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.

[pockingell.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to realise that.

Fair enough, my contribution to the general gross-out pool: My sister has actually bled on me during her period. Add one for "Do you use...Something else" to the poll. Older brothers should not be used as a substitute for sanitary pads. >_

[conuly]

Oh, ew. I know, it's just blood, but ew anyway.

Cats and dogs will quite happily dig pads out of the garbage and "hunt" them, though, so reusable is *definitely* the best way to go.

[pockingell.livejournal.com]

Been there, seen that, worn the wince.

Ah, well, 'spose I can't complain too much. At least I don't have to put up with it. Well, except when my sister tells me in great detail about it. Oh, she can be evil.

[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?

[deceptica]

Everything else listed in your poll, except pads?

[conuly]

Huh. You must know some very liberal friends.

[deceptica]

They're not my friends, they are just people who happen to read the same communities in this case. ;-)

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

I don't use them because mine are too bad.

and for some reason, the tampon kinda helps with the cramps a little. I think it's the placebo effect.

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

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

[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.'

[emmyceru.livejournal.com]

eew @ "Nothing, I just drip"

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

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

[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?

[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).

[azuresunglasses.livejournal.com]

*shivers* I always seem to have bad stories to share but--
I don't often use disposable pads for a similar reason. Where I live we often have ant problems in the summer, and this summer, I threw a pad away. When I came back to empty my bladder a few hours later, there was a trail of ants carrying away the bounty of my uterus.
I was really annoyed, seeing as *I* couldn't use the blood, but some horrible parasitic pests could.

[conuly]

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

[conuly]

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

[conuly]

Cloth pads are better for that.

[conuly]

It's just blood!

[conuly]

*nods*

[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.