The grossest Mooncup-related question ever: really, do not read if averse to TMI and a bit squeamish

[Pruni]

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poor overrun! go and see someone asap. and don't be sarcastic re boots!!!!! respect! for me non british that i am, boots is an institution!!!!! how quickly can you get an appointment? do you have some handy iron tablets? that would help with heavy bleeding and tiredness etc.

does a mooncup work with large clots? I find I can't really use tampons with my periods because (far far TMI) the clots aren't absorbed so just sit on top of the tampon so when it's pulled out, it's practically like opening the floodgates.

I can't get a handle on the mooncup size. I passed a huge clot today - probably the width of three fingers and the length of my foot - would that fit in it?

and I only feel happy posting because you have all been gross aswell

Don't think a Mooncup is going to catch clots that big, fox.

Broken record moment: have you seen someone about that?

It doesn't sound normal to pass clots that big.

hellfire, foxinsocks, you top trumped the clot I passed today and I thought I was going to have to beat that to death with a big stick!

They do sell them here in Australia and I'm gonna get me one. Hurrah! Goodbye pads and tampons!

yes, you know my history expat - they see me coming through the surgery doors and all the good GPs run away

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can i just add that this has been such an informative thread!!! i have never ever spoken with my mum like that!
and foxinsocks....does not sound normal to me either... not a gyne myself but bloody hell (if I may...) that is impressive and worthy of being in the guiness i agree.

excellent suzy! must say, I was surprised by this one - I was so impressed that I contemplated taking a picture of it but didn't want to touch it to get it into a photo friendly position (and then thought, who on earth would really want to see it!)

I am totally grossed out by the thought of mooncups .. but may I ask a question

so you're supposed to empty them and rinse them out .. what if you're in a public convenience then .. are you supposed to come out and use the public sinks

Overrun, completely agree with expat re going back to your GP. Such heavy bleeding at your age should be investigated and the appropriate treatment given asap.

Pick up the phone and make that appointment!!

wow, have to agree that was one hell of a clot, now thats not a sentence that I ever thought I would type!

Nanou1 - I do take iron tablets sometimes, but god they are awful. Constipation is a nightmare, think the blood loss I get from piles make me aneamic again.

How does that do on the tmi front?

foxinsocks.... you were kidding right?! was just looking at my foot and the width of 3 fingers... and no... not that busy at work

Overrun, try Spatone sachets. You just mix them w/juice or water. MUCH better than iron tablets. I was prescribed those whilst pregnant, and quit taking them b/c they made me vomit.

Then my haemo levels were just in the toilet when trusty ol' MN came through and someone suggested Spatone.

You can get them in Holland & Barretts and some Boots.

yes that or trusty old Floradix - both v good

Mercy and expat - will go to gp, but don't know about anyone else, but I always seem to be at gp's either for myself, or for the children. I am pretty motivated to follow up my various health complaints (non of them deadly tg, but a pain never the less), but I sort of get dr fatigue after a while. Not for the children but for me, and sometimes you need to chase things up and I get distracted or lose energy.

Thats why these sorts of threads are so good, because you think "right I am going to sort this out!"

that's the one. floradix..could not remember the name.

i am the same overrun... very naughty not to look after ourselves though...... still have not gone for my smear since dd's birth - am utterly dreading it...

I'm getting behind here, never heard of spatone sachets but will look them up.

By the way think anaemia is partly down to pph after the twins birth, never quite got back to normal levels, but I am only borderline now, so will try these sachets and see what happens

A mooncup is much smaller than a baby.

The thing about clots is that if it can't 'catch it', it's not going to get past it either. So the clot will come out when you change the mooncup anyway IYSWIM.

Nanou1 - it's so boring waiting for ages in a gps surgery isn't it, and then I have to take all three most of the time, and then it's a nightmare getting the double buggy in, as you say it is easy to let yourself put it off

I think if you have the sort of GP where you know you are going to have to plead to have any tests done or get a referral (and I found my GP recommended the mirena and when it didn't suit me and I wanted it out, was completely disinterested in me afterwards - as if, well you didn't go with what we said....) then you have to go without the kids - get your partner or someone else to look after them.

It is impossible to have a 'proper' talk to the GP when you have lots of small children with you!

you've got to see a gynaecologist about that, overrun (just to add to the chorus...). My mum was fobbed off by her GP for ages - turned out to be fibroids and she'd suffered needlessly for years (vast clots, v v painful periods, anaemia, fainting etc).

HC, is that an announcement??