Is it my body post kids or do tampax tampons just suck now?

[Anonymous]

Does anyone else find tampax tampons to be kind of terrible these days? I still use the cardboard applicator and I know the actual tampon is different in there than the pearl but I keep leaking like 2 minutes after I put the tampon in and the whole tampon is dry except for the string. It's like there's not enough liquid to make it expand yet so it just goes straight to the string and I need to wear a pad to keep the blood off my underwear. I can't figure out if I'm the problem since having kids (but everything seems to be fine in that area) or if tampax has changed their materials in recent years. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this.

[Anonymous]

They've always sucked. I only use them when I'm like in an airport or something and it's the only thing abailable

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They've always sucked. I only use them when I'm like in an airport or something and it's the only thing abailable

what brand do you use? It's all I've ever tried.

[Anonymous]

I think the quality of regular tampax has definitely gone down.

[Anonymous]

I never liked Tampax.I'm a playtex gal.

[Anonymous]

OB. Also plastic applicators pp? Yuck.

[Anonymous]

That gross skirt thing was added to th cardboard applicator ones when I was pregnant. I won't use Tampax cardboard anymore. They just don't expand well for me. I also can't use OB anymore, which sucks. I mostly use Tampax Pearl now. I hate that they have plastic but they expand better for me so I don't leak and they have Ultras, which I need now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They've always sucked. I only use them when I'm like in an airport or something and it's the only thing abailable

what brand do you use? It's all I've ever tried.

Play tex or Kotex

[Anonymous]

+1 for OB

[Anonymous]

They suck. I prefer kotex now, but maybe it's because I had a baby too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That gross skirt thing was added to th cardboard applicator ones when I was pregnant. I won't use Tampax cardboard anymore. They just don't expand well for me. I also can't use OB anymore, which sucks. I mostly use Tampax Pearl now. I hate that they have plastic but they expand better for me so I don't leak and they have Ultras, which I need now.

This. When I started using the old school Tampax again after having my first child, I was convinced that something about childbirth had changed my body such that I could no longer hold the tampon in right. Eventually I realized it was the damn "skirt" hanging too low and causing irritation. It was a so-called product improvement added during my pregnancy. I think I figured this out after randomly coming across something online where a bunch of women were complaining about how bad the skirt is. I use Tampax Pearl now and find they are like the original Tampax but with the plastic applicator. I am inclined to think the manufacturer added the skirt to differentiate the original product as a less-desirable budget option and push most users up to the "luxury" Pearl line.

[Anonymous]

After 3 vaginal births, when I wear tampons and cough, they start to slip out. Sorry, TMI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That gross skirt thing was added to th cardboard applicator ones when I was pregnant. I won't use Tampax cardboard anymore. They just don't expand well for me. I also can't use OB anymore, which sucks. I mostly use Tampax Pearl now. I hate that they have plastic but they expand better for me so I don't leak and they have Ultras, which I need now.

+1, which really sucks, because I would much prefer cardboard. But they just don't expand for me anymore. Lame.

[Anonymous]

The target up and up brand ones are almost exactly like the old tampax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The target up and up brand ones are almost exactly like the old tampax.

I used drugstore brands a couple of times when I was younger and twice pieces of the tampons broke off and I didn't realize it for weeks, until they caused nasty infections. I swore off all store brands after that.