every woman should know this!!!!

I rather stick with regular pads.

 

They certainly have been. Clorine bleach IS used in the bleaching of cotton and paper used in regular pads and tampons. This process can cause the production of dioxin, which is a carcinigen. Both paper or Cotton are NOT white in their natural state, it is beige to greenish to brown. They have to use clorine bleach to get that "clean" white color.

Here http://www.femininehygiene.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=46

I, personally, wouldn't use a sea sponge either. I don't like anything other than human in my vagina. Also, anything inserted and left in your vagina increases your risk of toxic shock. It isn't just a thing of the past.

 

I know of all the pesticides that are available in the USA ,,, 1/2 of them are used on cotton fields! I use tampons but ahve just bought "instead" ,, haven't tried it yet ,,next month



Aren't sponges havens for germs??

Thats what I have heard??



I am reading a book about the aboriginies ( sp) . They would pass a clot and save them in a container until they hardened & became tar like. The "medicine women" OR " HEALER" would save them.

They used these "tar balls" for stitches! When someone in the tribe hurt or broke the skin ,,,they pulled their saved clots out of a little container and rubed them on the area. The clots would stick for weeks and naturaly dry up and fall off when the skin was healed!! It is amazing what people did and their ability to use the earth & nature to their advantage. The didn't know any differant so I highly doubt they though " what a pian in the ass" .
It is just what they did.


I have also heard of the reuseable pads,,, they say you should soak them when you change them ,,,, then use the soak water to water plants,,, then after soaking ,,put them in the washer!

 

There are other methods of bleaching that require no chlorine, like bleaching with oxygen.

I dunno about the US, but in Europe this is a quite common method, and a lot better for the environment

 

Hey indigorian, i bought instead as well, unfortunatly i am unable to use them for some reason. i have a feeling that my unteris/cervix whatever is tilted, it runs in the family and they say on the 1800 number that women with tilted 'things' wouldn't be able to use them. but i think they are also a better step towards health.

 

I know this has been said in this thread before, but it is possible to get unbleached tampons.


I like being a woman, periods are fine, but I'm still gonna use my unreusable tampons. They make life sooo much easier.

 

my bestest friend uses these things out in india because tampons and pads arent exactly redily available over there. you won't get toxic shock syndrom if you actually clean it well. as was mentioned they are also much better for the environment

 

What I use I wouldn't necessarily recommend to all women, some have had really bad reactions to it, but I'm on depo-provera. It's a birth control that you get by injection 4 times a year, and it stops periods completely (stops everything towards making the baby, quite frankly) Which for me is great, because I just can't afford tampons/pads/the keeper/etc... I have it subsidized through a health plan that makes 3 months of birth control and no menstruations cost only $8. But that's just my solution.

 

Yeah it's stops it for some women but for the few otehrs it can MAKE YOU BLEED which I was not told when I once started the depo shot. I bled for 4 months. You should not forget to tell people abotu that part of it when telling them it's advantages. But maybe the docs forgot to tell you that too.

 

I can't wear tampons...never mind a fucking sea sponge.

 

Don't go on the depo shot it will change you. I went on it about 3 years ago and gained 60 pounds in two months. Forty of it came off about three months after depo was out of my system. I didn't get any periods, but mine have always been pretty light and last only a day or two. But seioursly it will fuck your body up, I will never get back to how I was before I went on it.

 

kudos



i tried them out for about two of my periods and seriously i dunno how ye deal with them.

i mean people say they are more hygenic but i find that leaving it all up there must be so unsanitary.....i know its probably no worse than sanitary towels but y'know....still seems quite strange.


but apart from that....the sponge is just a tampon. and looks kind of ...weird.....and more leaky...


im irish so i actually haven't a clue what instead is...anyone fill me in here?

 

Hey apple, I never said everyone woman in the universe should try it. I mentioned that some women dont' respond very well to it (I think it's something like 1/20 women have increased bleeding, but that's just a statistic I heard from someone else, not a secure source) I was just letting people know how I dealt with my menstruation.

 

I wasn't trying to come off sounding like a bitch but I guess I did. I was jsut bitter at my docs who told me about it's benefits but didn't bother telling me about the small precentage of women who bleed and bleed. I was so sure my preiod would stop and things would be great. Not only did it make me bleed but it really messed me up hormonally for a while.

 

Just the thread I was lookin for, knew I'd find it somewhere. I've been thinkin lately about how much shit I'm wasting using tampons all the time and I knew there had to be some kind of alternative. Retrofishie the sea sponge thing is a good idea, but I think I'm gonna have to go with the keeper thing. I do think I'm gonna use the sponges, though, until I can afford the keeper. Anything besides those damn tampons. Thanks a lot guys!

 

Me too. whenever I use tampons, I notice that it goes in to the right, not straight up me.

 

I have really bad periods, but I still think it's beautiful. But I think everything is beautiful.

 

yeah i went on the pill



dear lord but it did help.

the minor bleeding spouts for the first month was annoying....i thought i'd be stuck like that forever...one week is enough like

but they were well lighter and the cramps...though enough to send me home to bed on the first day of the blasted things,were a lot less painful and a lot less headachie too.


pity i came off em come to think of it.....stupid cramps.

 

I was on the pill for a few months when I was 15 and it made me feel better and regulated my periods, but I'll never take it again. I don't like shit that fucks with your system. not natural.

 

okay, so the sponge doesn't appeal to everyone, tampons don't appeal to everyone, and regualr old stick 'em in your underwear pads don't appeal everyone, this is a free speech forum, and I'm sure some women are looking for any alternative they can get.

I found this website several years ago, and toyed with the idea, I think I'm actually going to give it a try. I love our mother Earth, and I respect my body, I want to be as easy on both as possible, so if anyone else is interested in the reusable cloth pads, check out this website, it tells you how to make them yourself, as well as nursing pads, cloth diapers, baby bundlers you name it, and it walks you through it.

http://www.angelfire.com/biz/mothershelpinghands/patterns.html

It's under the frugal baby pattern online...