Personal hygiene issues while on period…

[Immaculately]

Hi all,

Name change for obvious reasons.

I have a slight issue when I’m on my period -I sweat so much more, I get body odour so much faster, I need double the amount of deodorant, my hair gets disgustingly greasy much faster and I have a particularly heavy periods which doesn’t help with odour.

I make sure to bathe every night, scrub myself multiple times all over with plenty soap, put on lashings of deodorant, use shampoo for greasy hair, I change my period products (tampons) regularly but have such a heavy flow I regularly bleed onto my pants which I can’t change for my entire shift. My sweat smells so much more on my period when it never smells the rest of the month?

I’m going to start packing spare pants in a small bag and change them as soon as I bleed through, it is SO DIFFICULT getting to the toilet in my job though which is part of the issue.

Please recommend some personal hygiene tips/tricks or specific products to buy!!!!

Yes lillet’s better than tampax in my experience too.

I saw something on TV about dove soap not being proper soap so it's not great at cleaning the sweat off. I'd swap to something else.

When I was pregnant someone suggested a maternity pad inside an incontinence pad for post partum bleeding. Life changing! I have a really heavy night every cycle since birth and I still use this combination - no leaks so far. I use the Always Discreet ones, but make sure they're the 'plus' and not 'normal'.

Soaking pads or tampons is 2 hours is a medical matter. You need another GP and treatment of some sort. Might be the Pill, might be a coil, might be tablets for the time you have a period.

And work have to allow toilet breaks. Going every 2 hours is normal (for a wee) for lots of people anyway. You should get a 'coffee' break, a lunch break and an afternoon break, roughly every 2 hours.