What’s a lazy cervix?
There’s a joke in here somewhere, but damn if I can find it >_<
It needs to be propped up in order to pap smear it, apparently. I didn’t ask.
Probably because the step-mother is the one emptying the trash. Particularly, if the pad isn’t neatly wrapped in TP or something so there’s this huge, blood engorged reeking thing just sitting the trash can.
BTW, this is one of the reasons I don’t like pads beyond the whole constantly staining clothes issue. Tampons are so much neater.
But if you wrap it up tightly enough, it should be good.
I’m glad I don’t have a lazy cervix. It sounds a bit scary.
It’s not. It just frustrates gynecologists. The small ear canals are a bit more problematic.
Do you wear something like an eye patch to cure that?
I’m not a fan of them, but there are those times I’m sick of wearing a pad, cause it rubs n stuff and hurts like…Ah yes, there IS a difference between the cheap pads and name brand ones. I bought some of the cheapo ones after having a baby cause it seemed like for 3-4 weeks all I did was bleed. OMG, I never wanted to get rid of something so bad, those cheapos sucked, and I thought, ‘there’s a few things I need to keep spending good money on and name brand pads is one of them.’
I just picked up the Tampax pearls to try - I think I had just the normal ones before. I was really freaking out my period was going to come on full strength at a wedding we went to last weekend. I had a white/green dress and thought for sure AF would come knocking that day (at least by all my calculations). I was armed to the teeth with super absorbency tampons, pantiliners, pads etc. I started to spot on Friday and thought ‘Oh noes! It’s coming!!!’ So on Saturday I barricaded the southern border so she couldn’t break throught. NOOOOOOOOOTHING I tell you NOTHING showed up until…Sunday. thank goodness. But, I had so much stuff crammed in my purse waiting on Saturday for her to arrive.
I just think it’s funny cause a few months ago we were watching TV and Mr.Elf goes, ‘You don’t use those right?’ LOL Of course I told him I use them every once in awhile, I still think they’re strange tho, but very helpful on those days I want to wear a cute dress or go swimming.
You know, after reading everything I guess I have a light flow or something. I knew I’ve been blessed because I get no cramps, but I do make up for it with fun mood swings.
But, I can usually get away with using super thin pads, as I have done the past couple of years. I do use tampons for the first, heavier, day, but beyond that the thin pads are fine. The great thing about it is that the thins never have the plastic-y covering that the normal ones have. Plus they don’t feel like diapers.
I have a half used pack of the normal ones that I only use when there are no other choices. I’ve had that pack there for a long time now. Every time I have to grab one I wince and run to the store
Well, they are luxury items (depending on where you live).
The greatest day of my life was finding Always Ultrathin (with wings!) on sale in a pharmacy in Bulgaria, after I ran out of what I brought with me and my period came early (7 weeks overseas… I played the numbers and lost.) I had a mildly incomprehensible conversation with the lady pharmacist about them which ranks among my most fond traveling memories.
For anyone who cares, “Always” in Bulgarian is “Veenagi” (accent on the two “ee” sounds and the G pronounced as in “goat.”) In Russian its “Vsegda.”
I would hate it if I couldn’t use a tampon. Luckily (envy me!) I only have between 3-5 periods per year so it isn’t a big problem. Like others have mentioned, the Pearl is a good one. I’ve also found that Kotex makes a decent tampon with a plastic applicator.
I would never want to use a pad for the smell factor alone. I don’t care how often you change it, period + pads = smell. People always think “No, not me” but yes, you too.
When I got my first period my mother gave me pads–she always said tampons made her cramps worse, so pads were all she had.
I used them until I was fifteen or sixteen, when I visited a friend whose younger sister was wearing a pad.
I knew she was because I could smell it.
Every woman knows that smell.
I went home and told my mother I wanted tampons.
I don’t feel them at all, unless I don’t insert them far enough.
And I love Tampax; I’m the minority apparently who likes long vs. wide tampons. The wide ones seem to wiggle their way out of me; it’s weird.
And I hate plastic applicators; they PINCH. Not every time, but often enough for me to avoid them.
Planned Parenthood specifically has a program called HOPE – forget what it stands for, but basically you can go get the birth control by talking to them for about fifteen minutes, and you can continue getting it if you have one pelvic exam per year. Usually. I have talked them into giving me a second year on the basis that I was not actually sexually active at the time, and a virgin friend of mine was pretty much rushed out of the office with a “Take yer pills and geddoutahere – don’t come back unless Bad Things Happen or you need a refill.”
This is for normal women. If you have PCOS or severe PMDD, or some kind of sexual dysfunction, they will demand to see you more, obviously. I’ve found that the doctors at Planned Parenthood are a lot better about listening to ME and what MY BODY does while on the pill than most HMO doctors. If I come in looking ordinary, and give them my ordinary history, they pretty much just hand me the pills. They are also a lot less argumentative about which pills they hand me than my HMO doctors were; if you ask for a specific brand like Yaz or Seasonale they’ll generally give it to you.
AFAIK, it’s also not particularly necessary to have a period while on birth control. The week of sugar pills are a holdover from when the pills first came out and women didn’t quite trust them entirely. Bleeding = no baby. The Planned Parenthood people have also been very accommodating about giving me early refills if I didn’t feel like bleeding to death on a cross-country flight or long car trip.
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Gotta pimp the DivaCup. It changed my period from “really crappy week where I’m always worried about it” to “Really not something I think about.” Advantages:
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[li]I deal with it twice a day. I never need to think about it when I’m traveling or at work or at school…[/li][li]it’s clean- there is blood, but it’s clean, not smelly, and down the drain in one second. Plus, I deal with it twice a day so it doesn’t really matter how grotty it is.[/li][li]Comfortable- I can easily forget it is in.[/li][li]I never run out of pads or tampons. And I never have to pay for them. I never have to go home early because I’m out of period supplies. No period emergencies ever.[/li][li]Perfect for travel. It’s even easy to use when all you have is a pit latrine.[/li][li]Never leaks. Ever. Once it’s popped in I don’t think about until night.[/li][/ul]
It’s not right for everyone, and it does have a learning curve, but everyone should at least try it out for a few months. It always surprises me that most women have never even heard of menstral cups. This has honestly been a life-changing product for me.
Maybe it is just me but I think the best things about the cup is you can have sex with them without the mess. That really is the only time I use them because they are messy to remove and it is only worth it if I am getting a good lay out of the deal.
As far as pads vs tampons? When I first got my period my mother gave me one of those huge pads out of that big ass stayfree box and I cried for the first few months about wearing a “diaper”. She then got a sample of OB tampax which she wanted nothing to do with. After that I can’t believe anyone would ever wear a pad other than after child birth. It never occurred to me that some ladies could feel them while they are inserted if they are inserted correctly. Learn something new every day.
You can have sex with the DivaCup inserted in? :dubious: Like actual sex, not oral sex? Or are you talking about another kind of cup?
Oh, come on…I’ve never smelled that, on anyone. And wouldn’t tampons produce the same smell?
Sure they do, when you take them *out * and they’re exposed to air.
Most bodily excretions have a fairly distinctive scent. Why would menstrual blood be different?
Personally, I hate pads. I can’t imagine anything less appealing than sitting around in a pool of my own blood all day.
But you’re supposed to smell it through layers of clothing? I’ve definitely never smelled it on anyone randomly, so I don’t think it’s quite something that “every woman” knows of.