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Pads and Swimming
I need to go swimming again during that time of month - the last time I bought every pad I could find, but none of them worked in the pool - can you suggest a pad to use?
Haha yeah I know, but the question still applies to any women who want to know the same as this person did in 2006! :-)
Read the date of the original post... this is WAY old (although I don't disagree with your sentiment).
First of all, I would like to address everybody who has replied to this person's question. If you are simply going to ridicule the question and/or repeat the suspicious, malicious comments of people who have already commented, then why not just save yourself some time and not bother? I would say that I think you should all be ashamed of yourselves, except I suspect that to write some of the mean, teasing replies that I have read, you are probably type of narrow-minded, arrogant people who would not be ashamed of themselves, and be ignorant to their own malevolence.
Even if this question is being asked by someone as a joke, I think that it should be answered as though it is a serious question, as such a delicate issue requires a level of delicacy in discussion. Whether or not the asker of this specific question was being sincere, I am sure that there are many young girls or other people who may want a decent answer to their query.
Periods and the menstrual cycle as a whole are one of the most natural, normal processes in the world. Many women or young girls are not able to use tampons for one reason or another, for example their hymen (a fold of mucus membrane the surronds of partially covers the vaginal opening) is still fully intact, or due to bacterial vagianois or some other vaginal infection. Anyone who is reading this page out of genuine curiosity, please do not be put off by any comments stating tampons to be an obvious solution. There are many girls who do not use tampons until they have either lost their virginty (or perhaps their hymen breaks through sport etc) or until they are comfortable doing so.
I myself am going on holiday in two days' time, and shall be staying at a villa for about 9 days which has a pool. Normally when I visit I swim every day, but my period has been due for over a week now and I know that I will most likely be on it while I am on holiday. I myself do not use tampons, and whilst a period is an inconvenience (to put it lightly) I refuse to go the doctor to request any sort of medication that may postpone my period. You however may wish to do this- simply make an appointment with your GP (or ask your parent to do so for you) and expalin to your doctor your situation- they may be able to prescribe some medication that will help to either regulate or postpone your period. I choose not to use this kind of medication however, as it means that hormones are being fed into your body, and I tend to feel better once I have had my period (my skin gets better, I am less emotional, stressed etc and generally a lot more pleasant to have around).
Because of this, when I go on holiday this week, I will simply take with me some sanitary towels (I do not use tampons for personal reasons) and wait for a couple of days after my period has started before going in the water. My period is normally very heavy for the first couple of days, and then gets lighter and as it is a private, chlorinated pool I see not harm in going in when the bloodflow is not too heavy. I disagree with some of the above comments: unless your period is extremely heavy (which some are) the water should not turn a cloudy red colour, just ad it does not normally do so in a bath. In a pool there is more water and so a smaller concentration of blood in the water itself.
As for hygeine, I agree with the people who have mentioned that many younger children (and I am sure some adults) urinate in pools. Everybody sweats while swimming, and there are many other bodily fluids e.g. other genital fluids, saliva and blood from nosebleeds etc which find their way into the water. Providing the water is kept sanitary with either chlorine or other salts, their should be no health risk. It is true that when going in the sea, rivers or paddling pools, the water is normally treated, which means that anything from either humans, animals or insects which enters the water acts as a breeding ground for bacteria anyway. A pool is much more hygienic.
Once out of the pool, you may wish to find a loo in which to put on a sanitary towel, and perhaps change into something else, or slip some shorts or something over the top of your swimsuit.
I hope that this has helped anyone who may have a genuine concern in this area. Please note that I am not a doctor, but that there may be scientific evidence that backs up what I have said on sites such as Wikipedia, or the NHS website. Remember that periods are a normal, natural process that happen to all women (without medical problems), and as long as you approach them as exactly what they are (a healthy, normal process which you share with most other women and is nothing to be embarassed about), you should find no problems.
Even if this question is being asked by someone as a joke, I think that it should be answered as though it is a serious question, as such a delicate issue requires a level of delicacy in discussion. Whether or not the asker of this specific question was being sincere, I am sure that there are many young girls or other people who may want a decent answer to their query.
Periods and the menstrual cycle as a whole are one of the most natural, normal processes in the world. Many women or young girls are not able to use tampons for one reason or another, for example their hymen (a fold of mucus membrane the surronds of partially covers the vaginal opening) is still fully intact, or due to bacterial vagianois or some other vaginal infection. Anyone who is reading this page out of genuine curiosity, please do not be put off by any comments stating tampons to be an obvious solution. There are many girls who do not use tampons until they have either lost their virginty (or perhaps their hymen breaks through sport etc) or until they are comfortable doing so.
I myself am going on holiday in two days' time, and shall be staying at a villa for about 9 days which has a pool. Normally when I visit I swim every day, but my period has been due for over a week now and I know that I will most likely be on it while I am on holiday. I myself do not use tampons, and whilst a period is an inconvenience (to put it lightly) I refuse to go the doctor to request any sort of medication that may postpone my period. You however may wish to do this- simply make an appointment with your GP (or ask your parent to do so for you) and expalin to your doctor your situation- they may be able to prescribe some medication that will help to either regulate or postpone your period. I choose not to use this kind of medication however, as it means that hormones are being fed into your body, and I tend to feel better once I have had my period (my skin gets better, I am less emotional, stressed etc and generally a lot more pleasant to have around).
