To collect all my menstrual stuff in a bottle?

[MOIST]

Just to see exactly how much there is lost?

I have a new cup so I'm a bit intrigued by it all. Does anyone else have a FemmyCycle? It's a shit name but it's a special 'low cervix' version for fat old people with a falling out uterus.

Anyway. Having taken to bleeding what feels like 4 litres every month I'd like to know how much it really is so propose a bit of a collection.

I think that would be interesting. It feels like loads but like Furry said, is apparently not that much.

😛😳😳😳😳😳😱😱😱😱😱😱😱. Op op yuck.

Aeroflot, she said she'd measure it, not drink it

jaysis wasn't the couple of spoonfuls in relation to how much actual blood you lose (as opposed to uterus lining etc)? I vaguely remember reading that, it was to reassure you that the actual blood was a tiny amount, even if you 'bleed' copiously.

Ooh I had to stop using my mooncup because of bloody fibroids. I didn't know there were lower down ones!
Yanbu op. If I do get a new cup I might join you and put it on the garden as a pp suggested

I'm super interested for some reason.

If I Was a cup user I'd think about doing this as well. It's weird but also kind of interesting

Tablespoon = 15ml, even in the 80s! They always say a small amount of blood goes a long way..............

I think those books were minimising.

I think they did that experiment on Embarassing Bodies or whatever it was called (the one with the rather beguiling Dr Christian).

PurpleMcPants

Probably it was actual blood they measured, rather than other product but that's seriously misleading. The other things they totally misled us all on was the colour and consistency. I knew what blood looked like, fuck knows I had permanent scabs on my knees in childhood, but that first period was brown and lumpy and nothing like blood.

They massively minimised everything!

Mooncup user here and I thoroughly approve

On a related note, I used to be amazed by DS2's urine output and once used an old baby bottle to measure just how much pee had emerged from him. I was amazed to discover that his bladder was holding more than twice the expected volume for a child his age ([Age + 1]*30 if you're interested)

He used to drink an awful lot!!

You might be better off weighing than measuring (because of losing some as you pour from the cup into a measuring container). You could weigh with tampons or towels too. - just weigh whatever you use before hand and subtract that weight from the end measurement.

I agree with the poster who says measure and record the amount as you go. Don't store it in a bottle or you'll have to take it with you when you're out, plus it's rank.

Dunno how big the tablespoons were in the 80's. Maybe they meant ladlespoons

Oh my god yes. Not the massacre in the toilet bowl I get.

Definitely interesting to know.

I had a gynae op recently and asked the surgeon to take a pic of what she removed. Few raised eyebrows, but she obliged. Won't be using it as my profile pic on Facebook though.

That's so gross .... but I'm intrigued!! Let us know! Don't they say it's like 2 tablespoons or something which is bollocks!

Twerp by using my mooncup I discovered that I lost that amount during the first 24 hours of my period!!

moist is it getting clottier too? (sorry TMI!!) mines getting horrid these days. Lovely to have periods i can rely on (ie every 28 days instead of varying each month from 30 to 65 days apart) but they are heavier

I remember being told it was an egg cup full. ... definetively not! !

This is all a bit Angelina Jolie!

Surreyblah, that's the first time in my life I've been compared to AJ.

Blobby [shock}

oops, shock fail

Don't waste it on the garden, make menstrual art.

STOP THE PRESS!!

There's a menstrual holder for someone with a low cervix and uterus that's trying to escape?

I used to love my mooncup but then I had massive babies and now they no longer work.

Is FemmeCycle the answer????

Now I'm tempted to as well! My cup fills to the brim at least 3 times in 24 hours for the first three days of my period. Plus measuring things is cool - when I was in hospital with a swollen kidney they made me wee into a jug for about a week and it was fascinating to see how much I actually wee in a day.

It's definitely not an egg cup full - that's about the size of my Squooncup (or whatever the flipping thing is called). I reckon maybe 3 or 4 egg-cups over a period?