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To think I was going to buy a Mooncup until...

199 replies

HowlingBitch · 15/07/2011 18:12

I watched this song

What the flippity fuck?

OP posts:
FuzzpigFourFiveSix · 15/07/2011 18:58

Erm, peeriebear, if the tampons are actually shitty as you say, their users may have inserted them wrongly :o

thisisyesterday · 15/07/2011 19:02

as far as i'm aware they are not sold as flushable, they normally tell you to bin them

Takver · 15/07/2011 19:06

neverontime, just getting it in the right place, I guess (oh, and for the first 2 months I had the wrong size, that didn't help either).

I suspect that tampon wearers would probably find it much easier to get on with a mooncup immediately, but I've never used them, always pads before.

basingstoke · 15/07/2011 19:08

Flushable doesn't mean should be flushed.

catgirl1976 · 15/07/2011 19:09

mmm will try and have a policy re-think then.

oneofsuesylvesterscheerios · 15/07/2011 19:12

Flushing tampons is MINGING (or MINGEING? Grin)
Just wrap it in a bit of loo roll and put in bin (or nappy bag)
What's inconvenient about that?

thisisyesterday · 15/07/2011 19:12

flushable means it can physically go down the toilet

some nice pics here of all the "solids" that people flush that cause a problem

but the health implications are just vile.

as you can read here

although i don't lnow why i bother as catgirl already knows, and does it anyway.

what is so difficult about bagging and binning it?

neverontime · 15/07/2011 19:12

Takver so if you dont get them positioned right i assume they leak?

ChocolateTeacup · 15/07/2011 19:14

Don't flush tampons, of course the tampon company and those affiliated will say its fine but its revolting

It will either:

Block your own plumbing
Cause issues and general scankness at the treatment plant
Be picked up by a lovely little child asking their parent's what's this on the beach

Mooncups are the way to go

catgirl1976 · 15/07/2011 19:15

Well what's difficult is I have never seen any bags in public / work loos. But I have said I will have a policy re-think.

thisisyesterday · 15/07/2011 19:18

yes, it would be nice if places did provide bags. it's ok if you have a sanitary towel because you just wrap it in the wrapper of the new one, but can see that tampons are not so easy unless you use a whole load of toilet paper

catgirl1976 · 15/07/2011 19:20

I actually didnt realise they got out of the sewarage system tbh. Knew they could cause blockages but wasn't that concerned, but apparantly if there are floods they can so...I will try to bin not flush where there is the facility.

BooyHoo · 15/07/2011 19:21

is it really a step too far to actually think ahead and put a couple of nappy sacks in your bag/pocket when you have your period? even toilet roll would do if you get caught by surprise. i dont buy the "no bags provided in public loos" as a valid reason for flushing. it's lazy.

catgirl1976 · 15/07/2011 19:23

What pocket? You may have noticed, womens suits do nothave pcokets - just those annoying crappy fake ones sewn on to the outside.

BooyHoo · 15/07/2011 19:24

i also said bag. you carry tampons in your bag if you have no pocket, why is it beyond your logic to put in a nappy sack when you put in a tampon?

catgirl1976 · 15/07/2011 19:26

Fuck it. I am going to the beach nearest to you and LITTERING it with used tampons. I was very open to changing my behaviour as other posters have given me information, but you have been rude and annoyed me.

BooyHoo · 15/07/2011 19:29

dont be an idiot. are you honestly saying you are refusing to try a mooncup now to spite some stranger off the internet? age not shoesize please.

catgirl1976 · 15/07/2011 19:33

No. I was never going to try a mooncup - its not something I was ever going to do. I was happily taking on some information from posters but your tone is so smug, self righteous and uppity that I have lost interest in investigating whether I should change my behaviour or not as I am unlikely to take any advice from someone with your attitude.

Nice work.

Clarabumps · 15/07/2011 19:35

can I just hijack the thread back to the mooncup and ask..how often do you empty it and do you give it a wash every time. Do you have to sterilise it?

MrsKravitz · 15/07/2011 19:36

I have always flushed tampons. I didnt realise you couldnt until being on here. I have only been in the country about 5 years though and where I was from previously it wasnt a thing.

neverontime · 15/07/2011 19:37

clarabumps good question. what if you're out and it needs changing, do you have to wash it before you replace it?

TurnipCake · 15/07/2011 19:37

Come on catgirl, don't spit the dummy just because of a few comments on the internet, it'll be you who doesn't come well out of this. If you recycle etc then surely you can make a couple of minor adjustments, even if it's halving the amount of tampons that you flush - it's better than no change at all.

MeriNisipPoissons · 15/07/2011 19:37

Howling it is fab, especially if you (like me) have clotty loss.

RevoltingPeasant · 15/07/2011 19:38

Mooncups are GREAT Grin

Seriously. They do take a couple of periods' worth of use to get into, but then, iirc, so did Tampons, but it was just so many years ago you don't remember the ickiness of picking the wrong size accidentally, leaving it in too long etc.

Mooncups are good for you, not just the environment - both my friend and sister whom I've converted swear they get fewer pains with their periods.

My period is also shorter with the mooncup - really - I think it's because Tampons keep 'leaching' moisture out of you after the blood/ tissue is soaked up, so your body 'compensates' by producing more fluid. Whatever, my period used to be 4-5 days and is now 3. Also, it doesn't matter if you leave it in for a while, and if you are regular, because it doesn't 'leach' like a Tampon, you can put it in early and then - voila - no stains/ mess!

Would never, ever go back - PLUS I never have to buy anything from Tampax/ Always again, ever!! £17.99 is it, all I spend on periods for ever...