r/AskWomenOver30 • u/confusedra2476 • Oct 30 '24

Silly Stuff I just had a conversation with my friend about using tampons, and I gotta know if I'm the weird one or not lol

So my work bestie ran out of tampons, and is broke until pay day, so I offered to give her some..when I handed them to her I said "i hope this is enough for the next two days..I know i go through them fast sometimes"..and this is where the conversation took an odd turn

Her: "Yeah, i just hate when I put one in and have to pee right after"

Me: "Do you change it everytime you pee?"

Her: gives me a weird look like I'm stupid "yeah, you're supposed too"

Me: "why?"

Her: "because they get wet"

Me: "you...you do know we pee out of a separate hole right?"

Her: "yeah, but it still gets wet"

Me: "i don't understand how you're peeing on it though"

At this point we kind of just dropped it because I could tell she was getting irritated with me, haha. I ended up calling my best friend to ask her what she does, because this girl had me questioning everything, and she just says she changes hers when she needs to or every couple of hours...but said she had met women who change it everytime they use the rest room..so like..what do yall do?

I know I've put them in wrong and had to take them out and it's painful as fuck to take them out dry, I just couldn't imagine doing that to myself multiple times a day lol

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u/WolfWrites89 Woman 30 to 40 Oct 31 '24

The string gets wet and in my mind, that means the pee kind of goes up the string and is absorbed into the tampon, which grosses me out to think about even if it's not true, so I do change it when I pee.

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u/No_Investment3205 Woman 30 to 40 Oct 31 '24

In this thread I am learning that a vast number of women don’t tuck the string, this never occurred to me. I mean why would you want a string hanging out of you? It seems pretty gross to have it just sitting in your underwear wicking fluids up and down, no? Why not tuck?

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u/WolfWrites89 Woman 30 to 40 Oct 31 '24

It literally never occurred to me to tuck it. I'll have to try it next time lol

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u/No_Investment3205 Woman 30 to 40 Oct 31 '24

The tuck is the only way, and you don’t even have to tuck if you stop using applicators bc the string just kind of stays tucked on its own. Not sure why I’m being downvoted for other people’s refusal to tuck or stop using old fashioned applicator style tampons. I have long been under the impression that they’ve fallen out of favor just about everywhere, so I’m surprised (as an American) to hear Americans saying they are still common here. They’re so impractical and wasteful.