(TW) Question for parents

It's the troublemakers/trolls who haunt these pages that are going to be "triggered" by this one. OK...

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

Anecdote from another website:
"...her son (2.5 yo) was scared of pooping in the toilet and refusing, so she inserted a suppository and then held him down on the potty until he pooped while he screamed/cried and that after that experience he was fine pooping in the toilet"
This is the way all parents used to tackle noncompliance and wilful-withholding...back in the days when there were no unsocialized four-year-olds doing their dooeys in pullups or diapers. The person relating the anecdote was of course acting shocked/outraged.
I "educated" her by direct message.
The reason I set up this group was not just to vent about my experiences past and present but to reach out to other parents dealing with their kids' long-term bowel issues - managing them with anal medication (and enduring all the drama that goes with it). So far I haven't had much luck, but because this group stands as an opposition to all the anti-suppository/anti-enema and anti-the-old/proper-method-of-potty-training rhetoric elsewere on the intenet, I have to keep it going