Ishilove:

I have never heard of reusable pads. Can I have their contact?

Comes off like a diaper/napkin situation . I’ll stick to diaper. Anyway, about 14 should do and that is because I like changing pads. I am sure I am not alone .

Platinum Always has to be the best Always so far. I can’t go back to the regular Always again.

Now OP has put it in my head, I will think towards a Pad Them Up scheme.

TimFisher2:


My girlfriend always use one for all the whole 4-5 days

Sometimes she do wash and keep it for another menstrual cycle next month

You mean a menstrual cup!!

Definitely not pads


To op....
If youd like to regulate the bleeding, can consider combined oral contraceptive pills such as Microgynon..

Do make sure you have no contraindications..

Regarding using rags... That's quite unhygienic.. Can lead to life changing infections or toxemia


Why not a layer of tissues which is disposable and much cheaper than Always..

Another consideration is getting cheaper wingless pads/ tampons in addition to the thin quickly absorbing Always.. That way you limit the numbers you go through!


Good luck
.

I think pads should be subsidised by the government but what do i know, we have slowpokes as leaders, even the women amongst them are worst e.g Sadiya Farouk.

If you want to make an extra cash for yourself doing a legitimate side hustle please check my signature and follow the link. No down payment all you need is your phone and you can earn as much as 400k.

UDUJ:
600-1,000 Naira every month for your personal hygiene is not a lot.

People that spend not less than 2500 on data every month will wail that price of pads is high

Women are trying sha...kudos to them

Does Bobrisky uses sanitary pads??

Asking for a friend

EXLOVER:
One woman in my compound is using that #250 tissue paper like 2 daily

how u take know

my lady uses Ankara... I told her severally buh she said she's confortable with it.

TimFisher2:


My girlfriend always use one for all the whole 4-5 days

Sometimes she do wash and keep it for another menstrual cycle next month

you are a very bad fellow

pocohantas:


Comes off like a diaper/napkin situation . I’ll stick to diaper. Anyway, about 14 should do and that is because I like changing pads. I am sure I am not alone .

Platinum Always has to be the best Always so far. I can’t go back to the regular Always again.

Now OP has put it in my head, I will think towards a Pad Them Up scheme.

Platinum is the best, even though doctors are saying that perfumed pads are not hygienic. They say it can give us ikwokrikwo.

The challenge is that many supermarkets don't stock it in my area so sometimes I have to go to Ikeja just to buy Platinum. When I don't see I just stick with regular always.

Thank God say i be man.

I don't even want to sit down and calculate how much I spend on pads monthly. I buy in bags directly from Always distributors.

I reckon that by the time my girls hit puberty I will be manufacturing pads myself.

My period is for 3 days maximum. On the first day, I use 2 pads during the day and 1 at night. On the second day, I use 1 pad during the day and 1 at night. On the third day, I use one pad for the whole day. In all, I use 6 pads during my menstral cycle.

Shellsploit:


See as guys full this thread
Sey una sef don dey use sanitary pad

Make una just calm down abit.

Guys full here, because we indirectly bear the cost and our side chicks and wives must shalaye why the cost of menstruating every month is that high

UjuJoan2:
I don't even want to sit down and calculate how much I spend on pads monthly. I buy in bags directly from Always distributors.

I reckon that by the time my girls hit puberty I will be manufacturing pads myself.

Makes sense.

When your girls hit puberty go and buy shares from the company

Ishilove:

Platinum is the best, even though doctors are saying that perfumed pads are not hygienic. They say it can give us ikwokrikwo.

I don’t care o, it is the best Always so far. It has done nothing to me and I look forward to opening it. I love it like that.

Denique:
Truth is, I hate blood! Urgh!
I start using it three days before my cycle as I can't stand the sight of blood in my panties...3*2=6
Then for the actual flow, I use 3 per day...let's say 8:00am-3pm, 3pm-10:30pm, 10:30pm-8:00am. Repeat the process for 3 days and 2 each for the next two days(19 pads in total). A total of 2 packs and my favourite brand is LADY CARE...anytime, anyday. Prices vary...between 300-350 per pack, that is 700 per month by 12 months= 8,400.

Add on: I tried Always(too long for me), Comfit( it felt too light and made me walk awkwardly) and a couple of other brands before settling for LADY CARE-the yellow type.

I like this girl for being comprehensive.
8,400 is relatively affordable judging that you ladies spend not less than 2500 on data every month to watch Instagram videos and still come to complain that pads are expensive.
2500 per month is 30k a year.
Little expenses add up over time lol

Tedpgrass:


You mean a menstrual cup!!

Definitely not pads


To op....
If youd like to regulate the bleeding, can consider combined oral contraceptive pills such as Microgynon..

Do make sure you have no contraindications..

Regarding using rags... That's quite unhygienic.. Can lead to life changing infections or toxemia


Why not a layer of tissues which is disposable and much cheaper than Always..

Another consideration is getting cheaper wingless pads/ tampons in addition to the thin quickly absorbing Always.. That way you limit the numbers you go through!


