Do you regularly take half showers between tampons or you’re fine with just drying for the most intense days?
I’m wondering if there’s a medical condition here. What is happening to need showers between tampons?
Sorry for not providing a helpful answer, but TIL a bidet can be used for this 😳 sounds like a very useful lifehack too
Lifehack? What did you think it was meant for?!?
Edit: since there are smart people in the comments, it is for washing that part - what do you wash it from makes no difference. The poor mind of some people… 🤷♂️
You really can’t think of anything else that 100% of the population can use a bidet for?
Ol trusty rag on a stick never let me down
Well, firstly, you don’t need a lot of time between tampons, technically – so long as the absorption size isn’t too crazy and you’re changing them frequently enough. Secondly, fuck tampons, get a menstrual cup. For the uninitiated, it’s a silicone doohickey essentially shaped like a bell that fits around the cervix. Learning curve? Yes. Squick factor? Probably. tons of sizes. Safer than tampons (see Toxic Shock Syndrome).
Pays for itself in a few months if you have heavy flow.
Bidet would be a little less necessary but still, if heated, v nice.
If I’ve had a rough second day I’ll half-shower rinse, sure, but the merula xl is just about big enough to handle it otherwise.
I switch between those and Period Panties. Sometimes anything internal makes cramps worse, and honestly, I really dread rummaging around in there to drag it out while covering my hand in blood. It’s just not practical to empty/rinse at work and I do 16 hour shifts, so it’s not possible to just pop it in for the work day either. I use the cup when I’m not at work and it’s past the crampy days. Sometimes tampons + period panties are the only solution for me.
I tried the cup. I have several sizes. They just got stuck in there and never popped open and almost ended up going to the ER to have it removed.
Tangential: If the toilet paper shortage during the pan wasn’t enough to wake Americans up to the need for bidets, nothing will. We’re savages over here.
I still can’t imagine how people live without a bidet. They’re just walking around with poopy asses all the time.
Italian here. We always had a bidet and used it as a second toilet as kids. Never used it. As an adult I soak in the tub
