no boys allowed in the room!!!!

lol

the fact that scented tampons are still commercial available infuriates me - if only because I have accidentally purchased them and they are the WORST things ever

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, May 1, 2013 9:33 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Like the time I accidentally bought Febreeze scented garbage bags, which made our inside trash, which sometimes smells like garbage but usually smells like coffee grounds or nothing noticeable, smell like trashy Febreeze. Ugh. UGH.

Not that vaginas smell like trash, mind you.

roxy has a case of Yoni Yum stashed in the back of her closet.

"Like the time I accidentally bought Febreeze scented garbage bags, which made our inside trash, which sometimes smells like garbage but usually smells like coffee grounds or nothing noticeable, smell like trashy Febreeze. Ugh. UGH."

OMG I JUST DID THIS AND IT WAS TERRIBLE.

It is so bad. Apologies to whomever I'm about to offend, but anybody who buys those on purpose has no sense of smell. Or decency.

agreed

I can't even stand scented cat litter; no way am I putting nasty commercial scent up my vagina!

On a related note, why the fucking fuck is it so hard to find regular cardboard applicator tampons these days? FUCK YOUR PEARL JUST GIVE ME MY BIODEGRADABLE PLS THANK U.

diva cup

I have contemplated this, but it would be a major departure and I dunno seems less convenient?

u can leave it in like forever depending on how much gunk you produce, that's pretty convenient

Also do not have to buy replacements while in foreign country away from major suppliers.

Growing my nails have made tampons so much more dangerous (I live on the edge - tuck the string in because I cannot deal with that feeling.)

Quincie I believe I complained about the same thing on another thread! Why are they so insistent on making everyone use more plastic?

do they sell non-applicator tampons in the US at all? i am one of those smug cup-using hippies, but back when i bought tampons on the regular p much all uk non-tampax options were applicator-free.

i had the hardest time finding non-app tampons when i moved here - in nz it's the opposite case. i think there is only like ONE brand of non-app here.

OB is strictly non-applicator now. I think there is at least one other brand that makes a non-app variant

Ob was always non app weren't they? Keep it simple and set yourself free from the extras that you really don't need. Just try OB and you'll see.

OB
it's the way it should be

They were non-applicator when I was in high school so they've been non-app since the 80s at least.

i love OB

I wish OB weren't so small. I have to change them all the time the first few days so I rarely buy them.

My period is so out of hand that tampons are a pointless endeavor for me anyway. I can't even use a cup for the first two or three days, so I mostly just use pads. And usually cloth ones, although recently my period has been even more out of hand than usual and I got really tired of all that extra laundry so I've been killing the earth with disposable pads. :(

Yeah I get ob, but in nz there are a million kinds, including ones that come in little plain-packaged multi packs so you can just throw a little pack of 6 or so in your bag. And also super-duper sized, which I'm a fan of the first day. Gotta admit, I'm kinda excited about menopause.

Ha, totally. I was one of those "I love my cycle!!! I am one with the earth!!!" people until my mid-30s and since then I've been like, That's plenty of menstruating for one lifetime. Can we stop this now, please?

mine was worse in high school, it's p manageable now. but i feel like the premenstrual craziness and cramping has gotten way worse. I had to go out and buy fucking Pamprin last time :(

My period used to be problematic because I got really bad cramps, nausea, and hot flashes! Pill fixed that. Now my period is not too bad, but because I have developed a bunch (6 at last count) of FIBROIDS I don't want to risk getting off the pill even though I otherwise would. Apparently it is the only thing keeping me from whoa levels of bleeding and between-period spotting.

Kinda of just want to go ahead and get a hysterectomy already.

A friend of mine actually did that. She had terrible fibroids and when she was in her 30s was like fuck it, take it out. She totally mocks me when I complain about my period, too.

