Getting use to and staying use to taking enemas

I'm sure a lot of people on this form will "not" connect with this subject. After months of taking enemas on a regular basis I think I had gotten use to taking them. This happened years ago but I had not forgotten the original feelings they had casued and how they feel now. I think this is mainly becasue I never had enemas as a kid. Getting use to them was not something I expected, but the body obviously adapts to them over time. Those who do not take enemas regularly will probably have a much different reaction to them. I think that getting use to enemas and staying use to them should be in every discussion here. At least one enema series a week is what I need to be able to feel comfortable with them. If I take a few weeks break the enema seem to be much more uncomfortable and stressful on my system. This would be important specially for people who are new to enemas as I was years ago. If you take many enemas, I would say more then a few each week, my guess is you would not understand this, as they would all feel the same.

There are many variables that factor in to doing enemas that can affect your system, e.g., how much do you retain in each fill; do you use something other than tap water; what is the temperature of the enema solution; do have a full bowel before the enema or do you do your sessions after a BM... and the list could go on. I would say if your sessions that are separated by weeks tend to be uncomfortable, it probably isn't related to the time gap of your last session at least I have never noticed that my system seems to react differently due to a larger time gap.

But if your experiencing discomfort when you haven't had a session in a few weeks, then listen to your body and maybe do less solution in a fill and don't try to hold it as long and maybe just do one bag and then stop. Keep experimenting and see if the key variable is the time gap between sessions or could it be related to something else.

Keep us posted as to how things unfold.

You just DON'T get the full 2-Qts in on the first try!!

"Learning' to take enemas is like riding a bicycle or driving a stick shift. Once you learn, you don't forget, but that first time after a long layoff can be a little hard at first.

I used to take cleanout enemas 3-4 times a year. At my peak I was using some sort of enema about every 8-10 days.

Between trying to get pregnant. Having to go through a pregnancy with twins which I managed to carry to within 4 weeks of full term, and breast feeding I have just gotten back into actually taking enemas in the past 7 or 8 months.

That said, I have only done one complete cleanout since resuming, and the combination of being a mom, a wife and a professional does not leave me with a lot of time. It will be a while, if ever, before I can go back to doing enemas as frequently as I was in my post-college years.