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.

Oh and theres no way I would swim with my period.

yes and guess what? i wash my hair too when i am on!!

wannabee-have been to the dr?

how on earth do you manage if you have to to bed for 2 days a month? do you have children? a job?

you can get medication to reduce flow you know?

When I worked it was awful. I literally had to change my pad and tampon every 30mins for the two days, and take extra pants to work.

If DP cant look after the DDs I move to the sofa, and we camp out. But everytime I get up I have to rush to the loo, then I maybe have 10minutes before its gushing again.

Its every other month, and I have only had 3 periods since DD2. I cant see my GP helping tbh. I am putting on weight despite calorie counting etc and they dont really care.

They can prescribe tablets that should reduce the flow. You don't have to put up with that.

Sorry just saw reply. I wear mooncup succesfully all the rest of the time including overnight and I need to break seal to remove. It fills up in the bath too :( I guess the pressure of the water pushes teh vaginal wall out of the way. (Obviously have a flaccid bucket fanny)

I used to using a tampon. Now I have no uterus so any issue = solved, one of the very few benefits

I'm feeling quite niave here. My mum (many years ago) told me that period blood can't come out in water - hence why it doesn't come out when you're in the bath. I've just assumed this to be a fact for many years - so would never have an issue with swimming while on. Is this not true? Have I been lied to?

Also I suspect that I can't spell niave!

Curlew

Yes I have been to the doctors because I couldn't even keep down painkillers. I would vomit them up within five minutes.

I have fainted with the pain and without painkillers I vomit on the second day pretty regularly.

I now have prescription painkillers that I put between my cheek and my gum so I absorb them that way.

I take them and have a hot bath and lie in bed soaked with sweat for a day and the next day I am sometimes fine and dandy. This month was a killer with three fecking days of heavy bleeding.

My periods are just charming. The poster above with the feminist mother made me chuckle. Ten grand at the end of a pool couldn't get me out of bed to fetch it.

In between periods I swim up to 8k a week.

I can't swim on my period, I cannot use tampons so I have never been able to

I have using tampon or mooncup. Would always change tampon just before and just after though.

Personally think mooncup is much more hygienic as doesn't absorb water and is complete barrier as creates a vacuum.

"I cant see my GP helping tbh. I am putting on weight despite calorie counting etc and they dont really care."

In that case, it is even more important you go and get checked out, in case you have an underlying condition which has affected both your periods and your weight.

Well over 40 here and it's never occured to me not to swim, although I'm very pleased to have a mooncup now rather than having to worry about escaping tampon strings. I've never noticed any 'leakage' during a bath so I can't see why swimming should be any different (not the way I swim anyway, I can do 30 or so lengths but I'm not exactly fast ).
My Nan used to tell my sister and I not to wash our hair during our periods as "it saps your strength". Oh how we scoffed, but here we are in 2013 and people still think life has to stop. .

I always have, I've been on holiday, taken the kids to the swimmers when I've had my period. I've only not bothered if I've felt like shit. I've always used tampons.

It never occurred to me that you wouldn't swim with a period.

tampons?
mooncup?

How old are you? I mean you are having periods so you can't be that old biologically but really, this is making you sound older than my nan.

Of course you can swim; tampons. No idea about mooncups. Bit herbal for me although they seem oddly popular on mn...

yes, but i have very light, painfree periods ATM

when I was on the copper coil there was no way on earth - I could flood a super+ tampon and a maxi towel in under an hour.

I'd spend the whole time worrying that there was a blood trail behind me. I've worn tampons for years and have just converted to a mooncup but just can't bring myself to do it.

I personally wouldn't, I'd be terrified I'd spring a leak!!

It would never occur to me not to go swimming when I am having my period.

I am careful to tuck the tampon string though

My periods are ridiculously heavy, so doing much beyond moping in bed is out of the question for me.

But if you have a normal flow why on earth would you think you couldn't!

Yes go for it

I can't go in a pool during my period either - I have way too much heavy bleeding. Think two tampons at a time, combined with two night time towels. And changing hourly.

But I have discovered that ibuprofen reduces the flow, thanks to someone on MN, and it was was reduced by about a third in volume last month so I am hoping to dread it a little less. But I still wouldn't swim.

I am making it my mission in life to pass on the ibuprofen message to all women... it was blinking marvellous. I left the house and everything