I originally began to look into tampon alternatives after I started a new medication for depression—it fucked with my cycle . This medication made it difficult to use tampons, thanks to a newly unpredictable cycle and bleeding pattern.
I needed to find an option that my body agreed with, without adding another medication to my daily routine. I'm kind of squeamish, and so menstrual cups intimidated me, but so-called"period underwear" like Thinx felt like something I could get behind.
And it was easy. At first, I'd assumed I'd use my period underwear as a backup layer to tampons when my period was heavy enough to make them necessary. But soon it became much easier to just throw on a pair and hope I didn't bleed all over everything I touched that day—and I didn't. It was so convenient to use them, that it even made me momentarily forget that I'd have to clean them.
Cleaning up blood spilled accidentally from periods past had always, for me, been embarrassing and subconsciously shameful, even if I'd only stained my sheets and I was living alone. At first, as I held the Thinx above the sink to rinse them at the end of the day, I'd begin to feel the same things—a learned discomfort with my own blood, not from my inherent queasiness, but from something deeper.
There's something so liberating about being able to put on a garment and, save for the inevitable cramps and spells of weepiness that come over me, not have to think about my body's natural functions until I returned home at the end of the day. In that way, my body and my period became more personal as well, as the public fuss was removed entirely, giving me a sense of freedom that was more than I'd ever thought possible.
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