To not understand how you can be so ignorant and unaware of the world around you that you still flush wet wipes and tampons down the toilet?

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How is it even possible in the information age?

I reckon a huge number of people know they shouldn't do it but flush anyway in the hope they will get away with it and they won't be the one having to dig out any resulting blockage.

Much like the hundreds of thousands of cunts who chuck their litter out of car windows - out of sight out of mind.

Gets me down, it does.

I had to fork out £150 recently to get my drain unblocked. Culprit a sanitary towel flushed by someone visiting me.

If your tampons falling out then you are using the wrong ones or putting it in wrong

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Nearly wet myself with my not weak pelvic floor muscles!

Of course they can drop out after heavy flow even with a super dooper big one!

Just cause it didn't happen to you doesn't mean it doesn't happen! 🤣

Another who didn't know until recently you shouldn't flush a tampon. And I didn't know that I didn't know OP. So it's pointless berating.

This thread points out that a lot more general educating needs to happen around this topic. The manufacturers should all take a big chunk of responsibility. It's total fake news to call anything flushable that isn't loo paper. And the last time I even looked at a tampon leaflet was last century.

A big coloured sticker on packets of nappies, sanitary towels, tampons and wipes saying DONT FLUSH ME!

I think there are many women for whom
Tampons just don’t really work and fall
Out etc. I also think women with very heavy periods seem to use pads a lot which indicates tampons can really handle it. Not surprised they fall out or don’t work

They just need to stick a sticker on the box the way the do with fresh chicken in some shops saying “DON’T WASH FRESH CHICKEn”

I have never scraped poo out of a disposable nappy, had no idea that was a thing!

Omg! I feel like a dinosaur and I am only 38 - when were we told about not flushing Tampons?! Never knew till this thread...

Hey the next series of QI will be P. Do you think this will come up in an episode called periods? It's something that we all think we know but apparently have been doing it wrong. I wonder which guests theyll have on and who will set off the claxon?

I wonder how often we need to have this thread before everyone on MN knows?

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I have monster periods and use the biggest tampons and night-time pads all the time during them, and they still fall out with a huge gush, and I still have to change every hour on the worst days and have leakage from flooding. It's miserable. I also have IBS so I often have explosive diarrhoea and cramps at the same time. No, I don't fish a saturated tampon out of a bowl of blood clots and liquid shit. Sorry not sorry.

Would never flush a pad though. They are at least partly plastic.

I read stories about how women 'lose' tampons inside their vaginas and think how? My anatomy just wouldn't seem to allow that.

It doesn't mean I don't believe it happens to other women though. I always think it's odd when women say you can't possibly lose a tampon inside you or have a tampon fall out with saturation or pass clots the size of your palm or have to use a super plus tampon and a pad and change every hour.

I've never experienced any of those things. I'm sure other women wouldn't be making it up for shits and giggles though.

I haven’t flushed tampons for years. Not because I saw or read that I shouldn’t, but because I worked in a job where I’d regularly have to unblock toilets and tampons were often responsible for the block. I haven’t read a tampon box or leaflet for decades, I’d no more do that than read a tea bag or toothpaste box. I don’t doubt the info is there but it needs to be as big and clear as the warnings on cigarette packets for it to be noticeable.

havent RTFT but i agree. they keep shutting the female toilets at my gym because idiots
keep flushing things that shouldnt be flushed, or use a whole roll of toilet roll and try flush it all at once!

there are bins to put sanitary products. people keep doing it though. they’ve shut the loos twice in the past month. minging.

My son once flushed a smurf cuddly toy. Didn't realise until the drains were blocked and the guy pulled it out.

Yes, you used to flush sanitary towels down the toilet. That was on the pack. Its still possible that some believe this. The difference is that the technology for sanitary products have changed which make them unflushable.

I'm mid 50s and wondering how I knew not to flush tampons. Can't remember how long ago I found out because originally I flushed.

Just use a mooncup everyone.

Haven’t used a tampon or towel in almost twenty years now. In that time i’ve bought two mooncups. £50 for twenty years san pro and no waste into the environment. And bar a month or so getting the hang of a new thing, no hassle, leaks, mess . More covenient, flexible, comfortable, better for your health.

Why wouldn’t you want to try that?

I literally only found out a few months ago that tampons can't be flushed. I always had it drummed into me that they should be flushed not binned

OK, I'll admit that I used to flush them, because when I started using them in the eighties that's what it said on the pack. I assumed they disintegrated. Then DD came along and reeducated me. And now I don't need them.

Don't berate me please, I recycle religiously and have done for over 30 years. Also heard about how bad plastic in the sea is recently from watching 'Blue Planet II' and as my first measure I have given up using handwash, I'm back on bars of soap.

Neither have I MrJolly, but I've read on here that you are supposed to.

I have been flushing tampons down the toilet for about 22 years....I genuinely did not know they were not supposed to be flushed.

Wet wipes - I knew this and have always used a bin. But tampons....ooops!

Now I know I guess!!!

Frankly people just don't care as someone else gets to deal with it. I used to be forever clearing huge blockages of tampons and wipes from waste lines that only served staff toilets. People were told a thousand times and there were signs and proper bins in each loo. They'll whinge about the loos being blocked but won't change their behaviour. I wish we could dump the crap we pulled out on their office floors - unfortunately that is not allowed.