Mooncups evangelists thread

[FrannyandZooey]

I was asked to start this, honest.

Come and share a sisterly cup of organic carrot juice and tell us why you love yours.

Is it wrong of me to feel mildly excited about mine arriving soon?

(little things please little minds etc)

I haven't had a lighter or less painful period since using mine (second cycle) but I used to hate that dry/shedding tampon feeling towards the end of the cycle. It always put my teeth on edge...so, Mooncup is tonnes better. Plus, I have spent £18, but not spent at least £10 on tampons, so it will soon have paid for itself.

yeauch, you've just given me the heebie-jeebies thinking about dragging out a dry tamp...

The twisting sounds like it will hurt. Does it??
Also when you cut the tail off will that not make a hole in the end like in an ice cream cone?? If not , what is the point of the tail??

Lastly whats happened to Quote of the week? Its not on the home page any more.

"bear down and twist"???

bloody hell, aitch, is that whats called for?

PMSL @ Greensleeves, 'fanny like a clown's pocket' HA HAAAAAAAAAAA!

The tail is to aid removal, it's not hollow.

The tail is to aid removal, it's not hollow.

FMF It will come soon, I promise (will post Monday absolute latest)

Filly I never do any of that bearing down nonsense. Somebody once told me I should be flapping my lips while bearing down I just tug and schlurp. Sorted.

well i find that, when i'm taking the mooncup out, a spot of bearing down means that i don't have to rummage up my fanjolele to find the cup. and if you kind of pinch and twist the end of the cup it breaks the suction and it's easy to take out.
moreover, you then get to inspect the contents as it doesn't spill coming out. which, i do need to tell you ladies, is the best bit of owning a mooncup. (we don't talk about it much, but it is...)

how the feck do you flap your lips and brat down?

I am concerned I will look as though I am laying an egg.

I just rummage (minimally, as it is just sitting there after all, and my fanjo is not that roomy despite needing size B...or was it A?)

pinch to release suction and

SCHLUUUURRRRRRRRP

then the marvellous smug feeling Aitch describes of "look what I made"

i dunno, i suppose it depends how flappy your lips are (mine must be tres, tres trim). i remember reading that on the instructions about 'carefully' (yeah) parting your lips. lordy.

next question, though, given that i've actually only used mine for one cycle (hark at me with my 'bear down and pinch' chat, i'm still a novice really). so, mooncupsters, do you change your cup while sitting on the loo? i couldn't imagine doing it anywhere else (apart from the shower) but what if you drop it??!!

I am ROFL at all this

and bf at the same time

poor dd

uh

would it not float?

I stand up, aitch

(about the lips thing, apparently they meant on my face )

at mooncups in bogs. Hasn't happened to me yet, thank the Lord.

Agree utterly with Aitch that pinch n' twist (n' inspect) is the way to go.

Bought mine yesterday.

Boots Lady "so,have you used one of these before?"
Me."erm,no.
BL "well how do you know it works?"
Me "My Internet friends told me"
BL.""
Me ""

no way could I reach in there standing up.

Franny, you must be very supple

I love this thread. Particularly the image the mop bucket sized mooncup has left in my mind....

I change it over the toilet, have never dropped it.
Never tried in the shower, but will one day (bf at the moment so not had need of it for almost 18 months now.)

sugarfree

Now that is pure Quote of the Week

Message withdrawn

Those blimmin' Boots ladies... i couldn't find the mooncups so the lady went to the stockroom and came back shouting across the busy store 'I got both sizes!' before appearing beside me, pointing at DD and asking 'was that a vaginal delivery?' er, yes, thankyouverymuchforasking...

I could do it standing up, with one foot raised on the side of the bath. Not sure I want to though...what if I spilled it?

do you take your footless tights off first, franny?