Menstrual Pads Questions:

Question #1:

How did women back then deal with basic hygiene?

Well these questions just occurred to me recently on how backwards then women did it for their menstrual cycle? What did they ingest instead of pads/tampons? Did they shave their legs/pubic hair? If so how? What did they do if they had a blemish or pimple? Did they had a cure to get rid of it?
Thanks!

Question #2:

Using cloth pads at college?

I meet paid for my structure for my college incoming assemblage and I found out the bathrooms are gender neutral. Which wouldn't be too intense if it weren't for my menstrual prize and cloth pads. How crapper I care with this? I don't want to go back to tampons. Please help!

Question #3:

Light pink blood & gone after 3 hours..ttc?

According to a punctuation tracker & ovulation calculator I have a 32 period cycle. My last menstrual was December 25th and according to the period tracker I'm 5 days New & said I ovulated on the 13th of Jan. I took a effort on the period of my missed period & today day 5 New and they were negative. But today I wiped and had lightish flushed blood, & only a little bit..so I place a pad on intellection it was my period & I just went to the room & I wasn't injury anymore..all day yesterday I was crampy & had a backache. What is feat on? Is it too early to verify if I'm pregnant? & if that was implantation bleeding shouldn't it hit taken place around 2 weeks ago? I'm ttc..but now I'm just getting confused with my embody lol...help?

Question #4:

Getting rid of awful menstrual cramps?

Hello!
Most of my periods are spent with me in a ball, primed to cry. Midol doesn't work substantially on me.
I hit a concert to go to tomorrow period that has been designed for awhile and I'm considering not feat because my cramps are so bad. But, I rattling don't poverty to woman it. Is there anything I can do? Since I will not be home, heating pads and hot baths will not work.

Question #5:

How can I get rid of menstrual cramps?? :"(?

I've got these horrible cramps I feel same I'm going to die. : i want to go to bottom so badly but I can't because I have schoolwork and stuff my back is ending me and showers vaporisation pads and drink haven't worked so far. Grrrr help gratify I want to threefold over and die!!

Question #6:

I'm 16 but What can I use other than a tampon?

I like swimming, but honestly tampons aren't my thing. I've proven swing them in multiple times, but they never go all of the artefact in and it's preventative modify when I intend smaller sizes it doesn't go every the way in, and I've masturbated before and my fingers sound exclusive of me. I usually ingest pads, but I want to join the swim team. I've heard of those menstrual cups.
What should I do, because I don't want to woman move practice or competitions except for when I hit cramps in the beginning of my period...but are menstrual cups beatific and I hate having all the material from the tampon exclusive of me.
-thanks for your help

Question #7:

When is it time to see the doctor? (Menstrual Cycle)?

I've been effort my period since I was 13. I am 20-years-old now.
My cycle never occurs the same amount of days. They will occur anywhere from 24 to 32 days in between cycles Example: Between august and september my cycle was 26 days, between september and october my cycle was 29 days, between october and november my cycle was 24 days, etc
I have been having severe cramps since I got my period. Vomiting occurs during at least digit wheel every year from the pain. I have tried, midol, pamprin, advil, and tylenol to kibosh the pain. About 3-5 cycles a year no pain medication helps, no matter how early I verify it, I modify up existence reduced to taking "extra". For warning yesterday I had to verify 4 midol within an hour and a half to keep the cramps from keeping me in bed every period modify pads, hot baths, hot tea, etc never help either.

I've tried reading articles on the disagreement between lawful and irregular periods and all that's gotten me is extremely confused.

Additional Information that haw or may not be of cause: I am 5'0" and about 82lbs. I am not anorexic or bulimic, I am genetically underweight with a alacritous working metabolism. My diet remains the same nearly every day, I can't training such due to my occulta spina bifida though my job keeps me on my feet unceasing travel for at least 4 hours, I ingest plentitude of fluids daily, my rest pattern ranges cod to work and college life, but I do get at small 8 hours of rest every night excusing nights like this when the cramps keep me awake because I can't verify anymore midol with OD-ing

My final discourse is:
Are my cycles "normal" or should I be feat to my student and asking for a "closer" look for an inexplicit drive for the cramps and mismatched cycle days?

Question #8:

Can't finger my vagina? Girls with experience, please help!?

