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I started when I was ten, too. Nobody ever really acted as though it was a problem, though. Well, this one girl a few years older than me was upset because I had started and she hadn't, but no one ever said anything to me about it, other than that. My mom was 8 or 9 when she started, so no one in my family thought it was weird.
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This seems like an appropriate place to mention that my brother discovered my tampons when he was about ten. He thought they made great torpedos for his GI Joe Men. He would shoot them over the backseat of the car screaming, "Bombs away!"
Of course, we tease him about that everytime he goes to buy his wife tampons.
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lma, I'm right there with you...I started at 9, and it ended being this HUGE secret for me for 5th and 6th grade. I didn't have many friends, so it wasn't really something I discussed with a lot of people. However, I heard enough conversations around me to know that I was pretty much the only one of my age who started that early.
Oh, and this is very random, but not only did I start that early, I've also been regular from that time til I went on the pill. My cycle was 28 days, every single time. Now...it varies. Silly hormones
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I'm not regular at all and I never have been. I also quit keeping track. The only way I know I'm about to start is from getting sick and breaking out.
My major problem is I'm a heavy bleeder. I feel like I live in the bathroom changing pads when I'm on my period.
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You know, I thought that I had heard quite a few euphemisms for female genitalia, but that is the first time I've ever heard "gorilla salad."
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quote:Actually, I don't think a guy buying feminine products should be embarrassed at all. You know what it means? It means that he in a relationship where there is enough trust that he is willing to do this mission, which means that (1) he's getting sex on a regular basis, and (2) they have mastered the art of birth control. It should be a badge of HONOR. Yay for him!
Um, no, it doesn't necessarily mean that.
Personally, I'm not embarassed at all to buy feminine articles for Juliette--I think she would be more weirded out about it than I would--but I do worry whether I'm getting the right thing. Underwear and bras are OK, but they have pretty easy attributes to remember. The last time I went to buy Juliette a pair of tights, on the other hand, I had to stand in front of the display for about twenty minutes looking for the right ones, and I think I even ended up having to call her.
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Saxy, what else would it mean? Pantyhose may be sketchy, but he definitely not buying the feminine products for himself.
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I started at 9!! yes, 9, and that wasn't unusual for my family, but we have quite a record for terrible problems in that area. For three generations every woman in my family has been diagnosed with endometriosis, three of us have been confirmed as having PCOS and all of us have had to have a hysterectomy before the age of 31. I was the oldest, I had mine at 30. My cousin was the youngest at 23, she fortunately had two children before her problems were so bad she needed the surgery.
I am thrilled that my daughter is nearly 12, and nothing yet. I'm hoping she will not have the same problems that so many of us did.
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quote:Saxy, what else would it mean? Pantyhose may be sketchy, but he definitely not buying the feminine products for himself.
I didn't mean that buying tampons implies that a man is using them himself, merely that it doesn't necessarily imply anything about the frequency with which he has sex or the level of proficiency he or his significant other have with birth control.
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they did this at pep ralliess at my high school, the boys shot tampons across the football field (less painful for the principal than the time he got hit with a water bottle, but maybe a little bit more embarrassing).
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Well, I suppose I'm required to chime in seeing how in about 13 years or so I'm going to have a minimum of 4 females in my household all in cycle.
I knew a soccer coach who swore that tampons were the best things for bloody noses. I suppose they are, since there designed for soaking up blood.
Any way, it's quite humerous (at the time) to see a teen age boy with half a tampon sticking out his nose at a public event.
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*vaguely remembers drunk engineers using pantyhose as part of a slingshot to chuck things off the top of one of the engineering buildings to see if they could hit the law school*
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my mom had told me for years that a maxipad would be a good thing to use for a cut - in an emergency.
So, on Aug. 7, Cayla (8) cut her finger badly. She was trying to cut a popsicle stick lengthwise with a chef's knife. (She no longer will attempt this or similar feats)
Anyway, she cut her finger pretty badly and we knew she needed stitches. When she screamed, Kent ran over and grabbed her finger and held it so she wouldn't be bleeding all over the place. I was trying to figure out how we were going to get her to the hospital. Kent was already holding her finger - if he let go, she would start bleeding. I couldn't figure out how to get them into the car so we could drive to the ER.
So, I grabbed a maxipad ... Nope. Actually, I called 911 and an ambulance came and took her and we drove to the hospital. It wasn't until we were leaving the hospital 1 1/2 hours later that the lightbulb went off over my head. Duh! I could have and should have grabbed a maxipad. Then Kent could have driven us, saving Cayla the experience of her first ambulance ride.
I hope next time I am thinking a little more clearly. It was a revelation about my ability to deal with a crisis. I didn't get hysterical or anything, but I did forget a bit of advice I had known for more than 20 years.