Good luck
.

This is also not hygenic. It causes itching and candida

Ishilove:

Platinum is the best, even though doctors are saying that perfumed pads are not hygienic. They say it can give us ikwokrikwo.

The challenge is that many supermarkets don't stock it in my area so sometimes I have to go to Ikeja just to buy Platinum. When I don't see I just stick with regular always.

jesu

pocohantas:


I don’t care o, it is the best Always so far. It has done nothing to me and I look forward to opening it. I love it like that.

Na wa for you o. So you look forward to periods?

OgiPrincess:
I use 10-12 pads for each menstrual cycle.

They've been months where I used 14 pads

The rationale behind the question is that a pack of Always ® (I'll use Always ® for my analysis because it's the brand I use and are mostly familiar with the pricing and also it's the most popular brand in Nigeria) contains 7 pads for extra long pads and 8 pads for medium sized pads, which is clearly not enough for my cycle.

Pricing for Always ® ranges from 300-500 per a pack of 7 or 8. Because of the number of pads I'll be using, my safest bet is 2 packs of 7(extra long).

Depending on the quality and/or fragrance, I'll be needing 600-1,000 Naira every month. To me that's a lot.

How many households can afford that for their teenage daughters and mothers?

When I first started using pads I thought a pad was for one whole day(which didn't make sense to me then) but I continued to try and use one pad a day. I use the pad during the day especially if it's a school day and use rags at night... I don't even want to go into details as to my experience doing this because I still have scars in my vagina area as a result.

So most homes use rags, Which is unhygienic and unhealthy. The price of pads is high, even in all other brands still. A pack of pad should contain nothing less than 18 pads(night time and day time).

Condoms are cheaper than pads and are even given for free, that's a gross imbalance. I can't decide to not have periods anymore but sex is a choice.

How can one go about even making this heard in the appropriate quarters?

How is pad and condom related please?

Dear lala, kindly take this thread from front page. Some of us are disgusted at the word 'period', and the thought and sight of a mestrual flow irritates us

pocohantas:


Comes off like a diaper/napkin situation . I’ll stick to diaper. Anyway, about 14 should do and that is because I like changing pads. I am sure I am not alone .

Platinum Always has to be the best Always so far. I can’t go back to the regular Always again.

Now OP has put it in my head, I will think towards a Pad Them Up scheme.

They gave us free pads in secondary school and camp. They also showed us female condoms. The tin be like handbag.

Focusmind:
I feel for young girls from poor homes. Things that are supposed to be of necessity. Don't be surprise that some can't even afford tissue paper for their cycle.

There are some ghettos you see and you imagine the kind of hygiene and sanitation they will apply in their toilets. Young and adolescent girls suffers a lot in that kind of places.

One international NGO invited me to be part of team to carry out evaluation work on the effect of poverty and conflict on adolescent girls. But the location of the assignment made me not to participate even though the pay was ok.

Girls from poor background deserves monetary or in kind assistant in seeing off their cycles

This is the sanest and most enlightening comment I've read here. Others are trash.

Poverty had led many girls into what they naturally don't deserve. Men could manage but ladies can't. You abuse them of their cycles and same you would dip your rod into them join as a guy. This isn't fair. Ladies spend more

Foolish topic, how does the boost the gdp of the nation ?

You can spend 10k on data / airtime, 5k on pizza and domino, 50k on humain hair ontop of your dull brain, perfumes and makeup but you don't see the problem.

Taking care of your privates is now a Herculean task all of a sudden, OP you are mad and you have no one to tell you.

N.a. to invest in pad business ooo

dario078:


By girlfriend do you mean lover or female friend? If she is your lover then you should be utterly ashamed of yourself.

If she is just a platonic friend,why can't you help her as a friend instead of coming here to put her business in public?

I hate basketmouth guys!

help her to buy sanitary pad because na Im born am

No offense intended but you sound like a pussy slave

I don't have heavy flows so I use maximum of 7 pads. 3 days flow at most��

AnonymousRebec:
My period is for 3 days maximum. On the first day, I use 2 pads during the day and 1 at night. On the second day, I use 1 pad during the day and 1 at night. On the third day, I use one pad for the whole day. In all, I use 6 pads during my menstral cycle.

you are quite prudent.

MISSCONGENIALITY:
Always was my brand up til early this year and I used at least 10 in a month. But then sometime early this year the Always two in one pack Always was no longer enough. The first day I might use two but day two being the heavy flow day I might use upto five in the day and two in the night. But as time went by, I noticed that always is not longer as good as it use to be before. And it's getting too expensive too. I started using virony which is 28 in a pack. And I use one pack for two months. If I'm not going out during the heavy flow day, I use less but if I'm going out, I use more.
I can't wait for someone to come up with a menstrual remote that will confront the period so that we can only turn it on when we want if and off it at will. I would turn my own off till I'm ready to make babies

Girrrrl periods are so unnecessary.
The cramps, the mood swings, the cravings.

Why can't Mother nature send us letters;
"Girl, you're not pregnant this month. Will write you next month, stay safe"