(TW) Question for parents

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At what age did your habitually-constipated kids stop protesting, begging, running away, and having to be held down fighting and scream/crying through the anally-penetrative treatments?

Or did they never really grow out of it, are they still turning suppository/enema administration into an RS, to this day?

And if so -
have you tried not using it, tried to get by with only the less-efficient/more-risky oral medicines as your chemical crutch -
only to find that you needed to bring the suppositories/enemas back, and use any force necessary, because they really can't "do" without them?

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SuziSatan02 · 46-50, F

Relocated anecote:
when, on her second course of HRT, "M" finally entered into puberty, we tried lifting the bowel-movement-monitoring regime and allowing her to manage her own evacuations including any medication needed to facilitate them. The compromise was that she had to keep a written record, keep the dooey-diary up to date. It lasted one week. Because it was obvious to all with eyes ears and noses that she was falsifying the evidence. So it was back to the old routine.