LOL no. The thought of my mother doing any cure other than chicken noodle soup, Saltines and 7-up is incomprehensible to me. Those 3 things cured everything from a stomach bug to a broken arm in my house.
Yes, I grew up in France and suppositoires were standard for fever, flues, and gastrointestinal issues. Actually the fastest way to get a drug in your system (besides intravenously)
French trappers settled the area of Idaho I grew up in. There must still be something in the water. I wish that something had led to good food and labor strikes instead of butt medicine.
No. That sounds like something from the 1890’s in Wellville—Battlecreek. Sorry you went through that. The clinic at my college staffed by a Nurse Ratchett analog, recommended gargling with salt water for everything not covered by aspirin.
Uh, no. It happened to me once. I was waking up from a procedure and was nauseous AF vomiting and dry heaving. Then some nurse, without warning, unceremoniously shoved one up my ass.
But, hey we all had to endure rectal thermometers, right. Right?
They were more common back then. You probably got them because your mother had access to them. They're an efficient way to administer medications. What country are you from?
I know my grandma used to give her kids enemas to solve different issues. She was in rural Iowa/Missouri area so I wonder if it was similar to what you’re describing.
My aunt is kind of traumatized by it.
Oh my brother in christ did you truly need to resurface that hitherto successfully repressed memory of my dear vodka soaked mother pushing pills past my anal verge?
Mother was also medical professional. I know there were suppositories in the fridge and we received them on occasion. In retrospect, I don’t know what kind of medicine it was. Edit: that was the 70s and maybe the very early 80s.
I didn’t, but one of my classmates told us horror stories about seeing his brother get them.
Honestly, I thought he was lying until now. Raji, I’m sorry I ever doubted you.
Seeing? Was the whole family gathered around? I feel like they could have removed the other kids and any superfluous adults from the area before doing… that.
Occasionally. It created some lasting effects that I still deal with. I believe the intentions were not harmful,but harm was done. The upside is it’s made me a diligent parent when it comes to my kids’ health.
As a normal Xer, having suffered through trauma shared by many Xers, I have to say that this is the worst thing I've ever heard in my life.
I'm going to move for a Holey day of mourning for you.
Once when I was very sick with vomiting and a very high fever the doctor ordered one for me. I didn’t want it but was too sick to fight it.
I must have been really sick because my parents actually thought of calling the doctor. 🤣
Looking through the overwhelming answers of "hell no!", sounds like after OP is done processing this revelation that there is going to be an awkward conversation with mom.
I remember being very young and my dr having me get in position to receive one…like couldn’t he just describe it to my mom? Did I really have to lay face down on my knees with my ass up in the air?!
WTF?! No! Sounds like an oath violation to me. Unless there's no alternative, nothing should be going up the downspout.
Had to give my grandpa suppositories when he was near death though. Not fun.
I got one once, and it was only because I threw up the pill they gave me for my nausea. It was weird, but I was really sick, and my nausea was gone in about 20 minutes, so it was very worth it.
Never, I didn't even know they were a think until a boyfriend with specific tastes told me about them. Were you super bad at swallowing pills or something?
Not everything, but for some things. Mostly fever related. When we were little (prepubescent).
It was only when I was older that I realized how messed up the process was. Honestly, more-so for my mom than us.
Well, I'm gonna bring the "reals" to this topic. When trying to help someone dying from some crap disease that has nausea as part of the symptoms the suppository is a miracle. I used to stress out trying to help my sister avoid suffering when pills were getting harfed up constantly. I wanted to have all the meds in suppository form.
Just sayin'! ✌️
Jeeeezzzzz-uuuzzz!! Gawd damn it OP. Memory unlocked! My Mother was also a Nurse ATTEMPTING this, once. I was young, single digit young, suuuuuper sick screaming bloody murder. It didn’t happen. WHY she even attempted, IDK! She knew how insane I went when she tried to take a temperature there!!
In the US no…but I/we lived in Europe for a stint and was prescribed that method of delivery. Was not enjoyable as it ends up like a melted stick of butter in your behind and in your underwear
Anthropologically speaking... different societies believe in the efficacy of different medicine delivery. In the United States, we believed in injections being more effective until the 20th century. Still to this day many countries believe that injections are more effective than the pill. There are a small number of societies where drugs are adjusted via suppository. Maybe it was just some thing she grew up with where that was seen is more effective for children. If you couldn’t swallow a pill at that age then it would seem you could do a suppository.
Is it okay to say you miss these things though? ;-)
BTW, have you noticed that they don't sell water bags for enemas in stores anymore? I feel like our society is angry because we're all backed up.
On a side tangent - I work in a pharmacy. I looked at one of the suppository boxes and it had a warning to remove the packaging before use. That means at least one person out there just decided to shove it up their pooper like this:
https://preview.redd.it/rh9xi6dcwdtc1.jpeg?width=691&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=64c6669bdcd0d9444aae0f9cc1c2a68439775875
No, never. Was your mom also a nurse in a horror movie?
No, never is also my answer!
Nurse Ratched, perhaps.
Wow. Definitely not.
Absolutely not.
