Right, you lot, you bleed from your fanjos roughly once a month...

[hunkermunker]

Yet somehow a mooncup is gross to some of you?

Why?

You could always go on the minipill/depo/mirena and avoid periods alltogether
I'm quite proud of my menstrual gunk, makes me feel like everything's working (even though I don't want more kids) and all that female empowerment stuff. And having kids has cured my phobia of stickiness ickiness (still have to buy honey in squeezy bottles though, much too sticky).

agree with bucketof: since i started ttc for dd2 and haven't been near pill, coil, depo etc I feel so much better that i'm not being 'tampered with' in anyway. using a mooncup helps with this and makes the whole thing seem much more natural and actually more bearable, weird as it might sound.

Buckets
As somebody else said on this thread this afternoon everybody can do with more education and this is true. I was thick as shit before I came on here and now I know about reusable sanitary towels, tampons and mooncups. Ive also learned a new word - fanjo.

Liesel, how come you've tried a Mooncup then if you'd never heard of one until Thursday? (is there a confused emoticon?)

LOL @ "duelling fanjos"

i cannot use hormonal contraceptives. combined pill and other such ilk are out for me b/c of my hyptertensive tendancies/family history + age.

i had 3 periods in one month on the mini-pill and broke out in cystic acne. can't do other progestesten-based b/c of history of depression.

i use the diaphragm like MB so can't say i'm the squeamish sort.

tampons flushed down the loo block it up. no, thanks.

the moon's comfortable, easy, saves money in the long run and is better for the environment.

i second bucket's question, liesel, btw. noticed it myself but refrained from posting.

i did use the pill but in the end I went over to the diaphragm and I loved it. I felt that I was totaly in control IYSWIM

I suppose I should think about a moon cup...

....but at 44 I am rather wishing the need for it would end.

31 bleeding years is bleeding enough!

MB
My mother didn't menopause till she was 53!

My paternal grandmother was 55. She had a VERY surprise baby at 47 - she had her first at 16.

Oh here we go another Liesel-bashing. I thought we were mates buckets, I even stuck up for you on another thread when they were all slagging you off.
xxx

My reason for switching to a keeper (US version of mooncup - purchased before I heard of mooncups) was due to our cess pit - you can't flush tampons, and I couldn't face thinking of them ending up in landfill.

Questions = bashing?

An MN first!

Where's that Israel thread? Is moon's formula = junk one still going??

ginger
there was once a post from a member who had a septic tank which became blocked.

her used tampons ended up in her garden along w/the other sludge.

eeeeeeeewww.

barf expat! Similarly, I hate seeing panty liners washed up on the beach.

Blimey, what's going on now?
A) What Liesel-bashing?
B) You must have a different persona you were using because I've just done a search of LieselVonTrapp's and there aint no such thread.
Who are you really?

what's with the coil and not needing the mooncup? do u stop menustrating? how long before your periods stop? right now i'm bleeding heavily since the coil was fitted. say, can you use the cup while you have the coil?

supposedly the mirena coil makes your periods stop/lighten, milli. but all that bleeding after its fitted was just too much for me - i gave it a swerve.

you certainly can use your moon whilst using the coil, however.

QE - No-one replied to your night leaking question!!! I would say its probably a mixture of being horizontal for so long, and possibly not being quite in tight enough iyswim. If there was a slight break in the seal, by the time it had enough in to be fullish when you tip it sideways, some could leak.

Can't be bothered to get into the whole flushing tampon squabble.

For all those going EWWWW - there are much more icky things out there... for example sea sponges. They work in the same way as a tampon - by absorbing, but you take them out, SQUEEZE, and wash them in the sink before putting them back in damp.

Bet the mooncup don't seem so bad now

Buckets I have one word for you - HUMOUR. Anyway couldnt give a stuff if you dont think I have a mooncup. I just thought it would impress you if I got one and I did but I cant use the chufin thing, I will get used to it I suppose. By the threads on here a lot of people have trouble the first time. So you never know in six months time I could be on here doing my lentil bashing to all these 4x4 drivers and disposable nappy users.

answer re- the coil.....

I had hideously heavy periods form after DS2 till last november. down mainly to both endometriosis and fibroids. and painful????.....couldn't stand upright on day one of EACH period and looked 6mths pregnant during each period too!!!

I now have the mirena coil and altho, yes I did bleed after the insrtion (was done under general along with fibroid removal, endo laser surgery, cervical erosion laser surgery), I now don't bleed anything heavier than needing a panty liner!.

no pain either....well, I lie.....feel a little crampy. In fact, captian flame sparrow and I are best friends and she gets my period symptoms for me.....to the day I start pmt, right thro to the day I stop. she hates me for that I believe, especially as she is currently breast feeding and so has yet to have her first period after childbirth, and she also got my sypmtoms during pregnancy too. for her, but evil mahahaha from me......

to be fair....I got her morning sickness and food aversions during pregnancy!

Am now wondering how normal this is, and whether anyone else has the same with their own bestfriends.....

hope the above answer tho re the coil helped.....

Sorry Liesel, just didn't sound like you'd only just bought it in the last few days that's all. Quick work, well done and do try again next month, you'll find it much easier.
Incidentally lots of women find they buy one and instantly get pg and can't use it so fingers crossed you don't have to try it again.

God I hope it gets better, This month has been hideously messy and I think I've grazed my bits what with all the leakage and messing around trying to get suction.

I am not best pleased with my MC atm

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I'm so glad to read that bloss - have had 2 difficult and messy cycles so here's hoping for a big improvement on number 3. Know what you mean about feeling grazed, too, suzywong - think my problem is that I don't trust it yet so I fiddle around too much...

It was the indignant way that Psycho said "NO!" a few weeks ago when I asked if she was due because I had stomach ache... for me to get a call the next day telling me I was right

SW - It does get easier. I finished my first month sort of liking it, but wary that it would be that hard each time... it wasn't. I got about 5 months use though, then fell pregnant - am wondering if it is like riding a bike, or if I'll be back to square one.

Good show
thanks for the encouragement
I really want to be able to give Kotex et al the Vs up once and for all, IYSWIM.