Daily Enemas - a Good Idea?

I guess reading this I'm probably pushing my luck, but I take enemas much more frequently than this. There have been periods that I've taken a series of 3-6 enemas every day for 5 or 6 days straight. I normally take them several times a week at least and usually never less that 3 and a time. Tonight was an exception as I only took one, but that is rare.

I like to take an enema daily early in the morning and check e-mail and news while retaining. Coffee is my favorite. Sometimes I add a soapy enema when a deeper enema is desired.

I concure with Redbag77. OK,seriously, I'm still in the expiramental stage for a few years now. But lately it's been 3 1/2 quarts plain water followed by shower nozzle a couple of times. Ill effects? None. Last month on my birthday(not really but close enough) I had a colonoscopy and the Dr. said, "see ya in 10 years". With that, and along with finding this web site, all my fear have all but vanished.

I take enemas almost daily during the week. This morning I took a 2-qt hot Ivory soapsuds enema and then a 3-qt hot Ivory soapsuds enema and now I am reading the posts on e4f waiting for the rest of the enema water to drain from me. I tend to like morning enemas and I think that is because every morning when I was little my mother would drink her coffee, work the morning crossword puzzle, smoke a cigarette and then head to the bathroom for a bowel movement, which many (almost every) morning involved an enema. If I was to get an enema also, this is when it was usually done and I was also hauled into the bathroom. To this day I am terribly excited by a steamy warm bathroom that has the lingering smell of rubber and Ivory soap.

Hey everyone,

I've heard that doing enemas daily are bad for you as they tend to rob your body of the necessary flora, Lubricants in the colon and electrolytes. Now on the practical side I have tried doing them once a month (4 2-quart salt water enemas) and I find it very helpfull in maintaing a nice, proper balance but I also love the clean feeling I get afterwards so I'm considering doing them daily. I will note however, that I do notice a little bit of fatigue after a 4 time fill and flush so my question to all you daily enemates is:

if you're doing them every day how much water do you use per filling and how many fills and flushes do you do per daily session. Lastly, what recipe do you use or what steps do you take to replenish the body's internal balance afterwards??

Depends on events in my life. My wife will insist I take a enema if I have not done so in a month or so. I will take them about every three days when I am taking pain medication , like Vicodin, for the constipation. I will take one after a trip.

The procedure is normally begins with a Fleet oil enema held for about an hour with a diaper on. This is followed by a two quart soap suds enema. A tap water and salt enema is used for a clear return. Another diaper goes on.

My concern with daily e-fun would be that overtime the colon would forget how to do it's normal peristaltic thing. Excuse the anthropromorphics, but it would get lazy.

Soo... when you went on an enema free vacation; things would be real constipated for a while.

I am not a Dr., but I sure would like to play one, twice a week!

Hi, last night i gave myself several enemas, they were soapy and from a gravity bag, it was two litres in total of soapy enema, although it took three goes to take it all, anyway i then decided on a clear water rinse enema, the litre in the bag went in easily with no discomfort, so i decided on a second litre, i resumed

my position and took most of the second one as well, then it was onto the loo to expell, this seemed to take ages.

today however i keep feeling like ive got the runs, but i havnt, just some wind, although im afraid to fart just in case, any thoughts ?

You over-did it. Your colon is irritated. It is probably stretched somewhat giving you the sensation of needing to expel. The soap irritated the mucus glands and may be having mucusy expulsions. Just give yourself a little time and you will be fine.

I take enemas 1 times a week; normally in the weekend. I begin on saturday with an oil enema (250 g) followed by a soapy enema (1 liter e 1/5 and I continue with two enemas (2 water liter) with salt and soda. The day after I take, early in the morning, another 3liter enema and after this last one, if I want I repeat with a 3 liter enema and at the end I am so excited that I play with my sex toys........

Excuse me for my bad english. If you prefer I can write in italian (for me absolutely better!)

I do a series of 3 every weekend, like to stay clean and fresh.

I take enemas daily, mornings when I get up always 4 quarts for the first. Plain water no soap, sometimes I'll do a series but most times its just the one, love the cleaned out feeling and have not had any issues doing it.

It is well known that the following personalities take or have taken daily enemas: Doris Day, Marilyn Monroe, Mae West, Gloria Swanson, Denni Moore, Janet Jackson, finally Diana, Princess of Wales.

For me it started out as a few times a week to "prep" for play with my significant other... and then at some point it turned into daily (or as often as I could) just because I love the feeling of being cleaned out.

I know there are people who love enemas so much they enema on a daily basis, but I personally do not think that is advisable, because you never give the body a chance to return to its normal elimination. Thus, you can become totally dependent on enemas.

I usually enema about once a week, and after a good enema session -- three or four, four-quart bags -- it takes me about three days to return to normal elimination.

There's a book about a heroine that had to have enemas every day, but she had Hirshsprungs disease, a segement of the bowel was paralized and nothing would pass easily past this for her since birth, so it was enemas or a build up of material in the colon until it rotted then diarrhea. That was 1900, now a simple surgery removes the bad segment soon after birth and the probem never occurs.

But to the habit of doing them every day. Dr. John Kellogg, who was still doing sugery at age 91, took a daily colonic irrigation which is much more washing than an enema. I have had one patient in her mid ninties who took daily enemas for over 70 years that was in good health. So, it may not be harmful. I think it is too much heat, what you put in the water, if the water is chorinated, etc that can create a problem.

