Are tampons flushable?

[Anonymous]

I won't do it anymore! I'm going to have nightmares tonight.

[Anonymous]

Not a good idea.

[Anonymous]

Almost anything is flushable in the sense that yes, it will go down. But if you mean, will it clog your pipes, the answer to that is yes as well.

[Anonymous]

Ugh. It sucks that you can't actually flush them. I thought that was the beauty of them. I used to use the ones with the "flushable" applicators, too.

Then I had toilets that would clog. And I had to start tossing them in the trash. I hate that. I mean, still less messy than a pad, but yuck.

Now I have a mirena and don't get periods anymore. Saves me from the trouble.

[Anonymous]

whatever you do, don't flush "flushable" wipes.

[Anonymous]

I've flushed them without clogging a single pipe for 30 years in about 15 different houses/apartments until last year and only in our current house where we have had to call a plumber for this four times in one year. So it sure seems like it's just some plumbing. Can't imagine the mess of not flushing them.

[Anonymous]

They are actually really bad to flush and can cause significant damage.

[Anonymous]

SIMPLE RULE: Don't flush it if you didn't eat or drink it.

[Anonymous]

I only flush them at work, but that's just out of spite.

[Anonymous]

I only flush them in public bathrooms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SIMPLE RULE: Don't flush it if you didn't eat or drink it.

What about regular TP?

[Anonymous]

What I learned from the plumber wife's thread a couple of year ago: there are three things that are ok to flush and you already know what number one and number two are. Number three is TP.

[Anonymous]

They are as flushable as your toilet is cloggable.

[Anonymous]

Not the plumber's wife, but the plumber's daughter: Flush human waste and toilet paper only. And if you are the type to roll the toilet paper up into a funnel/cylinder, that can cause clogs too particularly if you have small, old pipes.

Clogs from flushing anything else kept my dad in business for nearly 50 years!

[Anonymous]

I didn't know people actually flushed them. It was drilled into me, starting BEFORE my first period, that you don't flush tampons because it will cause a clog. Actually, I think the school nurse said this to us when she gave us the "special talk" and starter packs in 4th grade, and my mom kept up that chorus.