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I felt like I exhausted all my options and I ordered these
You know you're adulting when you're writing reviews on enemas.
One of the medications I take has a side effect of constipation. Oh, constipation. We are not strangers. Pregnancy, overdosing on fiber, iron supplements post surgery - We're old friends.
But this med was a new brand of constipation. No amount of water, fiber, laxatives and prunes was helping. I felt like I exhausted all my options and I ordered these.
The bottle is damn huge. It has enough sodium content in there to kill a horse. I used perhaps 1/4th to 1/2 of the bottle. It was a horrible experience attempting the suggested 'positions'. Like being a noob in a yoga class. Also, get some lube or vaseline. It alleges to come already lubricated. If by that they mean a droplet, then I suppose it is.
It says...To hold it for a couple of minutes until you absolutely can't. So here I am, lying on the cold bathroom floor with my rear end up in the air, squeezing my buttcheeks together like I was doing a Denise Austin hot buns workout tape circa 1987. I couldn't stand it anymore and made the 12 inch beeline to the toilet. All the saline came flooding out. And farts. Farts galore. I put my legs up on the wall, pissed off. I did NOT just give myself an enema only to get salty farts. Hell no.
Tears, a bucket of sweat and 2 cigarettes later, a little pellet graced the porcelain bowl. It wasn't much, but it was something.
The following two days I had a lot of gas, but I was finally able to move stuff down the line over the course of the next several days. So it did the job. Oh right, and don't get all shy about insertion. If you have any irritation on your anus, it WILL BURN if it leaks out during the injecting.
4/5. Would do it again if I had to, but I hope I never do.
July 2016 · Health and Household · verified purchase