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Keep in mind that you did call 911. Doing anything, even if it's not in hindsight the best thing, in an emergency is far better than the helpless feeling of total paralysis many people experience.
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Probably, but that could just as easily mean that they have no sex at all. Or just that they have it very infrequently and manage to beat the odds.
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Would it make you feel better if I put "most likely, probably, except for those loveless relationships and weird pregnancies where the woman still menstruate" at the beginning?
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But taken as a whole, the exceptions added together <enter disclaimer word here> wouldn't equal the frequency of the first scenario.
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I disagree, but since neither of us have any real way of knowing I guess we'll just have to leave it at that.
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I agree with Saxon that the purchase doesn’t necessarily imply anything about the man’s sex life. But it does (in most cases, I think) indicate both that he is in some sort of close relationship with a woman and that he is generous enough and/or secure enough to run the errand. Which is a good thing, whether or not he’s sleeping with the woman in question.
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Given how much most guys gripe when they have to buy feminine items for their wives/girlfriends/sisters/moms/etc, I'm having a hard time seeing that one, too.
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CaySedai, if there's any doubt, it's always better to call the ambulance rather than to risk a trip to the hospital. That is, you lose nothing by calling an ambulance other than a little more money.
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quote:Although, the paramedics will grouse about you. [Wink]
"Serious run?"
"Heck no. Cut on a finger. Why they didn't put a maxi pad on it and drive to the hospital is beyond me. People must think we have nothing to do here.
Deal me in."
Belle, thank you! I am laughing and trying not to wake everyone up. That was great!
For anyone who is curious and not easily squicked out, here is a picture of Cayla's finger after the stitches were removed. I do think we could have driven to the hospital if I had thought of it. And there's Mother's Guilt over sending my baby in an ambulance without any family (they didn't allow me to ride with her) to go with.
Kent passed the ambulance on the way there - they were traveling the speed limit ... Posts: 2034 | Registered: Apr 2004
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and, actually, I was going to post that I posted the link to the rant on another forum and someone replied that after reading it her period started ... and she blames me ... Posts: 2034 | Registered: Apr 2004
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Since this was linked to today, I am just going to say how grateful I am to those who invented the pill. Otherwise, almost a third of my vacation would have been miserable.
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I tried to do this for my wife once, but she wasn't very specific. Do you women realize how many choices you have in this area? I just stood there in the aisle paralyzed.
I came home with beer instead.
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The worst part about the multitude of choices is that they keep changing the names and packaging. There used to be “light” “regular” and “super.” Then light became “regular” regular became “super” and super became “ultra.” Long is now “extra long” and extra long is “overnight.” For awhile they were coding them with clovers and stars and other lucky-charms shapes, but then they gave that up too. I’ve used the same products since high school, and I still sometimes have trouble figuring out which ones they are.
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I get the period from hell. My very first period after I got married, it came earlier than expected (but since I'm not regular in the same sense that a lot of women are, this is not surprising) and I had an insufficient quantity of tampons to get me through and I was in no shape to even stand up (also usual for me), so I sent hubby to the store to get me supplies.
This is Sri Lanka. Stores here have lousy selection. Will they even have tampons? Will dh even know what to look for? Will they have my brand? What language will it be in? Would I recognize the packaging? No idea.
I gave him the most basic of information possible and sent him off. Fifteen minutes later, he was back with the right stuff. They even had my brand. You have no idea how happy I was.
And dh? Oh yeah, he's a real man. Didn't whine or complain - just did the job. And this is, what, a mere three weeks after we got married, and a mere three weeks after we met in person for the first time. Yup. I'll keep him. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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I went on a tour of the sites of ancient Rome/Greece last Feb. Just before Lent was due to start.
Well.
Athens has this crazy fesitval every year just prior to Ash Wednesday. Basically what happens is everyone dresses up in funny costumes and wanders around hitting strangers with squeaky-bats. (Silly String also acceptable.) And the whole city shuts down for a few days. The whole city.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to find pads/tampons in a city of five million, when all but ten pharmacies are closed, and you don't know the city and you don't speak the language, and you don't even read the stinking alphabet??
I managed to work up the courage to ask our tour guide for help (female, thank GOD). I was terribly embarrased at not being prepared for this. She and I located one of the closed pharmacies, which had a signs in the windows saying which pharmacies would be open on which days and where they were. We got someone to identify the correct day for us, and then someone else to pronounce the street name of the nearest one. We then wandered the city for nearly an hour before we located it. Most of the people we asked for directions couldn't seem to understand that yes,w e knew they were all closed, but that we needed to find THIS ONE, because it was open.
And all the while I had nasty cramps and was totally embarrassed at dragging this poor woman all over Athens because I hadn't packed properly.
I never ever want to go through that again. Ever.
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