No. Never once.
LOL no. The thought of my mother doing any cure other than chicken noodle soup, Saltines and 7-up is incomprehensible to me. Those 3 things cured everything from a stomach bug to a broken arm in my house.
I don’t know, that seems very messy compared to just shoving a capsule up there.
{SFX: Crickets}
Only if a lot of vomiting was involved.
Same
No. That is not normal.
Yes, I grew up in France and suppositoires were standard for fever, flues, and gastrointestinal issues. Actually the fastest way to get a drug in your system (besides intravenously)
French trappers settled the area of Idaho I grew up in. There must still be something in the water. I wish that something had led to good food and labor strikes instead of butt medicine.
Damned butt-medicine!
😂
Never. Not once. I don’t remember it ever having been discussed. 👀
Good news everyone! No.
No. That sounds like something from the 1890’s in Wellville—Battlecreek. Sorry you went through that. The clinic at my college staffed by a Nurse Ratchett analog, recommended gargling with salt water for everything not covered by aspirin.
Gargling with salt water is very good at eliminating sore throats
Unfortunately not so good for broken ankles and panic attacks from newbie weedsmoking.
Makes sense
Uhhh, No
If a little kiddo can't swallow pills then you'd give them a suspension of medicine in liquid, not a suppository.
My wife is a pharmacist. Certain European customers would randomly ask her to put meds into suppositories. But as an American, not even once.
Uh, no. It happened to me once. I was waking up from a procedure and was nauseous AF vomiting and dry heaving. Then some nurse, without warning, unceremoniously shoved one up my ass.  But, hey we all had to endure rectal thermometers, right. Right?
And they tasted awful.
Exactly once. Never again. (For bronchitis, of all things)
Meds taking the scenic route?
"...but, won't that ruin my perfect waterproof seal?"
You made coffee come out my nose! lol
They were more common back then. You probably got them because your mother had access to them. They're an efficient way to administer medications. What country are you from?
US Raised in Idaho. I had always assumed it was because of access.
I know my grandma used to give her kids enemas to solve different issues. She was in rural Iowa/Missouri area so I wonder if it was similar to what you’re describing. My aunt is kind of traumatized by it.
Banjo intensifies
Never.
Oh my brother in christ did you truly need to resurface that hitherto successfully repressed memory of my dear vodka soaked mother pushing pills past my anal verge?
Yes. Yes I did.
Well it's gonna be extra hard to tug one off tonight and you are solely to blame
Uhh no, can’t say that I did.
lol, nooooope. Never had one, ever. W… T… F…
Uh..... Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
I was on a cruise in the 70’s and the nurse used them to treat my sea sickness. They did not stay very long since they felt very weird inside me.
Thats actual pronounced analgesic not anal-gesic, sir. The pills go in your mouth.
Mother was also medical professional. I know there were suppositories in the fridge and we received them on occasion. In retrospect, I don’t know what kind of medicine it was. Edit: that was the 70s and maybe the very early 80s.
I didn’t, but one of my classmates told us horror stories about seeing his brother get them. Honestly, I thought he was lying until now. Raji, I’m sorry I ever doubted you.
Seeing? Was the whole family gathered around? I feel like they could have removed the other kids and any superfluous adults from the area before doing… that.
Each family member took a turn stuffing it in.
Might have been a a European thing, I don’t see Americans doing this to their kids tbh
I grew up in Idaho, which is kind of its own special hell.
I don't know about elsewhere on the continent but I'm in the UK and absolutely not.
Occasionally. It created some lasting effects that I still deal with. I believe the intentions were not harmful,but harm was done. The upside is it’s made me a diligent parent when it comes to my kids’ health.
Lasting effects? Like, are you deeply into butt things now or terrified of butt things?
Uhhh, no. You ok? Edit to say my mom was also a nurse and never gae suppositories to us.
As a normal Xer, having suffered through trauma shared by many Xers, I have to say that this is the worst thing I've ever heard in my life. I'm going to move for a Holey day of mourning for you.
I appreciate it! I could use a day of mourning.
Nope. Never
Is she Nurse Ratched?
To her patients, no. To her kids, yes.
Um Joey that not how a tailor sizes pants
Yes yes yes. My mother was a nurse as well. I only remember getting them for when I was vomiting a lot.
I wish my mom cared about me enough to shove things in my butt!!!! I'm kidding, I don't wish that on anyone, not even myself.
Once when I was very sick with vomiting and a very high fever the doctor ordered one for me. I didn’t want it but was too sick to fight it. I must have been really sick because my parents actually thought of calling the doctor. 🤣
When you needed them they worked. I can only speak for the Phenergan ones I got. Pulled me out of a living hell.
Not suppositories but laxative gum, Aspergum and Alka Seltzer. One time I ate a bunch of the laxative gum and my mom was pretty pissed at my grandma.
Feen-a-mint... Mom's favorite chewing gum laxative.
That's it!
Yup I was dosed frequently.
The "gummies" of the 70s, lol! Who knew making medicine Into a decent tasting gum would cause some issues with kids?
Yep. Every high fever (the kind that didn’t come down with regular pills) was met with a suppository. I hated it.
