More products for heavy periods

We need more products for heavy periods, and I mean heavy. I’m part of some forums on this and the solutions that women themselves have to come up with are kind of crazy. For me, overnight I need to double or sometimes triple up the pads I wear and tuck a towel or facecloth in at the back of my underwear. Others I know with the same problem use tampons and get up in the middle of the night to change them. I’ve been advised to put loo paper in my butt crack (sorry this is TMI!) to prevent flow up the back during the night.

I don’t know why there are not more products out there for this kind of flow – I can only guess that up until recently women didn’t talk so openly about their periods. Also I guess maybe only now we are seeing women in positions where they can design more products for us. I hope that’s the case – it feels like a monthly challenge for me that I shouldn’t have to bother spending my energy thinking about.

The solution? More products for heavy periods! Not to be too glib! But I think having forums like this to share our experiences, women engaging more with designers (where are they?!) to tell them what we need. We are becoming a powerful market aren’t we? We should have our voices heard, but also not be afraid to use our voices and speak about the stuff that is considered taboo.

TR, United Kingdom