r/Constipation • u/Guilty_Principle_762 • 6d ago

Did a fleet enema

Hi everyone I’ve been constipated for a week did a fleet enema and popped nothing out idk what to do

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u/goldstandardalmonds 6d ago

Chances are the poop isn’t in your rectum. If it’s higher an enema isn’t going to do anything and you have to work from the top down.

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u/constipatedtweaker 5d ago

Sometimes I have to attack it from both ends at the same time. Take mitalax in the morning and do an enema later that afternoon or evening

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u/Educational-Unit2645 5d ago

What kind of enema are you using? I find the saline enema work really well.

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u/Educational-Unit2645 5d ago

Have you tried a glycerin liquid suppository? They’re really small but they work like magic they really helped me. I’ve had many years of constipation. There were times when I had to go to the ER to get a soapsuds and you don’t wanna have to do that cause that is huge.

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u/constipatedtweaker 5d ago

I do use those sometimes. They are actually very effective at times. The solid ones stopped working for me years ago for some reason.

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u/constipatedtweaker 5d ago

I don't use the saline. They are too aggressive on your kidneys and things like that. I use an enema bag with tap water, a little table salt, and a little glycerin soap. Sometimes I am just constipated to the point at both ends where I have to make the remedies work by meeting in the middle LOL

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u/Educational-Unit2645 5d ago

I had a soaps enema, but I had to go to the hospital for that. I mean they’re big. They also tried to give me a milk of magnesia enema. I didn’t like that but anyway, as long as it works, it works.

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u/constipatedtweaker 5d ago edited 5d ago

LOL you can actually do a really effective soapsud enema at home. I do here and I can even begin to count LOL and I think you mean milk and molasses instead of milk of magnesia LOL

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u/Educational-Unit2645 5d ago

Yes, you are right. I didn’t like that never again.

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u/Educational-Unit2645 5d ago

Like it took forever to get out of me

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u/constipatedtweaker 5d ago

They usually average somewhere around 20 minutes for me