Oh, this topic is about "menstruation". I saw the thing in "Women's Views" called "Menstration Safety" and I thought it was something diabolical, wicked or evil that women do to men. Oh wait, it is something diabolical...
Menstruation Safety
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Oli
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During menstruation, diving does increase the risk of gettting an infection. The reason is because once you go deeper than 33ft/10m, the partial pressure increases. As the pressure increases, the water gets push into you virgina. If you are planning to dive in dirty water I wouldn't recommand. An other reason is during menstruation, maintain PH level is crutial. Try to clean yourself as soon as you get off the water and keep it dry. Personally, I use wet tissue( Playtex personal cleaning cloths) to clean it before I dry it.
Information from my OB Dr.
Information from my OB Dr.
H2Andy
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Mishelle:
hmmm... mishelle, up to that point, 4 women and 2 men had responded...
(the girls were alcina, debdiver, buiscuit7, and submariner)
so... count again :07:
MargaretCostello
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Has anyone ever dove using a Diva cup or keeper? In general most people are pretty grossed out at the thought of these curious devices. From experience I can say they work great on dry land.
Roll back a few screens or search this forum, it was covered this past summer.
My wifes husband,
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My wifes husband,
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annasea
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I've never tried one on land, nor seriously considered one. That being said, I'd like to mention a bit of a warning that was passed on to me by a woman who is trained in Chinese medicine. Her thought on them is that they are not a good device because of the suction involved. The reason she believes this is that when she used to use a diaphragm as a method of birth control, her doctor discovered a *hickey* while doing an internal exam. Apparently this was due to the suction created by the diaphragm. She went into more details about suction and blood flow and bruising, but I don't recall what they were; just that it didn't seem like a good thing.MargaretCostello:
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Welcome to scubaboard, Margaret! (Seeing as this is your first post.)
RainTurtle
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I've been on my period during several dive trips and the only problemm is the pain of it all...but then it's a pain on dry land also. Now the theory of DCS due to dehydration is interesting, I'll have to ask my husband who works in hyperbarics about that one.
Suzanne
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