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[et-phone-home.livejournal.com]

I am having serious issues with tampons this month. They don't seem to expand like normal and so I only keep them in for like .. 3 hours tops because they keep leaking. I was using Playtex, but I am trying Tampax right now to see if its different.

What type do you use that works like a charm?

Comments

[strand3d.livejournal.com]

Is it possible that you're just bleeding very heavy and going through tampons every three hours? or are you bleeding AROUND the tampon so when you take it out it isn't full?

[et-phone-home.livejournal.com]

I'm taking it out - and its not full.

[mellow-yellow.livejournal.com]

i have that problem too...i think im misformed or something, that or tampons just plain hate me.

i started with ob and that was working about a year ago i switched to kotex and that was working well, but lately i am having the same problem...perhaps its a sign we should change brands every year or so...is that a possibility?

[geminigirl]

OB. I switched to them seven or so years ago and can count on one finger the number of times they've leaked.

[et-phone-home.livejournal.com]

I'll try them :D Thanks! But, I always see on TV that they don't have applicators... they make them with right? and are the applicators plastic or cardboard? I don't deal well with cardboard applicators..

[geminigirl]

They make them with applicators, but I've never used the ones with applicators so I couldn't say anything about them.

I found it much easier to put them in without an applicator than any tampon with an applicator I ever used.

[memery.livejournal.com]

they are cardboard applicators, unfortunately. I just bought a bulk pack of the non applicator kind and i'd give anything for that damn cardboard applicator right now though.

I think i was made for plastic applicators and nothing else.

[xconformist.livejournal.com]

amen! i thought i was having a hanous period, but yea, for me it was the type of tampon. i switched from playtex to tampax, and it was fine, no leakage for the remainder of my period. playtex have worked fine before, i'm thinking it was just that my period this time around was funky.

[purplepuffygirl.livejournal.com]

OB's work pretty good...i cant remember when or if i have ever leaked using them. i use Tampex (i believe) Gentle Glide's sometimes, and i do leak when using them :/

[sadhe-sati.livejournal.com]

I used to use Playtex...I had the same problem. They seem to leak a lot more than Tampax...I blame it on the shape (Playtex's aren't as long)...I use tampax most of the time now and they work pretty well...I'd like to try O.B. though.

[childishdreams.livejournal.com]

I used that Pearl thing...it leaked. I used to use OB and just recently switched back to using them again. I prefer them without the applicator though, and I find it easier to put it in without an applicator then with one.

[al2o3cr.livejournal.com]

OB
without applicators

(applicators are horrible for the environment.)

Also - "Organic Essentials" - can buy them on www.pangea.com
they are chlorine bleach and rayon free!

[loanwords.livejournal.com]

Kotex Security

[melkitsune.livejournal.com]

I'll have to agree with some of the other girls and recommend OB. Personally I always had a hell of a time trying to get a tampon in while using an applicator. OB tampons kind of spread apart at the end so you can stick your finger in and guide it up in there yourself.

Plus they are so much more comfortable for me than Tampax were (at least, when I had a period- I'm on Depo now) And of course, no leaks.

as far as leakage protection goes

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Best: ob
Will do in a pinch, but isn't first choice: Playtex
Leaks like crazy: Tampax