To hold the tampax string out of the way (or not, as the case may be)!

[pasanda]

Chatting to my bf the other day and one of us holds the string out of the way when we have a wee, the other doesn't! Each of us was as incredulous as the other that we would do it 'our way' (iyswim!!)
What do you lot do?

Change it when I have a wee

9 times out of 10 I can't find the string anyway. When I need to do a change I end up delving around for ages. Sometimes I even need to thrust a small handbag mirror down there to find the elusive little bastard.

Thatsmysanta- you what

I opened this knowing that the mooncup evangelists would be three comments in. .

Tuck or change.

Surely your hands get wet if you hold it out of the way?! The string is short.

Obviously. Though mostly use washable pads these days -amazing!

It’s all very well saying tampons are unhygienic and that we should all be using the moon cup. Some people physically can’t use them. A vaginal and uterine septum means I can’t use a mooncup even if I want to. Tampons are the only option for some people

My period was too light to change it at every wee.

I tuck and dab after because it still gets pee on it.

No I don’t!

Yes I hold it out of the way. On the are occasion when I've forgotten it gets covered in piss so I have to change it there and then cos fuck walking about with the string full of absorbed piss in my undies.

I change every time I pee.

It never even occurred to me to move it out of the way

Jeez, people really don't care what they over share on here, do they.
Got a mental image of some blokes sat agog reading like
or others with Vic and Bob style knee rubbing.

I find the string tucks itself out of the way (and then I have to go searching for it) but I am 'au natural' most of the time, I suspect a bald fanjo wouldn't be as helpful!

I couldn't change with every wee, taking it out too early is very uncomfortable - no?

I just fold a little loo roll and use that to hold the string when I pull it, just in case it is wet.

They don't even know what causes endometriosis so how can they possibly know that mooncups increase the risk???
I don't know why, but I much prefer to 'collect' with the mooncup rather than 'plug and soak' with a tampon.
When I use tampons however i tuck or pull to the side if I'm not changing it! It feels like it would be yuck to have a bit of urine dangling around, although in reality it cant be that much really.

A long time since I've needed to use one, but I used to tuck the string up between inner & outer lips on one side (usually the right, as it happens), then it didn't get wet.

liminality- I am sure you know better.

Using a mooncup you far more knowledge than years of medical training.

This isn't a thread for mooncup users.

Dreamy - lucky it's an anonymous forum isn't it.

Neither! Dont people change them when they go for a wee???

Crikey, the things that get people into a tizz.
handbags tampons at dawn!

Hold it to side.
(Also on the moon cup thing. I used one for 5 years pre-baby but since having a child I find it so uncomfortable to remove now so have gone back to tampons, even the larger size uncomfortable, it just stays stuck. I agree, mooncups are amazing, but not everyone can use them)

I think I need to get on board with my pelvic floor thanks dc , I change it every time I wee as it pretty much falls out on it’s own I only wee about twice a day though.

Don’t hold it. But I do change the tampon if it feels too full after peeing (which happens v often)...

I’ve never even thought about that. I use toilet paper (obviously) which also dries off the string, doesn’t it?

Can't use a mooncup since I had babies (have tried lots of different types as I'm v. v. sad about it as I loved my mooncup).

Tampons - I thought this happened to everyone but maybe it's just my physiology: when I wee, even if I hold the string out of the way the end of the tampon gets wet and of course soaks the wee upwards. If the string gets wet it soaks up into the tampon too. I can't bear the idea of walking around with a wee-soaked tampon inside me (and it makes it less effective anyway) so I change every wee. Vagina variations blow my mind.