Women - Why or when did everyone stop using tampons?

[Anonymous]

I tried with the cup for a solid year, but leak after leak and I finally gave up and use organic tampons now. They work so much better for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We all use cups now.

Do you carry it in your purse?

You can’t predict when you’re getting your period so you always have it with you?

Genuine question, I’m old and curious

I do. I am old and generally know when it is coming though peri has thrown that off lately so I have one in my purse and one at my office.

My body won't even hold a tampon in any longer and feels like a cheese grater coming out. Again, because I am old.

[Anonymous]

Pads are gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you get the cup out cleanly?

You empty it more often. But if you have a heavy period or it's your heavier days, you just accept that it's a messy process. Women who must empty it in public places (like work) may not enjoy it during the day but may like it more overnight or on the weekends.

It should be illegal to empty it in public places. It's a blood bath. And rinsing it in a communal sink? That is NOT safe, it's a huge public safety hazard not to mention gross. Just don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you get the cup out cleanly?

You empty it more often. But if you have a heavy period or it's your heavier days, you just accept that it's a messy process. Women who must empty it in public places (like work) may not enjoy it during the day but may like it more overnight or on the weekends.

If I see anyone emptying their cup in our communal sink at work I will go ballistic!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you get the cup out cleanly?

You empty it more often. But if you have a heavy period or it's your heavier days, you just accept that it's a messy process. Women who must empty it in public places (like work) may not enjoy it during the day but may like it more overnight or on the weekends.

It should be illegal to empty it in public places. It's a blood bath. And rinsing it in a communal sink? That is NOT safe, it's a huge public safety hazard not to mention gross. Just don't.

Unless you are eating out of communal sinks this isn't a public safety hazard. As a cup wearer I just wipe it in the stall and reinsert. It isn't that hard, can be messy but you don't need to rinse it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you get the cup out cleanly?

You empty it more often. But if you have a heavy period or it's your heavier days, you just accept that it's a messy process. Women who must empty it in public places (like work) may not enjoy it during the day but may like it more overnight or on the weekends.

If I see anyone emptying their cup in our communal sink at work I will go ballistic!

This is why I don't even like the idea of cups. I can't even imagine using it at the office bathroom, or even public bathrooms. How does that even work??

Someone removes a blood-filled cup, empties it in toilet. Then maybe it drips on the floor on the way to the sink. Then they touch the sink handles to wash it out, splashing residue around as they rinse it out. Then they go back into the bathroom to insert it again?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you get the cup out cleanly?

You empty it more often. But if you have a heavy period or it's your heavier days, you just accept that it's a messy process. Women who must empty it in public places (like work) may not enjoy it during the day but may like it more overnight or on the weekends.

It should be illegal to empty it in public places. It's a blood bath. And rinsing it in a communal sink? That is NOT safe, it's a huge public safety hazard not to mention gross. Just don't.

Unless you are eating out of communal sinks this isn't a public safety hazard. As a cup wearer I just wipe it in the stall and reinsert. It isn't that hard, can be messy but you don't need to rinse it.

This is unhygenic. When you enter a public bathroom, I assume you are using your fingers to close/lock the door. "Wiping" it and reinserting it without sanitizing your hands is an invitation to have whatever you picked up on your fingers in that stall, to start growing inside you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you get the cup out cleanly?

You empty it more often. But if you have a heavy period or it's your heavier days, you just accept that it's a messy process. Women who must empty it in public places (like work) may not enjoy it during the day but may like it more overnight or on the weekends.

It should be illegal to empty it in public places. It's a blood bath. And rinsing it in a communal sink? That is NOT safe, it's a huge public safety hazard not to mention gross. Just don't.

Unless you are eating out of communal sinks this isn't a public safety hazard. As a cup wearer I just wipe it in the stall and reinsert. It isn't that hard, can be messy but you don't need to rinse it.

This is unhygenic. When you enter a public bathroom, I assume you are using your fingers to close/lock the door. "Wiping" it and reinserting it without sanitizing your hands is an invitation to have whatever you picked up on your fingers in that stall, to start growing inside you.

Ok, I know this is going to sound crazy but if it is the rare occasion where you have to empty your cup in public then you prepare for that. It isn't that hard. We are women and we can multitask! And if you think I touch ANYTHING in a public restroom you would be wrong. I always have hand sanitizer on me because of fecal matter because people are disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Team tampon. Asked adult DD and she and all of her close friends are team tampon too. Several tried the cup and hated having to deal with it at work.

