Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
A tampon makes me feel so much cleaner. I've tried period underwear, and I hate the way I get smeared with blood down there, just like with a pad. I feel dirty and gross when I have to pee and see that I would need to actually shower to fully remove the blood. It's gross.

But I also feel like this with pads.

Damn. Internalized misogyny really is a helluva thing, innit?

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DP

Oh calm down. Women are allowed to have preferences as to how to manage their periods. I think period underwear is a great tool but I'd never use it alone in a heavy day for the reasons PP mentioned. I use it with a menstrual disc which also means not having to dispose a stinky tampon. I don't have to love the smell and feel of period blood to love myself.

Anonymous wrote:
A tampon makes me feel so much cleaner. I've tried period underwear, and I hate the way I get smeared with blood down there, just like with a pad. I feel dirty and gross when I have to pee and see that I would need to actually shower to fully remove the blood. It's gross.

But I also feel like this with pads.

Damn. Internalized misogyny really is a helluva thing, innit?

A tampon makes me feel so much cleaner. I've tried period underwear, and I hate the way I get smeared with blood down there, just like with a pad. I feel dirty and gross when I have to pee and see that I would need to actually shower to fully remove the blood. It's gross.

But I also feel like this with pads.

I have the Hanes brand from Target but I still wear pads and tampons. I'm also in perimenopause and I have to wear the ultra tampons, large wide pads and the underwear.

Saalt disc plus Saalt underwear. The disc is amazing. Life changing.

I know this is wasteful but I use the AlwaysZzz disposable ones and I LOVE them. I add an overnight pad to it them for the first few nights. They’ve been a game changer especially for travel.

I use the goat union brand on amazon. I have pcos and a heavy cycle and the overnight shorts work for me. I have a few pairs and throw them in the hamper when I wake up. I wash them at the end of my cycle. I wear them with nothing else only at night and don't stain my sheets or anything.

During the day I use a cup or disposable disc.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I use them as backup for my cup. My period is super heavy. Mine are a no-name Amazon brand. I have some heavy-duty ones, and some thinner ones, that I wear on different days of my period. I can wear just the thinner underwear on the last day of my period.

Same. I wear a pad as well so it’s less aromatic and can switch that out. I like honey pot - they’re thin. Plus a disc. So disc, pad, thinx type undies. I found it was best for flooding- which btw gets better over time (for me).

May I ask, when you say flooding gets better over time, do you mean over the years or over the course of a menstrual cycle?

seems so unsanitary and I wouldn't trust them for peri floods

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP I have tried almost all the brands.

Thinx is the best of the brands.

They are only useful on light days. Or as a back up.

They smell quite a bit if you do not change them out a lot.

They wash well, but on heavy days you are washing them a lot.

Pretty comfortable fit.

what is the point of wearing them on heavy days if you have to keep changing them/washing them throughout the day? That’s more work than a tampon. And they smell? no thank you.

Confidence. Also who wants a tampon jammed up there? They are wasteful and it’s not the 1900s anymore.

I don’t feel a tampon at all and often forget I have my period. How is it confidence to wear smelly soaking wet underwear instead?

I could never find ones that were enough overnight. DD and I use these:

https://www.target.com/p/always-zzz-overnight-period-underwear-s-m-7ct/-/A-81782491

I have Amazon ones and love them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP I have tried almost all the brands.

Thinx is the best of the brands.

They are only useful on light days. Or as a back up.

They smell quite a bit if you do not change them out a lot.

They wash well, but on heavy days you are washing them a lot.

Pretty comfortable fit.

what is the point of wearing them on heavy days if you have to keep changing them/washing them throughout the day? That’s more work than a tampon. And they smell? no thank you.

Confidence. Also who wants a tampon jammed up there? They are wasteful and it’s not the 1900s anymore.

Anonymous wrote:I use them as backup for my cup. My period is super heavy. Mine are a no-name Amazon brand. I have some heavy-duty ones, and some thinner ones, that I wear on different days of my period. I can wear just the thinner underwear on the last day of my period.

Same. I wear a pad as well so it’s less aromatic and can switch that out. I like honey pot - they’re thin. Plus a disc. So disc, pad, thinx type undies. I found it was best for flooding- which btw gets better over time (for me).

Anonymous wrote:OP I have tried almost all the brands.

Thinx is the best of the brands.

They are only useful on light days. Or as a back up.

They smell quite a bit if you do not change them out a lot.

They wash well, but on heavy days you are washing them a lot.

Pretty comfortable fit.

what is the point of wearing them on heavy days if you have to keep changing them/washing them throughout the day? That’s more work than a tampon. And they smell? no thank you.