To not wash the inside of my vagina?

The anal canal and the vaginal canal are both inside the body equally, right? There's a hole, go up the hole and ta-da.. anal or vaginal canal and hopefully not both.

Or was I really not paying attention in biology? 🤣

Because if you are bleeding THAT heavily all the time, there is clearly something more seriously wrong with you that you can't be sure isn't vascular and could require medical attention.

But is a moot point anyway, as people have since established that bleeding heavily, continuously, around the clock for 7 days straight is NOT actually what they meant. They just meant a 'heavy period', which we've all had. No need for the drama.

Because washing inside your vagina, as you claim to do is entirely equivalent to trying to clean inside your colon.

Wasing around your as you put it "fanny and arsehole" is not washing inside your vagina. It is mystifying why you refuse to comprehend the difference and why wearing a tampon in the shower is no impediment to the kind of washing you are describing and most people do.

@Jumpingthruhoops you seem to constantly contradict yourself. You've said you wash inside your vagina and arse hole. But then you've also said
No... for starters, I don't 'stick' anything 'up' anywhere.

And whoever on here is saying 'rectum' is frankly an idiot. Rectum is inside the body. Obviously nobody is washing that

You've also said your vagina smells unless you wash inside it. This is not normal. My vagina really dies not smell. How do I know? Because I've sucked cock that has come out of my vagina and it not only doesn't smell, it doesn't even taste of much at all.

All your washing inside your vagina which goes against every doctors advice has no doubt left you with some smell creating fungus

Bleeding intermittently for 7 days and bleeding heavily, non-stop, without a few minutes break, for 7 days is a little bit different, no?

Honestly, I give up...! 🤦‍♀️

How is it a genuine question!? How on earth would anyone give themselves colonic irrigation in the bath?

There is NOTHING remotely genuine about that question no matter how smart you think you sound FFS!

Yes I wash my fanny and my arsehole. Like I thought everyone did. The End.

I don't need 'schooling' thanks. I've been doing it long enough.

That's how you do it. I do it differently. Is that so wild for you to comprehend?

eh? No. Are you Jump? Some women's period lasts 7 days for their entire life of having periods. I just worked it out lol and I had it happen 384 times or more. It doesn't mean something's wrong or even that they necessarily bleed more than other women do, just that it's spread out over a longer time.

Actually, I think I could possibly "hold it in" for a few minutes. If I still had periods. I've gone through menopause now so the bastards are gone for good thank fuck.

Reason being I'm as fat as a bloody whale and dur to my size my labia and my thighs form an impenetrable barrier.

It's not a boast I'd have thought of making, hey guys, I'm so fat my flab can be used as a blood proof barrier. A dam that holds the red stuff back 🤣 but now I'm thinking I missed a trick for 30 odd years. I never did have a party trick.

@Jumpingthruhoops I was not being nasty to you when I asked if you give yourself a colonic every time you shower. It’s a genuine question. If you think not washing the inside of the vaginal cavity is disgusting, then you surely must also give your rectum a wash too? If not, why not? Surely poop is worse than vaginal secretions?

@Jumpingthruhoops if you know what menstruation is why did you state that if flow is continuous during menstruation we would all die? We do not bleed to death, as you insisted we would have to, because we are menstruating. Not losing blood from our vascular system as we would with a cut.

Says who? Nothing wrong with soap, I use simple soap on all parts of my body including my vulva and groin areas. I'm 50, never had any issues so no need to use emollient

I don’t, thanks.

Not confused at all.

If you must use something an emollient cream is best.

@Jumpingthruhoops sorry posted too soon.

So when you are in the shower whether you have a tampon in or not you are washing the same areas. Your vulva is thoroughly washed with a tampon in. Infact it's less messy as there is no blood around the vulva when inserting new tampon. If you have no tampon in then some blood will have trickled down the vaginal canal and around the vulva. It's WAY tidier leaving the tampon in until after the shower and no part of your body is not washed with the tampon in so why are you yucked out?

@Jumpingthruhoops when one wears a tampon it has blood in it that hasn't left the body. So if you wear one in the shower then dry off, remove the tampon at the loo and put in a new one, that's literally no different from removing it before the shower and then putting in a new one after.

The only difference is that you lose a tiny bit of blood down the shower. And on your towel. And potentially running down your leg...

You aren't scrubbing out your vagina. The blood is in there. It's in there whether you change the tampon before or after your shower.

That you are sort of repulsed by it is peculiar. It's just period blood.

Oh stop it. Vulvas can and should be washed with soap or cleanser. You seem to be confused between vulva and vagina. Vulvas are like armpits. They have apocrine glands. They smell. Water won't clean an armpit thoroughly. Nor a vulva. Vulvas don't have a ph issue.

@Whatdoy Not with shower gel (unless you can get a completely non scented mild one and I’ve missed it). Water is generally enough, or something like ‘simple’ soap… but soap is nearly always alkaline, so it interferes with the slightly acidic environment of the vagina.

Then don't shove soap you your vagina. The commenter wasn't talking about soap in the vagina. They stated quite correctly that some sort of cleansing agent is needed for the VULVA. Just as with armpits and butt cracks.

Oh, I see. No, you're mistaken...

I merely said that, I personally, would find it gross having a shower with a dirty tampon in (which I would), then revealed ways in which I can/have/am able to get around this in order to wash properly. (Seems I wrongly assumed I'd be allowed to respond to the OP with my own personal experience).

However, people took issue with both these things, which is when the insults started. People were calling ME weird and 'couldn't understand how I wasn't like them'. (So it was actually the other way around to what you said). I'm not going to be all polite then am I? But I certainly didn't 'start' anything.

Your reply above perfectly highlighted what I'd been saying. Apologies if I misunderstood.

You started it, you were in there telling everyone else that they were weird and gross @Jumpingthruhoops , and pretending you couldn't possibly understand why other women aren't like you. So please don't assume my post in any way supports what you've said in this thread.

100% this! Thank you. 👏👏

Have literally had people telling me that what I've been doing DAILY and without issue for the best part of 45 years is 'bad for me'...

And that I haven't found ways to stop my OWN menstrual flow momentarily on occasion because, well, 'science'.

But I'M the one who 'knows nothing' 🙄

People don't see a specialist vulva dermatologist for the hell of it, clearly you have skin issues so it would make sense they'd advise you to change what you're doing.

Why extrapolate that advice, which was tailored to your circumstances, to the millions (possibly billions) of women worldwide who use soap and don't experience any negative effects?

Are you 'horrified' because you think we're all so stupid that we'd keep using soap if it doesn't agree with us?

Honestly, these threads bring out some absolute weirdos. So invested in how other people wash.

Thanks for highlighting that this is perfectly possibly.

So you'd just use water after having sex? Nothing else? I can't ever imagine feeling clean if I only used water and no soap.

I'm really horrified by how many women here are using soap on their vulva. It is absolutely not recommended by doctors.

I saw a dermatologist who specialises in vulva issues - so someone who would know - and her recommendation was emollient round the back, water only elsewhere.