What products do you use during your period?

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Stayfree overnight with wings. No tampons. I was too paranoid trying to insert it the first time I used one so I just gave up and stuck with pads.

I envy those with light periods. Mine have always been trouble as they're heavy and until I started taking Aleve, I had horrible cramping. I also had to have surgery once because of endometriosis developing in my groin.

Pads, for some reason, shift, bunch up, bleed through when I sweat and give me accidents whenever I wear them. So when I finally got up the nerve to try tampons, it was the best thing since chocolate. As far as TSS, I'd risk it any day over wearing wet, stinky pads that leave stains and don't work unless I'm sitting in an upright position.

I have no tolerance at all for sticking things up my vagina, so end up just wearing the same incontinence briefs I wear the rest of the time. (And unlike pads, they actually rarely leak even when my period's pretty heavy.)

Yes. Just a matter of, basically, really bad body awareness. Half the time by the time I notice I need to take a leak it's already happening.

I MUST use both a pad and a tampon, because if the tampon gets over used it'l leak and my panties will get wet. And if there isn't enough blood you can't use a tampon anyway.

I use tampons... it doesn't feel like there's anything there, you don't have to worry about what position you're sitting or lying in, you can do sports and not worry, and all that. Nothing ever leaks out of them (unless someone is stupid and wears it for like 2 days or something) and they won't ever become detached or fall out and cause embarrassing moments lol. They are also smaller and easy to carry. They're (usually) sterile when you first take it out of the wrapper so there's no TSS risk really. So I rest my case.


There are also (non-birth control) pills for people who prefer not to have it at all. I'm sure you can find sites about it on the internet.

LOL, I was exaggerating.

I got that. I was just saying...

I use both...For tampons I would use Playtex Sport Regular or Tampax Pearl Regular (not because it has a fu fu name), and Pads I use Always Maxi Overnight w/wings at School, so I wouldn't have to change...At home I would use the same thing, because I am active a lot, and I am on foot almost all day, or in my room.

I used to think that tampons hurt, and so I just started using tampons just a month ago. I usually used pads because I was scared of putting the tampons in. Anyways, I think it's good to be able to start being able to use tampons because I can go swimming and running easier than by using the pads. However, pads can be put on faster than tampons can so they can also be good. I usually use what my mom buys; she usually buys Always pads, and Tampax or Playtex tampons; I hate the tampons in the machines at school because they have a cardboard inserter, which is very uncomfortable.

I prefer pads, more specifically, always pads...the ones with the green wrapper. If i *must* use tampax, they need to be slimfits. I find regular ones really uncomfortable, and super absorbency ones nearly *impossible*

Both, I have very heavy menstrual periods due to uterine fibroids.