Bicycle-appropriate panties required?

[clarinka.livejournal.com]

I have recently started riding my bike around town again, and I have discovered something that I don't like at all. It seems that if I ride for more than 20 minutes wearing American Apparel boy-cut panties or a cloth pad, I get blisters on my outer labia! I'm pretty certain it's not herpes because these lesions occur pretty much exclusively while I am on a bicycle, and I've been tested in the past year for herpes and I am without antibodies for types 1 and 2, and I am in a monogamous relationship of a year and a half.

What I want to know is: does anyone else ever have bicycle-related vulva blisters? What seems to cause them more often, and what fixed them? My roommate suggests sport panties, but I want to see if there's a quicker fix at home. I just don't wear the offending panties on days that I bike (easy enough), but for IUD-related reasons I'm using cloth pads a lot for the next three months before I switch back to a cup.

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[thenuddpants.livejournal.com]

Well, from the two days I've been using them on my really light flow/spotting Mirena-period, I really like them a LOT. You get them wet, then squeeze out the water so that they are damp, then insert them like an applicator-less tampon or a contraceptive sponge. (Though they are a bit harder to insert than an applicator-less tampon because they are softer). I had mine in all day yesterday, and have had it in for half the day today. The instructions say you can leave them in overnight... so I figure how is the equivalent time during the day any different?

You just kind of reach up and grab to remove... lol. Then you rinse it out, put it back in if you still need it, or let it air-dry. They come in a pack of two, and they suggest bringing a little ziploc baggie with you to put the used one in until you get home (much like with cloth pads) if you need to change it often/mid-day, but with my light IUD periods I've not needed to change it, and if I did I would probably just go to the handicapped restroom stall, take it out, hobble over to the sink, rinse it, and put it back in.

I really like them so far - even when there was barely any blood on it yesterday (sorry if that's TMI) it didn't hurt to remove, which is what I hate hate hate about tampons + light periods. And the BEST part - no dangly strings!