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Linda Hartwell

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Every woman dealing with bladder leaks needs to read this. What I discovered about disposable pads has changed everything for me and I'm not keeping it to myself. I wish someone had shared this with me 4 years ago. I'm 69 years old and I've been dealing with bladder leaks ever since my hysterectomy 8 years ago. My surgeon told me some leaking was normal after the procedure and that it should improve over time. It didn't improve. It got worse. What started as a small dribble when I coughed or sneezed turned into something I couldn't ignore. Within a year I was leaking every single day and planning my life around it. I want to be honest with you. I'm not the type of woman who just accepts things. I didn't sit there and say "well I guess this is my life now." I fought it. I went to doctors. I asked questions. I pushed for answers. And what I got back was the most frustrating experience of my life. My gynecologist barely looked up from her clipboard. She said leaking after a hysterectomy is common and to do my Kegel exercises. That was the extent of her advice. I did those Kegels morning and night for months. Nothing changed. Not even a little. So I went to a urologist. He put me on a prescription for overactive bladder. Within a week my mouth was so dry I was waking up in the middle of the night to drink water. The constipation was awful. And the brain fog scared me more than the leaking did. I couldn't remember my neighbor's name. I forgot why I'd walked into a room 5 times a day. I felt like I was losing myself. I lasted about 6 weeks before I stopped taking it. My doctor shrugged and said we could try a different one. Like I was just supposed to keep swallowing pills with side effects worse than the problem they were treating. I tried pelvic floor therapy. 8 sessions. It helped the urgency a little but the leaking didn't stop. Not one bit. My urologist brought up bladder Botox. I was desperate enough to try it. First round cost me over $500 out of pocket and it worked great for about 3 months. Then it wore off. Completely. He said I'd need it every few months to maintain the results. That's $1,000 to $2,000 a year for something that gives you a few good months then disappears. I did a second round. Same story. Temporary relief, then right back to square one. Every doctor I saw gave me something that either didn't work, didn't last, or came with side effects I couldn't live with. And not a single one seemed to care beyond writing the next prescription and scheduling the next appointment. So I went back to pads. What else was I supposed to do. I figured I'd just manage it. Buy the pads, change them a few times a day, carry spares in my purse, and get on with my life. Except the pads didn't just manage the problem. They created new ones. Within a few months my skin started reacting. The area where the pad sat against me all day turned red, raw, and so irritated I could barely sit comfortably. I tried every brand at the drugstore. Thin ones, thick ones, the ones that cost twice as much and say "sensitive skin" on the package. Every single one left me burning and sore by the end of the day. And I was sticking a new pad onto damaged skin every morning. My skin never got a chance to heal. Not once in years. Then the UTIs started. Three in less than 6 months. My doctor said the pads were almost certainly a factor because they hold moisture and warmth against your body all day long. That's exactly the kind of environment bacteria love. So let me get this straight. The product I was depending on to get through my day was giving me rashes AND infections? And I was paying for it every month? I was buying pads. Then buying cream for the rashes the pads caused. Then paying for doctor visits and antibiotics for the UTIs the pads contributed to. I was spending money in three different aisles of the pharmacy to deal with damage from one product. But the thing that pushed me over the edge happened one night when I couldn't sleep because the itching was so bad. I grabbed my phone and started reading about what's actually inside disposable pads. PFAS. That's what I found. They call them "forever chemicals" because your body can't break them down. They just build up. And studies have found them in most major disposable pad brands on the market. I had been pressing these synthetic chemical-filled products against the most delicate skin on my body for years. Skin that was already thinner and more sensitive after my hysterectomy and menopause. No doctor mentioned it. No brand put it on the package. Nobody told me. That was it. I was done with disposable pads for good. But I still leaked every day. So I started looking for something else. And honestly I didn't have high hopes. Luckily, I have a small community of women in a Facebook group where we share our struggles daily. We don't sugarcoat anything in there. One evening