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.

oh yes the Wnaky Basket! One of my friends brought out a treasure basket recently and it took all my self control not to go 'Ooh, a Wanky Basket'

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they're just sea sponges. just like tampons really but with no string.

as i understand it, if you try the mooncup for three mos and really don't get on with it, the company will give you your money back.

i really love mine, AND i like knowing what comes out. it's mostly clear mucus in my case, funnily enough. still bloody, bit the mucus sinks to the bottom of the cup and the blood at the top. fascinating. and if it was men we'd ALL have to do a levels in it, guaranteed.

weeputtle - does your post about F&Z suggest that there is a second hand market in these things

I've got a mooncup. Unfortunatly for the 1st 2 days my cup overfloweth. I have to use super tampons & pads. And change hourly.

ok you lot have converted me!

Do they have ml marked on the side, so you can accurately record your flow?

Hooray Stealth!

[one of us] [one of us]

Yes, they have ml marked

Jenai - yup they do!

ignore shineon, it's only cause she's got a fanny like an upturned bucket.

I love love love my mooncup. After reading about it on MN for years, I finally bought one in March this year. I adore it. I feel cleaner throughout my period and it is so much more comfortable than tampons. And I have never once had a leak with it.

I'm a convert. I cannot imagine every going back to disgusting tampons or pads. Bleugh.

LOL at Aitch!! Poor shiney...and poor shiney's fanny!

Why do people go on and on about tampons being such a burden on the environment, but not loo roll which also gets flushed away? I mean, we could use our hands (boak) or a washable rag (boak, boak). Tampons are only made of cotton, not nuclear waste!

Oh good lord - I was joking !

I might now be persuaded. I could add another worksheet to my menstrual cycle Excel workbook. And make pivot tables and allsorts...

You don't need to worry about waiting for people to leave so you can come out and use the sink. I haven't needed to use mine when camping yet, but if I do I'll just take a small bottle of water in with me and quickly rinse out with that over the toilet. No one need know.
(think I'll draw the line at giving it a boil up on the camping stove though ).

Good lord, there's a lot of "LOVE" and "ADORE" on this thread.

It's a period, there's a limit as to how "lovely" it is ever going to be, regardless of what you catch the damn blood in.

Decades ago, for quite a long time, I used a diaphragm and then subsequently a cap as alternatives to the pill for contraception. Learning how to fit those revealed aspects of my anatomy I wouldn't otherwise have known.

One morning, I removed the diaphragm to find that I had started menstruating during the night. I recall idly musing how fortunate it was that the diaphragm had caught the flow rather than it ending up yet again on the sheets.

Many, many years later I had a lightbulb moment, but by then it was too late. I had thrown away those barrier methods in favour of tubal ligation, but even pondered going back to family planning and telling fibs in order to get a diaphragm or cap, because that would have been a great alternative to tampons which either leaked or made me feel dry.

Of course, as I'm now post-menopausal I don't have to cope with all that. Which is just as well as I never got the hang of pivot tables.

no, not true. it has completely transformed my periods, from something that i used to DREAD into something that i feel utterly neutral about, and has removed all painful cramping from the experience. so there's something to love, totally.

DO NOT PULL!

bear down, break suction by squeezing neck of mooncup and gently twist away.

jesus. do not pull. it'll be like the texas chainsaw massacre.

I love mine too - have been using about 4 yrs (the same one) infact im wearing it now , its day one of my period and im pain free, flowing beautifully and have just been for a 30 min run and it didnt fall out in the street or slosh about or spill open - in the past my periods were heavy andpainful and now they are moderate and painfree a shorter - honestly im not shitting you they really are! I am out house 8 till 4 on work days and generally dont need to empty it but if around lunch time im naer a disabled loo with a sink in it i might givei t a rinse out so see how much is in it. The only thing i forget is after last use i always put it somewhere in a rush and although ive rinsed it i always forget about it then spend my first day of my next period hovering over the stove while it boils up.