MikePNW wrote:
Question for anyone who has tried these: how do you find the sizing and fit to be? Are they a full-rise (up to the belly button)? Do the stretchy sides help keep them up even when wet?
I've tried their pull-on ones but not the snap ones. I found the pull-on ones to fit much like normal underwear. Definitely not up to the belly button.
For me, they didn't hold enough urine that they would ever get so heavy for me to have any worries at all about them staying up. They fit very snug and they felt completely secure.
MikePNW wrote:
One of the problems I've seen with many underwear-like cloth products is that they try to make them too much like regular underwear (e.g.: operable fly on men's briefs, rise too low, narrow crotch), thus compromising their functionality for incontinence protection.
Hear, hear! I tried "wearever" underwear at one point. Even with their maximum absorbency option, they didn't form enough of a "pouch" shape to really keep anything contained. It was sort of like having a flat, rectangular sponge in my underwear. With a fly, like you said.
MikePNW wrote:
I noticed that Threaded Armor is now offering a snap-size version that would allow them to be changed (like a diaper) without having to remove shoes or pants/shorts.
Huh. This actually sounds interesting.
At the time I tried the pull-on style for work, I had the mindset that I was going to treat them like regular underpants, and try as hard as I could to get most of my urine into the toilet. When I succeeded, the pull-ons lasted all day. They were wet by the end of the day, but that was fine. Sometimes I didn't succeed. Some days I had urinated my whole bladder into my pants before 10 AM, and then because they were pull-ons, not snap sides, I was sort of stuck. There was no good way to change them, so I just had to keep pulling them down and back up every time I was going to urinate into the toilet, even though they were soaked. And of course that also meant that if I urinated in my pants a second time that day, I risked having them leak.
So that was enough to convince me that pull-on style may work fine for around the house, but it's no good for being out-and-about.
I hope if you give the snap-side version a try, that you let us know how it goes!