Patricia, who's been dealing with incontinence even longer than I have, posted that she'd completely replaced her disposable pads with organic reusable ones. She said her rashes had cleared up, her UTIs had stopped, and she hadn't bought a single disposable pad in over a year. I almost scrolled past. I'd seen ads for leakproof underwear before and every one of them felt like a scam. They were made for light period leaks, not for women who actually deal with real incontinence. But Patricia wasn't sharing some random ad. This was a woman I'd talked to for months. She'd been through everything I'd been through. The rashes, the infections, the doctors who didn't care. And she was telling us it was over for her. So I asked her what brand. She said Ultradries. And then she broke down exactly how it works. They make complete reusable sets. Organic cotton underwear that holds 100ml on its own — that's about 3 to 4 disposable pads worth. Plus organic cotton booster pads that snap right into the underwear adding another 100ml. 200ml total. A full cup. Everything PFAS-free. Organic cotton and bamboo. No synthetics, no plastic, no fragrance. Nothing against your skin except natural fibers. She said the set comes with everything you need. The underwear, the booster pads, a mesh wash bag, a waterproof pouch for when you're out. Nothing else to buy. You just switch and you're done. When she said PFAS-free and organic something clicked for me. After everything I'd been through with the chemicals and the rashes and the infections, the idea that someone had designed protection specifically without all that garbage meant more to me than I can explain. I ordered a starter set expecting to be disappointed again. Ladies, I have never been so happy to be wrong in my life. They feel like normal cotton underwear. Soft, breathable, no bulk, no crinkling. Nothing like wearing a pad. I put them on and forgot I was wearing protection. That had never happened before. The first real leak I had — the kind that would've needed a pad change — I felt completely dry. I pressed my hand against the fabric because I didn't believe it. The moisture had been pulled away from my skin and locked into the inner layer. Dry. No dampness. No odor. Nothing. Within two weeks the rashes that had been constant for years started clearing. Within a month they were gone completely. Gone. I haven't had a single UTI since I stopped using disposable pads. My skin looks and feels normal for the first time in years. I forgot what that was like. The booster pads make the whole system so flexible. When I'm going out for a long time I snap one into the underwear for the full 200ml protection. When I'm home the booster catches small leaks on its own and I just swap it without taking anything off. Quick, easy, no fuss. I keep a spare booster in the little waterproof pouch that comes with the set. It looks like a cosmetics bag. I carry it in my purse and nobody has ever looked twice at it. Washing is the simplest part. Everything goes in the mesh bag, into the machine on a normal cycle. That's it. No hand washing. No scrubbing. Honestly less effort than the weekly trip to buy disposables ever was. These don't cure my incontinence. Nothing I tried cured it. Not the prescriptions, not the Botox, not the therapy, not the exercises. But Ultradries has made me stop thinking about it. My skin has healed after years of damage from products I trusted. The infections have stopped. And I'm not pressing forever chemicals against my body anymore. When I add up what I spent over 8 years — the pads, the rash cream, the antibiotics, the Botox, the prescriptions, the co-pays — it makes me sick. Thousands of dollars treating problems that were being caused by the very product I thought was helping me. One starter set of Ultradries paid for itself in the first month. And it hasn't caused a single side effect. If you're wearing disposable pads right now and your skin is suffering, if you're dealing with rashes that never heal and UTIs that keep coming back, if you've been through the doctors and the prescriptions and the injections and none of it worked — please hear me. You are not stuck. There is something better. It's organic. It's reusable. It comes as a complete set with everything you need. And it will not destroy your skin the way disposable pads do. I'm not getting paid to write this. I'm a 69 year old woman who had a hysterectomy, spent 8 years suffering through products and treatments that failed me, and finally found something that actually works without hurting me. You deserve to feel comfortable in your own body. You really do. Link below. And please share this with the women in your life because I guarantee you know someone who is dealing with this right now and not telling anyone. EDIT: So many of you are messaging me and I realize I forgot the link. Here it is: https://shop.ultradries.com/reasons-why-v3-us

Say No to UTIs and Rashes

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