MOONCUPPERY - First day with a mooncup and....

[NomDePlume]

I'm finding it very messy to remove, empty and clean out (have emptied it twice today). I cannot imagine doing it in a public toilet.

It also feels very big when inserted, despite folding it up etc as advised in the leaflet. It really isn't as easy to use as I was expecting. It also feels quite big inside, I've jiggled it about to get it more comfortable but I can definitely feel it in there, unlike a tampon.

I did have amild panic this morning lemaonaid when I couldn't get a grip of it.

the little girly bag with a pink ribbon that it comes in made me pmsl!

and dh was looking at the box and turned to me and said 'it's like having a flower up you' (there is a flower on the box)

lol

my typing has gone up the swanny again..

mine has a mint green ribbon

[sulk]

I can't believe anyone has problems with tampons, mine never leak or make me dry or sore AT ALL.

Mooncup sounds like a great big faff imo.

Sorry! Take it as a compliment! Maybe you have a very mature mn name?

that'll be it, mrm

yes but your tampons go floating in the see and bothering the dolphins olive.

and i always run out of tampons.

I don't have problems with tampons, oo. That's not why I tried the mc. I wanted to a) stop putting manky, bloody tampons into the sea/landfill and b) save a few ££ in the long run.

NDP - Do you squat down on the floor? Bear down on it and shove it aorund inside a bit til it feels secure. And it helps if you put it in when it's wet. I run mine under the hot tap before putting it in.
I know the sick feeling too, I just keep going to the loo to move it around a bit. It does get better

lol @ floating in the see !

mine go in the bin so don't bother any cute ickle fish

you were your name but in english beginning with an s before weren't you?

i had you down as one of the OLD grand dames of mn.

you're still a grand dame but a very young one!

I've been putting it in whilst I'm actually sat on the loo, so I am sort of squatting, yes. I did wet it first but then I found that it kept slipping out of my fingers or popping open at the 11th hour

well yes, landfil but you know, how far do you want to take being green?? IMO tampax make life easier, far better than faffing about spilling gunk everywhere.

And I don't drive or fly on planes so ner!

Nope, you have me confused with someone else, I think. But I have been here for 3.5 years. I started out as WickedStepMother.

pmsl at shoving it around doolittle!

sorry about see everybody.

I still can't put it in when hovering over the loo. Squat down in your bathroom with it wet and warm

mrsd ! Sounds positively pornographic

Had to use tampons one month earlier this year (had a wacky cycle and was caught away on holiday without my mooncup) and my word, how annoying. Full of leaky blechness not to mention having to carry them around with me. I started using Keeper/mooncup years ago out of treehuggy impulses but would use it now just because it's so much nicer and so much less faff.

yuck yuck yuck, I'm going back off the idea again!

And I know the popping open thing, which is why I have to do it squatting down. You have to move pretty quickly, their flighty little critters!

(this does sound quite graphic )

[grimacing] at the thought of squatting on the floor of a public loo.

If they weren't so pricey, i'd prob give it a go ie a fiver tops!!