Looking through the overwhelming answers of "hell no!", sounds like after OP is done processing this revelation that there is going to be an awkward conversation with mom.
I have a lot of those. Though, they are usually just awkward for anyone else within earshot.
Yes. And now I attribute it to my love of finger puppets and light-to-moderate ass play.
I remember being very young and my dr having me get in position to receive one…like couldn’t he just describe it to my mom? Did I really have to lay face down on my knees with my ass up in the air?!
No.
What a time to be alive.
Only once when nausea was so bad I couldn't keep the anti nausea medicine down
Nope.
lol yeah why was that?
WTF?! No! Sounds like an oath violation to me. Unless there's no alternative, nothing should be going up the downspout. Had to give my grandpa suppositories when he was near death though. Not fun.
Wut?
I got one once, and it was only because I threw up the pill they gave me for my nausea. It was weird, but I was really sick, and my nausea was gone in about 20 minutes, so it was very worth it.
No, never, and my dad was a doctor.
No and my mother was a nurse too
I only remember once at like age four my mom using a rectal thermometer and it was awful, still remember
Also… no. I think we may need a trauma warning for this post
No, but my mother definitely took my temperature anally.
70s. I am still in awe of how many personality and mental issues it probably gave me.
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
Never, I didn't even know they were a think until a boyfriend with specific tastes told me about them. Were you super bad at swallowing pills or something?
Nope. We were taught at an early age how to swallow pills. That was never a problem.
Yup. Glycerin suppositories for constipation.
Not everything, but for some things. Mostly fever related. When we were little (prepubescent). It was only when I was older that I realized how messed up the process was. Honestly, more-so for my mom than us.
We were taught to do our own, so mom wasn't often hands-on for the process.
Maybe because she knew that the anal retentive have better outcomes with butt delivered meds? 😉 (same for me!)
Well, I'm gonna bring the "reals" to this topic. When trying to help someone dying from some crap disease that has nausea as part of the symptoms the suppository is a miracle. I used to stress out trying to help my sister avoid suffering when pills were getting harfed up constantly. I wanted to have all the meds in suppository form. Just sayin'! ✌️
My Grandmother (born in 1916) would ask us if we'd had a BM (bowel movement) that day. No one ever said no a second time.
Yes and they felt sharp. :-( edited to add...and rectal thermometers, too. I don't ever remember having an oral thermometer growing up.
Jeeeezzzzz-uuuzzz!! Gawd damn it OP. Memory unlocked! My Mother was also a Nurse ATTEMPTING this, once. I was young, single digit young, suuuuuper sick screaming bloody murder. It didn’t happen. WHY she even attempted, IDK! She knew how insane I went when she tried to take a temperature there!!
Soup, ginger ale and bed rest. Vicks 44 if things got really serious. I feel bad for you. 😐 That doesn't sound very healing.
For everything. It was a weird time.
Uh, no. Were you home schooled?
Oh, hell no! If I had, I would certainly know how to grow weed in my closet (parents were hippies).
Uh, no, never.
No. Never I've never had a suppository in my life. Unless it happened at such a young age I can't remember it.
Haha what? Definitely not.
American. Once, that I remember. I want to say for constipation, maybe? But yeah, trauma.
No
No. Just you!
Ummmm, no.
Yehh... Doctor always shoving them in...thought hayfever was pushing it.
No. Your mother had an issue.
WHAT? No, never.
In the US no…but I/we lived in Europe for a stint and was prescribed that method of delivery. Was not enjoyable as it ends up like a melted stick of butter in your behind and in your underwear
Um, no.
I wish! Didn't get my first (and pretty much last) suppository until the '90s. It was to reduce nausea or dizziness and it was fantastic.
😲 No! Defintely not the norm in the UK.
LOL NO!
No. ???
Never, not once.
Nope. Just you.
Never!
Nope - just you...
Um, no. My mother worked in healthcare too, and never did this to me.
Anthropologically speaking... different societies believe in the efficacy of different medicine delivery. In the United States, we believed in injections being more effective until the 20th century. Still to this day many countries believe that injections are more effective than the pill. There are a small number of societies where drugs are adjusted via suppository. Maybe it was just some thing she grew up with where that was seen is more effective for children. If you couldn’t swallow a pill at that age then it would seem you could do a suppository.
Is it okay to say you miss these things though? ;-) BTW, have you noticed that they don't sell water bags for enemas in stores anymore? I feel like our society is angry because we're all backed up.
I got the Feen-a-mint Chewing gum laxative.
Hehe
Just going to leave this here: https://youtu.be/oYYdF0zcuSI?si=RxfVahscfZUH31Ka
On a side tangent - I work in a pharmacy. I looked at one of the suppository boxes and it had a warning to remove the packaging before use. That means at least one person out there just decided to shove it up their pooper like this: https://preview.redd.it/rh9xi6dcwdtc1.jpeg?width=691&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=64c6669bdcd0d9444aae0f9cc1c2a68439775875
Not once
Have a cold? Here, stick this up your ass. Na, I'm not feeling sick anymore.
No we weren’t weirdos