Started period on ski trip

[Anonymous]

Washable pads. Find a sewer in your area, they can make them to your specific size and flow. The outer fabric will be PUL, which is waterproof and prevent leaks. The inner core can be super absorbent x 2/3 (as thick as you want). Life changing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course you can still ski. Wear a tampon and a pad and take bathroom breaks often. What are you 12?

Maybe she has fibroids? What are you, ignorant?

Or adenomyosis?

Or maybe she just never thought to combine multiple feminine hygiene products. For 99.9% of the female population in the developed world, the world does not end when you get your period.

[Anonymous]

This will be TMI

On my really heavy days when I have 90 min appts I use a vibrator to o in the shower. A LOT clears out, and I'm on a normal-light flow after and can go 90 min+ without needing to change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course you can still ski. Wear a tampon and a pad and take bathroom breaks often. What are you 12?

+1 Srsly. Be thankful this is your biggest worry.

[Anonymous]

Thinx underwear plus tampon

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Being active on your heavy day usually gets the period over sooner.

Women who don't have gynecologic pathology are the worst...

If that’s the case, why hasn’t she addressed it before now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Being active on your heavy day usually gets the period over sooner.

Women who don't have gynecologic pathology are the worst...

If that’s the case, why hasn’t she addressed it before now?

Not the OP, but it took me a long time to address it as well. Someone upthread mentioned a "last straw" day and that's what it took for me... when I was overfowing a diva cup within 30 minutes was that day. We had a road trip scheduled for the following week--and the realization of what would have happened to a drive if my period had coincided with it is what made me get serious about addressing it.

The hostility on this thread really bums me out. I hope the "just deal with it!/what are you, 12?" people might take a moment to reflect on their responses and consider the possibility that "a heavy period" may actually mean different things to different women.

[Anonymous]

Advil slows the flow but you have to take it continuously.

[Anonymous]

OP this was the primary symptom that I had an autoimmune disease. Before I got an IUD and my immune issues under control I’d use the large Diva cup with an overnight pad for back up. Probably not the best time to learn a menstrual cup so the largest overnight tampon plus the largest overnight pad. Change after every run. Exercise usually upped my flow not the other way around, so maybe your heavy phase will be shorter.

Please talk to your doctor about this.

[Anonymous]

Right now-go to the store and buy Depends, Always Flex Foam 5 pads and the most absorbent tampons. That should get you through on this trip.

When you get home, make a dr appt. and see what they have to say. You need to get checked out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Being active on your heavy day usually gets the period over sooner.

Women who don't have gynecologic pathology are the worst...

If that’s the case, why hasn’t she addressed it before now?

Not the OP, but it took me a long time to address it as well. Someone upthread mentioned a "last straw" day and that's what it took for me... when I was overfowing a diva cup within 30 minutes was that day. We had a road trip scheduled for the following week--and the realization of what would have happened to a drive if my period had coincided with it is what made me get serious about addressing it.

The hostility on this thread really bums me out. I hope the "just deal with it!/what are you, 12?" people might take a moment to reflect on their responses and consider the possibility that "a heavy period" may actually mean different things to different women.


Right on! For me, it was the attitudes of other women telling me to "just deal with it" that made me think that maybe I really am weaker.....and then not to mention the physicians who just pat you on the head and tell you not to be stressed so much......I wasn't diagnosed for 10 years since my first symptoms of endometriosis. and yes, I had heavy bleeding. My periods used to look like CSI.

[Anonymous]

OP, what other period related symptoms do you have?

[Anonymous]

I have extremely heavy periods and have started taking high doses of ibuprofen during my period. 800mg 3x day until the flow is almost gone.

[Anonymous]

Bumping this because I remembered this thread today.

OP, I hope your ski vacation was fun after all.

I’m 49 and haven’t had a period in 10 months. While packing for our long-awaited Caribbean trip this week, I included one emergency tampon. Just in case.

Woke up this morning to a murder scene in my pants. WTF.

We also forgot sunscreen (that one is DH’s fault haha) so I just spent 30 minutes wandering around Road Town, Tortola, looking for a pharmacy. And then proceeded to spend, no exaggeration, $87.50 on two boxes of tampons and two bottles of sunscreen.

Probably the only difference between OP and me is that I’m kind of happy about this development... I was a little sad to think that I’d seen my final period. Although this morning the cramps remind me there’s no reason for sentimentality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:[...]The hostility on this thread really bums me out. I hope the "just deal with it!/what are you, 12?" people might take a moment to reflect on their responses and consider the possibility that "a heavy period" may actually mean different things to different women.

+1
My best friend has had crippling first day cramps, like needing to lie down and then occasionally getting up to vomit from the pain. I think people just don’t understand.

God speed. OP. I hope the layering products works for you. And then go get you an IUD!