to think Mooncups???!!!! WTF?????

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well, am I?

Daisy, if you can remember to change a tampon you can remember to empty your mooncup

and if you forget, you won't get toxic shock

Sounds like it wasn't properly in and sealed, Don'tCallMe

did you twist a bit to make sure it was completely unfurled, and run your finger round the outside etc? Was it nice and low down?

wrong position, i'd say.

They're terrific. So much less hassle than tampons.

Towels are just disgusting, IMO.

Boak.

The only time I have ever used those is afer childbirth and they just grossed me out.

Like a giant, smelly nappy.

And I can't imagine how they affect the environment.

Eeewwww.

pmsl at the menstruating druids!

Can somebody answer me what happens to your the contents of your mooncup when you are sleeping? Does it all just flow back into where it came from?

This thread has prompted me to order my first mooncup, which I'd been contemplating for a while... bit nervous, though...

scary you live up yo your name!!

It just sits in there, Starry. When you get up in the morning you empty it.

Scary - do you sleep upside down? Like a bat?

Yes, but if you use a tampon or a towel, it is soaked up by something, right? But if you use a mooncup, when you lie down it will empty itself back in to you? so you have all this blood that otherwise would have drained out going back into your uterus?

and this is where my struggle to comprehend and fall in love with the idea of mooncup lies...

Habbibu, no, I sleep on my back, or on my side. And if I lay a cup with liquid sideways, unless you have filled it with a gelling agent, it runs out, it does not stay in the cup

Has no-one mentioned that they were invented in the 1920's or 30's? Just think how much money the multinationals would not have made on san. products by now if everyone knew about them!
I had a Keeper too but traded it in for a Mooncup after a few years and a baby, as I thought it looked more aesthetic, the Keeper is brown rubber. Works just the same tho.
Go on, just try one, you've very little to lose!

no, i think it kinda does go back. certainly gravity is what makes it go into the mooncup. it is an odd thing to describe but you do feel like you are just having your period with minimal intervention. so it's like an 'absence' of stuff (towels, tampons, dryness etc) more than the 'presence' of a cup, iykwim? plus i need to empty it less often than i did with tampons, so for example you don't get that 'erk' and flying to the loo, you just get into the habit of emptying it when you're goiing to the loo for a slash anyway.

It's just in your vagina, probably still in the cup mostly

I wouldn't do a shoulder stand with one in, I admit

Sorry, scary - am feeling just a bit too frivolous tonight...

I think that's why Boots don't do much to promote them. They make a fortune from women popping in for tampons every month, and happening to pick up a lipstick or a face cream or whatever. I one of payment for a mooncup is going to lose them loads of money.

Scary - surely the blood would only go back up if you were standing on your head. Just lying down wouldn't cause blood to travel back.

I love mooncup thread

I have had mine for years. It predates mumsnet in my life. (It was a birthday present from my best friend) DP noticed it about two months ago
Oh, and swimming is fine once you are used to using it.

yes, back into your vagina. i can't think why it would manage to pour itslef back up over the rim of your cervix and into your uterus. plus... if your cervix is soft and open it probably would close over when you are lying down asleep anyway. too much??!

Actually, thinking more seriously here - if I have a tampon in overnight, there's generally not much on it first thing, so I wonder if it's not so much that it drains back overnight, but rather that it just hangs about in your uterus until you stand up and move around. Or am I just rephrashing Aitch's post?

I think I'm convinced enough to have a go.

Are Boots still selling them for 50p?

Boco, I cant see how it should NOT travel back if I lay flat.

Why dont you try and fill yours with water and lie it sideways down on the table and see what happens with the water?

Come on, who is game for that experiment?

Do you mean back into your vagina, Scary, or into your uterus?

Sorry guys, I am not trying to argue, I am just curious, as I am contemplating getting one....

And my towels are usually quote soaked in the morning, sorry sorry if tmi

Franny, back into where ever is just "behind" the mooncup.