Tampons or Pads.

[Carrie_C 9]

I'm going to have to try one of those cups.

[WendyBlackheart 0]

Oh, def. try it. I love mine to death. Not only do I find it more comfortable, but it saves me money. I got mine as a gift, but just think - 30$ for a cup which can last for about five years, compared to 8$ a month ever say, 2 months, for life. I'd go diva anyday.

They also make disposable cups for the more squeemish about reuse, which also cover the cervix, rather than sit at the base of the vagina, so they can be worn during sex. (the diva and keeper cups have to be taken out)

[Ineedalapband 0]

I love my Divacup and wish I had known about it years ago. I tell everyone I know to get one. I think I paid about $20 for it and it was worth that and so much more. It lasts for years.

I think the cheapest place I've heard of people getting them was at iherb.com.

[janesays 2]

sooo this is definitely way too much info, but this is the ladies room so what the heck.

the only other surgery ive ever had was for this very issue, lol. at my first visit to the gyno, i told my doc that it hurt whenever i tried putting in tampons, so i wanted her to teach me the "right" way to put one in, because i hated having to only use pads. well sure enough, it took her about a second to look at my lady parts and goes "yeah-- no wonder it hurts!" apparently i had an unperforated hymen, meaning your hymen is supposed to naturally perforate and "dissolve" on its own or break sometimes very painfully through strenuous activity or sex.... except that my hymen was just SUPER thick, talk about a chastity belt!

apparently its genetic; and i told my mom what the doc said and she was like-- "oh yeah, i had that too. my gyno told me AFTER i had a lot of painful sex" ....haha definitely TMI. but thanks for warning me anyways! sooo i had the surgery (a hymenectomy, which was really easy, but thank god for the drugs because you all know that was like 10X more painful than this surgery) ... the next period I was able to use tampons no problem. i tried going back to pads once and i couldnt, it just felt like wearing a diaper.

glad i only learned about my problem through trying tampons by myself, and not the old-fashioned way like my mom!

[als74 1]

I have used both, but I am "short" inside, so sometimes tampons hurt me.

[twiggysmiff 0]

I have a tilted uterus and tampons hurt a lot when I wear them. Also, for some reason, my cramps become so much worse while I have one in. I'm pads all the way, but always the overnights. I have weird periods. They don't follow any schedule they want. I went through a time of none for years, then I would have a heavy one that would go on for 40 days. I ended up with a D&C 2 years ago (they found several small uterine polyps) and since then it's been like clockwork, up until about 6 months ago. They are gradually getting more and more time in between. Right now I'm experiencing spotting since New Year's Day (I remember because had sex on New Year's Night and I thought the bleeding was because things got a little...um...intense....TMI). I've been spotting every day since then. The last 2-3 days, its more than spotting, but barely enough to wear a pad. Of course, I'm due to be banded on Wednesday and I'm probably going to have to have surgery while on my period! That SUCKS!!!!

[cierra'sgrandma 1]

When I was a teen-ager, I used pads. I switched to tampons in my twenties, and continued to use tampons into my forties {I'm y6 yrs. old.}, when I started having to use tampons AND pads at the same time, because my periods were so freaking heavy, as in changing tampons at least every hour. I got home from church one night, got out of the car, and felt something trickling down my leg. I thought, since I had to go to the bathroom so badly that I had started to pee on myself {yuck!}, but that wasn't the case. Yeah, y'all guessed it. It wasn't pee. About three months after that incident, I had a procedure call an endometrial ablation, in which the lining of the uterus is cauterized, or in effect, "burned off". My gynecologist did this procedure in, his office, instead of resorting to a hysterectomy. The recovery time was, for me, very quick. It's definitely not a procedure for women who want to get pregnant. ANYWAY, I haven't had to use a pad or tampon since about a month after that procedure. I still have my ovaries, etc., just not the flow!

Edited January 13, 2009 by cierra'sgrandma
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[maddy 0]

When visiting for the summer one year, my cousin told me she uses 2 super tampons at a time on heavy days. To bring me back from shock she did demonstration. Learn something new.....

mads grl

[Carrie_C 9]

Omg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DivaStyleCoach 89]

When visiting for the summer one year, my cousin told me she uses 2 super tampons at a time on heavy days. To bring me back from shock she did demonstration. Learn something new.....

mads grl

Way, Way, WAY TMI! :ohmy:

I don't think I would have wanted to see that...Wow, just WOW...

[HeatherO 7]

When visiting for the summer one year, my cousin told me she uses 2 super tampons at a time on heavy days. To bring me back from shock she did demonstration. Learn something new.....

mads grl

OMG . . . I really don't think it is healthy to double up super tampons. There is only limited space for expansion up in there . . . at least I think so. That much compressed material would probably work more like a cork, not a lovely thought.

If I ever flowed so heavy I thought I might need two, I would still never use more than one and add a pad for good measure. Another option is to change much more frequently.

[Carrie_C 9]

That sounds very painful!!

[CrimsonCherries 0]

Both. I use Playtex gentle glide (I think) tampons and Always overnight pads when I'm out of the house, and just a pad at night or if I'm at home and not going anywhere. Tampons hurt me. They didn't used to, so that's why I only wear them when I'm out of the house.

[Carrie_C 9]

I used to use the playtex gentle glide, but I have been using kotex tampons lately. They are about a dollar cheaper and they seem to work better.

[DownInSocal 12]

Tampons make me cramp so I try not to use them. My period is so light on Yaz that I really only need a lightdays pad, maybe a regular pad for half a morning on one day of my period.