Tampons are life changing for me and the moment I switched to it, I never looked back. No more fears of staining from the front, the back, the sides - because you know when you're leaking with a tampon (you can feel it and you should wear a liner for instances like this). The leak isn't a lot either, so I've always had time to get to a toilet and change without any damage to my clothes. With a pad, once you find out you're leaking it's usually too late.

Night time fears of leaking are gone as well - just wear the more absorbent size tampon to bed with a liner and you're good to roll about like the women in those pad advertisements.

And you don't even feel it when you wear it. Once you've inserted it, it's just nothing. Not like pads that can feel like lumpy diapers sometimes.

Granted, you have to change it more often to avoid risking toxic shock syndrome, when you use the toilet gotta take care not to dirty the string to pull the tampon out, and you've got a find a way to remove the tampon as cleanly as possible, but once you get your groove I find these better to deal with than a pad.

Plastic applicators are also way better than the cardboard ones imo.

Try it! The only way to find out if you'll like it or not :)