Hm... something on my friends list is prompting this...

[conuly]

[Poll #444931]

Edit: Once again, the Museum of Menstruation comes through for us, this time listing terms for menstruation.

I plan to use at least one a month on this journal until I get bored. These terms may or may not coincide with my actual period.

Comments

[pockingell.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing. :p

[conuly]

Hey, there's no such thing as TMI here!

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

Oo, someone else uses a reusable cup! Fancy.

[conuly]

My sister's interested in them, actually.

[deceptica]

I find it strangely reassuring that so many people on your friends list use pads. Not that there's anything wrong with other methods; it's just that whenever the topic comes up in a community I read, everyone acts as if pads are teh evil... which gave me the impression that I must be some kind of freak for using them and being happy with them. (Well, as far as you can be happy with pads. Heh.)

[conuly]

What do they use, then?

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

I just really don't like pads... Tampons aren't that much better, but they don't chafe....

[conuly]

Cloth pads are better for that.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

EEW.

Scented ones are so gross. and alleric-y. and bad smelling. As someone else on childfree said, 'Fake flower smell plus blood is bad.'

[conuly]

Exactly. It's not as though people are all of a sudden going to go "look, I smell flowers and sunshine" every time you walk into a room.

[emmyceru.livejournal.com]

eew @ "Nothing, I just drip"

[conuly]

It's just blood!

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Tampons bad. >.> Got told by my doc to stay away from them. >.> So I do.

[conuly]

*nods*

[targaff.livejournal.com]

I swear, in the last week I must've seen about 10 different posts talking about or referring to scented tampons. I've not seen a single one in the three years before that. Did I miss something?

[conuly]

I can't tell you unless you know the secret handshake.

[xmorningxrosex.livejournal.com]

I'm on Depo, so I don't exactly get one. Occasional spotting, but that's really rare (maybe 2x a year?). Before I was on it though, I usually stuck with unscented tampons (my mom's quite paranoid about things being unnatural, so she was really against scented stuff).

[conuly]

I have to say I agree with your mom. Do you want that nasty perfume in your body?

[mhari.livejournal.com]

Tampon and pad for the first two or three days, just pad after that.

Although I'm weird; I often wear pantiliners when I'm not bleeding, because discharge, and sweat in hot weather, bugs me.

[azarias.livejournal.com]

I use pads because I dislike the entire concept of tampons: blood that's doing its best to come out of my body and is no longer patrolled by my immune system isn't something I want to keep in any longer than necessary. I use disposable ones because my male roommate's head would probably explode if he saw me using nondisposable. I'll break him to it someday.

[leora.livejournal.com]

I assume my pads are unscented, but I'm not sure. I don't sniff them before use or at all for that matter. I can't read the information on my pads, so I generally buy what seems closest to my preference and make do if I didn't get quite the right item.

[conuly]

Unless you have no sense of smell, you'd know if they were scented. Trust me.

[prezzey.livejournal.com]

I use pads... I don't even think they sell some of the more unusual stuff here, at least I have yet to come across them. (Like cups - I first learned about'em reading your journal a month or so ago.) Scented is EVIL.

[conuly]

Well, even here, you have to look in health stores and whatnot to find them. Or look online.

[velasco.livejournal.com]

It may just be me, but I use nonscented pads (ie, whatever I can get cheaply, being a poor college student and all :P) and also fold up some toilet paper while it's on, for the extra protection. In the days before and after I use the toilet paper alone, to catch any leaks and not have to waste a pad. It works, it isn't any more expensive than pad alone and it gives extra reassurance. *thumbs up*

[pockingell.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing. :p

[conuly]

Hey, there's no such thing as TMI here!

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

Oo, someone else uses a reusable cup! Fancy.

[conuly]

My sister's interested in them, actually.

[deceptica]

I find it strangely reassuring that so many people on your friends list use pads. Not that there's anything wrong with other methods; it's just that whenever the topic comes up in a community I read, everyone acts as if pads are teh evil... which gave me the impression that I must be some kind of freak for using them and being happy with them. (Well, as far as you can be happy with pads. Heh.)

[conuly]

What do they use, then?

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

I just really don't like pads... Tampons aren't that much better, but they don't chafe....

[conuly]

Cloth pads are better for that.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

EEW.

Scented ones are so gross. and alleric-y. and bad smelling. As someone else on childfree said, 'Fake flower smell plus blood is bad.'

[conuly]

Exactly. It's not as though people are all of a sudden going to go "look, I smell flowers and sunshine" every time you walk into a room.

[emmyceru.livejournal.com]

eew @ "Nothing, I just drip"

[conuly]

It's just blood!

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Tampons bad. >.> Got told by my doc to stay away from them. >.> So I do.

[conuly]

*nods*

[targaff.livejournal.com]

I swear, in the last week I must've seen about 10 different posts talking about or referring to scented tampons. I've not seen a single one in the three years before that. Did I miss something?

[conuly]

I can't tell you unless you know the secret handshake.

[xmorningxrosex.livejournal.com]

I'm on Depo, so I don't exactly get one. Occasional spotting, but that's really rare (maybe 2x a year?). Before I was on it though, I usually stuck with unscented tampons (my mom's quite paranoid about things being unnatural, so she was really against scented stuff).

[conuly]

I have to say I agree with your mom. Do you want that nasty perfume in your body?

[mhari.livejournal.com]

Tampon and pad for the first two or three days, just pad after that.

Although I'm weird; I often wear pantiliners when I'm not bleeding, because discharge, and sweat in hot weather, bugs me.

[azarias.livejournal.com]

I use pads because I dislike the entire concept of tampons: blood that's doing its best to come out of my body and is no longer patrolled by my immune system isn't something I want to keep in any longer than necessary. I use disposable ones because my male roommate's head would probably explode if he saw me using nondisposable. I'll break him to it someday.