Noisy sanitary product wrapping

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AIBU to expect the manufacturers to come up with something that doesn't make it sounds as though I'm opening and packet of fucking sweets in the toilet?

I'maPaleontologist

We got love hearts when we ordered dd's new set!

Cloth ones are soft, reusable, save a fortune and noiseless!

Ha try using a unisex tolilet at work! It's makes me cring!

All the men I work with know when I'm on a period, luckily most are too polite to say anything

There is an obvious answer here. Invest in a portable radio and play it while ylu are in the toilet. It will cover all noises .

This worried me s lot as a young teen. I remember painstaking opening packets as slooowly as poss in friends houses or school. I don't really care now, most of the time, but they're are some occasions where it would be nice not to instantly advertise something personal.

Sort out out manufacturers!

Used to worry about it. Dont now as nothing you can do about it.

Agree! They're all falling over themselves to cover up supposedly smelly fanjos, but can't sort this out? Pffft.

london Quite right. I can't. I want the manufacturers to do something about it.

I'm not particularly prudish or afraid of bodily functions. I'd just not rather advertise that I have my period by way of audio assistance!

Lil lets. They have done something. :)

Oh don't get me started on scented sanitary towels. Bought them by accident (after a erpc, to add insult to injury) and spent ages wondering what that weird smell was, and worried it was me. It was. They make you smell when you previously didn't, and who the hell are Always to tell me what my foof should smell like! And they make me itch. Aaaand breathe

Bertie agree they are probably the least noisy, but I prefer applicator based products.

I use a mooncup and can honestly say I've never been aware of any big 'suck' noise and certainly not embarrassed about others hearing it, I don't think they could anyway. In a public loo, I just remove it, empty the blood into the bowl, wipe with a tissue and pop it back in. Sometimes the loo needs two flushes as the blood sinks to the bottom of the bowl - it works better if there is some loo paper in there before you empty the blood into the loo. Go mooncup! Been using mine over 15 years and think anyone who could use them but doesn't is really missing something! They genuinely make my period more comfortable, I've spent nothing on sanitary stuff for years and I have heavy peridots but have never leaked with it on.

The new Bodyform wrappers don't make a noise. Lil lets tampon wrappings don't make a noise. Its the bloody rustling of the nappy sacks or disposal bags that I find makes the worst noise. But I don't care any more, I'm almost 44 I've been having periods longer than I haven't, there's not a lot I can do about it.

I don't worry about this, but don't like being heard pooing.

Mooncup question - do you just empty it and pop it back in, or do you have to rinse it? If you're in a public loo presumably doing that in the sink, messy hands etc etc is much more public anyway.

I think I may be investigating the moon cup (was meaning to be slightly comical about the suck noise btw).

I'm with Selks - when you hear someone open theirs, do you think 'how hideous - she must be having her (whisper) period . . .' and is that why you're so horrified that someone might work out that your body is doing what it does?

I can't even begin to imagine how this could be an issue .

Bit off topic but it made me think of the time I visited my local bank and was talking to the young customer services guy who I was vaguely friendly with as been to bank so many times. He handed me a tampon and said 'I think this is yours' and I looked at him blankly, grabbed it and carried on talking to him. Later I realised it must have fallen out of my bag onto his desk.......I still cringe about it now. Embarrassed:

My teen Dd won't use the loo at school if on her period in case she has to change her pad.
Sad but true.
All because of the noise

The Tampax Pearl wrapper isn't that noisy. I don't really worry about it as much now.

The best thing about the mooncup is not having to even think about it most of the time. And not having to walk to work toilets with a tampon in your sleeve...

I don't really care, so long as the product itself doesn't creak or rustle when I walk.

Not worried about public toilets but DS thinking I've got sweeties when on the loo is a bit awkward

i don't rinse or even wipe my cup, i used to but i fail to see the difference between rinsing and not rinsing. If i need to empty while out i just empty and shove straight back up.