Right? I'm an adult working in an office. I bleed like a stuck pig. If I used a cup, I'd walk out of a bathroom stall with a bloody hand, then in front of other women waddle out of the stall while bleeding, to wash out a bloody cup in the sink, then waddle back into the stall to shove it back up myself? Then somehow clean up the blood that came out while I was rinsing the cup? Then come back out of the stall a second time to wash more blood off my hands?

I don't want to do that in front of other people, and am sure they don't want to see my menstrual blood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you get the cup out cleanly?

You empty it more often. But if you have a heavy period or it's your heavier days, you just accept that it's a messy process. Women who must empty it in public places (like work) may not enjoy it during the day but may like it more overnight or on the weekends.

It should be illegal to empty it in public places. It's a blood bath. And rinsing it in a communal sink? That is NOT safe, it's a huge public safety hazard not to mention gross. Just don't.

Unless you are eating out of communal sinks this isn't a public safety hazard. As a cup wearer I just wipe it in the stall and reinsert. It isn't that hard, can be messy but you don't need to rinse it.

This is unhygenic. When you enter a public bathroom, I assume you are using your fingers to close/lock the door. "Wiping" it and reinserting it without sanitizing your hands is an invitation to have whatever you picked up on your fingers in that stall, to start growing inside you.

Ok, I know this is going to sound crazy but if it is the rare occasion where you have to empty your cup in public then you prepare for that. It isn't that hard. We are women and we can multitask! And if you think I touch ANYTHING in a public restroom you would be wrong. I always have hand sanitizer on me because of fecal matter because people are disgusting.

I'm serious - please explain exactly how this works. How do you "prepare for that" when you are in a public restroom? See the PP for her take ... waddling in and out of the stall? Do you squat over the seat, splashing blood when you remove it? And when exactly do you use the hand sanitizer, before you reinsert the cup? Isn't hand sanitizer made of ALCOHOL?

[Anonymous]

You remove the cup, dump the contents in the toilet and reinsert. Use 1 hand to do this. Then use the other hand to pull up pants and open the door, turn on the water at the sink and obtain soap from the dispenser. Wash hands thoroughly.

[Anonymous]

I do not carry them in my purse unless **I** need them. I track and am regular (yes even in perimeno) so I could not help you either.

Perhpas you should be more prepared.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you get the cup out cleanly?

You empty it more often. But if you have a heavy period or it's your heavier days, you just accept that it's a messy process. Women who must empty it in public places (like work) may not enjoy it during the day but may like it more overnight or on the weekends.

It should be illegal to empty it in public places. It's a blood bath. And rinsing it in a communal sink? That is NOT safe, it's a huge public safety hazard not to mention gross. Just don't.

Unless you are eating out of communal sinks this isn't a public safety hazard. As a cup wearer I just wipe it in the stall and reinsert. It isn't that hard, can be messy but you don't need to rinse it.

This is unhygenic. When you enter a public bathroom, I assume you are using your fingers to close/lock the door. "Wiping" it and reinserting it without sanitizing your hands is an invitation to have whatever you picked up on your fingers in that stall, to start growing inside you.

Ok, I know this is going to sound crazy but if it is the rare occasion where you have to empty your cup in public then you prepare for that. It isn't that hard. We are women and we can multitask! And if you think I touch ANYTHING in a public restroom you would be wrong. I always have hand sanitizer on me because of fecal matter because people are disgusting.

I'm serious - please explain exactly how this works. How do you "prepare for that" when you are in a public restroom? See the PP for her take ... waddling in and out of the stall? Do you squat over the seat, splashing blood when you remove it? And when exactly do you use the hand sanitizer, before you reinsert the cup? Isn't hand sanitizer made of ALCOHOL?

So I cannot use a cup anymore bc of discomfort, but I never had to empty one in a public restroom anyway. My life has never been one that included regular public restroom use while menstrating heavily enough to have to empty a cup on the go. Those days I usually stay home and cancel all events or work.

[Anonymous]

I have an IUD and havent had a period in over 10 yrs, but I would still jump at a tampon vs anything else. Especially over a pad!