In general I don't recommend daily enemas, nor enemas at all unless there is a clinical reason. For me, I am older, have diverticulosis, if I had someone to give me daily good enema I would do it because washing these out would help them shrink, plus keep this problem spreading to other haustra. If I had had more healthful good enemas routinely through my life, I probably wouldn't have diverticulosis, but I have not lived perfectly and do.

If you are going to take them frequently, which I don't recommend, then try to have a normal BM each day as well. You can do this by timing. Take some prune juice with a few teaspoons of psyllium husk in the evening, enough to stimulate a good morning BM. Then if you take a good enema fairly soon after that, the system has worked both ways, you just need enough bulk stimulation to have a natural BM followed by the enema. With this you may also find that if you have to travel and not have enemas, that during the day you may be a little more slugish, but your bowel funcion remains OK.

Daily enemas you need to be sure not to over relax the colon, use water just above body temperature, 100 degrees fahrenheit, and be sure it is balanced using preferably baking soda to alkalze and make neutral to the body, about a level tablespoon per qt. Plain water is an irritant to the colon. And be sure the water is clean you are much more vulnerable via rectum to bacteria than if you drink it, not city water, or city water that has been boiled and let sit to cool to room temp to get the chlorine out. The healthful bowel has a lot of good bacteria in it. A single enema won't likely wash it out, but chlorine in the water will kill it.

I take enemas daily and have done so for many years. When i am in a situation where enemas are not possible, it usually only takes a day before i am regular again. i think as long as you are healthy and eat right (plenty of roughage) you won't have any problems.

In college, which was 18 years ago now, I discovered that I had a growing aversion to the sensations of having feces in my rectum and colon. I thought that strange, given that I love pushing objects up there, but it's somehow not the same. So I began doing little enemas several times a day to keep my colon and rectum empty. By now it has developed into a very practiced routine.

When I get up in the morning it's the first thing I do after I brush my teeth. I normally fill a 2 qt bag, and rarely use more than half of it. I take three or four little squirts, evacuating in between, and can almost always feel the water at the caecum and completely empty my colon that way. I routinely do the same thing when I first get home from work in the late afternoon, and then again just before bed.

This is purely hygene and has nothing to do with my erotic enema play, which is another whole subject (or a whole 'nuther subject depending on your regional preferences).

So for almost two decades I have done "daily" enemas, and I seem to have no ill effects at all. I can still "go" without the water if I need to, it just doesn't feel as clean afterwards somehow.

--hugs,

Diane

I am guilty ! :'( I can't help it. I do it every day. I love it. I am obsessed. I am headed to do that in a few minutes. After reading on this site for an hour it is a must !! 😁

A good cleanout with three to four enemas once a week does it for me.

I try to limit them to once a week...

Too many can lead to water retention, had it happen to me. Bummer.

Garry, the enemas must be moderate.

Affairs that I listen, is beneficial practice it at least once a month, more practices it can often make the constipation, in addition to affect the intestinal flora and fauna.

I hope I have helped you question.

Cheers, PatientCare

Daily for me too, if I can. I sometimes go for several days without one, but that does not mean I am not wanting to take a nice warm one. I use a 2 quart fountain with a douche nozzle and I have added extra hose.

Bill

Laurie: No need to apologize for you English. You actually write English better than some of the people on this site who were educated in this country Haven't these folks heard of "Spell Check?"

I have regularly done multiple enemas on a daily basis. I usually do 2 quart enemas 3 or 4 times in a session until the water is coming out clean. If I have to stop for a while, I might miss a bowel movement for a day, but then things get regular (going at least once a day) until I start the enemas again. I have been doing this for years with always the same pattern.

I have been taking daily enemas for many years, usually early morning; they consist of series of large-volume of warm tap water with salt and baking soda, using a 4-quart/liter clear silicone enema bag and an inflatable double balloon nozzle that helps retaining the enema for a good amount of time. At 62 I look younger and I am in excellent health, practically never catching a cold and I never had the flu. I credit my enema regimen for my good health. My mother used to give my sister and me enemas 2 to 3 times a week for as long as I can remember, so I guess I can say that I have taken enemas all my life.

Ive been doing enemas almost on a daily basis for about 28 years now with no ill effects. I will go on a daily basis for about a month, then I take a break like a week or so without them at all. I find my bowell movements return to normal, which is about one movement per day. And all my enemas are a series of enemas, and are all 3 qts each. I end up purging the entire large intestine with my enema treatments.

Since my posting in 2008, I no longer have the "visiting Nurse" service but have maintained the 'every-other day' approach. And as i have posted since, now remarried to a wonderful Veterinery Nurse (and me being "an old dog" a match made in heaven) who is my 'giver'.

Same routine; now slightly modified to two 2 qt Dr bonner's soap and then two with salt and soda. Most of the time I use my Sherema 4 qt bag with a 20" 38Fr catheter, so just stopping at 2 qts makes it easier. In the motorhome we use a standard 2 qt open-top bag with a 20" 36Fr catheter.

Most of my friends think I'm in my 50's....not the 78...almost 79 years of age. I guess that I must be doing something right!

the boxcar

I do have periods that I take daily enemas, but there are breaks between these periods. There have been pretty long periods that I have taken daily enemas, however. If I were not working, I would probably take enemas daily and when the weekends come around I do take enemas every day and usually several sessions a day. I enjoy enemas as you can tell and I have never had problems with taking enemas frequently. I have been taking enemas since I was a child so enemas are definately not a new thing for me.

Bill