A week after my (real) second enema, a long history, and SO MUCH MUCUS

Hello all, this is my first post to curezone though I have been lurking around the enema forums for a while. I am a 24 year old female, 110 lbs and about 5'5. I have been around this weight for the past 5 years. I've always been skinny, though at some periods it will go up. The highest I've been was 135 at 19 years old I think. I do not eat as well as I should, but I try. I do eat a lot of sugar, mostly pastries. I could eat Sugar all day every day but I still do not gain weight. Lately I've been trying to eat better, but all the extra fiber seems to be making my stomach upset more often now.
About a month ago I felt the need to try an enema, and subsequently found this site.
Off and on my entire life I've had stomach and bowel issues, I remember frequent stomach aches when younger. The pain would come in waves and I'd frequently miss out on playing with friends or doing things id like. As I got older, the stomach cramps became less frequent, but I've always had a problem with constipation and staying hydrated. There was a time when I was about 13 where my bowel movements were frequent and normal, a daily basis at the same time during Spanish class. That lasted for about a year, and then it completely changed. Even though I was eating my 3 square meals a day, I had a healthy appetite and was very active (living on a ranch with hard labor chores) every night we had a meat, a side like macaroni or potatoes, and always a fruit or vegetable. When I moved here is actually when my stomach and intestine became 'normal', for a little while.
All of a sudden I had no appetite anymore, though occasionally when I did get my appetite back, or forced myself to eat, I felt ravenous like I hadn't eaten in forever. I remember one day feeling sick, puking up beans from 14 hours before, and when I had a BM it was very hard and a very light clay color and consistency, almost white!
Unfortunately, I had been sent to live with my father and stepmother at their ranch, there were a lot of issues with this side of my family and when I voiced my concerns about my digestive issues, they were ignored and my stepmother thought I was lying.. I won't get into that mess anymore.
Fast toward a few years, I think I was 18 years old, I was now living back with my 'good' family, and I finally am able to see a specialist for my issues. This specialist actually found a heart murmor, I had a hole in my heart, Atrial Septal Defect. It would have lead to right sided heart failure if it wasn't discovered, but luckily I had surgery, they went up through an artery in my thigh and they plugged the hole in my heart... and to think what might have happened if I had been stuck with people who would not listen to my concerns, and my Medicaid had expired at 19 before this discovery with my heart.. No way would I or my family have been able to pay for an operation like that.
I had blood work done for my stomach issues they said there was possibly a thyroid issue but it was not very bad levels, and to keep an eye on it. I cannot remember if they said it was hyper or hypo, though. Possibly hyper, since I am so skinny? I received endoscopies, ultrasounds, and colonoscopies, the doctor came to the conclusion that I must have IBS. However shortly after these visits I turned 19 and I lost my Medicaid coverage so I have not been able to visit since then.

For the past six years or so, I have been consistently constipated. Though I rarely get the stomach aches that I used to get so frequently. My bowel movements can happen as little as once a week and it is always a few large masses like balls, not like the shape and texture you would see with normal 'elongated' BMs. Sometimes they will get stuck together and I will have quite a painful time trying to pass them. Ever since I was little I would randomly get these stabbing pains under my left rib, which later on I realized had to do with my constipation.
Usually when I felt this it would happen once every so often, it would last maybe 15 seconds, then it would be months and months until I felt it again
I believe it is when the hard feces is trying to pass through the tight curve of the transverse and descending colon. Maybe I am wrong though.

