To be completely baffled as to why the tampon is more popular than the mooncup?

[YunoYurbubson]

It just doesn't make sense.

I am a very recent convert to the mooncup and all I can think is wtf was I doing with tampons all those years?

I feel almost... betrayed by the generations of women who have made the tampon the mainstream menstruation product of choice.

Ignore your prejudices because those would work either way. If you were used to using a mooncup and someone suggested carrying around a bloodsoaked wodge of cotton wool on a string in your vagina instead you would think that was gross. It's just what you're used to.

So, prejudices aside. Agreed?

Lets just look at this logically.

The mooncup produces no waste, so no flushing things you shouldn't, no filling a bin with smelly waste, no furtive smuggling of used tampons wrapped in loo roll up your sleeve when there is no bin and you don't have pockets.

It's every bit as comfy and convenient.

It's cheaper.

And it is SO COOL seeing how much blood you have lost. I'm sorry, but it is. It's much less yucky because it's not old, brown drying smelly blood. It's a fresh little pot of new, clean blood. It's just not yucky.

And this isn't a thread to critisise or judge or feel superior. I just REALLY want someone else to be converted and feel the joy too . I want someone else to have the scales fall from their eyes and feel as delighted as I do right now.

I had wondered whether to feed the hydrangea with the contents of mine.

It was blue when I bought it and has gone pink . So a dose of iron might restore it to its former glory.

Although if I was low on iron it might not work. So my mooncup could act as a DIY blood test as well as its other use. Which would be nice.

What happens to your fanjo when you turn thirty, I wonder?

"Happy Birthday to Yooooooou!"

< boing >

"What was that?"

"Oh just my fanny expanding all of a sudden."

BS you just made me spit coffee all over my laptop!

LOL!!!

YABU. My mooncup flipped over onto it's side, emptying the contents into my gusset during a visit to Sainsburys. It was memorable.

How the heck did it do that?? I can barely move mine!

My DD is coming up to the age where we will be having the tampons/towels demo (she knows about periods but I've got a mirena so haven't had to deal with it for years).

I was going to buy some tampon/towels to show her. Would you recommend a mooncup option for her, or do you need to be older? She'll see it as the 'green' option!

Hi SarahJim - I'm a new user to the Moooncup (see above) and although I used tampons from my first period I don't think I could have used the mooncup. It is (to me) quite big (and yes I'm old and yes had sex but no - only had my babies by CS so bought the A size) - for a young girl/woman who's not had sex yet I think it would be quite difficult to insert and remove (unless she is a lucky super-body confident person). I have found it marvelous and will be using it from now on instead of all the disposable grot of my (now) past but I think I'd have had to be weaned onto these gradually if younger.

I know on the site they say you can use them as soon as you start menstruating but I would have found it very difficult if not impossible.

And yes, a fanjo should be big enough for a penis therefore big enough for a mooncup, but erm [TMI alert] it was rather a tight fit at first, no way I would have been able to get something that width and squishy like the mooncup up there! It wasn't until I had a regular boyfriend and therefore regular sex that I was able to use a mooncup.

Just to let you all know that Boots have put the price up to £21.99.

They are on offer at £16.99 via Peak-Nutrition.co.uk

Amazon are selling them for 14.75 plus 2.95 postage.

I found it painful putting them in and out, as I used to get very sensitive when I have AF and get horrendous pain and too much rummaging around tends to make things worse. Even changing a tampon makes the pain worse for a while - but mooncup was much worse. That may change after I have this DC though (am pg). Also I have had it where it's kind of "pinged" out and contents have gone eveywhere. Not nice. I switched back to tampons when one month I simply couldn't find my mooncup. I keep wondering where it got to, and where it might just "turn up" one day...

I was emptying mine every 15 minutes and it leaked

YANBU, I started using the Mooncup after the birth of my DD last year and it is the best thing ever. I hated hated tampons and found my periods really annoying to say the least. Now with the Mooncup I can insert it in the bath expertly with one hand, no mess at all. The emptying is not an issue either as I am now so used to it, and in any way it is better than pulling the slimy string of a tampon.

I also found tampons very uncomfortable, but the mooncup is very comfortable, I can hardly feel it in there. In fact I am one of those who forgot to empty it for a whole day = towards the end of my period though and there was no foul smell, just some angry blood.

They should really advertise it more as it is really good value for money. I do have heavy periods so on day two and three I use a panty liner to avoid any leakage and on these days I change mine every three hours

oooo no how can you come out of the toilet cubicle to wash/rinse it then wait for a cubicle to become free to put it back in!?

I've used one for 8 years. Had no problem with coil. Fitting is easy once you get the hang of it, try a punch down fold, where you squish one side of the rim to the base before folding, or make it flat then use an angled fild so the rim looks like a 7. Removong is easy as long as you tip to break the seal first, and don't put it too deep, I took the stalk off mine.

On the rare occasions I have had to use tampons or disposable towels I have realised how uncomfy gross and leaky they are.

I actually just treated myself to a new one after the birth of ds, although he was emcs so I didn't really need to, I just felt the old one had done its time and wanted a shiny up to date one.

YANBU

You either take a small bottle of water in the cubicle with you to give it a rinse, or wipe it round with toilet paper, no traipsing around in public with a dripping mooncup required.

YANBU

That was to nattnoobies, sorry slow typing.

pixel i never thought of that

I've used both and much prefer tampons. I also used cloth nappies and much prefer disposables.

Twopeople, yes, you do get blood on your hands.

I bought a mooncup specifically because of this thread. I found it a bit hard to remove at first, but then I got the hang of it. Now I'm a convert.

Very useful when I'm staying at my in-laws, who don't have a bin in their bathroom. I always used to have to slink out of the bathroom with my used tampon wrapped in wads of toilet paper.