Interesting. What originally moved you to tell your colonic friend that you were having issues? I don't generally broadcast my bowel concerns to people.

With colonic friends, you don't have to bring the subject up yourself. Colonic friends bring the subject up for you.

Glad everything came out okay, RedTile.

I'll be the first to say it:

With friends like these, who needs enemas?

YES!!! It's Dave from behind the line for 3 points!

WHO NEEDS ENEMAS!!
*slaps knee and laughs*

I read your post and I take glycerin suppositories all the time..probably more than I should for bloating and quick relief when I need it. Rarely do I take oral laxatives but I do take alot of fiber and I am healthy guy. I like them, they dont upset your entire digestive track..

I love those little glycerin suppositories. They helped my daughter poop when she was constipated as a toddler. We just broke them in half. They should be a solution one attempts before an enema.

And they aren't too expensive, either.

What's funny about them, (we have "Fleet" brand) is that the little white plastic jar reminds me of an older person's medicine cabinet. I remember the same plastic jar in my gramma's cabinet and didn't know what they were for. She called taking a dump "having a bm". For years after her description of what they were, I was afraid of the jar.
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Fleet makes glycerin suppositories for both adults and children. The children's suppositories are lifesavers when you have crabby, constipated toddlers and nothing else seems to work.

I remember my mom using them on my brother when he was a baby. I was never constipated as a child so I was spared the "suppository initiation". I haven't resorted to them as an adult, but I just might now that lil' shitwit #2 is making life very difficult for mommy in the pooping arena. 2 1/2 months to go til the big day. Still don't know how that will turn out.... the midwives are pushing VBAC on me, but I say hell no!

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Rock-n-roll! Poopy-poo!

My dad is a pediatrician. I grew up in a house where "poop" was never uttered by either parent. "Do you need to go bm?" was my parents' preferred method of talking about crap. Or, "Did you have a bm today?" I didn't know that was unusual until I was a grownup and found out that adults, not just kids, say poop! So daphne, I can see why your gramma's poo-vocab scared the shit out of you.

I'm glad you get it. It's nice to hear that I wasn't the only one who was afronted with the seriousness of a "bm" instead of "going poopee", which is obviously much more fun. Any activity that ends is "eee" is going to be fun!

(The reason my gramma said "bm" is because she wouldn't even say "bowel".)

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www.daphneszoo.com

Would you believe in a shit at first use?
Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time.
What do you see when you push out that deuce?
I can't tell you, but I know it's mine.
Oh I get by with a little help from my friends,
Mmm I get high with a little help from my friends,
Oh I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends....

-- the alter egos of J, P, G and R, AKA "the Dung Beetles"
(Please don't hate me boys, it's just a joke! You know I love you!)

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'Hey that sounds pretty nasty, how about a courtesy flush over there?' (AP1)

The glycerin suppository - in America, the solid butt-bursting bullet; in Britain, the little bit of jelly that helps you do a smelly.
The first resort of the frequently constipated - I've been a regular suppository user/recipient all my life but (as you may know) I have a rather complex relationship to them. I associate them with forcible, painful anal insertions during childhood. Maybe I was chronically constipated, but my mother seemed to relish my fear and loathing of the procedure, and her ability to wield power over me by suppository-terrorism. My sister had it worse as my mother began to give suppositories, soap sticks and/or rectal stimulation for everything. It wasn't just that you got a suppository if you didn't "do a dooey" for three days, or if you were judged to be not producing enough shit - my mother believed in auto-intoxication and assumed constipation to be the root of all illness, and much childhood behavior. Until we were about 11 years old, if we were given a bare bottom spanking there was a 50-50 chance we'd get something slipped up our bottoms at the same time on the grounds that we'd behave better after they'd emptied our bowels of shit.
I used to tell myself I'd never do anything like that to my kids but...in the end I did.

"I figured I would go ahead and take a stab at it." The best line in a suppository story.

Raggedmama, did you know you underwent a form of sexual fetishistic child abuse? Seriously, that same thing is done in BDSM but at least there it's supposed to be consensual. (I personally learned about its existence almost two years ago when I was writing some fiction centering around an abuse victim.)

I'm shuddering at the thought of what you experienced. I hope you and your sister are all right now, since that's seriously a really scary story. Stay strong OK?

Jeez, Raggedmama, that's awful. Do you have a relationship with your parent now? Is she still around?

I always made sure I was gentle with my daughter and that the suppositories were halved and dabbed with a bit of K-Y.

If your mother is still around, I wouldn't let her unsupervised around the kids EVER EVER EVER.

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www.daphneszoo.com

Glycerin suppositories really are a savior but watch out on how often you use them! Like stimulative laxitives they have a way of becoming less effective the more often you use them. If you can get by without them for a couple days the days you do use them will be more effective. At least, this is my personal experience. Some people can experience sustained effectiveness however.

A friend at work bought me some suppositories - which I thought was a very nice gesture! She told me they worked for her friend quite quickly, but slowly for her, and then only with the aid of some 'walking around'.

I've been having some bleeding problems, so I've had a go. The first took six hours, the second, a week or so later, a couple, but the third, this week, caused a near-shart within an hour! So I'm persevering!!

You have brought suppositories back en vogue