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

[SpookyBearistheSpookyBear]

well, am I?

ScaryScaryNight the talk of cartwheels and 'sloshing about' and 'going back in' has convinced me that I am NOT being unreasonable.

Now a vibrating mooncup, that could be interesting.

Yeah, they exist, they look a little like mooncups, but you put them in the other way around, cant think what they are called though. Trampolining Bunny? Jumping Rabbit?

There is no risk of toxic shock that's been found - it's made of silicone which as far as I know is almost impossible to be allergic to. If you sterilise it at the end of each month, that will limit any possible bacterial infection too.
I thought mooncups sounded the most disgusting thing on God's clean earth when I was told about them. I love it now though! I haven't met anyone who hasn't been converted once they've tried it for a month or two.
And incidentally I sterilise mine in one of those Lindam reusable microwave steriliser bags. 3 minutes and ready to go.

no really, spookie. you ARE being unresonable. and silly, if you don't mind be saying. but anyway, what does your DH think, since he's in charge?

unreasonable

If you'd had period pain worse than labour (yes, really) and three surgeries for endometriosis, you'd try anything.

This time and last time (about 6 months in to using a mooncup), instead of the shedloads of prescription painkillers I used to take, I have taken two paracetamol. And I probably could've managed without those. I was just being wussy.

Lighter flow, period lessened in length by two or three days, no leaks - need I go on?

hi hunni how ya doin?

PMSL Hunker and Aitch. Are you wearing your fluffy pink cheerleader pom poms today?

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13 days and 2 hours til my DH boils my mooncup in the egg pan

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Call me unreconstructed or whatever, but I think of the keys to a successful marriage has got to be remaining attractive to your partner.

If that means not boiling pans of used mooncups on the conjugal hob, then so be it .

ONE of the keys

It is a bit like opening wide and scratching the scrotum, isnt it?

oh ffs it's nothing like that whatsoever. i take it your partner wasn't at the birth of your child?

once again, just to remind you... it's just a clean bit of silicone in water, you're not boiling a cauldron of blood and guts stew.

LOL it IS my egg pan Aitch

You know, I seem to have just about managed to remain attractive to dp despite the fact that not only does he know I menstruate, but he has actually SEEN the sanitary protection I use to deal with it

I know this may be hard to believe

it's cringeworthy, the idea that we should hide these things from our DPs in order to remain attractive to them... really, i find that infinitely more embarrassing than a panful of boiling water and a CLEAN mooncup.

Well sure he was at the births. But that's a primal, miraculous, agonizing, wonderful time, separate from everyday life's mundanities.

And he kept to the head end!

I still keep my tampon box at the back of the bathroom cupboard.

I know you clean the mooncup before boiling it, but it surely must destroy any aura of feminine mystique?

And no, I'm not being ironic.

QV, am decidedly ed that you don't use one already. Would it be too weird to get you one as a wedding gift ?

Ooh - I do believe I may be being converted. what's it like when swimming?

PS Aitch. Your new name is hurting my eyes...

Spooky - have you never been ill? I should think that seeing your snot/vomiting/diarrhoea/anything else would destroy feminine mystique much more than a silicone cup. Or maybe I just never had any to start with?

Have said this on here before but at risk of being a bore, I am a total convert and in the second month of using one I ran a half marathon (not a natural runner so it took me nearly 3 hours!) and no leaks or discomfort.

I have never been ill and I never fart.

Truly, you are a laydee, Spooky, and I bow in awe of your feminine mystique.