Free Bleeding - another fad?

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You use pads

Jalimall if you read the thread back you'll see that I said several times wayyyy back that I free bleed on my light days.

Jalima I would also repeat your No 9 point. It’s become a bit yawn-making though

I said as much on my very first post on this thread. But since youre back maybe you will answer some of the questions I asked you earlier, like if you think that freebleeders should give more to charity than people who buy disposable pads, do you ask the same of post menopausal women & women who have no wombs?

Light days!? - what are they?

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I probably would have tried some of these.

Thinxs (and other similar brands) are great, brilliant in fact, but they are a bit hotter/thicker than normal underware so there is no need for me to use them in light days. And after bulking up for heavy days I just want the comfort of normal underware when it starts to tail off towards the end of the period.

Light days!? - what are they?

Guess what? Not everyone's period is the same. We don't all have uniform anatomy. I have a tilted womb which means that my periods drag on for a bit at the end once it's stopped being heavy.

Day 1 is also not my heaviest day. I can get away without pads until day 2, but then I need super dooper uber pads.

I dont have a steady flow that is equal every day of my period.

Haha! Am I missing something (“ALL genders”???????)

Is a leaking bladder treated the same way ? Letting it run down your legs/tights and leaving a patch wherever you sit ?

You like your gussets don’t you Notanan I m afraid my gusset would have been rotten from washing when I was having periods
I ve now got this picture in my head that I can’t dislodgeof Notanan running her 10k race leaving a trail of blood behind her Do bloodhounds follow blood trails ?
I hope you don’t wear thongs ???
Perhaps you can explain Notanan why you feel that someone who prefers a dry ‘gusset’ is denying or being ashamed of their menstrual flow I liked to feel as dry and comfortable as possible but in NO way was I ashamed of my feminine workings

You like your gussets don’t you Notanan I m afraid my gusset

Yup. Comfy.

Perhaps you can explain Notanan why you feel that someone who prefers a dry ‘gusset’ is denying or being ashamed of their menstrual flow
Didnt. Said several times that people should use whatever suits them and makes them feel comfy. Wear or don't wear what you like in your pants, I'm less invested in what you do or don't do with your gussets than you are with what I do with mine.

Do bloodhounds follow blood trails ? yeah and sharks come up through the plug hole when I have a bath

Sophiesox I'm deliberately avoiding that part its a whole other thread. Or several!

Enjoying the discussion very much. (Almost as much as the pantyliner one!)

nonanan2, you're on a mission, on a roll or just out to irritate. I was very irritated by your comment a couple of pages back, that blood from an injury would be much more painful than menstrual blood.
My periods up to the birth of my first child were so painful, I sometimes vomited, had to leave work and stagger home to bed and were honestly, much more painful than the pains I experienced in that first labour. I was stunned because I was expecting significant pain but it was no worse than the periods I experienced on a monthly basis.

During the pre and menopausal stage of my life, the blood loss and clots were such I needed huge amounts of sanitary protection and even that didn't last an hour before I was in some little local difficulty. That was another phase when menstruation was unpleasant and uncomfortable.

I'm not ashamed of being female, I celebrate it. I also celebrate the menopause which was easy and means I no longer have to fanny (whoops) around with sanitary protection and pain killers.

on a roll
just out to irritate

both of those I think.

Iam re read the context of that part of the discussion. The pain another poster refered to (which I responded to) was the pain of having period blood ON the skin, chafing etc. I made no comment in any context re menstrual cramping and other menstrual pain just in the practicalities of the dampness of the blood once it is outside the body.

Incidentally many women report that cramping improves when they switch away from disposable san pro..

It has just occurred to me that those of us post menopausal might take offense at this 'free bleeding' promotion and the insistance a stain is to be flaunted. We might think that it is an attempt to highlight the fact that we are older and no longer fertile and therefore less important, because we no longer bleed and we can't produce the badge of honour.
(I do realise this is a load of codswallop but then so is free bleeding!)

trisher!
I am just very relieved and I don't mind in the least not being fertile any more

on a roll
just out to irritate

Yup, think so.

trisher - what an excellent point, thanks for making it.

notonan, I tried but failed to be able to use 'disposal san pro' - by which I'm thinking you mean tampons or similar. One because my blood loss was so significant it simply ran down the side of such product and two because they were too uncomfortable (for reasons I won't detail here - enough personal information already)

I meant tampons and disposable pads, in particular the plasticey gel filled ones.

More recently disposable pad makers have had to up their game since women have increasingly rejected them so in order to compete with other methods (including free bleeding) they have started listening to women re shapes and flows etc.

IMO The gel filled always style were not made with period blood in mind. They might absorb blue water in a lab but for me it just funneled it all down the sides. And they are sweaty and smelly.

Pampers would be more appropriate with many pre-menopausal women.