At a water park in Spain and periods just started

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FFS😡 do not use tampax or mooncup. , any suggestions or am I sitting watching everyone have fun?

What if OP miscalculated and has a sudden gush?

Go on, what’s the consequences?

You can’t get Tranexamic acid otc in Spain (or UK for that matter).

@Scalottia you do realise that even with a tampon, an exchange of fluids will happen anyways? You just can't see it.

Well if it were me, with the heaviness of how my periods used to be - a massive 'cloud' of blood and possibly some clots.

To the distress of all I should imagine.

Would you want to take a gob full of clot?
Thought not.

Yes, I do realise this but at least it is mitigated somewhat, unlike the people who swim with no protection because it is just a little bit of blood. Until it isn't. And no, I don't want to see a clot floating by, or a chunk of shit, or anything like this.

I think I'd try and go with using a tampon, even if you can feel it, as least that way you can go swimming.

This is not acceptable.

You used toilet paper that someone else had used?

I think you'll just have to put up with the discomfort of a tampon.

You used toilet paper that someone else had used?

I picked the one that looked a bit grubby rather than obviously used. I know, it's totally disgusting but what else can you do when there's only one loo block, no loo paper and you have no tissue on you.

As we all know, you can't hold it in like a wee, so waiting wasn't an option either. Just yuck, I still feel a bit icky ten showers later...

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Have you had a blood test and gum clinic check up etc? How long ago was this?

I'd have free bled and left to find supplies or gone back to my hotel.

Fuck anyone that wanted to make an issue of any seepage.

I'd have free bled and left to find supplies or gone back to my hotel.

I was in the middle of a 3 hour guided tour of the colosseum anc forum with my family. I couldn't re-enter the site if I'd left. No matter how grim it was using the loo paper, I wasn't going to walk round with red shorts. That would have been mortifying.

Yes, I've had it checked out. I have an inefficient uterus (a phrase that only a gynae could use). I'm sure those of us blessed with the joy of heavy periods have sometimes had to improvise in a less than ideal way.

I picked the one that looked a bit grubby rather than obviously used. I know, it's totally disgusting but what else can you do when there's only one loo block, no loo paper and you have no tissue on you.

Thats still likely used toilet paper. I just can’t fathom that. I would have even used my bra instead and stuffed that down there and gone braless until I got back to the hotel. If some used toilet paper is going to do the job then a bra will. Or could you not have asked your DH for his undies and balled them up and used those? So what if he had to freeball it under his shorts/jeans until he got back to the hotel, no biggie. Or maybe you or he was wearing socks that could have done the trick. I would have thought of anything and everything before using someone else’s used toilet paper for makeshift sanitary purposes.

That's just unpleasant really. Free bleeding, I mean. Noone wants to see that.

Cyclical hrt will mean you can control when your periods are.

If my only choices were to use used toilet paper or free bleed, I really wouldn't give a fuck what people want to see.

@bashfulclam I FINALLY (43yo now) found out a few years ago (when having a smear) that I have a low cervix, and this is why I can always feel tampons and why they're so uncomfortable. It would be so useful if this possibility was publicised, rather than women spending years thinking they're doing something wrong. So glad to know I'm not a massive weirdo 🙄