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

[HowlingBitch]

I watched this song

What the flippity fuck?

Mooncup convert here. Wish I'd found them years ago. And you can use it to drink shots in the off weeks.

issynoko - ewww... think I have just changed my mind again!

OK. I might give it a go then... thank you!

I am a fan- you can practically forget you are having a period. But I have to say that I had a nasty attack of cystitis last night, and I think it was because I had left the mooncup in too long, and it was putting pressure on my urethra.

Ok so I am using newly purchased mooncup & I'm finding that it seems to be a bit tilted to one side when in. Also I am having some very minor leakage. Do these things indicate I have it inserted in the wrong place or that I have a rather large vag & require the bigger size?

Anyone any advice?

I love my Mooncup, but I'm joining the thread just to congratulate Lost and proffer her some fresh ping pong balls.

Buns - you probably just need a bit of practice putting it in. I got the hang of mine - you just need to RELAX and sort of push it in until it wants to stop moving. You can always take it out and try again - trying to adjust once in is not v easy for me at least :)

Do you feel it ping open, Buns? I agree with Elephants that it's quite hard to adjust once in, so when I was still perfecting my technique I tended to rinse and repeat rather than furtling for too long.

So let me get this straight, you can use a mooncup when you're not technically on with no ill effect? Because my periods stop and start, from heavy to nothing and back again all in the span of a few hours which makes tampons a faff and a half. I'm spending a fortune on multi size packs and various types of pads! If someone tells me a mooncup is going to solve this for me I'm sold!

Pocketsocks it's one of the things i like most about them. I start off ridiculously heavy, then have nothing for 12 hours and then it's time for the encore. I don't need to worry about the timing of this with a mooncup

Ok thanks viola & elephants I will persevere before admitting I have need a big one

I love my mooncup & my femmecup.

I have to say, that my femmecup is easier to use(in/out shake it all about )

I am over 30 and have had 3 elcs, the fit just seems alot better with Femmecup.

It took me a while to get used to using m/f cups and all that stringy blood. sorry TMi.

I don't have really bad cramps anymore and i'm sure the bleeding isn't so heavy.

On another note, i do find my m/f cups on action mans head sitting on the edge of the bath.(OH joke HA Ha )

Yep, i agree, it's easier if you rinse first in water, leg up on bath/loo seat and fold in half and mind your pubic bone!!

OakMaiden I scuba dive and no probs.

RunAway I have a tilted Uterus and not a problem with the cup which i find less messy than tampons/pads.

Pockets mine is almost always in situ with no probs.

If it leaks, take it out and try again Buns or furtle about a bit, i can half pull mine out and resite often with no probs. I also sit wide legged on loo seat as can't get a good angle standing.

Sorry about the UTI Bits

Very interesting, can anyone give me a link, or tell me where i can buy a mooncup. Thanks.

thePanthanKhansWOman just google it. I got mine for local independent healthfood store. Boots will order one for you.

Tell me something...anyone used the mooncup while TTC? Was trying to stop the semen falling out, do you reckon it helps?

BTW I always (after making sure there is no queue) use the accessible loo if I am in desperate need of a change and am out and about, so I am near a sink. This happens about once every two or three months and may well cause a riot on here

I got mine from Boots, off the shelf, no need to order

Yep me too off the shelf in boots £19.50 I think.

Well that's me off to boots this weekend then! Thanks ladies!

I got mine in Boots as well, as long with a hushed conversation from the women who sold it to me saying she'd been too scared to try one and would I report back. I thought of doing so but was worried I would approach the wrong assistant and she would think I was a weirdo.

TMI but am using mine now and it is just BRILLIANT. One of those days where I keep feeling like period has started but it hasn't quite IYKWIM. I don't have to worry about horrible dry tampons eerggghh have just popped it in and now don't have to worry.

Most brilliant thing is the not having to carry stuff around with you, empty handbag with more room for crap and none of that awkward wandering off to the toilet at work with a bag!

Sprinkles can't hurt

Braw i use accessible loo for a hidden condition so don't stress :)

I bought one this afternoon via thisisyesterday's link very excited. Just described it to dh, face was a picture

Rubbish song. Seriously, I'm quite concerned about the automatic association between substandard 'burlesque' routines and perfectly unremarkable aspects of female physiology these days. It's sold to us as sort of post-feminist liberation, ooh, let's be risque and retro and sing about vaginas, or breastfeeding. But WHY? Why does it take someone with a vintage hairdo and a crushed velvet corset to say something public about breastfeeding or menstruation?

Ok, that aside, Mooncups are fab. Never looked back since I started with one well before my MN years, about 2002 I think it was. No trouble, no smell, practically no mess. You can't feel them in.

I do think Catgirl came in for a lot of stick earlier on though. She's not exactly the only woman to flush her tampons (and now she knows not to! ). Before Mooncup, I flushed mine. I'm afraid I didn't do even the elementary bit of thinking about what happened to them - I assumed they weren't a problem for Thames Water because everyone else did it, right? Then a close friend bent my ear about mooncups and beaches being polluted, and I cringed, and bought one.