Maxi pads and/or tampons

[janetcgtv]

Some freeze strawberry juice before inserting to give a red stain on the tampon

[alabamagirl]

Hmm... That's interesting.

Well, I'm pre-op, so I assume this wouldn't apply to me right now anyway, but I can't see myself ever doing this, so I voted no. Sometimes I think about what it would be like to experience periods or even wish I could have them, but I don't think I'd ever pretend to get them.

[janetcgtv]

Pikachu:

On another web site, the person said that after surgery she would continue to wear tampons.

P.S. Glad you are no longer being watched !

[awilliams1701]

I would love to try a tampon, but being pre-op that's not possible. I have a scientific curiosity about it.

[mm]

I use tampon every month for I still need them.  I would strongly say don't try using a tampon after srs, even after you are well healed. Putting a tampon in your vagina when you have no fluid to absorb will cause the tampon to collect what little moisture there is in your vagina.  When you go to pulling it out it will give you great pain as it is sticking to the wall of the vagina.  When my flow decreases I use the smallest tampon so it doesn't hurt so much when I pull it out.

[Jenna Marie]

I used pantiliners for a couple months post-op. I *tried* a medium-sized maxi pad and it was like sitting on a mattress; no desire to do that again unless I actually need to. The lesson about tampons and dryness is wise, too. I get enough of shoving stuff up there with dilation - tampons seem like the worst of both worlds, too small to feel much and yet likely to stick/drag/chafe. (If I needed to actually absorb something, now that I'm long healed, I'd consider it. But I'm guessing there's no situation in which my vagina would be leaking anything that wouldn't be kind of a medical issue, now that I'm long post-op...)

[Nicolette]

I'm 9 months post-op and use the thinnest of pantyliners, 0.4mm, every day. I see myself doing this indefinitely. I get lubrication from dilation creeping out on to my knickers, no matter how much I shower or sitz. Also, it doesn't matter how much loo paper I use after peeing, I still get moisture finding its way on to my knickers. It was so much more hygienic pre-op! It's like open sewers. I'm not even that much of a hygiene freak, so it's changing my knickers three times a day or changing pantyliners. I just don't like wet, moist patches. Or maybe I have to get used to it..

[Maleth]

Putting a tampon in your vagina when you have no fluid to absorb will cause the tampon to collect what little moisture there is in your vagina.  When you go to pulling it out it will give you great pain as it is sticking to the wall of the vagina.

That's definitely true, and besides.. they put a lot of chemicals (even soak the whole thing in bleach) in tampons which isn't great for sensitive skin or the body in general. 

[SeptagonScars]

No, cause I haven't had periods for the past 2-ish years at this point. Taking testosterone put a pause on that. Generally, it does, at least. Cause I did get a literal 3 months long period when I had been on t for 4 years, then I got it monthly for another 3 months, before it stopped altogether again. That ain't supposed to happen... So anyways I'm only using pantiliners for catching the daily vag juices nowadays.

But now having just gone off the hrt I'm expecting I'll start bleeding monthly again at some point soonish. Could be tomorrow, could be in 3 months, for all I know. Pre-t I used to get a very heavy flow that lasted for up to 10-12 days sometimes (but usually around 9 days) and my cycle was very irregular like anything between 2 and 8 weeks between bleedings. Back then I preferred using pads, but sometimes I had to combine pads and tampons to avoid leakage. And sometimes that wasn't enough either.

I don't know if it will get like that again but I hope not, cause that wasn't fun. I bled through literally anything and everything for sometimes half a month at a time. If that happens again, I think I'll just bring a towel with me everywhere, that I can sit on Yeah, I got some slight anemia from that, but nothing severe. But either which way I plan on going on some birth control that can reduce that issue at least a bit.

So I'm not in general looking forward to getting my periods back, however I do kinda wish for them to return, only in the sense that it would be a very clear sign of my body's natural hormones finally kicking in again.