would you go swimming while on a period

[McNewPants2013]

Every thursday i take the DC swimming ( ds has a lesson so I go in with DD)

Its been fine up to now, but i am at the end of my period. Would it be disguesting if i was to wear my mooncup and continue to take them today.

the alternitive is DD not going today.

I've often swum with my period, even if it means changing it just before and after swim.

I've never tried it with a mooncup, not sure how comfortable or safe that would be...

I rollerblade

I'd empty the mooncup before and have a shower before too (usually do anyway, but more thorough), but that done I'd do it.

In my forties now and breezed through them to the point in my teens, twenties and thirties I would forget I had my period and have to rush out and buy tampons.

Now they are just horrific to the point of changing every HOUR throughout the second/third day and every three hours in the night. TMI but when you are bleeding clots the size of plums swimming is NOT an option. I would scare the public and staff!

Every twenty five days I could book an appointment to be 'ill'.

I have been swimming with both tampons and a mooncup (not at the same time!) with no problems at all

RedRuby - I think it was Ben Elton

I don't because I use sanitary towels.

I wouldn't go swimming during a period, but I've never tried a Mooncup.

I think we need a spreadsheet of ages here.

Over forty
30 - 40
20-30
16-20

Over forty and still having periods - swimming NO!

Of course, though I remember using being on my period as an excuse to get out of swimming at school! (Although, conveniently, I could still swim on my period on holidays )

over 40 - yes :D

Try a soak in the bath when you have your period to give you the confidence that it is ok. I did not get on with tampons at all when I first started, then just about managed with them. Now I have my wonderful mooncup and would not hesitate to swim with it in.

A period has never stopped me but that was the way I was brought up (v feminist mum who wouldn't hear of a period stopping snything!). the day my first period started I was meant to go swimming, my mum was aghast when I asked her for a note for school she told me to stop being so silly and showed me how to use a tampon instead! The cold water reduces the blood flow anyway, wack a tampon in and off you go

Actually, I wouldn't swim with a mooncup. But then I gave up on my mooncup the day it "tilted", need I say more, luckily I was alone in my own house!

But yes with a tampon I would swim as normal.

I swim with my mooncup too. I try to remember to empty it soonish before and after, but it hasn't caused me problems when I have forgotten.

The only thing I didn't do while having a period was wear white trousers and have sex. Everything else just carried on as normal. My dd's the same, I'm glad to say.

Why on earth wouldn't you?

Rowtunda that's what I thought too (water +exercise reducing flow) I thought exercise was good for cramps ? I would always put a fresh Tampax in before though. The only time in my life I have avoided swimming was after giving birth (I wanted to go in but midwife said not for 6 weeks !, no idea why)

Curlew

Did you read my posts above? I really couldn't. I would scare the children if I did.

Happy that you sail through your periods but I really don't anymore.

Redrubyshoes- have you been to the doctor about them? That does 't sound right- and you must be incredibly anaemic too.......

If mooncups are tilting it's because you aren't twisting them to form a seal -I might start a campaign

Is this thread a piss take?

Do people really not go swimming because of periods, I thought that only happened in books set decades ago.

I have always had major periods, It never occurred to me not to swim.

I would of been kicked off the team for that.

Just use a big tampax if you are worried.

Is there any other activities that are frowned upon to partake when you have a period?

Well, i have heard that reading novels can be too stimulating for women hill pregnant...........

Oh, and menstruating women turn the milk sour......

Its not an age thing.

I have alternating months of periods so heavy that I stay in bed for two days. If I stand up I gush everywhere. I am 25 and its been like this since I was around 17.