Travelling with a period,
take one.
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So I am a Clue ambassador
like I said before and I will start talking a little bit more about
just women's health topics and issues.
The topic I wanted to come at you all today with is how I personally
travel when I am on my period and I know that my period is coming.
I recently went to Colorado on vacation and the main way I realized
that is of course I looked at my Clue app and with it's predictive
algorithm it let me know that my period would fall about two or three
days into the vacation.
Now for me personally I'm not on any kind of birth control,
I'm
not on any kind of hormonal birth control or IUD or anything like
that. So while Clue is usually pretty accurate almost to that day
sometimes it can be a little off because your period can fluctuate
based on your stress level,
how you've been eating, how much you've
been drinking, what kind of food you've been eating and so on and
so forth.
So for me
the best way I found to be prepared and not embarrassed while travelling
was to use period panties.
I'm just gonna tell you a little bit about the two different brands
that I use.
The first brand
that I first started using
actually a few moths ago is THINX.
I have two styles of THINX
underwear the hip hugger and their sport.
Of the two, the sport is my favorite because I really like the fit
of the sport a little better.
The hip hugger kinda creeps into the granny panty status for me but
I still like it, I still think the hip hugger actually holds the
most menses according to their website,
I feel that much more secure
in my protection.
I also wear my THINX underwear with my menstrual cup.
I use my THINX as a back up to my menstrual cup.
Towards the end, towards my lighter days,
towards the end of my cycle I'll just wear the THINX and nothing else but for the
most part for me and my comfort level I just really like having
my menstrual cup and THINX together especially for the first two
to three days of my cycle which are the heaviest.
For the days leading up to my cycle when I'm not quite sure when it's
gonna come, and I also don't want to waste my THINX,
the thing about
THINX is they are a little pricey.
I only have two pairs of THINX so I like to save them for when my
menses actually begins. So leading up to that I use a different brand
of period panty and I found these just on Amazon Prime,
I just
typed in the search bar, period underwear and these popped up and
they had decent reviews and the price was right.
So I just went ahead and bought them and gave them a try.
And I will say leading up to my cycle these were actually great because
I bought two packs so I ended up having six pairs which was awesome
and they're very sheer with a mesh sort of lining around them and then
the undercoating of where it's gonna protect you if you have stuff.
And I would say that they actually do hold up really well as far
as when I finally did feel my period begin I was wearing them and
I felt confident and comfortable enough to be okay until I was
able to get back to my hotel room and put on my menstrual cup which
was actually a good two or three hours later.
Honestly it was like a flawless trip it was great,
there was never
really a time when I felt really,
where I was really concerned
that maybe there was leakage or anything like that because even
if there was I was wearing the underwear.
The bag that the underwear came in,
I ended up using that bag to
hold my underwear while I was travelling and the bag that they
came in was resealable which was great,
there's no leakage and
things like that. So you can kinda keep them in there and
you don't have to worry about odors getting in with the rest of
your clothes or in like things getting in the rest of your clothes
in general. If you're just kinda concerned about travel,
I would
highly recommend looking into period panties.
There's a plethora of brands out there, I'm not endorsing any one
brand because there are so many but like I said I have THINX and then
this other third-party brand.
And I'm happy with my purchase.
So yeah, that's me, that's how I travel with my cycle.
I use my Clue app and then I also use period panties in conjunction
with my menstrual cup.
How do you travel with your cycle?
Let me know in the comments below,
because you might have some great
tips and tricks for other people with periods,
that might be watching
this video.
Like I said before, I am a Clue ambassador and so every now and
then I will be trying to bring new content discussing different
women's health topics.
In the comments below also let me know if you have any other topics
that you would like me to cover.
I'll see you when I see you.
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