to ditch my mooncup because it stinks of rotting dead bodies?

[fanjolina]

I've tried, I really have tried to get in with the mooncup.

I've got over the ickiness of blood on my hand (and all over the bathroom when it once 'pinged' whilst full).

But my god, by day 5 - the smell!! It seriously stinks like rotting dead bodies. And it's the mooncup itself (I did a sniff test).

Others can smell it too. I was getting weird looks on the bus this morning and at work today people have been commenting on a foul smell.

I swear that apart from the rubber mooncup my vagina is as fresh as a daisy. It's not rotten - but the mooncup is.

So AIBU to ditch it and return to tampons?

OK, ignore my morning and night thing - or just pop in a lunch one too
(in my defence, I do do it more often most of the time as I work from home & it's easy for me, but know that's not the case for everyone)

But it's 8 hours due to the build up of bacteria - that smell is exactly what you said, it's rotting, breaking down.

Why remove the higher tss risk of tampons only to endanger yourself again by prolonged contact with it? I don't really understand.

Anyway. Whatever you're happy to do.

I didn't read the booklet - just cut off the stem (MN advice), plopped it in, and off I went

Sorry oohaveabanana that was a cross post, not directed at you.

Thanks for charming thread title!

god I luff MN! Imagine that as a conversation opener in the playground!

Not to derail, but can anyone tell me what happened to the woman who found a 10" inch worm that fell out of her arse the other week? TIA

So is the general consensus ( auto correct changed that to venereal consensus!) that IABU cos I am inadvertently a rank skank?

Oops!!

Blimey! No wonder it stunk! I feel really sorry for the people with you on the bus and at work.

I love MN too maters. I seriously had no idea I was mooncupping wrongly.

And no, I haven't heard the outcome of the arse worm.

no offence taken, Bursar!

Tut tut, mooncup amateur! I haven't tried one yet, my toilet is separate to my bathroom, and I'm worried about coming out with a sloppy cup of blood in front of DCs!

Damn, am worried about worm arse woman now

Haha I was reading through the first page thinking, this can't be right surely? I've got really heavy periods and my moon cup has never smelled!

But I see you've found your problem

Yep, there's your problem! Just change it more often.

I see you have solved your problem ;)

But for a super fresh cup, get this, I don't feel right if I don't clean it with soap, but don't want to use ordinary hand soap, so I use this instead, is expensive but lasts forever, as you only use a drop at a time.

Arse worm eh? A ten incher!

Lol venereal!

Inadvertant rank skank My own episode was a looong while back when I went to my gp because I had lost a tampon - I had tried everything at home and couldn't even see it. It was only after he'd been rumaging around my cervix for a minute or two that it horrifyingly dawned on me that it wasn't lost - it was in the bin, I'd taken it out and obviously not quite concentrated so had forgotten in the midst of the panic of not finding it later on. I was such a chicken I just lay there and nodded mutely when he said it must be out somewhere but not to worry. It still makes me go hot with shame!

I don't change it as regularly as I should towards the end of the period, and it does get a bit wiffy. Only smells when I take it out though, not when it's in.
I always wash it out well with handsoap (doesn't cause me irritation) and rinse and dry and put back in. At the end of the period I don't sterilise, but soak in very hot water with washing up liquid.

I love that people never willing to try the mooncup come on here to say now they are put off it completely. Like they needed an excuse. Never understood why some people are so horrified by using a mooncup.

OP what are you like. Im slightly thinking that this has to be a wind up.

The Arse Worm lady never returned to update after she was given the meds.

But to be fair, surely there wouldnt be that much to update?

I wish it was a wind up, as I'm quite horrified that I'm the problem!!

Of course, if I'm outed in RL I will claim it to be a wind up as I don't want my friends realising I'm a skank.

I don't have to admit my skankiness to DH do I?

Admit it? Doesn't he have a sense of smell then?

Oh yes he's whiffed it (I made him do the sniff test too) but he thinks the mooncup itself is the problem - not me!

Yuck. Just that.

Yuck.

Poor Op - accidental skankiness is not fun

You made your husband sniff your unemptied unclean mooncup?

He sniffed your dirty mooncup??! That's love right there.

I had emptied it!! And rinsed it with water. But it still whiffed.

I got him to sniff the mooncup and my lady bits to confirm it was the mooncup that smelt rotten

There are no words....