- This stuff looks tiny.
- I can't see it.
- You should lean in.
- Yeah, lean in (laughs).
- Carol Sandberg.
(laughs)
Welcome to Ladylike.
- Hey, what's up, it's Ladylike,
and we're back with another IDK.
- Yay!
- 'Cause we don't know either.
- And today we're answering questions about periods.
- Ooh!
- Is anybody on their period?
- No.
- I just finished mine, and it was a nightmare.
- I'm eight days away.
- And the countdown begins.
(laughter)
- As I got all these questions, I was like,
"Some of these are real questions for real doctors."
So if you have an actual problem,
please go see a doctor.
All right, cool, let's do it.
- Period!
- [Voiceover] When you got your first period,
did you use tampons or pads?
How can someone become more comfortable
using tampons?
- I was 13 when I got my period.
Honestly, I have been using pads consistently
for most of my life.
- When I was a kid, I thought that tampons
worked like hot dogs and that like the vulva
was like the hot dog bun and then you just stuck
the tampon in the middle.
- Instead of going up, you went prrm!
(laughter)
- You just set it gently in between.
- Yes, I didn't realize it was supposed to go in,
because I thought, "It works like a pad."
- When I first got my period, the funny thing
is I got my period.
The next month, I was on my period was during
swim camp, and it was, I could not figure out
how to use a tampon, or I just couldn't figure out
the proper direction to...
You know what I mean, 'cause you have to get...
- You have to get an angle.
I was just like running to the bathroom.
(laughs)
Running.
And it was a week-long sleep-away camp.
And we were swimming three times a day.
- I think I only started using tampons
because my friends were using them,
and they were just like, "Oh, it's so much more convenient."
And it took me like two rounds of perioding in order
to figure out how to actually do it.
- I didn't really find, I didn't really know
the good tampons.
- Plastic applicators are bad for the environment.
(laughs)
But good for the soul.
- They're good for the soul and good for my hole.
- Oh! Oh!
- [Voiceover] So describe your worst period experience
using only three words.
- Mine low key might have been that swim camp.
- This is four words.
- That's okay.
I think that's okay.
- Bloody tampon public bathroom.
- Oh!
Oh, I know that story.
- Friend's mother leaking.
- What?
- I guess new person sheets.
- Office chair explosion.
- I feel like I understand.
- Yeah, where it's like, what do you do?
You just, you'll have, you have to change your name.
- [Voiceover] What are ways to deal
with really bad period cramps?
- Heating pads.
- Also, I take Excedrin.
- I can't take Excedrin.
- You can't?
Excedrin has caffeine in it
so after I get extremely hyper.
- Yeah, I didn't even know that.
I just, I think I had a headache, right?
- Yeah.
- And Freddie gave me an Excedrin,
and I was like, "What's in this?
"This is great.
"I love this!
"This is the most fun I've ever had!"
And Freddie was like, "I'm never doing that again."
- Hot baths, too.
Hot showers.
- Again, we are not doctors.
- Sometimes people will try and like dismiss period pain
and be like, "It's not that bad," or like,
"Get over it," or, "Whatever."
But if something feels really painful
and really wrong, like, you know better than anyone
if it's not right.
- Yeah.
- So trust yourself.
- If you're having really, really painful cramps,
you should probably go see a doctor.
- [Voiceover] Where do you put the bandaid?
- (laughs) What?
- So this question was submitted,
(laughs)
I don't know by who on Twitter, but I thought
it was so funny that I thought we should put it in.
But there, there's no bandaid.
- [Voiceover] What do you do to prevent blood
from staining your bed sheets?
- Peroxide.
- Hmm.
- Peroxide works on anything.
- You go to Bed Bath & Beyond.
What else are you supposed to do?
You're going to stain your bed sheets.
There's no god.
- Yeah, it's spillage.
It's cost of doing business.
- I've heard from people who use period panties
in the video that I made that period panties
are very good for sleeping in.
- If you put a bandaid on your vagina,
you're never going to get blood on your sheets.
So why are we even answering this question?
You shove it up and take a little bit of gauze.
You wrap it around twice, a little pop,
and then you just flip it all around,
and you sew it up with a little bit of fire.
- (laughs) Fire?
- Yeah.
- And you are sealed or hermetically
sealed together for good.
- That's right.