light tampons

[alliee.livejournal.com]

just wondering. does anyone else have the hardest time finding "light", "slim" or "junior" tampons? i feel like they disappeared off the store shelves over night. i have super light periods and regulars are too absorbent. after 8 hrs i barely get it 1/2 way saturated after 8 hrs :( do u guys know of any websites where i could get light tampons that have plastic applicators? ugh, why'd they have to get rid of my beloved tampax pearl lights :(

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[drownophelia.livejournal.com]

i had the same problem. i switched to OB (regulars) four or five years ago, because they were smaller than most regular tampons, but it was always a challenge to find slim/juniors anywhere! i usually only see them in the multipacks, but refused to buy those, as i never needed the larger sizes. however, i've switched to sea sponge tampons, because i was tired of wasting money on tampons that i rarely filled to capacity. though i don't think those would work for you, as they're not applicator-based.

i've seen lites on amazon.com.

good luck!

[wilddcherry16.livejournal.com]

i buy junior ones at Rite Aid. try there?

[mypoorfriendme.livejournal.com]

I thought I was the only one who noticed that I couldn't find them anywhere! I don't have any suggestions as to where to find them though :(

[rearrangedfaith.livejournal.com]

yeah.

totally sucky since that's all i ever need. (<3 depo!!)

but i found some somewhere. i have no idea where, but i bought two boxes in november or december, i think, and just opened the second box.


and i got some free samples of playtex sport in the smallest, but i don't know where they went. from their website, of course.

[cloudshapes.livejournal.com]

i think tampax still makes a slender one (it's the regular old carboard applicator style though). i have a light flow and always had to use the small ones, and even then i'd hardly fill the thing up and they always left me feeling icky and dry. so i switched to a cup and cloth pads, and i only have to empty the cup once a day (i do it in the shower in the morning-- so easy and no more dryness!)

not to push the whole cup thing on you though, sorry! :) i just know how hard it is to find those small tampons, and i can't say i've seen one with a plastic applicator in a really long time.

[rockingsheep.livejournal.com]

This happened to me, too. My periods were too light for tampons and they always just bothered me and dried me out. Then I discovered the Diva!

[alliee.livejournal.com]

i wish i could join the whole "i love my diva" club but i got one and i just couldnt get used to it :( it was such a disappointment. i was actually thinking last night that i should give it another shot.

[cloudshapes.livejournal.com]

you might have better luck with one of the other cups, if the one you have now is the diva-- as it is pretty long, and some people prefer a shorter one. i have the smallest mooncup uk and love it. i believe the new small sized lunette is the smallest cup around (width of the small diva, and length of the small mooncup).

[scien.livejournal.com]

You didn't say what in particular was bothering you, but menstrual_cups has a wealth of information on all the common and uncommon problems women encounter :)

[alliee.livejournal.com]

ya know i loved everything about it but when i would remove it, it would snag on something on the way out, maybe its whats left of my hymen and it would hurt so much. i tried for about 4 periods with it and i would just dread removing it. maybe if i try again i'll figure out how to do it differently.

[starzysky.livejournal.com]

I think it's the TSS thing .. if your flow is light enough that all you need is a little junior lite tampon, they want you to use pads so you don't get TSS..

which is crap b/c I'd like to make that decision on my own. I love junior lites, and bought four boxes of them on clearance [the store was not goign to carry them anymore]... and when they ran out I bought a mooncup. I HATE taking out barely used tampons... geehhhhhk.

[tirlasutaa.livejournal.com]

If it is a fear of TSS, I find that to be nearly complete crap (in the sense of a company deciding for one what one should or should not choose to use). (Warning: full of opinions, etc. I'm not calling anyone anything, but am instead voicing my view of the opinion.) My family physician (who's 65 & my mother has been using him for at least 35years) has seen only four cases in his career. To me, this recent increase in fear of TSS is overkill. One should always approach these things logically & stays within ones' own comfort level with the instructions (whether that means every four hours or laxing & only changing every twelve). Granted, I rarely get a period anymore, but when I do I choose to wear a junior (or lite, but preferably one that expands out & not long & downward) tampon up to twelve hours & only while out in public. (Mirena IUD & in the last six months only one one day long period.) I've got boxes of the unopened things from when the local CVS (I think) decided to stop carrying them (& no one else around here did anymore). Ironically, at 13 & 14 I was wearing super ones.

Just use/do what you yourself are comfortable with.

[starzysky.livejournal.com]

I agree! thats why I said "I'd like to make that decision on my own"

But it's lawsuit fear that causes the companies to be so precautious.

[alliee.livejournal.com]

yeah, its so frustrating that these stupid companies take it upon themselves to decide that lite tampons are no longer necessary :( i found lites at my super market so i bought 4 boxes but they have cardboard applicators :-/ i guess beggers cant be choosers