# Ladies: periods and your skivvies \[tmi\] **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 12, 2010, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-periods-and-your-skivvies-tmi/546390 "2010-07-12T14:39:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-periods-and-your-skivvies-tmi/546390/101 "2010-07-26T18:05:06Z")
> [@Big\_Norse](#): > > My really heavy flow was due to fibroids, taking out the uterus was the only solution. Glad you were able to get it. My question was directed at the women who are \*still \*dealing with heavy flows–mainly curious about what alternatives they’ve tried and why or why not. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-periods-and-your-skivvies-tmi/546390/102 "2010-07-26T19:16:11Z")
> [@kushiel](#): > > > [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > > > Same as FS with me, so I didn’t answer the poll. Also, most of my oopses are contained by a minipad. > > I use pads, but I need to make basically a pad diaper. Don’t ask me how when I am sitting I can end up the back of my underwear being attacked. Ahhh thank you for making me feel not so alone. There are times I use three pads. One in front and two of the long ones spread out across my ass. That’s where I always have my oopsies, but usually it’s at night. I don’t quite know WHY since I sleep on my side, but the spot will always be all the way up the back of my underwear. I must move around a LOT at night. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-periods-and-your-skivvies-tmi/546390/103 "2010-07-26T19:21:34Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > > [@kushiel](#): > > > > > [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > > > > > Same as FS with me, so I didn’t answer the poll. Also, most of my oopses are contained by a minipad. > > > > I use pads, but I need to make basically a pad diaper. Don’t ask me how when I am sitting I can end up the back of my underwear being attacked. > > Ahhh thank you for making me feel not so alone. > There are times I use three pads. One in front and two of the long ones spread out across my ass. That’s where I always have my oopsies, but usually it’s at night. I don’t quite know WHY since I sleep on my side, but the spot will always be all the way up the back of my underwear. I must move around a LOT at night. Spot all the way up the back = blood is seeping up your ass crack. ( \*\* waves at any MaleDopers who are still here for whatever reason \*\* ) At some point, you’re rolling onto your back. One easy solution would be to quick-sew a little pocket into your sleepytime-shirt and stick in a tennis ball. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-periods-and-your-skivvies-tmi/546390/104 "2010-07-26T20:01:25Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > One easy solution would be to quick-sew a little pocket into your sleepytime-shirt and stick in a tennis ball. :o Or you could just take 4 or 5 squares of TP, fold them up and stick them in your ass crack. It isn’t the most comfortable thing in the world but being jerked awake because every time I roll on my back there is a tennis ball in the way is not acceptable to me (I suffer from insomnia) so the TP solution is the better choice IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-periods-and-your-skivvies-tmi/546390/105 "2010-07-27T16:53:00Z")
Yeeahhh I think I’ll just keep spreading those pads across my ass. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-periods-and-your-skivvies-tmi/546390.md?page=5)