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

[hunkermunker]

Yet somehow a mooncup is gross to some of you?

Why?

I love my new mooncup, love it love it love it.

Thank you MN forsuggesting it.

I cant do it I cant do it I CANT DO IT!!! Im sorry I did try and I cant

So leave me alone.

rinsing w/own urine?

never heard of that! just water from the tap works!

love my mooncup. feel like i've got my life back during that time. no more worrying about leaks, and my period seems to have gotten lighter.

foof. flange. fanjo. fadge.

all mooncup threads are funny.

yeauch no ta!!

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FWIW its less icky than a tampon and far less icky than a soaked sanitary towel and it is far less icky than leaking pads/tampons.
Amazing to think that within a sexual context you allow a fella to play up there and are and grossed out at a mooncup?

Pads - the non washable type - must be as bad as disposable nappies on the environment.

I mean, I just can't see how those things biodegrade easily.

I know that why Im really interested and buckets of dinosaurs gave em a really good website yesterday with biodegradeable things on it and Ive ordered some stuff but I just cant do the mooncup - I have tried and I cant

when I change a tampon it goes straight down the toilet (at home) without me looking at it. With a mooncup I would have to clean it out etc yuk.
WTF would I want to look at my own blood..? Yes sure I have given birth but I didn't sit there and look at the blood stained room afterwards .!!!

I'm not squeamish with period blood on a tampon etc BUT faced with a few hours worth of blood in a cup is not something I would enjoy.

Tampons were invented for a reason surely..??!

BUT all IMO..!!!!

and my opinion shhh.

Am I alone in that Tampons can feel painful. I sometimes have a low grumbling pain like a period pain and when I remove the tampon it disappears. I use pads a lot more now, having discovered how absorbent they were after childbirth. So for me I fear discomfort. Also never much like using a diaphragm.

my experience after having kids is exactly like Californiafrau's - i couldn't use tampons anymore.

and they seemed to make my cramps and bleeding worse.

thanks, MN! i love my mooncup!

Sent my order in yesterday - I will review once the hippies send it.

i think a mooncup sounds fab, i'd get one if i didn't have a mirena coil, periods almost stopped now.

I've been convinced by Mumsnet, so have just been and ordered mine now.

Re ickiness: it's no more icky than using Lilets or a diaphragm.

Tampons are so much more unhygienic than a mooncup! They are not sterile, they are breding grounds for bacteria and they leave fibres inside you. With a Mooncup YOU are in charge.

For those who flush their tampons please look here (hope it works)
The marketing budgets of the manufacturers allow them to programme women from childhood (remember the Tampax Lady at school?) It was all news to me until I got into cloth nappies.

Have you actually tried a Mooncup then Liesel? Well done you.

I had a coughing fit once and my tampon fellout of me at work. Luckily I was wearing knickers.

That must've been some coughing fit!

Yes it was! (Or else I have a fanjo like a bucket.) Does the mooncup make sloshing noises when you walk?