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I am so happy to have found this thread because I was going to ask how safe is it to use a warm water enema on a daily basis.  I've always had to engage in acrobatics to try to eliminate everything on the toilet bowl, and even when I thought I was finished, I had to go again 5 minutes later!  I definitely eat too much roughage, being that I'm a Vegetarian.  I think that food can take sometimes 30 minutes to 2 full days to come out the other end!
The last doctor told me that  I had a "floppy pouch", which may make it harder to completely eliminate.  I used to get strictures all the time, making it hard to eliminate, but the last doctor said I didn't have any.  I went for PT, but that only helped a little.
Today was the second day in a row that I took a warm water enema in the bathtub, and I haven't felt this "normal" since I was a teen with a normal colon! 
I bought this enema bag kit for $22 on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...tle?ie=UTF8&th=1
I just use plain warm water from the bathtub and it was easy to insert the tube, even though I can get really tight down there and very irritated.  Soap it up a bit to make it glide in more easily if necessary. 
Well, let me tell you, (and please don't tell anyone else I told you this, lol),  after letting the water fill up my pouch while laying on my back in the tub, it came exploding out with tons of stuff.  It wasn't even like I had to hold it in for a few minutes, which I couldn't.  What a great feeling!  I tried it again to make sure I got everything out, but only a little bit more came out, and that was that.  I walked outside about two miles, and for the first time I didn't feel that "leak" or "burning", a sign that a bit was coming out on its own without my permission. That was about noon time, after eating a hearty breakfast too.  In fact, I ate when I came home about 3pm and I still didn't have the urge to go until much later in the day.   On the average I go between 8-12 time per 24 hours, but I think the count may go down to 6 or 7 at this rate. Or maybe less if I had better control with eating.
Today I did a repeat of yesterday, and went outside again, and still feel wonderful. 
BTW, my bathtub has a handheld shower head over it, so it makes it very easy for cleanup.
So, I was wondering if this could be harmful in any way if done more than a few times a week, every week. 
I was also wondering if the water continues all the way up to the small intestine, and if that could be a problem since that's where everything gets absorbed into the blood stream.

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