Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:yes - even though I know you aren't supposed to. i have had one patient in my 20 year career with TSS.

There's nothing inherently wrong with sleeping with a tampon in. It's keeping it in for too many hours that's a problem. But the act of falling and being asleep is no big deal. Just wake up and change the tampon.

Well, sure, but I don't want to have to wake up every 3 hours. An overnight pad lasts me the whole night.

It’s great that your flow is light, that may change. Why would you need to wake up if you had a tampon and a pad?

I always had heavy periods. I also used tampon at night and an overnight pad. I still had to get up and change my tampons because it would stop absorbing after 2-3 hours and the sensation of trickling blood was horrible. I hated having periods. Biologically, it is terrible to be a woman.

I am so glad that I am done with it. I will take aging over periods.

Yes of course

Anonymous wrote:I’m 55 and no longer have my period but slept with a tampon on for every period for decades.

Same here. Pads never stayed in position and leaked onto the sheets and felt uncomfortable. I always wore tampons.

Anonymous wrote:Of course you can. You can pee with a tampon in too. You can swim with a tampon in. I was a swimmer and pulled out many a dry tampon after a swim session (a safety tampon, if you will). I think everyone is different or doing something weird sometimes.

Do you mean you put in a tampon even when you weren't on your period?

Yes, for every single period since I started and I'm now in my mid-40s. And I wear them during the day for (much) longer than suggested too.

Of course, I don't bleed through them, I'm not concerned it in for 8 hours, I've never had an issue.

Anxiety really runs rampant in our society.

Anonymous wrote:Before I switched to the cup I did.

This. The cup is even easier though.

TSS was from a specific brand of tampons (Rely) that was taken off the market.

I didn't use to, but the pouring menopausal blood required both an Ultra tampon and a heavy duty pad and a towel under me to keep the bed clean

Anonymous wrote:No. I'm old enough to remember warnings about TSS, so I use pads at night.

Same.

Of course you can. You can pee with a tampon in too. You can swim with a tampon in. I was a swimmer and pulled out many a dry tampon after a swim session (a safety tampon, if you will). I think everyone is different or doing something weird sometimes.

Yes, until I (not PP) started using a cup (and then for a IUD which stopped my period completely). Cups are easy, reusable, produce less waste...I would never go back to single use period products.

I do on my heavy days. My periods can be super heavy. Are you not suppose to sleep with tampons?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:yes - even though I know you aren't supposed to. i have had one patient in my 20 year career with TSS.

There's nothing inherently wrong with sleeping with a tampon in. It's keeping it in for too many hours that's a problem. But the act of falling and being asleep is no big deal. Just wake up and change the tampon.

Well, sure, but I don't want to have to wake up every 3 hours. An overnight pad lasts me the whole night.