels, I insert a couple of ducolax supps.

The laxative pushes everything from the stomach and small intestines into the large intestine, and the ducolax pushes everything out of the large intestine. Unless you want to do a colon prep, it's about as clean as you'll get!

Sis and I usually start one weekend a month with a thorough cleanout. We start Friday night at bedtime with 4 ounces of castor oil and diaper up for the night. We're not DL's, but this started when we were children, because Mom did the same thing to us. Normally, the castor oil works first thing in the morning, but it's not unusual to wake up with a messy diaper, either. Like Amy, we insert two (or up to four Dulcolax supps), but after the castor oil induced BM. They add a nice kicker and help get the remaining stuff down. We usually make a game of seeing who can hold their suppositories longest. It's fun, and also gets maximum mileage out of them. We do what the supps make us do, and immediately give each other four quarts of Ivory suds. We install double balloon nozzles for the enemas, because the suppositories are still in play, and we need help keeping that first enema where it belongs. After releasing fully, we switch to salt and baking soda and do rinses until clear. Sis loves seeing how much she can take during her rinses, and easily takes six quarts in her last one.

The day/night before I plan on taking enemas I tend to drink several glasses metamucil to help push everything down and out of me so when I start taking them I am mostly cleaned out and just need a couple of small enemas to finish the job so I can begin to take bigger and bigger enemas as the day goes on.

Never done the Castor Oil but sounds very interesting. I have taken a strong dose of epsom salts and multiple glasses of water. Usually start with the runs at about an hour... then the enemas begin.. Always feel so clean afterwords.

I sometimes slip a bisacodyl suppository or two inside 15-20 minutes before I start the soapy enema. It does increase the power of the enema, and it's different to feel the suppository start to work knowing that there will be a bagful of soapy water going in on top of it.

Makes the rinse harder to take unless you wait an hour or so.

Generally don't do oral laxatives of any power because they're unpredictable and uncomfortable in me. Just my usual Mirilax/Metamucil dose.

Generally don't do oral laxatives of any power because they're unpredictable and uncomfortable in me.

I usually take 4 (max. 5) dulcolax pills just before going to sleep. About 6h hours later I start to wake up due to some gas or discomfort on my belly. Usually I'm able to sleep again, but the discomfort keeps me waking up from time to time. About 8h after the pills have been taken I can't sleep anymore, not only because of the discomfort, but also because i'm excited with what's going to happen.

Exactly this are two points of view excluding against each other. You will have to choose!

There was ONE time when I was so glad I had taken 30 mg oral bisacodyl before starting the enema.

It was a system cleanse and I had done a fast of about 16 hours before taking the bisacodyl.

I had a pretty normal first and second enema but on the third one my rectum pulsed harder than it usually does and somehow the 5-inch flexible nozzle DETACHED FROM THE BAG AND WENT RIGHT UP INSIDE ME!

I was as scared as I had ever been in my life!! I could not even feel it!!

When I lay in Simms position my husband could feel it but could not get two fingers on it!

We had a strategy session and discussed KY-Jelly-coating all five fingers and trying to reach up and get it.

As we were discussing the specifics of this the famous "bisacodyl kick-in happened, and I felt it blow out into the toilet! It was the only piece of solid matter anywhere close to that size left inside me, so it was very obvious what had come out

Now it was just let the bisacodyl finish doing it's thing. Put on a latex glove while I was still sitting on the toilet Then when I could get up, reach in the toilet and get it!

Lucky I had the foresight to take that bisacodyl. Not going to say I have a "favorite laxative

If I can plan an enema and if I have time, sometimes, I will take a ducolax suppository and several glycerin suppositories the day before my planned enema. If I do this, not usually that often, it does allow me to take the entire 2 quart enema and hold if for some time, which simply enhances my experience. Wish I had the time to do it more often.