h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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still getting over that thing with the beer

Do you know more people are killed each yea by their dressing goowns than by tampon-related Toxic Shock Syndrome?

Funny way to use your dressing gown if you ask me....

And tea cosies.

I can recommend the injection, I'm one of the lucky ones who now get no periods at all.

But who knows what side-effects I may get later

I only got them once every three months, when it was wearing off.
I can recommend surgery. Only get them to take out Everything or you'll still get the cramps and bloating (and the ) every month

If you have the injections for long enuf you could end up horribly overweight and with fairly impressive facial hair.

At one stage I was on the Pill *all* the time - ie no break every three weeks. I soon learnt that the upside (no periods) was easily outweighed by the gallery of side effects, so I stiopped it completely; some years ago - no direct link to the fact I have a new baby! Took two years for me to have any period at all - was actually grateful when they started again - and they've never been as bad since.
What a girly chat this has become

Who on earth would wear white trousers while on, apart from the fact of the obvious, u also got the fact that u bloat out, and for white trousers u cant afford to be really bloated, on the ad's u never see the women throwing things around, getting upset over nothing and just plain irritable, they r always happy. It has to be a man that thinks these things up

>on the ad's u never see the women throwing things around, getting upset over nothing and just plain irritable, they r always happy. It has to be a man that thinks these things up<

Though interestingly, most men of my acquaintance will tell you that if we said any of those things about women in a pub we'd be called sexist pigs...

White trousers? On the blob or not I can guarantee that were I to wear them it would be aproximately 1.4325 seconds before I dropped something on them which would stain horribly and never wash out therefore I could never wear them outside the house ever again!

Personally I don't even feel like going out the house at that time of the month, let alone swimming, rollerblading or riding horses. Most of the time I just want to sit on the loo!! Then again I have endometriosis which is not very nice at all.

Sanitary Towels (or ST's as my old PE teacher used to call them) stay in place very well now thanks to wings! They should be sponsored by Red Bull!

Love the current lilets advert with a 60's style chat show format and the old bloke going 'What's a tampon?'

Now if only they have been *really* brave and used an appropriate coloured liquid...

k who was never bloated and irritable, but did crave haagen daaz and cry over things like Home and Away back in the days before depo.

yes yes, thank god for wings, and plastic backing.

the new versions are so much better than what i had to use at secondary school. they bunched up and you had to make a run for it between every lesson to avoid leakage down the side.



and PE teachers! had they never experienced this phenominon? one girl had a note form her mum to say she was genuinely suffereing, they teacher didnt believe her and made her do PE anyway wearing someone else kit. she lasted about five minutes before going completely grey and throwing up. that showed the teacher.

more proof that they were not human. and dont even start with dance teachers!

It's like they're saying "These tampons are so good they cure period pain!" If only....

Used STs for the first time in years after the birth of the baby. Yes, the wings make a big difference, but still not going back to them!

I'm now receiving mailshots from companies who make eco-friendly washable nappies - one of them produces washable STs!!!

well, eco friendly would be nice.........but i'll stick to plastic for now...

Ah my - one so young as you FABT should think that Sanitary Towels were bad when you were at school. I remember the ones you wore like a pair of pants. They were more like a jockstrap with a towel attached and had to be washed every night!! None of this stick one on your knickers and throw them away after a few hours, oh no! Luckily I just missed them and the "new" stick on towels had just come out. They were like a Pampers nappy is today - if not a bit bigger!

My friend confided in me one day and said that she was trying tampons but they didn't seem to work. It was after a couple of minutes more discussion that I realised with horror she had been putting them in the wrong orifice!! OUCH!!!!!!

I have tried going on the pill without a break every three weeks, but my body won't have any of it. About week 5 it starts bleeding regardless.

I am thinking about the injections but I am not sure.

hoorey!

exceedingly useful when you have an important exam that lasts about three hours.

Ouch!

My mum used to have to make her sanitary towels from cotton wool and muslin. Lovely.

Abi - try a different pill?

ok, before all this thing came in with the victorians about modesty, did women just used to drip?