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Enemas?
Karb_Kween
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Do you do them? How often? If not why, why not?
Sometimes I play a racing game to get my phone from the other room once I get the urge
Didn't know where to post this
Sometimes I play a racing game to get my phone from the other room once I get the urge
Didn't know where to post this
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I do them when told to by my doctor. Or rather I will if a doctor ever tells me to.5
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Since this is in debate I think it would be a good idea to point out that the frequent use of enemas can actually be harmful. Our entire digestive tract contains useful bacteria and washing it out can lead to an imbalance of your natural flora. That means you'll have a harder time going naturally and your absorption of certain nutrients will be inhibited. The more often you do them the more likely you are to become vitamin or mineral deficient.
There's also the risk of perforating the rectum, which could lead to the loss of your colon and having to poop in a bag for the rest of your life.20 -
Only if my doctor stated it was a necessity...
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What are you gaining (or I guess losing) form the enema? are you using it to lose weight? Because that's completely unneeded, plus you run the risk of becoming dependent on them if you continually use them because your colon will lose its ability to pass stool on its own through muscle movement. The only weight you lose with an enema is temporary at best.0
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I've had a bowel obstruction and that's the why I've used one. I'm pretty sure it's the ONLY reason to use them.1
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What does the phone have to do with it? I'm a bit baffled by that part.4
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denversillygoose wrote: »I've had a bowel obstruction and that's the why I've used one. I'm pretty sure it's the ONLY reason to use them.
Most colonoscopy preps finish with one.1 -
I feel cleaner getting internally flushed.1
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Only if medically necessary or it's a sexual fetish of mine (it's not).12
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Karb_Kween wrote: »Do you do them? How often? If not why, why not?
Because there are a lot of obvious downsides and risks and no upside that I can think of. I guess that's the same reasoning that has me not drink gasoline.6 -
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Do you do them? How often? If not why, why not?
Never, because I've never had a medical reason to.
Sometimes I play a racing game to get my phone from the other room once I get the urge
Maybe you might want to consider disinfecting your phone?
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I could make a suggestion.....15 -
I hear that people do them once or twice a year to clean out back up and bloating, but I would just detox.2
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alexis09ard wrote: »I hear that people do them once or twice a year to clean out back up and bloating, but I would just detox.
What exactly are you detoxing?
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Karb_Kween wrote: »Do you do them? How often? If not why, why not?
Sometimes I play a racing game to get my phone from the other room once I get the urge
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Since this is in debate I think it would be a good idea to point out that the frequent use of enemas can actually be harmful. Our entire digestive tract contains useful bacteria and washing it out can lead to an imbalance of your natural flora. That means you'll have a harder time going naturally and your absorption of certain nutrients will be inhibited. The more often you do them the more likely you are to become vitamin or mineral deficient.
There's also the risk of perforating the rectum, which could lead to the loss of your colon and having to poop in a bag for the rest of your life.
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This looks like one of those threads that will fill up my feed and cover up the last thread I posted in that still fills up my feed. And, by the way, filling up my feed is a heck of a lot better than filling up my you know what.4
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Karb_Kween wrote: »Do you do them? How often? If not why, why not?
No. Never. I haven't felt the need or urge to do so.
If you do them, why do you do them? Does grabbing your phone stop your urge to do an enema?
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Awolturtle wrote: »What are you gaining (or I guess losing) form the enema? are you using it to lose weight? Because that's completely unneeded, plus you run the risk of becoming dependent on them if you continually use them because your colon will lose its ability to pass stool on its own through muscle movement. The only weight you lose with an enema is temporary at best.
^^This.
Also, OP, you aren't any "cleaner" after having done an enema than you are if you never do one. There is absolutely no reason to do one unless advised by your doctor.
Or unless you're about to shoot some very, um, interesting home videos...10 -
Unless you have endemic and ongoing bowel issues, enemas are at best useless, and potentially harmful. Don't you think that the human body, after many thousands of years of evolution, has worked out how to take a crap?15
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I just take bubble baths, it works as enema.2
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DeficitDuchess wrote: »I just take bubble baths, it works as enema; only it isn't being forcefully injected.
Bubble baths make you poop??1 -
DeficitDuchess wrote: »I just take bubble baths, it works as enema.
I don't think you bubble bath the same way I bubble bath.... o_017 -
stephanieluvspb wrote: »
Bubble baths make you poop??
Yeah sometimes I wouldn't have a bm, for nearly 3 weeks; yet wasn't constipated but my weight'd increase. Then I remembered always having 1, approximately an hour after taking a bath; as a child. So a bath, is a soapy enema & currently I have bms, about every other day.1 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »
I don't think you bubble bath the same way I bubble bath.... o_0
I just use regular bubble bath & soak for a 1/2 hour everyday.0 -
DeficitDuchess wrote: »
I just use regular bubble bath & soak for a 1/2 hour everyday.
Do you... introduce the soapy water into your lower intestine? Coz... then you don't bubble bath like I do. Sphincters are pretty water tight... I know warm water can make you poop, but unless there is... insertion... its not an enema.3 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »
Do you... introduce the soapy water into your lower intestine? Coz... then you don't bubble bath like I do. Sphincters are pretty water tight... I know warm water can make you poop, but unless there is... insertion... its not an enema.
I've never taken a bath, without bubble bath but always in the warmest water; that's tolerable. I've gone swimming in warm water & didn't have to have bms, so it seems that it was the soap.0
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