TENA Serenity Overnight Pads

Let's face it, who enjoys wetting their paints. Urinary incontinence isn't fun. Wearing adult diapers is definitely NOT fun. What's a girl to do?I went to a urologist gynecologist (believe it or not that's a real specialty) who basically told me my pelvic floor muscles were out of shape. Then again my whole body is more or less out of shape, so what the doctor said made sense. Regaining bladder control is a multiple step process which included exercising my kegel muscle. While I'm doing a whole lot better, I still have accidents.I need something I can wear which keeps my pants dry when accidents happened. Diapers are out for me. I'm fat, finding diapers in my size is next to impossible and super expensive. The fact that they're also hotter than you know what, only adds to my discomfort.Over the years I've tired EVERY overnight pad made. When you're fat, getting coverage is complicated, a fact I learned while I was still menstruating. But every-time I found a pad which did the job, the powers that be made it smaller and more compact. Accidents (specially at night) were commonplace.When I used Kotex overnight sanitary pads, I'd have to change them up to four times a day ... which got expensive ... and didn't always keep my pants dry. Most sanitary pads are filled with an absorbent powdery gel which traps liquid inside. Unfortunately, if you wear them more than 4 or five hours (and you're fat like me) they crumble inside your pants.Tena Serenity Overnight Ultimate Pads are amazing! In a pinch I can wear a pad for a day and they NEVER fall apart. If I have an accident my pants ALWAYS stay dry. Amazingly, when I was sick with the stomach flu, it also held in the diarrhea. They aren't scented, stick to ANY underpants, and adjust to fit your body.NOTE: When I was young I suffered from primary dysmenorrhea and heavy menstrual flow. On heavy days I'd go through an overnight pad every hour or two. Breakthrough bleeding was so common during my period I'd be forced to sleep on a towel and I'd take extra clothing with me at work. I wish I'd have had access to Tena pads when I was young. I thank God I can use them now.

It absolutely KILLS me to waste money. To a fault, I overly research online purchases. This is primarily thanks to the hassle in the event something needs to be returned. You see, it rudely interrupts the convenience of buying things from the comfort of my home. Some call it lazy. I call it weird if a person still shops at brick and mortar buildings. Rarely, do I visit 5 star reviews out of the gate. Im of the opinion that those ratings are for impulse buyers who need to feel good about an item they want but don’t need. In a consumer effort to save time, I head straight to the “problem buyers” who’ve nailed a product’s “value coffin” nearly shut with 2 stars or less. My situation required a stellar overnight pad that would not leak. This shouldn’t be a difficult effort. After just a few complaints regarding user error leakage and an abundance of dissappointment because of a packaging change, I read a couple of top reviews for good measure and made this purchase feeling pretty good about my odds. There’s an old saying: “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” Well, that old saying does NOT apply here. Turns out, those 1 star ratings for a “packaging change” really meant the entire product went to crap because the manufacturer, in an attempt to save a few dollars, changed everything that was good about the pads along with an uglier package to boot. These “pads” barely surpass the panty-liner category. Upon opening an “OVERNIGHT ULTIMATE” pad, I revelaed a “meat tenderizer type” penetrated Mc’Donald’s grade napkin. Its length almost reached an entire lining of a pair of underwear. On the backside, a piece of waxed ribbon half hazardly attached to an adhesive strip equivalent to an Elmer’s glue stick (and not even the big-kids kind). It weighed literally less than 1/2 the amount of a Poise Overnight Extended Pad (unwrapped). I felt myself panic a little as I hastily began unwrapping additional pads, digging to the bottom of the packaging hoping for some sort of gross mislabeling error on these “hospital grade”, “overnight ultimate incontinence pads”. Sadly, not the case. And thanks to Amazon’s really cool monthly subscription “option” (where your only options are to choose between 3, 6, or 9 month billing cycles unless you’re a professional online shopper where you actively look for the fine printed solitary word: “more” hyper-linked in a glaring shade of off-white” are you allowed to venture off alone into the deep dark abyss of “one time purchase”. And for about a buck fifty more, you don’t have to surprisingly learn that you’ve enrolled in a monthly delivery service to your address containing a product you don’t want now and didn’t want to subscribe monthly to in the first place. Lucky you! Lucky all of us for shady Amazon practices like this. As if Amazon doesn’t already make a bazillion dollars a day WITHOUT that crack-pipe “prime deal”. Now you get to figure out how to cancel that subscription with all of your professional online shopper glory.) I’m now stuck with not just 1 but 3 packages of these “napkins” that can’t be used instead to accompany the family table at dinner time because well, gross. And they’re not worthy of anything else other than perhaps using one as medium duty guaze pad in the event I cut myself shaving or stab myself in the neck with a fork for buying this junk, wasting precious time and hard earned money. These pads are one of the biggest false advertisement heros I’ve witnessed in a long time. Please take my advice and don’t choose these fake nighttime pads. Go to your local Mc’Donalds, stab one of their straws several times into a napkin, borrow your kids Walmart gluestick from 5 years ago and slap it inside your underpants and call it a day. You’ll get way better coverage by doing this than you will buying these.

These are really good for overnight use, especially if you experience heavy leakage. Wish they absorbed a little bit faster--or had some sort of system to contain fluid on the sides--because they can overflow and get your panties wet. Once wet, the new pad won't stick, of course, and most people don't wander around with extra panties on hand. The shape of these is interesting (wider at one end than the other), which makes them bulky for daytime use. Once wet, they're difficult to discretely wrap up and dispose of because of their shape (only a problem with the overnight pads, not other styles).. No unpleasant odor, like Always pads have. They're thicker than Always, but they also feel more comfortable.I've tried several brands, but this is my favorite. I gave them 4 stars instead of 5 because they could absorb a little faster and the sides don't keep liquid in too well. Also, fluid doesn't seem to spread out in the pad. One part of the pad can be wet, another part will be dry. That being said, this is a good, reliable product.

All I care to say is, "it's better than not having nothing..."...ya, I'd keep looking for a better product if I was you and I am.

They tear a bit during the night if you move too much= otherwise good coverage

Tres confortable.

Do not purchase online

Doesn't leak even while lying down for hours. My bladder runs non-stop, these are the only pad I've found that can take it.