I find it annoying that liners and pads for men are often three times more expensive than the ones for females. So even at the beginning 20 years ago I only used panty liners for women and now pads for females.
If only more men would not be such embarrassed, they would do the same instead of staining their underwear with urine.
What I find annoying is that men's pads are inferior full stop! I've got my own sorry saga with incontinence. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in early 2015, had the gland removed in June that year, had follow-up salvage radiation in early 2016 because the surgery wasn't entirely successful, and have never been consistently dry since. But there had been lengthy periods where I was dry, until a few years ago when I was starting to leak more and more. It got to the stage where I was losing an average of around 200ml per day. I have since had surgery to get a contraption installed inside me to improve things, and I now only lose a minimal amount if at all. Point is, in the time before my surgery, I was using women's pads more often than any other product. The problem with men's pads or shields is their shape. Men's pads or shields are normally triangle shaped to cater for some sideways movement of the grub, but if the pads are allowed to get anywhere near capacity, they will overflow from the narrow part under your balls, resulting in a change of pad, underwear and pants. Not ideal at work! Plus, as the pads fill up and become heavy, they tend to fall forward and leave a gap, resulting in a hit-and-miss scenario.
I never wore underwear at work that didn't cater for men's anatomy, except for my last day there when I wasn't required to change in the locker room. So, any pad, male or female, could never be held snug against me to maximize its effectiveness. This was also important to me because of my diminished size. But on days off or weekends, shortie briefs during the day were and still are my go-to and although they hold men's shields or light pads better than my work-appropriate men's bikini briefs, women's liners or light pads are still my preferred 'insurance'. They just seem to work so much better!
Sorry for TMI and going further off-topic.
No problem with your rant, nor for going off-topic. I am sure that men who are in similar conditions can benefit from your experience.
For me, the question of male or female products was not even existing. My wife suggested the panty liners she wore. They worked perfectly. I didn't even look intensively for male guards, shields or whatever they are called. Knowing the price difference was enough not to choose incontinence products for men.
And as I see from your comment, I was right.
My drippling problems after urination started 20 years ago, but since some months it happens that maybe 20 or 30 milliliters urine come from the urethra only minutes after the 'normal' urination. Until now I always could reach the bathroom within time. But as I wrote, if I am in town or driving the car, I don't have this possibility. For this reason I changed to the wider, longer and thicker women's pads. Of course they are more than useful for my daily dribbling after urination also.
Women are much more open-minded for such problems. I read various reviews from them for different female pads and then chose a product I am very satisfied with.
And don't think that incontinence, be it minimal or severe, is only existing in old people. I was a van driver for disabled children for some years. Most of them - boys and girls - needed some kind of protection, some of them even diapers. And the highly disabled children often had urine and fecal incontinence.
There was always a woman sitting in the van who had to care for the children. But both of us got these necessary informations to handle 'unexpected situations' carefully.
The job as a driver for these children showed me, that I don't have any reason to be unhappy with my own life, even with breasts and a slight incontinence. These are 'peanuts' in comparison to other people.
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