Whisper, There's No Such Thing As A Happy Period

Ouch, much much MUCH sympathy. And gah, that ad really must have been conceived (pun unintended) by a man, it's so gawdawful! Happy period indeed.

seriously, you need to use tampons. if we're going to talk about it, we're really gonna talk about it.

I hate pads. they are disgusting. they stink. everyone within a half mile can smell them. they slip, they feel like shit and worst of all the ones in india are not as nice as the ones we have in the US.

tampons generally stay put, they don't stink, and you do not feel like a diapered baby with a load full of stinking poo.

I do not know why like 9o percent of the indian women I know are reticent to use them. OK< so I can understand virigins not wanting to, although they don't take away your virginity :) But women who are married and have kids also won't use them. I never understood it.

However, one little cotton plug is not gonna help the other things you mentioned. Xanax anyone? :) :) :)

IdeaSmith,good one (heh)

SS, I bleed buckets. And a plug cannot hold back a flood. I tried tampons in US and landed up with accidents. No place to change when the dam broke and all.

As it is with me being anemic and couple of other reasons Whisper works best for me.

Deepti,

i grew up in times when none of these were available in india, at least for the masses: sanitary pads and for sure no tampons. most women were making their own pads, with bits and pieces of cloth, cotton etc. some of it was disposed of and found its way on the garbage dumps. just images floating in my mind after reading your interesting piece. wonder if home-made pads are still around in india? i have not a clue, but curious.

CS, my last maid was from a village and despite my telling her not to flush her 'monthlies' down the flush she did. The pipes got clogged and when the cleaning was done strips of cloth came out which had blocked the pipes.

Luckily for her, she had been fired for other reasons long before and didn't get to face my wrath.

Sanitary napkins are quite expensive for poor folks. Cheap ones are available but there are those who can't afford them and then there are also those who can buy cartons of pads but do penny pinching and stink a mile;)

eeks! I grew up in times when, not only was it hard to find any sanitary napkins but there were few flushable toilets around!! OK, I'm not a hundred years old! Perhaps it's got to do with the part of the country I grew up in. anyways, this thread is not about me and my life and times, so thanks for sharing this real issue with us.

LOL!!! Well said!! I guess the marketing goonk is single :p

Hey Deepti..... how many periods u had till date??? how many were sad??? and how many were happy??

How many could you urself make them happy???

Make my periods happy? Tell me fussy what you smoking? Maybe I could try what you are on to make 'them' happy.

Switch to tampons. They will change your life.

Abha, I already indicated in my earlier comment that tampons dont work for me

I've gone snorkelling with tampons, and it's been fine. For regular use, the best thing is a tampon-napkin combo. The tampon as the non-mess solution, and the napkin as the fail-safe.

My suggestion for you is an odd one but for heavy flow the best idea would be tampon + pad combo. This way the leakage is not as bad and the comfort level is high.
I have mild Anemia too since am slightly underweight but that is not a cause for concern in otherwise healthy women. Luckily for me my periods are light and I have been free of pads for a long time now! I feel sorry for all the women who have terrible symptoms. All I need is a painkiller on the first day that rids me of all problems.

Deepti:

On reading your piece on "pads", I can imagine the ingenuity of Indian women of yester years, in beating the periods, by happier periods: "pregnancy":)

Sure be like Nur Jahan and live horizontally. She had 14 kids. Nothing happy about being pregnant for most of one's life.

My grandma came from a family of eight. I say - YAY for contraception

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"My grandma came from a family of eight. I say - YAY for contraception"

You exist, thanks to your grandma and her not using contraception. Though there is a compelling argument that some people should not be allowed to procreate and increase their clout thru numbers. And why argue when it is done voluntarily.

You exist, thanks to your grandma and her not using contraception.

Well kerty, I hope you are born a woman in your next life and conceive eight kids as well and feel the joys of delivering your babies the way nature intended:)

I thought "have a happy period" was the tagline of the brand ALWAYS. I know both always and whisper are P&G brands, but the line was screamed at even when it was used for Always. I wonder what made the P&G dudes to take it over to another brand, only to end up being scorned at again!