Mooncups - how long before you need to replace?

[dollybird]

Have had mine about a year and a half and this month it kept leaking the first few days, which it has never done before, and it wasn't full to the top. Wondered if the material deteriorates through sterilising?

I've had mine for 5 years now. Mooncup claim to last for up to ten years.

Might the little holes be blocked? Mine was leaking & I cleared them with a pin, which seemed to sort it.

Mine is two years old, and I won't be replacing it anytime soon

I would expect sterilising to damage it if you boil it regularly and long.

Does it obviously leak if filled with warm water, or seem like it's changed shape?

What is a mooncup? Or don't I want to know? Would google but I refuse to google anything I have seen on MN any more

TheSinglePringle Are you new to MN?

Google it. 'Tis nothing horrifying.

Sorry for hijack, but I have a question, do you have to use a separate saucepan to boil them?

I live alone and only have two pans?

pringle it's well worth googling and not a trick at all
or if you don't trust us go onto the boots site and search mooncup as I'm sure they sell them among others

op had mine 5+ years and no troubles with it yet

weird I thought I was in my active convos. Must have clicked on something wrong

I have had mine 2 years or so - and hoping it lasts until I no longer need one......

I've had my original for 5 years and it's fine. I just bought myself a new one because the old ones looks a bit yuck. Not that anyone sees it.

And no, I don't have a separate pan. I don't even sterilise it these days - I just wash it in very hot water and sterilise every now and then if I remember

I've had mine 2 years and I've never steralised it....I wash it in very hot water though.... I must have missed that bit. Am I going to die of some horrible infection???

mine is 4 years old, i sterilise in a little bit of milton in a mug of cold water, seems to have survived so far.