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I seem to remeber there's been quite a few threads on these and this one seems to have some particularly useful stuff in it: http://vbulletin.thesite.org.uk/showthread.php?t=95603
Hope it helps
Well, you can. I've never needed to, I shower twice a day so just used to change it in the shower. If you read the book Cunt, the author said that a woman she knew used sponges and would warn people in the toilets she was coming out of the cubicle with her sponge! Most people were positive and curious about it. Some friends of mine take a bottle of water in the cubicle to rinse theirs.
As I said, I would take mine out in the shower, and it was very easy to do. Takes a couple of times to master the suction and using your muscles to push it down when you want to take it out, but I'd always recommend giving it a try.
Unless you're period's stupidly heavy (like mine!) you should only have to empty and rinse it twice a day, which you can do at home.
If you do need to empty it in a public toilet, you can wipe it clean with a bit of tissue. It doesn't do a brilliant job, but it can hodl you over til you get home. That's what the mooncup website said. Either that, or like go_away said, take a bottle of water in with you to rinse it.
edited to add that the one that advertises on the telly is www.femin.co.uk but that is coming up priced as nearly £40and you can get them loads cheaper than that
Really? Awesome! About time too, was getting rather peeved with the patronising ads telling me how much I should be looking forward to pouring blue water over pads...
I found it painful at first to remove but now its no fuss at all. My periods are sometimes heavy which means I have had to empty it in public toilets but it was totally fine and very easy although it once made a loud popping noise which was slightly embarrassing. lol.
I think schools should discuss menstrual cups when they give the tampon talk. I wish I had known about them when I was younger.
Me too. Although I doubt I would have used them until I was in my late teens when I lost my virginity, I would have found them intimidating. But it would have been nice to know that alternatives were out there, and that's it's not dirty, or icky to touch your own blood, and that it's one of the cleanest fluids your body can produce. Just pisses me off a bit, "Right girls, you'll get a 'monthly visitor' here's a tampon!"
It's cool - it's good to bring the topic back up again - just thought I'd direct you to previous convos too.
Yep my friends are exactly the same, I am the only one who has a mooncup. I find the thought of wearing a pad and having some plastic chemical impregnated piece of material soaked with my blood pressed against me for hours so much worse.
I think I would have used them when I was younger, I started my periods quite early (11) by 14 I couldn't stand pads and had to endure 7/8 years of tampons before I found the saviour of the mooncup.
I think they should make fashion mooncups, all nice pretty colours and patterns. I would display them on my fireplace. lol. That would really freak my mates out!
also how can you steralise it without using a pan of boiling water. my housemates wouldn't want me to use their cooking pans!!
They can go so much longer than tampons before needing changed, and without the risk of TSS.
Ive never sterilised it though. Dont see the point. just wash it thoroughly at the end of each cycle
That happened to me once, too
I found it a bit painful... well, maybe uncomfortable is the right word... to insert and remove at first but now it's second nature. The pros faaar outweigh the cons, so go for it :thumb:
eta: no, you don't have to take it out when you go to the toilet for "other reasons" heh ... just the same as having a tampon in, really.
although not being an expert on the subject I could be completely wrong
i don't know. we all share cooking pans and they get weird about me boiling it
Aha! I understand now, thank you! Just kind of makes me wonder how you know it's in the right place?
If youre worried about it leaking, you could always use a panty liner too till you get used to it, although that obviously negates some environmental benefits.