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.

Sorry OP, but this thread is making me think of those TV programmes that follow house clearers called in after someone's died and they find shelves floor to ceiling full of labelled bottles of wee amongst the hoarded rubbish.

I had a gynae op recently and asked the surgeon to take a pic of what she removed. Few raised eyebrows, but she obliged.

Is it very wrong of me to want to see that photo?

Bit gutted that I'm post-menopausal and have nothing to measure.

You're lucky, mine is full to the brim within 2-3 hours first 48 hours. I'm up on average 3 times a night as well to empty

Blobby10, after years of soaking clothes chairs and mattresses the menopause made me weep woth relief. Its changed my whole life for the better. I can cope with any menopausal annoyances with no periods ever again.

Do it do it do it

I didn't get to keep the evil fibroid in a jar as they send them off to be tested. But was surprised to see it looks like a haggis. Very smooth and red.

Doc just snapped a photo on her mobile - she was ok with it as I'd asked, it's a big no no for theatre staff to take pics usually if patients are under and can't consent

At 11 pm I got another 13ml. So that makes a total of 26ml on Cycle day 1. I measured out 26ml of water in a little measuring glass I have and it's exactly the same volume as a measure of a shot in a pub. That equated to two tablespoons, with a couple of drops of water left over.

Interestingly I did notice when I had a good look at the cup, that it had separated a tad - about half a cm of what I assume was cervical mucus rested on top of the darker red blood in the bottom of the cup. never drinking a red ale again

I have a sample of my menstrual blood in a vial in a jiffy envelope in my fridge

It's a backup for the one I sent through the post that appears not to have arrived

It's part of infertility / miscarriage investigations for recurrent miscarriage - it's a test for hidden infections that analyses your menstrual blood to examine your uterine lining for infection that a clinic in Athens do

www.ivfserum.com/infection-screening/

My miscarriages are due to rubbish uterine lining and so we put me on a copper IUD and are giving me lots of hormones to try to get me to have a period. Had my first menstrual bleed in 12 months as the best Xmas present ever, so used a cup for the first time so I could collect a sample to send my period to Greece

I was so unbelievably proud to see actual menstrual blood and for me a whopping 4ml in 6h had me over the moon (it took 3 months and pills, patches and injections to get that period!!)

May be a teeny drip to you ladies but to me this was massive progress!

The fridge drawer with my period in it doesn't have any food in it, I hasten to add. It's full of syringes and fertility meds - I don't have vials of my menstrual blood stashed next to the salad!!

Oh and I've seen photos and video of my uterus, from two hysteroscopies

My consultant gave me the guided tour. I had absolutely no idea what I was looking at, but he showed me round my bits and pieces, wandering round the fundus and past the fallopian tubes....

@HoobleDooble I am exactly the same as you, up to a week after my period I still having to try to remember to act as if I still have it, in anticipation of the 'surprise' whoosh

im more grossed out by the idea of Dr Christian the mourh breather being beguiling than saving your fanny products tbh....

I was always driving up wall by 2 tablespoons of blood my ass I don't think so. A few years ago I tried to get on with mooncup but could never get it out without the pulling out open umbrella effect. But the first 24h I emptied it full x 7. Despite it telling me it could hold "the entire period". Mine are much lighter now no going out with 8xpads and tsmpons for day at work!

This is fantastic. I'm sure I bleed gallons and I seem to remember being told it was "normal to lose a few table spoonfuls" while in school.
Moist, may I ask what sort of career you have? Sorry if I've managed to miss it up these. You definitely sound like a scientist of sorts though

Im intreaged.

... placemarking!

We should all measure and then mn can finally inform the world re the 2-3Tb thing with real data! We'd have to get a good sample across ages and childbirth...

I've always wanted to see this too! They say "about a teaspoon"

A teaspoon!?? More like a forty gallon drum!

I am finally looking at being microwaved after years of blood-bath hell. It will likely be the NovaSure procedure, where a little upside down mesh wigwam gets unfurled inside your uterus and the death rays are shot up inside it.

But I have to have a biopsy first.

OP, this is important work of international significance. If the rotary dryer centrifuge doesn't work, I'm thinking a 1200 spin in the washing machine.

The advert at the bottom of my page now is 'Soak and Sleep, luxury bed and bath products'

I'm fascinated, having had some bollocks mansplaining over the years and absolutely no help when I had years of flooding awful periods.

Don't have the same problem anymore because the pill I'm on completely stopped my periods altogether, which is rather wonderful. Yet I'm terribly sad about the idea of menopause approaching, not terribly rational!

Anyway, I once did some research for a tampon manufacturer which was illuminating to say the least. Consumer research, not scientific I hasten to add. And over a decade ago. But It was really weird and the 'facts' they let drop were shocking, more fantasy than fact, and anti-feminist at their core. Made me very cross and somewhat (extremely) horrified! They had some pretty odd ideas about what you can tell about women from what product they used.

I dreamt about collecting menstrual products in a bottle last night, clearly my subconscious is very fascinated by this thread!

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

Nurses are fascinated with wee - after i'd had my operation and my catheter was out I had to wee into a cardboard pot and summon the nurse each time so she could oooh and aaah and say how clever I was.

Did you get a gold star sticker each time you did one?

Pour it in to a medicine cup and measure it then discard each time, the thought of find that in the fridge each day is too much for me!😂

That;s what it felt like! Nurse called me a "clever girl". I'm 44.

We should all measure and then mn can finally inform the world re the 2-3Tb thing with real data! We'd have to get a good sample across ages and childbirth...

This would be amazing. I'm imagining all sorts of graphs and a proper report.
I think I was told an egg cup full?