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

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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?

The only time my mooncup whiffed was when I had Bacterial Vaginosis (it's fairly symptomless). The blood smelled sort of...meaty/metallic

Aside from that, it's the best thing to have ever happened to my periods :o Less pain, less mess (after the initial getting to grips with it involved a splatter incident), and just convenient.

I heart mooncup.

Disco glitter meluna cups though... this I may need to investigate!

Abra1d are you having a colonoscopy or colposcopy? With the former I'd think you don't need to worry about the mooncup...?

I sniffed my mooncup this morning because of you!

Thanks boomba for the link. still not sure though. Doesn't it spill or tip when you remove it?

Not until you tip it up over the loo.

Thanks for the half price link. Ordered

Colonoscopy. I was just worried he might somehow feel it, and wonder what the hell it was! Probably just being neurotic. Probably damn period won't appear then, anyway. I've always managed to not have a period during the last three or four I've had.

Half price Femmecup arrived today! Feel quite progressive, but it would take a braver woman than me to stick the enclosed I heart my Femmecup car sticker on my car window. Now need a period. I am just concerned - is it REALLY big enough to hold all those clots and floods?

It will. TMI below

I used to flood every time I stood up using pads. The mooncup seems to have made mine shorter and lighter. At most I have to empty 3 x a day

Yes it will.

As far as I remember it can hold 30ml most women lose about that but up to about 60ml during their entire period if your losing more than about 70ml then that would be considered to be very heavey and if its not always been that way then it may be worth getting it checked out.

You an empty as much as you like as long as its at least every 12 hours ( I personally wouldn't leave it that long)

Thank you for reassurance. Even after 30 years of periods I had no idea how much comes out. Not "gallons" after all then! The amounts are normal for me, so quite excited to find out what they are. Can't believe I am excited about my period starting.

I probably lose about 60 to 80 ml a day. I have to empty during the night a couple of times a period, is that excessive?

I'm not sure about it. A question though. How can the moon up make heavy periods lighter? Surely that depends on flow/hormones not a 'rubber' receptacle??

80ml per period is heavy bleeding Paradise so 60-80ml a day is very heavy. Does it effect you at all?

Jestrin - I've found periods less painful with a mooncup than tampons, I guess because of less irritation and no fibres being left behind. Not sure about flow though.

...I'm at end of page 1 of posts. Not easily boaked-out, really, I'm not. Rotting cat food? Over-full hospital loos on a hot day? Whole room stinking? Rotting dead bodies? Blood all over bathroom when it pinged when full?

Pass me the lilets! Fucking hell guys, really ?

I'm not sure they actually make then lighter ( but lots of users claim they do) I just think you become more aware of how much there really is as opposed to seeing a disposable pad or tampon and thinking your bleeding to death.

But I do know the way they work can often make them shorter and less painful.

Sockreturningpixie can you elaborate on how they work that they make the periods lighter/ less painful?

I think the theory is that tampons can irritate you and actually make you bleed longer. My period is shorter and lighter with a moon cup. I had to use a tampon one month because I was away and hadn't taken it with me, it felt awful, scratchy and I had cramps and a head ache.

Its the slight suction that works with your body means you cramp less.

just googled them , you are supposed to empty them daily , so no wonder it stank .

Crumble,

It quite right you are supposed to empty them at least once ever 12 hours but should really be more often.

Why would you put something which stinks back inside you? That is totally gross!

You wash it.