Women - Why or when did everyone stop using tampons?

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Mirena IUD for the win. Have had one for 17years now (not the same one of course) and I need maybe one tampon per period that I actually get which is like 3x a year maybe? Frickin love it. I used to bleed like a stuck pig with horrendous cramps.

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Slight thread hijack, sorry OP, but has anyone else never been on birth control?
I relied on condoms till I was in my late thirties. After that just rolled the dice.
Never got pregnant.

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Anonymous wrote:Cups are disgusting what pot do you boil them in the same one as your pasta???

Hold. What? Boil?! I thought you were a buying new ones every few cycles.

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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 can always predict when I am going to have my period (at least within a day or two). I have a little blood on toilet paper but not enough to need a cup. Isn’t that the same with everyone else?

NP. Nope. I do not know when my petiod is coming. Sometimes it starts w light spotting, sometimes it starts w heavy flow out of nowhere/no warning whatsoever. It ranges between every 26-32 days so kind of a big range.

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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.

If I had to stay home all day during heavy flow days, I’d be staying home/missing work, missing caring for my kids or going to their activities, missing travel/trips, etc 2-3 days every month. Doesn’t really sound desirable to me.

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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?

Just wait until you learn that people actually defecate- real feces- into those toilets, wipes their actual b- hole area with thin toilet paper, and then use their dirty hands to touch the stall door, then the sink afterwords.

[Anonymous]

I haven't had enough flow to use a tampon for a long, long time. Women may be more likely to have an IUD now, and for me, that made my periods super light. Then I got mine removed at 46 and haven't really had much since then. Swimming/water sports are challenging but that's about it.

[Anonymous]

Mine has gotten light enough that I can wear thick black underwear and black pants or shorts and I don't need anything. I only have to wear tampons 1-2 days.

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Anonymous wrote:Cups usually last a good 12 hours. I’ve never had to empty one in public.

You must not have a heavy flow.

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Continuous BCP with no sugar pills.

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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 can always predict when I am going to have my period (at least within a day or two). I have a little blood on toilet paper but not enough to need a cup. Isn’t that the same with everyone else?

No. Damn, you are ignorant. My cycle ranges between about 22 to 32 days. I don't know when my period is coming other than maybe a ten day window that is likely.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone I know still uses tampons including my teen DDs. But we don’t live in a crunchy area.

How does this come up conversation? Except for my teen daughter, I have absolutely no idea about anyone since I had roommates.

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Anonymous wrote:We all use cups now.

No we do not. Team tampon over here.

Thanks for speaking up. Tampons for sure.

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Anonymous wrote:Cups are disgusting what pot do you boil them in the same one as your pasta???

Hold. What? Boil?! I thought you were a buying new ones every few cycles.

I boil at the end of my cycle in the container it came in, in my microwave as instructed, for 5 minutes. Buy a new one every 18-ish months

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I have an IUD so don’t get a period, but I would be using a cup if I did. I wish I’d had those in my 20s! Tampons never quite gave me the protection I needed. And if they did, I was worried I was wearing them too long (ex: an ultra OB overnight). My alternative was to wake up at night to change tampons or leak all over my bed. Both terrible options.