Using disabled loo during period leakage

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Using the disabled loo if there's a long queue and you're leaking blood - reasonable or unreasonable?

Not done it but was in the situation and luckily there was no queue - wondered what I would have done if there'd been one.

Myrtle - and again I would suggest you've never been in that situation.

Leaking blood isn't always just a trickle. There's a reason its popularly referred to as "a flood".

Not only (a) is it hazardous to potentially leak blood onto the floor but (b) I need access to a cubicle WITH a sink to clean up.

Or am I not to be afforded that dignity either?

Do one Myrtle the more you are posting, its making you look so bad, and quite frankly nasty and spiteful. Let's hope you are never in op situation, and have a big period accident and leaking everywhere and need to use an ACCESSIBLE toilet!

Myrtle, and anyone else who needs this explaining, It isn't just changing sanitary towels. It is changing your entire lower set of clothes and washing yourself from the fanjo downwards. I am not exaggerating. I wish I were.

Don't be so obtuse. You are clearly commenting on something you have no experience of.

I really can't see why not. I've used the disabled loo if my IBS was particularly bad; I'm not going to shit myself for anyone.

Yes op would need an ACCESSIBLE toilet to clean herself up privately and discretely, away from stares. Lovely that you wod rather see a human being humiliated, for your own gain. Says a lot about you Myrtle

All at the same time as often continuing to flood, not spot or trickle.

MyrtleMaracas

You really don't know what you're talking about.

Would you be prepared to quietly wait while your trousers are soaking down the legs in blood or blood is literally dripping down your legs?

If so, then you are a much braver woman than most of us.

Really it's along the lines of IBS in the sense in a "normal" situation nobody with any decency would use the disabled toilet. However their medical condition lead to it not being a "normal" situation and therefore normal expectations can't be applied. (If that makes sense!)

'Do one Myrtle the more you are posting, its making you look so bad, and quite frankly nasty and spiteful'

Look, if you read my posts you can see I'm neither nasty nor spiteful. I've said, imo no people shouldn't use disabled facilities to change sanitary protection. That is only my opinion. I'm empathetic I have compassion. I have a disabled friend who frequently has to wait while various people come out of the loos sheepishly saying 'sorry' so I'm possibly biased, as I feel her frustration on a regular basis.

I'm empathetic I have compassion

Ah yes, the famous type of empathy and compassion where you'd rather see a fellow (I presume from your username) woman be completely humiliated than use an accessible facility.

Myrtle you're posts are ridiculous. Clearly you have neither imagination nor empathy.

We ladies with heavy periods cannot control our blood flow and sometimes it comes pouring out with massive clots. Some clots like to linger on the top of the plug hole before they go down because they cover it so I use my toe to disperse them. It is impossible to take a bath during my period. I hate showering because even though I've thoroughly washed myself and wiggled to try and release any blood clots, I still often get them all over the towel. Think of a giant having a snotty nose bleed. It's disgusting and if you're caught with a sudden flow, it is possible to fill a sanitary towel with just a few large clots. Graphic enough?

Myrtle you don't. Its not changing normal sanitary protection, but op is leaking, I presume its on her clothes and on her legs, so she needs privacy if an accessible toilet, to clean herself up and afford her some decency. You don't get it Myrtle, you don't. There is no reasoning to people like you.

'Ah yes, the famous type of empathy and compassion where you'd rather see a fellow (I presume from your username) woman be completely humiliated than use an accessible facility'

Well no, I just see my disabled friend have to wait for longer and longer as more people seem to use the disabled loos for increasing reasons.

Mummy yes that sounds terrible. I'm sorry you think I'm 'ridiculous', However your graphic description isn't he same as the ops 'leak'.

It could only happen on MN :)

88 posts about whether to use an accessible toilet which has the required water and privacy to cope with a bodily function.

I think people need to find other things to debate if this is the sum total of their lives.

If a person needs an accessible toilet for whatever reason, they have IBS, or about to be sick, or period has flooded, than they should not feel guilty and I certainly wod not. Those who come out looking sheepish, are the ones who took advange of it when they could have waited for a cubicle.

Not read whole thread so forgive me if I'm repeating others. Where I live most disabled loo's are also the only one big enough to fit a pram in, so disabled people regularly have to wait for me cos I can't fit in any other loo with my pram. I feel bad when someone's been waiting but at the same time I didn't design the Loo's like that!

I just see my disabled friend have to wait for longer and longer as more people seem to use the disabled loos for increasing reasons.

I've never seen a queue outside a disabled/accessible toilet, though.

I think people need to find other things to debate if this is the sum total of their lives.

And yet you're here and felt the need to post.

'I've never seen a queue outside a disabled/accessible toilet, though'

What's your point, I'm making it up?

However your graphic description isn't he same as the ops 'leak'

No. But we tend to have to use phrases like "leak" as it tends to offend people's sensibilities if you actually explained what was going on.

Yesterday morning I lost a clot so large it brought the largest absorbency tampon you can find with it.....all the whilst blood still gushing from my uterus. How should I deal with that in the ladies loo with no sink in a cubicle?

To be fair I have seen a queue outside a disabled toilet when waiting with DS to use them.

Oh Myrtle- I hope you you never develop fibroids!
I used an accesible loo at the Harry Potter studios - had to run for it. I was using a mooncup and it looked like I'd murdered several people. Having the sink in the cubicle meant I could wash the mooncup and myself thoroughly, and deal with my clothing.

Well no, I just see my disabled friend have to wait for longer and longer as more people seem to use the disabled loos for increasing reasons

If there is a RADAR key, they are for disabled people only (although I realise that anyone can get a RADAR key from some websites, but that is not the point in my view). So whether you have IBS, are leaking blood or are about to be sick you are not going to get in there.

If it is not locked, it is an accessible loo, especially if it (as is often the case) it also has the baby changing equipment in it. So it can be used by anyone with a greater need than just needing a wee in my view.

I've never seen a queue outside a disabled/accessible toilet, though

I have, well not exactly a queue, but I was at a motorway service area with a huge queue for the loos. Every time the disabled loo door opened and a person in a wheelchair came out, another person in a wheelchair appeared. It's the only place I have though unless it's the only loo eg in a lot of cafes.

The other point of course to remember is that a disabled loo isn't only for people who's disability involves urgency.

A colleague is in a wheelchair, however they have no bladder/bowel issues so have no problems with queuing for the loo; that said obviously people without a genuine reason to use the accessible facility shouldn't be doing so. Someone about to lose their dignity and in need of adequate space and facilities to wash doesn't fall into that category

*whose.