Menstrual underwear for teens?

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Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine this to be comfortable, probably like sitting in a wet bathing suit all day.

I also don't see how it can be sanitary.

I imagine it's totally NOT like sitting in a wet bathing suit. We've got pretty advanced in many areas, you know. Why not clothing for women? Maybe it works like diapers, which can hold a lot of liquid inside while the part by the skin still doesn't feel really wet.

You're being way too open minded about this. If you'd only work a little harder, you could properly shame the women of dcum for not using the "approved" menstrual products. You didn't even mention how much women stink while they bleed from their whatevers.

Definately the THINX marketing crew. Old blood stinks. You can deny it till your blue in the face, but it does. Walking arounf in und you bled erwear that you've bleed into all day is the same as walking around in a pad that you bled in all day. You stink.
The wearer not smelling it means little, you are the last to know you smell.
Same idea as the people who claim not to need deroderant and only shower once a week, but don't smell. They smell. Everyone around them smells their funk.
If you;re cool with being funky go for it, but don't pretend like you don't stink or are some how a SJW and feminist because you wear enstrual panties.

yeah, but an 8-10 hour work day doesn't make blood "old" You could try it and see. (And no, I'm not on the marketing team. I have not tried them yet. But I'm going to get one for me and one for my daughter, to try out. I think industry has not been innovative enough at all when it comes to birth control or menstruation-related developments. Because sexism. So I am going to support whatever new innovations come along, and hope for the best.

Yes it does, If I spend 8 hours in a pad i stink.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My middle schooler has been using thinx exclusively for almost two years. I intended for her to wear them with pads to guard against leaks. She didn't like pads and just wore the underwear. She has had very few leaks. She goes through 2 pairs a day. Has 5 pairs total.

It's important to note the underpants need to be rinsed by hand immediately after wearing. You can wait to wash them. They have to line dry, but dry quickly. If washed at night they are usually dry in time for school the next morning.

Thank you, that's helpful!

I'm going to get my tween a pair to try. Pads are so last decade!

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Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine this to be comfortable, probably like sitting in a wet bathing suit all day.

I also don't see how it can be sanitary.

I imagine it's totally NOT like sitting in a wet bathing suit. We've got pretty advanced in many areas, you know. Why not clothing for women? Maybe it works like diapers, which can hold a lot of liquid inside while the part by the skin still doesn't feel really wet.

You're being way too open minded about this. If you'd only work a little harder, you could properly shame the women of dcum for not using the "approved" menstrual products. You didn't even mention how much women stink while they bleed from their whatevers.

Definately the THINX marketing crew. Old blood stinks. You can deny it till your blue in the face, but it does. Walking arounf in und you bled erwear that you've bleed into all day is the same as walking around in a pad that you bled in all day. You stink.
The wearer not smelling it means little, you are the last to know you smell.
Same idea as the people who claim not to need deroderant and only shower once a week, but don't smell. They smell. Everyone around them smells their funk.
If you;re cool with being funky go for it, but don't pretend like you don't stink or are some how a SJW and feminist because you wear enstrual panties.

A) I"m the OP, and I live in VA and have nothing to do with the company. I'm a 40'ish mom and working professional.
B) As I tell my DD, if you have not used/tasted/tried something, you don't get to have an opinion on it.

Which is exactly what she's going to tell you when she gets high on coke. Of course you're the cool mom so it will be totes fine

Because coke is the same as innovative feminine hygiene products. Be careful ladies. Thinx is a gateway drug. I heard about 2 kids last month od-ing on diva cups.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My middle schooler has been using thinx exclusively for almost two years. I intended for her to wear them with pads to guard against leaks. She didn't like pads and just wore the underwear. She has had very few leaks. She goes through 2 pairs a day. Has 5 pairs total.

It's important to note the underpants need to be rinsed by hand immediately after wearing. You can wait to wash them. They have to line dry, but dry quickly. If washed at night they are usually dry in time for school the next morning.

And your daughter smells. Congrats on letting your daughter be the stinky kid at school.

And still, this poster has no personal experience with them! Just blowing smoke out of her (obviously stinky) ass. The height of ignorance!

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Anonymous wrote:How long do they take to dry? I have 2 teen-tween girls, plus i think I'd like some, but I don't want to sink $400-500 on period panties.

You rinse after each use and then wash as normal. If you wanted to wash & dry them every day, you could. I'd get at least 2-3 pairs/person. They are seriously awesome though and will save you SO much money down the line on tampons/pads/ I personally have 5 pairs.

My impression from reading the website is that you wear these in addition to tampons/pads, not instead of.

Sorry, I'm the original person who posted the message you're replying to... I wear tampons + underwear on my 3 days of heavies flow (2 actually heavy and 1 medium), but I have spotting/light flow for ~4 other days plus my first day of bleeding starts off super heavy and isn't totally predictable, so I'd waste a bunch of tampons/pads guessing when my period would start each month. So, although I still use the same number of tampons 3 days/month, I save on the ones I used 5-6 other days a month. So, for me, the cost saving is worth it. Also, I have never once leaked since I started wearing them. They are seriously incredible.

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To the smell crazy/ies: they don't really smell. There's some kind of chemical in the fabric that means they don't smell anywhere near as much as pads/tampons do for whatever reason. As I said above, I use them w/ a tampon for my 3 heaviest days, so they rarely get more than a little bit of leakage on them on those days, but they don't really smell on the days I use them alone/for spotting at all either.