When I was pregnant, on three different occasions, and the worst time being when I was due, I felt those horrible sharp, stabbing pains under my left rib only this time it kept coming in waves, it wasn't a one time thing. Like the feces kept trying to move through every few minutes but couldn't. The first two times this happened I spent hours in the bathroom in pain, sweating, in agony. Eventually the pain went away and I felt so depleted afterwards, I'd crawl in to bed half dead feeling and pass out. The last time it happened, around the time I was due to give birth, this was the worst I have ever experienced. It would not let up. Every minute or so Id get this sharp pain in my bowel in my rib cage like I was being stabbed in the side, and like a knife was twisting into my side.. it would make me crumple to the ground, I could not move, I could not breathe, I could not talk. Doing any of these things made it worse. I just had to wait for it to pass. When it happens I have to bend my body into the pain, bending my upper and lower torso to left. If I didnt, or if I tried to straighten my body out it would hurt SO much more. Sometimes it would take 5 Seconds to pass, other times it would take as much as Thirty. I was taken to the hospital in my town, and of course they thought it was contractions. I was actually having mild contractions, I assumed it was because of the pain I was experiencing. (Or is it possible those machines can read constant bowel movement contractions/flexing as labor contractions??) No matter how much I told them it was not contractions they would not listen. I have had this pain randomly my entire life, I knew what it was!!! They really did nothing for me, and I'll never go to that hospital again if I ever have a choice. They sent me home after giving me a shot of milk of magnesia. A short while after the milk of magnesia the pain became worse, what I assumed was because now my small intestine was trying to push everything through, but there was a block in my large intestine. I could not handle it anymore it was so painful I felt like dying. I was taken to the hospital in the larger City an hour away from us, the maternity ward where I had planned on giving birth anyways. I was very dehydrated, they had me drink fluid, they could not even get an IV in because I was so dehydrated. (I've been to the hospital a LOT when I was younger for dehydration and needed an IV) After arriving at the hospital this sharp pain no longer came in waves, it was constant, and my entire bowel was hurting now. It felt like my intestines were going to explode, but I almost wanted them to so I could get some RELIEF! I would have let them cut me open and take it out in a heartbeat.
I was dealing with this pain for over 12 hours. I wouldnt wish it on my worst enemy. Eventually, at 7 in the morning, and after a hot bath I was able to go. I felt my entire colon completely empty itself out in a big surge. I read somewhere else this is what you experience from a high enema when you get the water all the way to the cecum, and the entire bowl releases itself. The toilet nearly overflowed, within a couple inches there was so much.
I felt so much better though I was exhausted. I was scheduled for an induced delivery a few days after this event, but the doctors decided that since I was already in the hospital that I should continue with the induced delivery on that day. I wish I would have been more stern about waiting.. with the amount of pain that I had been in for over 12 hours, and now they wanted me to give birth, no sleep the entire time.. I did end up giving birth to a healthy baby girl but it was one of the hardest two days I have ever been through in my life.

Anyways, I know I am trailing off a bit I have had a long and complicated relationship with my insides. This was back in December of 2014. Since then I've had this bowel issue happen two or three times. Not nearly as bad, and this time I knew what was wrong with me and I knew how to help it. Whenever something similar like this starts to happen I will take a Fleet enema and help move it along. Since discovering Fleet enemas and no longer being scared of them it has helped tremendously whenever this issue arises.

So back to the original reason for posting, I recently felt like I was very backed up and needed to do an enema. I purchased a 2 quart enema bag. About a month ago I did my first real enema with saline and baking soda with Propauls directions. (Can't do coffee, caffeine and too much Sugar will give me migraines) I took about two quarts, emptied half of it and did another two quarts. I did not feel any discomfort or cramps, I probably could have done more but I was just bored and wanted to get out of the bathroom. I believe I emptied most of the solution and the water was very very dark and opaque, you could not see any of the toilet paper just underneath the surface. There was only a few pieces of hard stool, it was mostly dark almost black water with particles.

A week after that I decided to try again, and this time I wanted to try to go higher because I feel like it did not clean all the way. I did the baking soda and saline solution again. I took two quarts, emptied out some of the water and then took more. I rolled on to my back and on the sides in the way suggested to try to get it further down and I believe I was successful. However this time I started feeling like it was getting to be too much so I stopped and evacuated. It felt fine at first, but slowly started to feel like my painful experience before. Like I was very full. I was on the toilet for a while feeling not very good, sweating again, letting a lot out in intervals. I started getting nervous because I did not want to feel that pain again that I experienced when I was pregnant. I believe most of my discomfort, which I eventually realized, was from a very large, mud texture like mass of stool with undigested food. I could feel it going around that curve under my rib cage, but after that had came out I felt a lot better. Because of my constipation experiences it felt very unlikely that this came from my lower intestine and I am wondering if the one way door at my cecum was malfunctioning and that water had gone in there. But I have been eating a lot of oats and fruit lately, so maybe thats why it looked like it had chunks in it? I have not done an enema since, because of this experience, though I do plan to do smaller enemas in the future.

It has been about a week, maybe close to two weeks, since I did that enema. I have not gone very much at all, which is normal for me. Just a few "balls" (which I'm wondering now if its like that because I eat very small meals frequently throughout the day, and maybe one largeish meal once a day.)
Anyways, today I went a very small amount, it was very small and elongated which is not normal. But what was very interesting was, it was completely covered in a cloudy white and yellow mucus like substance. It almost looked like when a spider wraps a bug in its web. There was SO MUCH mucus on it. Maybe 60% white and 40% yellow. I have always had mucus in my stool, like pockets sometimes, for the past 6 or so years but never ever anything like this.
I have come to terms with my stomach issues and am learning more and more how to deal with them. If anyone has any insight for the bulk of my post I appreciate it, but the main reason why I am writing this was to find out about the mucus. I did notice the other few BM I've had since that last enema I did had more mucus than usual but still nothing like this. I've never flushed out any parasites either, and have never seen any actual worms though I don't know what other signs would be.

Also about the sharp stabbing pain in my side, does anyone agree with my theory, or do you think its something else? If it is in fact that tight turn in the bowel, is there anything I can do right when that is happening to help it move pass? Like massaging/pushing my fingers from where the pain is at, down my stomach towards the sigmoid?

Thank you to anyone who commits to this very long post.

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