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[bubosquared]

Ahahahahaha! Feminine products training was fairly hilarious due to the presence of one lone bloke. Poor lad. Regarding tampons: "Is there, um, lubricant or something on those?" Accompanied by a dubious look at said tampons. And then he was all confused about pads ("They ... stick to the underwear?") and panty liners ("Wait, tanga ones? Black tanga ones?") (Okay, I'm with him on that one, WTF?).

Poor, poor lad. Though my favourite moment was when the trainer was about to demonstrate how tampons expand when they absord, and she said, "... which is why I have my glass of water here. Oh, wait, that's Sean's glass." The look on the boy's face was priceless!</

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[rane-ab.livejournal.com]

Bahahahahahahaha.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I was so amused, man. And then he was all "But how do you know which tampon (absorbancy) to use?" and we were all kinda "... You just do?"

[babyofthegroup.livejournal.com]

That issue alone would confuse the hell out of me. Like... you just know? What the hell? Women's intuition, or just biological self-awareness?

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

The second, mostly. Also some experience, because they won't come out easily until they're, um, "full", so if you have problems after the recommended eight hours (and eight hours is the maximum unless you want to risk TSS), you know you need to switch.

Well, and there's personal preference, as some of us could use the highly absorbant ones but can't because they fucking hurt.

... Sorry, that was TMI, wasn't it? :D

[babyofthegroup.livejournal.com]

O.o

Yipes. Remind me never to ask females about biological stuff ever again. ::shudders:: There's just something wrong about severe bleeding coming from a part of your body once a month.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Hey, you should try it from this end. I'm looking at spending a quarter of my adult life cramping and bleeding. Feh, I say!

(WHY am I not allowed to get a hysterectomy dammit?)

[wimmeke.livejournal.com]

Now that is an interesting subject. I have a friend who has terrible endometriosis. Whenever her period comes she needs extremely strong pain killers and even shots in her spinal cord. She got herself a lawyer at one point trying to push it trough to get a hysterectomy, as far as I know they still haven't given in.

So why ARE you not allowed ?

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Well, the problem with a hysterectomy is twofold. First of all, there is the fact that without a uterus, you're pretty much going to be on hormone replacement for the rest of your life, which is why doctors are generally unwilling to do it unless there's absolutely no choice. It's also why I'm not serious about it, myself, especially with the history of osteoperosis in my family. (Risk of osteoperosis is reduced the longer you have a regular hormonal cycle, which is why my mother is still on the pill to ward off menopause.)

That said, while I understand the reluctance to do a hysterectomy, there is also a tendency for doctors to be very very reluctant to even sterelise any woman under thirty, especially when they've not had kids (yet).

(Your friend may want to look into a procedure I've seen talk about from the States, where they basically remove the uterine lining, thus effectively sterilising you and stopping menstruation, but leaving your hormonal cycle intact. I don't know if this is a solution for her, but IIRC, I've seen several of the endometriosis-sufferers on [Unknown site tag] mention they had this procedure done, and it worked. I can look up the proper name and more info, if you want.)

But yeah, the general unwillingness of doctors to do anything to a childfree woman's reproductive system is ... annoying.

[jamaisneutral.livejournal.com]

8 hours??? When I last tried one (ugh! pain!) it was only recommended for two to four hours. That was some ten years ago though, so it figures that they've come a long way since then...

Hmz... i should re-think this perhaps.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Six to eight, I think, is reccommeneded these days. I usually have to change way sooner than that because I should be using the Super ones but I use the smallest ones because anything bigger just hurts like fuck coming out. </TMI> But I need tampons because I've a really heavy flow for the first four days, and pads alone just won't hack it, especially not at night.

[jamaisneutral.livejournal.com]

the pill, the pill...

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Doesn't help, I tried. :(

[sileas.livejournal.com]

*laughs* He didn't know they stick to underwear? I wonder how else we're going to attach them? With cords and belts? They used to do that, didn't they?

But I do love to drop a tampon in a glass of water. When I was twelve, I got some kind of package in the mail and my brother and we threw around pads and tampons and then did experiments on them. Fun.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Yes, they did. But I think he thought they just stayed in place on their own. Which, ahaha, no.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Ahh, cords and belts and stuff. Memories.

The stick-on ones didn't come along until I'd had my period for about 2-3 years, I think.

We also had special undies that had little slits in them, and you could pull the tabs on the pads through the slits. Didn't work too well, they shifted. The belts worked best, though you felt like you had a rock-climbing sling on you for a while.

What fun! NOT.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's odd to realise how recent a lot of the innovations in sanitary pads and the likes are. The ultra-thing ones didn't come along until I'd had my periods for several years (and I got my first periods quite late, too), so us girls shared this moment of "Ah, yes," when the trainer mentioned the uncomfortable wad we used to stick between our legs for a week every month.

Even tampons only really caught on relative recently. I definitely remember the misinformation that was very rampant about them amongst my friends, like how you were losing your virginity to tampons (how romantic!) and stuff like that.

[jamaisneutral.livejournal.com]

oh fabulous!!! the cluelessness of it!

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

He seemed like such a nice lad, too. But then, the pretty ones always are clueless.

[jamaisneutral.livejournal.com]

was he blond? ;-)

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Nope. Except maybe on the inside.

[sonatine.livejournal.com]

AHHAHAHHAHAHAAA. Oh, sometimes I wish I worked in something other than prepaid wireless. You actually answer people's questions about tampons? That is somehow incredibly beautiful.

And I totally hear you on the ultrathins. They were a fucking GODSEND when people finally realized that women aren't comfortable with phone books wedged between their legs.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Tampons and about a million other things. Though the tampons are the ones where you get the creepy guys trying to call and get us to describe how to insert them. But we're allowed to hang up on those.

And god, word on the phone books thing. Even the non-ultrathin ones are way better now than they used to be.

[wimmeke.livejournal.com]

Are the hair colors fading again ? I never got to see the red version of Melle, have you kept any pictures ?

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

'Fraid not, but it really didn't look that spectacular. I think I'll stick with plain bleached. Still have to re-bleach it every four weeks, but at least it doesn't fade.