Tampons VS. Pads [WOMEN ONLY]

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I can wear tampons, but I really hate tbe feeling of pulling them out. I wear pads just becuase of that.

Pads,I wish they were better for the environment but I hate the feel of a tampon and if your body wants to expel something you should let it,I'm paranoid about toxic shock also.Once I saw a cartoon of a little bat flying with a tampon in its paws and the caption said "Look Mom! An all day sucker!"

I haven't been plagued by menstruation in over a year , but when I did have it...

I want to prefer pads, since they seem so much safer, but when wearing them I always felt DISGUSTING. It was like sitting in and constantly feeling gooey wetness; almost unbearable

Tampons were like a miracle to me; I was surprised at how I really couldn't feel them and how much cleaner I felt.

On a side note, has anyone tried a cup before?

A reusable cup! Or alternatively tampons. I just can't stand pads - extremely uncomfortable and smelly.

I had always used pads...
Earlier this month I was going swimming with my boyfriend and bought tampons and they weren't so bad! I only really needed them on the first day though because mine doesn't last long.

I use a silicone cup personally, tampons dry me out plus I'm afraid of TSS after my ninth grade gym/math teacher told a story of how her best friend died from TSS and pads? Pads are okay, but I have a border terrier that likes to eat them and usually leaves the remnants in my brother's room of all places...

Only problem is that as I get older, I'm starting to need a cup with a greater capacity.

^^ sucks about the tampons not working for you, from what I heard regarding cups, they do eventually wear out, not sure in what amount of time but they do.

I use pads only because I rather never use a tampon.

I always used pads and thought I couldn't bear to put a tampon in.

Then I went swimming, bought my first tampon and never went back to pads,

Much better than the hotness of a pad and the feeling of being in your own filth

I use neither, Diva Cup all the way for me. Pads are gross and my body started randomly scrunching up around tampons so I looked into menstrual cups, freaking epic, shorter period, less cramps change x2 a day.

After reading the reasons why other people don't use pads I'm not only grossed out but now I feel bad and embarrassed for using them instead of tampons. it's like those stupid ads I used to see on TV where some snotty teenager tells her "friend" "Ewww, You're wearing pads? Don't they feel like diapers???" Which is weird because aren't pads and tampons made by the same company? I was really scared of tampons as a teenager, the thought of sliding that thing up my "womanly area" and leaving it there gives me chills, and then there's the threat of Toxic Shock Syndrome which is even printed as a warning on the box. I did try them a couple of times just because I wanted to go swimming but it was not only painful and uncomfortable but unbearably itchy! It was like I had stuck a bottle brush up my...*ahem*... Maybe it was because it was the third day of my period and I was getting too dry, but I don't know. Also my main problem is keeping my underwear and bedsheets clean at night, but you shouldn't really wear tampons to bed, I know they once made tampons that claimed you could wear them for 8 hours, but what if if I overslept? Most people hate the thought of getting thermometers inserted up their rectum so why should I have to insert nasty-feeling little foreign objects up myself if I don't have to? But I don't know, that's just my opinion, and it's like comparing apples and oranges. Actually I don't really like comparing any kind of food to these things at all.

Tampons. When I wear pads the blood goes everywhere but on the pad so I only use tampons.

Pads. They are what are in the school first aid kits to soak up blood after the earthquake.