I don't like being on the pill for huge lengths of time...I think it's just a mental thing where I want to know what my period is like without it from time to time, just to make sure nothing is weird.

idk, I'm weird

No, you're not. I am pretty anti hormonal birth control for myself for similar reasons. It's one of the main reasons I had a copper IUD for so many years. That said, I'm really lucky in that my periods aren't really bad and more often than not a couple of Advil alleviates any pain.

I'm gonna try a low-dose (mini) pill when I'm back in the states; my gyn and I agreed we didn't want to experiment while I was out of the country (and with minimal health insurance) for several months! My blood pressure has been on the high ("prehypertensive") side for a couple of years now; all the more reason to get off the pill. But there is no way I can go back to the agony of the off-the-pill periods of my early 20s!

The minipill isn't necessarily low does but it is a progestin-only birth control pill and doesn't contain estrogen. It's often recommended for use in women who are at risk for certain health issues including high blood pressure.

iirc the only drawbacks is that it really has to be taken at the exact same time every day in order to be effective and it may make periods irregular and/or cause spotting.

I feel like I'm the only person who has no bad side-effects of the pill. Well, I have a small patch of discolouration (melasma) on my cheek that could be caused by it.

I never had any side-effects, I just don't take a lot of medication in general, so it kinda weirds me out taking it for long periods of time.

But that being said, I tooooottttally get having to do it, especially with heavy/painful periods and all the other stuff that goes along with it, solidarity for life etc

My only problems on the pill was the Crying for No Reason Whatsoever while on a trial of Yasmin. Otherwise, it does wonders for my irregular, painful periods and my acne! Also: no babby, which is also the point. Spouse is happy to get vasectomified for the no babby bit, but I am nervous about what my crazy uterus will get up to on its own devices :(

the pill helped w/my period pains but it made me super emo all the time. plus i couldn't remember to take it. plus i just could not except that this little teeny pill would stop me getting pregnant.

I hate those plastic applicators for many reasons including:

1. yay more petrochemical waste!
2. do they recycle? I do not know! but our recycling supposedly gets hand-sorted at the depot so basically no, that would not be cool
3. this might just be me but I cannot even work the things and usually end up just peeling the plastic off
4. makes the whole product giant and harder to hide discreetly in a small bag pocket
5. also 1+2 make you feel more guilty when you find an elderly one stashed as in 4 and throw it out unused because it's been hanging around so long

etc etc tmi

whenever i am walking around or jogging and see a plastic tampon applicator on the ground (because apparently people are always throwing these out car windows or dropping them, or rats are carrying them out of dumpsters maybe) i think "whoa those exist???" because they are so absurd imo!

*i still use them*

sry

I never used to, i always used the ob ones

...tmi blah blah I had some difficulties a while back,the plastic applicator was kinda necessary and then I never switched back to the regular ones

but I don't throw them out in the street

srsly who does that

it wasn't a judgment they're just weird to me!

lol it's okay I just have a guilty conscience

yeah, I don't mind other people using them (though the ones I've seen do seem a bit bulky and wasteful but that's the manufacturer's fault and def. not yours) but they are not for me.

I usually just removed the old-style card applicator tubes too, so I am not really target market, but at least I could get them to slide out when wanted and not when not wanted, and they seemed less wasteful and less annoying to dispose of somehow.

my mum was too cheap to buy the app ones when i was a teen (they are way more expensive in nz), so non-app is basically all i've known. the few times i've used app ones, i've found it... awkward. TMI ALERT!!!!--> with app ones i'm never sure if it's in properly? and man there is nothing more uncomfortable than walking round with a tampon that is not in all the way.

otm

yeah it's a horrible feeling

I can't get the non-apps to feel like they are in the right place!

Hmm maybe this is a fingers too short or vagina too long problem?

I have very short fingers and don't have that problem so that seems...unlikely, but what do I know, I've only ever had the one vagina so

I have pretty long finger so idk maybe I will have to experiment further. But this is one reason why I am diva cup shy--how will I get it in the right place?

occasionally it takes multiple tries but if you fold it correctly it just opens in the right place and sits there