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Anonymous wrote:How long do they take to dry? I have 2 teen-tween girls, plus i think I'd like some, but I don't want to sink $400-500 on period panties.

You rinse after each use and then wash as normal. If you wanted to wash & dry them every day, you could. I'd get at least 2-3 pairs/person. They are seriously awesome though and will save you SO much money down the line on tampons/pads/ I personally have 5 pairs.

My impression from reading the website is that you wear these in addition to tampons/pads, not instead of.

Sorry, I'm the original person who posted the message you're replying to... I wear tampons + underwear on my 3 days of heavies flow (2 actually heavy and 1 medium), but I have spotting/light flow for ~4 other days plus my first day of bleeding starts off super heavy and isn't totally predictable, so I'd waste a bunch of tampons/pads guessing when my period would start each month. So, although I still use the same number of tampons 3 days/month, I save on the ones I used 5-6 other days a month. So, for me, the cost saving is worth it. Also, I have never once leaked since I started wearing them. They are seriously incredible.

They have been a game changer for me. And I'm going to get some for my DD (assuming I can find a small enough size for her to fit). This will take a lot of anxiety off of her; I remember those days and hoping you won't get your period at school.

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Wow! Thanks for informing us about this project. Bought two panties and tried it yesterday. BTW I am 50, perimenopausal and have started bleeding really heavily in recent years and I am impressed. Went without a pad for 5 hours in underwear#1, rinsed and washed and hung it in the line, and then used underwear#2 at night with an overnight pad. No stains, no leaks, no odors. Just very impressed. I do not know if I will actually risk going without a pad at night for now. So far so good. I will use it a few more times to arrive at a final verdict about durability, lack of smell, ease of washing and drying as well as continued effectiveness.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine this to be comfortable, probably like sitting in a wet bathing suit all day.

I also don't see how it can be sanitary.

I imagine it's totally NOT like sitting in a wet bathing suit. We've got pretty advanced in many areas, you know. Why not clothing for women? Maybe it works like diapers, which can hold a lot of liquid inside while the part by the skin still doesn't feel really wet.

Um, yeah, which is why you (ideally) change a diaper as soon as you realize the baby/toddler urinated. You don't just let them sit in their urine (or in this case, blood) all day!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine this to be comfortable, probably like sitting in a wet bathing suit all day.

I also don't see how it can be sanitary.

I imagine it's totally NOT like sitting in a wet bathing suit. We've got pretty advanced in many areas, you know. Why not clothing for women? Maybe it works like diapers, which can hold a lot of liquid inside while the part by the skin still doesn't feel really wet.

Um, yeah, which is why you (ideally) change a diaper as soon as you realize the baby/toddler urinated. You don't just let them sit in their urine (or in this case, blood) all day!

The loony tuner keeps at it!

And, still, she hasn't tried them!!

[Anonymous]

Thinx don't work = a ruse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine this to be comfortable, probably like sitting in a wet bathing suit all day.

I also don't see how it can be sanitary.

I imagine it's totally NOT like sitting in a wet bathing suit. We've got pretty advanced in many areas, you know. Why not clothing for women? Maybe it works like diapers, which can hold a lot of liquid inside while the part by the skin still doesn't feel really wet.

Um, yeah, which is why you (ideally) change a diaper as soon as you realize the baby/toddler urinated. You don't just let them sit in their urine (or in this case, blood) all day!

The loony tuner keeps at it!

And, still, she hasn't tried them!!

That was the first time I posted in this thread.

I don't need to try them to know they're gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine this to be comfortable, probably like sitting in a wet bathing suit all day.

I also don't see how it can be sanitary.

I imagine it's totally NOT like sitting in a wet bathing suit. We've got pretty advanced in many areas, you know. Why not clothing for women? Maybe it works like diapers, which can hold a lot of liquid inside while the part by the skin still doesn't feel really wet.

Um, yeah, which is why you (ideally) change a diaper as soon as you realize the baby/toddler urinated. You don't just let them sit in their urine (or in this case, blood) all day!

The loony tuner keeps at it!

And, still, she hasn't tried them!!

That was the first time I posted in this thread.

I don't need to try them to know they're gross.

The idiotocracy is expandi on this thread.

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*expanding

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine this to be comfortable, probably like sitting in a wet bathing suit all day.

I also don't see how it can be sanitary.

I imagine it's totally NOT like sitting in a wet bathing suit. We've got pretty advanced in many areas, you know. Why not clothing for women? Maybe it works like diapers, which can hold a lot of liquid inside while the part by the skin still doesn't feel really wet.

Um, yeah, which is why you (ideally) change a diaper as soon as you realize the baby/toddler urinated. You don't just let them sit in their urine (or in this case, blood) all day!

The loony tuner keeps at it!

And, still, she hasn't tried them!!

Np here.

But sorry, they sound gross if used alone. A poster that does use them says they need to e changed once a day. What if you are not at home when they need to be changed. I cannot get over the fact that when a new one is needd, you have to change your underwear.

I can see trying as a back up or wearing on days you might get your period or think it is almost over, but anything else is gross. I do not want to rinse a panty full of menstrual blood out in the sink.