Tampons VS. Pads [WOMEN ONLY]

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They tried to warn you with pads and tampons in the title.

But did you listen?

No.

Actually I'm going to have to disagree with this (it seems that you are in the early stages after childbirth? At least of the point you are making this post).

Before having my birthdaughter, I wore only pads. After her, I was able to do tampons after about 6 months out (and preferred to do so as my flow got heavier, thereby magnifying the ick factor with pads). You kinda have to give it some time to tighten back up again though. But I've noticed that not every brand of tampon works. I thought I was unable to do tampons because playtex gentle glide kept falling out (seriously, the fit was so terrible that it gave me a complex), but I found out that tampax pearl molds to the shape of my vagina better, thereby staying in better.

Maybe one day I'll try a menstrual cup. I'm interested.

That's one thing I've always disliked about pads, and some brands are worse than others. I have never had good luck with kotex especially in that department. And I think too, that some manufacturers make pads too wide (as I am a smaller woman), and thereby scrunch them in a way to where they overshoot the width of my underwear and if they're too stiff, voila! Instant thigh chaffing. Usually at night, I select what I think to be the lesser of two evils: Will I sleep more than 8 hours and stay in one place? Or will the discomfort of a pad wake me and should I just set an alarm for 8 hours and put in a tampon? Usually I do the latter. I'm such a crankwad when I'm on my period though. Because sleep is always an issue with me. I think I'm living with an undiagnosed sleep disorder, so it's like, if I don't get my arbitrarily-placed 10 hours of sleep I'm not easy to live with. And having to switch out a tampon after 8 is annoying, wake up to make sure you're not getting your period is annoying, and so is trying not to flip 12 times while sleeping with a pad.

I do believe there are some tampons specialize in that kind of thing. I remember there was brand when I learned to insert tampons (when I was 14) called kotex (or playtex? I can't remember) slimfits. But this was back in 1998 and I'm not sure if they still make them or who caters to that audience today, but I remember there being somebody in that aisle that made it clear on their package of being slimmer in the applicator.

Cup. Far more comfortable, convenient, cheaper, more reliable... I never have to rush to buy one at the last minute...

I always hated pads, and was having more and more trouble with tampons causing irritations and being uncomfortable... I tried the cup 8 years ago and never used anything else since. Took me some time to be really good at putting it right : at first it took me a couple of minutes and a few tries every time, now it's a matter of seconds...

And it's eco-friendly.

I've found that pads are starting to get shorter as well. My fave brand (Stayfree) recently rebranded their packaging and I swear to god the pads are now a few cm's shorter . I switched to Libra Ultrathins this month, but they don't adhere to your underwear really well, especially if they're a synthetic material like lycra or spandex.

^^ my mom a while back came to that realization (she's liked stayfree). She's been like "well, good thing I'm going through menopause, because they keep on messing up my favorite products. More than likely by the time they get them right I won't need them anymore"

i voted pads but i think i have changed my opinion. tampons are uncomfortable and i don't trust them and theyre hard to get up there and hard to take out but i can wear whatever i like with them, they don't smell and i don't feel so icky and wet and (i know this sounds shallow but who cares) unattractive. pads have the benifit of not giving people TSS and being easy to use and um thats it i think... theyre kinda gross.

Tampons = ouchy. Yes even after having sex.

Pads = easier to monitor and change. I don't have a terribly heavy period.

I don't swim either and I mostly wear jeans and khaki cargo pants.

LOL bad for the environment. I do my part. I recycle and buy items with green written in massive writing and pictures of a daisy field on the label. I've never seen a cup or sponge in my supermarket so I'll stick with what I can buy pretty much anywhere. And I'm not using re-usables. Ick! No ones going to tell me what I stuff down there for 4-5 days a month.

I can only wear tampons because the sensation of the pad makes me want to be sick, I hate it. I can only wear tampons by one brand because they expand width wise not length wise and I always have to wear lite or regular because anything else is super unconfortable.

Unless I'm travelling or away from home, I wear the Diva Cup (silicone) or reusable fabric pads. When I'm travelling, I use the disposable pads mostly, but I've sometimes used tampons. The reusable fabric pads don't get the same smell as plastic ones, I guess because they're cotton and there's no plastic to make you sweat. It also isn't as gross as one might think to wash them. I don't get actual periods anymore that are heavy enough to use a tampon because I have the Mirena IUD, but I can still use the Diva Cup if I want to go swimming while I'm spotting.

I use both, mostly pads though because I don't like having to change tampons all the time (I don't have very heavy periods so I tend to have to change mostly dry tampons)

I am thinking of switching to a cup though. They sound so much better and efficient.

Yeah, no kidding!

I've had four good sized babies and prefer a well hung man, but I cannot, cannot, cannot use a tampon. I don't know why. Both my daughters use them, but if I'm out of pads I'll fold up a bunch of toilet paper in my underwear before I'll use a tampon.

I can always feel it, or think I can, even though it's in correctly. Also I hate how one feels when I pull it out.

::shiver::

I'm even more sure that I'll never try one of those menstrual cups.

I recently had a colposcopy and after I was packed with gauze to stop the bleeding. It took multiple tries to get it out and I thought I was going to have to go back and have them take it out.

Really? I had a colposcopy and they just cauterized and the I wore a pad and had light spotting. I was terrified that it would hurt afterwards and so my doc gave me Lortabs, but I had no pain at all.

No actually I had my baby almost two years ago. I didn't get my first period again until he was eight months. They just didn't work the same on me even though my husband said my vagina is a little bigger. He was a big baby everyone says even though he only weighed 8 pounds 12 ounces and was 20 and a half inches. To me he was tiny.

But maybe I will try different tampons.

I had multiple biopsies and they told me before that my cervix bleeds easy. I even bled after a regular pap smear. After that they even gave me something to hold under me so I wouldn't drip on the floor on the way to the bathroom. She used a silver nitrate stick on the vaginal wall biopsy but said it wouldn't work on the cervical ones. I guess it was that bad. I think it already stopped though but it could randomly start up again. Spotting between periods is why I went.

Digging the gauze things out of there was an awful experience and one I don't want to repeat. I don't like penetration and stuff like that makes me sore and uncomfortable. I couldn't even find them in there at first.