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

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YunoYurbubson · 09/09/2010 16:24

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 Grin. I want someone else to have the scales fall from their eyes and feel as delighted as I do right now.

OP posts:
tyler80 · 23/01/2011 22:27

Mooncups are medical grade silicone

scottishmummy · 23/01/2011 22:30

mooncup doesnt render me ecstatic.unlike you

and no im not delighted about volume muccus and menstrual blood.unlike you

amberleaf · 23/01/2011 22:32

Thank you tyler80

I must say it really doesnt appeal to me. Confused

dementedma · 23/01/2011 22:36

sorry for the "betrayal" OP, but have absolutely no problems wth tampons and plan to contnue with them.

purpleknittingmum · 23/01/2011 22:40

I am a mooncup lover!! :o

Had no problems with tampons but thought I would try the mooncup and after a couple of days loved it!

Very occasionally it isn't in right, but that is probably me trying to do it in a hurry

musicmadness · 23/01/2011 22:40

stealth I don't think so from looking at the diagrams. The opposite problem if anything! I pretty much can't get it in at all (as in I can't get all the suction rim thing in Blush), and thats using the smaller one. I just can't get it to settle at all. I've tried about 5 different folds and I just can't get on with it. I have problems with tampons as well though (pretty much only use the mini ones with an applicator) so I think its just me Blush

geordie I do sometimes though I prefer the washable ones - they are much more comfy! Only at night in general.

MyNameIsInigoMontoya · 23/01/2011 22:44

Well I really WANT to like mine (relatively new still so I am still trying to get the hang of it), and I do like lots of things about it, but at the same time can see why some people might not go for it.

The main things I am still struggling with are:

Can't usually seem to get it high enough, so the end of it keeps poking me and gets very uncomfortable at times - even though I have cut off pretty much the entire stem already (this is the big one that makes me want to throw it out at times!).

I haven't yet found a nice way around the washing-it-out-in-sink thing - even when I'm at home, it seems gross to wash it out in the sink we all use for teeth cleaning etc, and I don't want to have to clean the sink every time I empty it!

And whoever said about not being able to get the blood to flush away, I have had that problem too, the stubborn red pool that just won't disappear...

That said there are things about tampons/pads that I don't like as well, so I will probably keep trying for a bit longer, but would love to know what to do about those niggles!

StealthPolarStuckSpaceBar · 23/01/2011 22:45

oh I see sorry then
(You do sometimes have to push a lot harder than you would with a tampon, even if the fold seems not quite right)
but it sounds like a problem I can't solve :)

purpleknittingmum · 23/01/2011 22:48

I am trying to think how to describe how I fold mine....I just sort of push one bit in and then the other end is a sort of point, so it goes in point bit first!

StealthPolarStuckSpaceBar · 23/01/2011 22:49

they are both described in the booklet - never got the hang of pointy myself!

tyler80 · 23/01/2011 22:52

Put toilet paper down the toilet first then empty the mooncup should avoid the blood sinking to the bottom of the toilet and staying there.

Can't help you on the sink thing, I don't see anything wrong with swishing it down the plughole with water, why would you need to clean the sink afterwards?

I have no stem at all, my cervix is very low during my period and the mooncup only just fits and is right up against cervix with cervix sort of inside mooncup if that makes sense. I can imagine that there must be some women who just don't have enough room for a mooncup.

(the diagram on the mooncup website is very poor as it makes it look like you can get about 3 mooncups between vaginal opening and cervix!)

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