Remembering the old days :)

[dp66]

Thanks for the advice everyone. I have another 5 weeks before my follow up appointment with my surgeon. Who knows what he will recommend. I hope I'm as strong as many of you are, and not be talked into something I really don't want to do.

[Vandel Fisher]

Going back to the main topic, who here remembers Ambeeze and other such rectangular diapers? They used to call them diaper style to difrenciate them from the form fiting cuts which were called briefs. By the time I figured out how to effectively put them on [the trick was to point the tapes downward] they became obsolete, as the price of better diapers went down so much they weren't worth buying.

[Inconinmiss]

I remember the Ambeeze rectangular disposable diapers. I tried them but continued to use cloth diapers and plastic pants until better disposables became available.

[Patrick]

The Ambeze were used on me during one of my early hospitalizations. My opinion of them is best left unwritten on this site, or anywhere else where I want folks to respect me.

[justej]

I guess im pretty lucky. My incontinence started 2 years ago after a surgery. There was a medical supply place next door to my apartment. I started with plastic back attends. Those leaked like crazy. Then I found this board and moved on up to molicare. I think I've tried everything since then settling on abena l4 and sometimes confidry.

[fanoftherichISC]

The Ambeze were used on me during one of my early hospitalizations. My opinion of them is best left unwritten on this site, or anywhere else where I want folks to respect me.

ditto. I think it was around 1982 when those ambeze were pretty much the only disposable option. then shortly after the attends came out which I discovered via an ad in the readers digest of all places.
local med supply had them, I know that those were the best choice for years and remember them coming in a box.

[Vandel Fisher]

readers digest had the most advertisments for incon products those days. This was before internet and they didn't figure out where to advertise. RD was picked because it had a large percent of older readers. Publications for older people didn't want ads for incon products since the felt it puts them in a bad light.
Beside Attends, they had ads for Depends and some product from J&J which proudly claimed isn't a diaper.
As you write, those days you coudn't get adult diapers in normal stores, only in surgical supply stores. I don't know what the marketers were thinking.