daddysgone
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hello all
Ive got a quick question regarding enemas, and what would be considered a "safe" frequency of performing them.
My opioid maintenance, like many, leaves me incredibly constipated. I think (for whatever reason) that I experience an ever greater degree of opioid related constipation then most people.
Regardless, I have found that using a simple, Fleet Home enema (ingrediets are water and sodium phosphate), I can REALLY clean out the contents of my bowels which have built up.
Since I truly HATE the feeling of walking around with the bloated, "backed up" feeling which results from now having a bowel movement in several days, I have been performing these enemas on myself about 2-3 times per week.
After 2 or 3 days without a bowel movement, I can really feel myself "backed up", so I use one of these enemas, and I am COMPLETELY cleared out, and feel soooo much better. Then, 2-3 days later when I am "backed up" again, I repeat this process.
My question is-Is what Im doing dangerous or unhealthy?
I know that the occasional enema is perfectly fine (probably even healthy), but Ive read some reports where people state that by using enemas so frequently, you can essentially become "addicted to them".
I understand this to mean that if you use enemas excessively, your intestines will stop acting on their own, and will basically become reliant on the enema in order to faciliate a bowel movement.
So, my questions are.
1-Is this true? Can the overuse of enemas be unhealthy or dangerous and cause you to become reliant upon enemas to have a bowel movement?
2-If it is true, would my level of use (2-3 times a week), be considered too much? Would my level of use lead to the problems I discussed here?
Thanks-DG
Ive got a quick question regarding enemas, and what would be considered a "safe" frequency of performing them.
My opioid maintenance, like many, leaves me incredibly constipated. I think (for whatever reason) that I experience an ever greater degree of opioid related constipation then most people.
Regardless, I have found that using a simple, Fleet Home enema (ingrediets are water and sodium phosphate), I can REALLY clean out the contents of my bowels which have built up.
Since I truly HATE the feeling of walking around with the bloated, "backed up" feeling which results from now having a bowel movement in several days, I have been performing these enemas on myself about 2-3 times per week.
After 2 or 3 days without a bowel movement, I can really feel myself "backed up", so I use one of these enemas, and I am COMPLETELY cleared out, and feel soooo much better. Then, 2-3 days later when I am "backed up" again, I repeat this process.
My question is-Is what Im doing dangerous or unhealthy?
I know that the occasional enema is perfectly fine (probably even healthy), but Ive read some reports where people state that by using enemas so frequently, you can essentially become "addicted to them".
I understand this to mean that if you use enemas excessively, your intestines will stop acting on their own, and will basically become reliant on the enema in order to faciliate a bowel movement.
So, my questions are.
1-Is this true? Can the overuse of enemas be unhealthy or dangerous and cause you to become reliant upon enemas to have a bowel movement?
2-If it is true, would my level of use (2-3 times a week), be considered too much? Would my level of use lead to the problems I discussed here?
Thanks-DG