Because of this, when I go on holiday this week, I will simply take with me some sanitary towels (I do not use tampons for personal reasons) and wait for a couple of days after my period has started before going in the water. My period is normally very heavy for the first couple of days, and then gets lighter and as it is a private, chlorinated pool I see not harm in going in when the bloodflow is not too heavy. I disagree with some of the above comments: unless your period is extremely heavy (which some are) the water should not turn a cloudy red colour, just ad it does not normally do so in a bath. In a pool there is more water and so a smaller concentration of blood in the water itself.
As for hygeine, I agree with the people who have mentioned that many younger children (and I am sure some adults) urinate in pools. Everybody sweats while swimming, and there are many other bodily fluids e.g. other genital fluids, saliva and blood from nosebleeds etc which find their way into the water. Providing the water is kept sanitary with either chlorine or other salts, their should be no health risk. It is true that when going in the sea, rivers or paddling pools, the water is normally treated, which means that anything from either humans, animals or insects which enters the water acts as a breeding ground for bacteria anyway. A pool is much more hygienic.
Once out of the pool, you may wish to find a loo in which to put on a sanitary towel, and perhaps change into something else, or slip some shorts or something over the top of your swimsuit.
I hope that this has helped anyone who may have a genuine concern in this area. Please note that I am not a doctor, but that there may be scientific evidence that backs up what I have said on sites such as Wikipedia, or the NHS website. Remember that periods are a normal, natural process that happen to all women (without medical problems), and as long as you approach them as exactly what they are (a healthy, normal process which you share with most other women and is nothing to be embarassed about), you should find no problems.
yall are over dramatic just ask ur doctor she will say that wen u swim ur period stops because of the water pressure. just make sure wen it is time to get out u run 4 a towel just in case. if you dont believe it test it in the bath tub it really works. poor kid yall probably scared her
I know this is an ancient post but xaniya, that seems to be true. Period stops when in water. I have been amazed about this most of my life and didn`t know it was common. Maybe it is that a liquid will not come out when one is surrounded by liquid. Don`t know.
I am sorry but this made me want to gag. I do not ever want to swim again. If one person thinks like that then there has to be others. If you are bleeding and the pad gets wet in the pool don't you think it would some how wash the blood off into the pool..eeww I don't even want to think about it anymore. Please take the advise of the other posters and use a tampon. If your not able to please hold off on swimming. If not for anything else do it for respect of your fellow swimmers. Man, that water gets into peoples mouths and up there nose. OMG nasty. I am not trying to be mean, I am just worried about other peoples health as well as yours.
This is the same poster who asked about braiding her pubic hair.
I think she's just trying to stir things up.
I think she's just trying to stir things up.
Well, it's not stirring things up, but it sure is funny to read what everybody is coming up with, isn't it?
How about not using anything? That would seem to suit you the best; just as naieve as your question.
I tried to put it as nicely as I could. Not exactly what I wanted to say, but I'm trying to keep Medhelp happy.
i going to embarrass myself by admitting that i tried it a few times as a younger teenager. i couldn't get the darned tampon working right! needless to say, it wasn't a big success.
and no, i never tried to braid my pubic hair :)
and no, i never tried to braid my pubic hair :)
just wear a Depends, that way if it swells it is velcroed on like a diaper so you wont have to deal with the embarassment of it falling out of your bathing suit.
Please see my response to your thread below.
Do ya'll remember the question about the mom who was having a swimming party and a young girl wanted to swim, but had started her period? For some reason, this post reminded me of that. Was that issue ever resolved?
Do ya'll remember the question about the mom who was having a swimming party and a young girl wanted to swim, but had started her period? For some reason, this post reminded me of that. Was that issue ever resolved?
This was definitely a good laugh to wake me up this morning. You all had me cracking up.
I read the braiding pubic hair comment below and that's out of this world!! First off, if anything, wear a tampon to swim or just don't get in the friggin water!! I'd be too paranoid that a red cloud of water would follow me as I swam!! Secondly, if you don't know what to do with your pubic hair, just leave it alone or shave it off!! Why not give it a perm while you're at it? Or better yet, if it's that long to braid, you may not need a pad at all because the extra hair should be extra absorbant. Yeah, that's it, don't wear anything at all!!
This has got to be some guy playing around.
I read the braiding pubic hair comment below and that's out of this world!! First off, if anything, wear a tampon to swim or just don't get in the friggin water!! I'd be too paranoid that a red cloud of water would follow me as I swam!! Secondly, if you don't know what to do with your pubic hair, just leave it alone or shave it off!! Why not give it a perm while you're at it? Or better yet, if it's that long to braid, you may not need a pad at all because the extra hair should be extra absorbant. Yeah, that's it, don't wear anything at all!!
This has got to be some guy playing around.
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