I'm not willing to go the HBC route again...last year I went through just about every birth control pill there is, and it was NOT a pretty experience. Depression, moodiness like CRAZY, backaches, migraines...so no, no HBC for me.
I never thought of the chemicals in pads causing much of the smell.....that's a good point.
I'd probably try the cloth ones if there was a place around here to get them, but there's not. And ordering them online...well, I guess I could try that, but cost would be an issue, as I am a broke grad student *lol*
I don't know. It's not that I HATE seeing it, it's just that if I happen to be having a "good" period day -- with no cramps, no backache, nothing (which is rare) -- I can almost forget for a while that I'm even having it. And then I go to the bathroom and it's like, "Oh. Yeah. It's....still here." It's one of the many reasons I really wish I could use tampons; I wouldn't have to see it and I could almost just pretend I wasn't having it. That, and I could go without having to wear dark pants for a week straight.
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I never thought of the chemicals in pads causing much of the smell.....that's a good point.
I'd probably try the cloth ones if there was a place around here to get them, but there's not. And ordering them online...well, I guess I could try that, but cost would be an issue, as I am a broke grad student *lol*
I don't know. It's not that I HATE seeing it, it's just that if I happen to be having a "good" period day -- with no cramps, no backache, nothing (which is rare) -- I can almost forget for a while that I'm even having it. And then I go to the bathroom and it's like, "Oh. Yeah. It's....still here." It's one of the many reasons I really wish I could use tampons; I wouldn't have to see it and I could almost just pretend I wasn't having it. That, and I could go without having to wear dark pants for a week straight.