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

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well, am I?

Well I haven't actually managed to help, but the thought was there

if you get it sorted will you let me know? In case someone else has the same problem in future, then I could be of use to them

Read the mooncup website but was never really convinced, but having read most of this thread I'm a convert...nearly

Do you need a good pelvic floor to keep a mooncup in?

I'm worried about cutting the stem - how far do you need to cut it down? If you cut it too much is it £20 down the drain? Presumably you cut it flat across and not at an angle?

"Read the mooncup website but was never really convinced, but having read most of this thread I'm a convert...nearly"

YAY! I'll claim this one, Aitch

"Do you need a good pelvic floor to keep a mooncup in? "

erm, that would be a NO on my part

"I'm worried about cutting the stem - how far do you need to cut it down? If you cut it too much is it £20 down the drain? Presumably you cut it flat across and not at an angle"

You just kind of cut it off, it is only a narrow little thing. You would have to try quite hard to put a hole in the MC by cutting the stem off. It isn't as tricky as it sounds, honest.

I will let you know if i get sorted... but i think it really is something to do with peeing... last time i tried to remove it before i peed, it was a mile up.. then after pee, it was much lower down !

will let you know though.. and you HAVE helped me. in being the final catalyst for my decision in the first place !

I am scared now

don't tell me any more about the peeing thing

oh, ok .. sorry

Duchesse, how many cycles have you been using your mooncup?

I've found my periods getting progressively lighter with each cycle. Has been six or seven now and a DEFINITE improvement from the start - Aitch and Franny will probably remember the thread I posted about it a while back.

I hope you find the same.

just to add, it was everyone on this thread that helped me finally decide to get my mooncup. not just you, if thats what is scary? i just meant, i'd been thinking about it for ages and this made my mind up...

susie sorry, I was just feeling mischievous

you didn't scare me at all, I was just trying to be funny

Hunker, I certainly do remember

You big clotty ladies have my utmost sympathy

will you give me a slap? I have upset susie while trying to be funny

oh my pleasure

you know I thought you were some ruddy name changer who had done that to duff me up

should have recognised that gleam of kinky glee

do it again

Are they still on offer in Boots? Am seriously considerine trying one, but £20 sounds like a lot atm.

Under £15 inc delivery from bodykind on the net

Stupid question but how do you get from the loo to the sink to wash it out without making a mess on the bathroom floor?

The same way you carry a cup of tea from your kitchen to your living room.

No, I am thinking about leaks from myself. If I emptied the mooncup into the loo and walked across to the sink to wash it, I wouldn't be wearing one inside me so surely I would leak all over the floor?

Stuff a bit of toilet paper in your pants and shuffle across?

I don't know, it isn't a problem for me as my period is light. Would you leak in the time it took you to get to the sink?

Yes I would. Perhaps I can now see the attraction of those horrible bidet things.

Would the toilet paper thing work? It doesn't take long to wash it, then you could put it straight back in.

Sorry, and about the cup of tea thing. I thought you meant, how do you carry it to the sink without spilling it

Hunker- about ten cycles, although I didn't use it during my summer holiday camping in France/ Spain cycle in August. They have got marginally lighter, in that I only bleed like a stuck pig for the first 36 hours now vs first three days before. In fact my periods have got altogether shorter. That might just be because I am an elderly lady of nearly 40 with fertility problems, though.

nospeak- I do that toilet paper thing that F&Z mentions. This I learned after the first cycle and having to mop up...

luckily i have a very small loo. i can reach the bath taps from a seated position. i'm like jim'll fix it with his chair.
wipe the cup first with loo roll, and do a few kegels to expel any blood that's hanging around and wipe yourself and Suck In. that works for me if i'm elsewhere.
i'm totally with susiecutie btw, i completely know what she means about the peeing. i'm increasingly convinced that franny has a funny fanny. she once accused me of having a cervix like a fork-lift truck swooshing down and grabbing my mooncup, susie. although i was forced to agree, that is kinda what it's like.

Oi

leave franny's fanny out of it

nowt wrong up there, you big forklifter