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Feminine hygiene
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Seriously, I wanna know. Is it size? Or… flow?
it's about the flow. L stands for Light, R is Regular
Tampons wick away fluid, it's their primary purpose. Vaginas are never meant to be dry. If you wear a tampon that is designed to wick away a lot of moisture on a low flow day it will dry you out which may cause an infection and lead to toxic shock syndrome - TSS. The L is low, R is regular, but higher ones exists. The goal is to use the lowest absorbancy necessary.
This page has a pretty good article about it.
I assume it's for Large, Regular, Small
Why make a random guess if you don't know? 😅 you can just wait for a woman who knows to give the actual answer lol
I love people coming in, apparently with no knowledge, and giving an incorrect answer. This wouldn't even have been hard to look up, but you just couldn't help but assume you were correct, just like the person in the OP.
I think it's more fun to see people's creative answers and get a good chuckle.
It is funny, just like the OP. Part of why it's funny is that people can be so wrong but assume they're right enough that they want to share with the world. I'm glad they do, but it's crazy to me.
S is for Super, not small. Light, regular, super, etc. It's for flow, not for size.
I always found "super" pretty funny.
"So how's your period flow?"
"Super!"
Kinda expect the next option to be "magnificent", "über" or something like that.
Is it an american thing? Pretty sure in Australia it's "heavy".
Super would be weird, as you say.
Super absorbancy or something along those lines.
It explains the absorber rather than the flow. I've mostly stared at pads my life, but it's the same wording
Just for context I'm Danish, so it's not just an American thing
It's good we have you here. Your ability to use context clues really came in clutch. Don't have to worry about finding someone who uses these alien devices to explain them.
I kind of needed it cause i never hear "regular" as a size, only "medium", so i was hung up on the R
It is incorrect. Light, regular, super, not large, regular, small.
I think L is Light
Regular and large?
Large and Rrrrrrreally Large?
What is “G” for then?
Grande, as in volume of blood to absorb expressed in Starbucks cup sizes? (S, T, G, V)?
Grand, comes with pillars of lapis lazuli, decorated golden arches and deep blue carpets
For when you're just spotting.
I don’t know if those things have size… length? Girth? Both?
There are different sizes but they are rated by how much they can absorb, L is light flow, R regular. So it's not really about the size, they'll expand anyways when they soak up the discharge
I dont buy tampons except as a secondary backup now that I use a cup, but I've never seen this. I just look at the 1-5 little drops of blue liquid...
And cups DO come in different (extremely inconsistent) sizes.
Confusing that L could be interpreted as Large size and Light flow. Surely you would know what is meant by looking at the packaging (or maybe feeling this particular one). I hope for the person in need of it that they won't have to guess in a case like this.
I'm guessing they learn this very early. It's only confusing to those of us without the need for them.
At least they are not marked as inflammable.
It's a blob of cotton and plastic. It burns pretty well even before you soak it in whiskey.
what's the S someone implied existed elsewhere in the thread?
Super
The S stands for "shit" and it gets stuck somewhere else...
Supreme
If you felt them, you'd realize the Super one does have more girth than the Light one, in order to absorb more before it starts leaking. I don't know why it never occurred to me the use the same/opposite letters as Small /Large, probably because I first learned them back when companies wrote whole words on their packaging.
Depends on the brand but mostly difference in girth aka material to soak up things.
https://tampax.com/en-us/tampon-truths/best-tampons-sizes-for-heavy-light-flow/