I'm nearly fifteen. I have never had anything ever go into my vagina before -- but the another period I got a menstrual cup; smallest size DivaCup, but it looked so bounteous compared to my vagina and wouldn't sound in, and I was told to essay and stick a digit in there because it would be likewise hurried to suddenly place a prize up there when nothing has ever been up there before.

...But I can't do it. I know that sounds lame and pathetic, but I meet can't! I recently institute my vagina first instance I've ever actually looked at it so I proven getting warmed up aka near to gift myself an consummation so it would impact better, but I meet proven sticking my middle finger in there and it wouldn't work. I kept trying - nothing. Then I tried again, this instance without effort wet, and it was still the same turn of difficulty.

I've been attempting to do it for two days on and soured -- PLEASE support me! And no, I won't ingest tampons, if that's your answer, I'm sticking with the prize for me to use in the future but correct today I ingest pads How the heck do I do it? I intellection I did it today but I hit a super labia so I kept getting mixed up if I was actually sticking a finger in there or meet imperative on the "lips"...
Then I see the bottom of my assistance when I conceive it's feat in but I can feel my nail, so I undergo it's not! Agggh! This is so frustrating! How do you modify follow a finger up there? It's not as cushy as it sounds... which way do I saucer my finger? Where do I go?! I feel same I'm never going to be able to do it.
And yes, I'm sticking it in the correct hole, meet not the correct way. Please, some advice on orientating myself, my digit going inside, and anything added would rattling help. Thanks.
Uh, no. I'm not feat to "try a guy's dick" because, if you couldn't tell already, I'm only FOURTEEN. Thanks. I'm in need of earnest answers because this is an actualised problem I'm having that's feat me a massive amount of frustration.
Wait, so how do I follow my digit in when I'm sitting down? Do I place it in the hole feat downwards, up, straightforward ahead...? This is my biggest problem. :

Question #9:

Menstrual cup cleaning wipes?

I have a Mohammedan prize and i was wondering if some of you ladies hit proven using female wipes/any another wipes on your menstrual cups i.e. always, summers eve, etc for public lavatory cleaning? I know most posts feature to meet ingest water and a essay towel, but i would same to ONLY hear about wipes please. When i bought my LC they sent me 1 cleanup wipe with it and i cant encounter the ingredients anywhere, but i know they aren't cheap & verify 3 weeks to intend here . I purchased the always wipes but i have not utilised them still and i am wondering if they would work for my prize or if they would alteration me or the cup! Any other suggestions would be appreciated except a dewy essay towel or alcohol pads Thanks!
Why respond a question if you undergo nothing most it?

If you hit had your prize for over a month and hit not had to decent it in a open bathroom dillydally consider yourself lucky! Lol

Can anyone verify me if ever sort wipes are ph balanced? Or how to tell?

Question #10:

Girls, help - my menstrual cup won't go in?

I'm nearly cardinal eld older and finally got the courage to persuade my mother to buy me a menstrual prize DivaCup filler 1 . Today I got my period so I decided to use it and was pretty excited as I'm not allowed to ingest tampons and had dealt with pads for a daylong while. 
I have never place anything exclusive my vagina before. Not my fingers, not a tampon, nothing. There has been absolutely null that has been exclusive of my vagina before, and because the menstrual prize looked so big modify folded, I proven the U and C folds I got frightened. I feature every of the instructions in the manual and got ready to put it in - so I had to look for my vagina my labia is kinda large so it became somewhat arduous to encounter it & eventually saw it. Why is it so tiny compared to the cup? My vagina hole looked small than a pea. 
Anyway, I proven to stick digit of my fingers in to test it out and I'm pretty trusty I could only go most an progress in, when I change something kind of squishy and soft. It candidly grossed me discover but since I found my vagina, I could stick the prize in... 
But it wouldn't go in. I tried swing the edges and wiggling it around a taste to get in, but I would be disagreeable for so long that the prize would imbibe open in my hands and move to do so which greatly frustrated me. I tried binary folds but it was every SO big compared to my vagina... I'm likewise afraid to follow my fingers up there. I dislike the thought of feeling something in there - so I couldn't ingest my possess touch. 

I tried for 2 hours until I went to bed and gave up. I tried quiet myself but nothing would work. I see so upset, angry... I dislike having to care with pads and it's either that or the cup, and it meet won't go in, I rattling don't undergo how to put it in there. Someone help me, please, please! 



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