Can I lay out my ignorance for all to see, and ask a question about tampons?

[colditz]

... It's the sort of thing I should have asked when I was 14, but here we go...

When you have period clots, and you are using tampons, where does the clot go? If you are using pads, it goes onto the pad, so what about tampons?

I guess it just clings on, kind of..

It goes on the tampon!

ew....

tampons are really really absorbant, it would be absorbed into the tampon as more blood etc was lost

like flags out of a magician's pocket

Lol @ the magician comment!

Have you never ever used a tampon??

Nope, never.

My mother told me you couldn't use them if you were a virgin

Then as I got older, and lot my virginity, I still couldn't use them because she would know.

And I didn't move out until I was 22 - and I was pregnant!

then after I had babies, it seems I could lose a small village up there, never mind a tampon...

They looked so big when I was 12, now they look so small

PMSL!!

i prefer tampons keeps you nice and clean!
If you are considering using them id try non applicator first!
Start with low absorbancy!
Sorry if tmi
I get clots but they tend to sit on tampon and everything else soaks in!

But but but

They will fall out, won't they?

I haven't had one fall right out of me yet!!

no as you need it to insert it as far as poss making sure the string is knotted an youve tugged it to make sure its not loose before inserting it, it sometimes feels like you need to change it but iv not had any fall out iv used them for at least 5years

has no-one mentioned mooncups yet?

All I think of, when I see a mooncup, is water balloons.

And how we used to squirt them at people!

Sometime they (clots) plop out when you change your tampon, down the pan...this is very funny...

i thought you were older colditz...how young and sweet!

Tampons will not fall out! Just make sure you insert it until you cannot feel it. I have heavy periods btw and find that, if I change every 2-3 hours there is no leakage problem. Sorry if TMI!!

you cannot squirt a mooncup at people

it's a cup

Mooncups are fab. I take great pride in inspecting the contents of mine

It is fascinating to see what your body makes. And it makes pretty patterns in the loo

You could, if you sealed the open end with the palm of your hand, opened the valve, then squashed it.

I am 27, so not young and sweet, more HOPELESSLY NAIVE