have anyone used the menstrual cup
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I have used one for about 8 years and totally love it. It does not hurt and it does not leak. I would never go back to using anything else.0
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I no longer need any of this "equipment" but this is the grossest-sounding thing I've ever heard of!!! Blech!0
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LOVE LOVE LOVE My deva cup! I will never go back. Once I learned how to do it, I just empty once a day (I'm pretty light flow) in the shower, wash it, put it back. It doesn't hurt if you're doing it right! I did cut the stem to almost gone though, I found otherwise it poked me. I can't even feel it when it's in. I've only had it leak three times, once when I hadn't placed it properly (it should turn easily if it's in right), once when I was a bit heavier flow and should have changed it earlier, and once when I tried some yoga and ab exercises... next time I'd wear backup to make sure. Would highly recommend it if you're comfortable with yourself!0
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Practical Q.
How would you use this in a public restroom situation, Like at work or out and about you have to take it to the sink in front of everyone to wash it? Or how does that work?
Sorry i know this is a pretty direct Q, just wondering how I could make something like that work
you would empty it into the loo, and then you could either wipe it with the toilet tissue, or use a feminine hygene wet wipe/baby wipe.0 -
So if it is possible that it may leak if left in too long, or you move the wrong way, what's the point? you'd still have to wear a pad to be safe. I don't want any possible accidents. At least with a pad or tampon I know there's no chance for an accident - I've NEVER had an accident with a tampon or pad.LOVE LOVE LOVE My deva cup! I will never go back. Once I learned how to do it, I just empty once a day (I'm pretty light flow) in the shower, wash it, put it back. It doesn't hurt if you're doing it right! I did cut the stem to almost gone though, I found otherwise it poked me. I can't even feel it when it's in. I've only had it leak three times, once when I hadn't placed it properly (it should turn easily if it's in right), once when I was a bit heavier flow and should have changed it earlier, and once when I tried some yoga and ab exercises... next time I'd wear backup to make sure. Would highly recommend it if you're comfortable with yourself!0 -
I completely agree. Washing it in a public sink is disgusting.Not a fan and the public bathroom situation sounds like a biohazard.
Changing them in the toilet is one thing... taking them to the sink to wash them? That's not cool. At all. Not even a little.0 -
I bought mine on ebay for $12.00. Came with an adorable satin carry bag too :P
Please tell me it wasn't used...
you can sanitize them and they are fine to sell used. I bought mine brand new but you can re-sell them.
Tell me your %^&* joking.
No im not- You can buy them used. Not full of blood or anything but used. lol. Just wash it. Ive bought used cloth diapers and cloth pads- doesnt mean they come with blood and poop on them. JUST WASH THEM.
Cindy- the same way you know to change a tampon, how do you know that needs changed?
and NO washing it in the sink is not gross. Youve already dumped the waste-0 -
What!? a cup?? This sounds amazing...<Google-ing as we speak>0
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IUD problems?0
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P.S. can you pee with it in or do you have to take it out every time?
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P.S. can you pee with it in or do you have to take it out every time?
Of course you can. Your urethra is a different orifice
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By the way, to any women who are interested in learning more about cups, I recommend poking around this LJ community:
http://menstrual-cups.livejournal.com/
There is a wealth of information about all sorts of topics there, including how to make cups more comfortable. There are tricks that the instruction leaflets shipped with the cups would not mention, like turning the cup inside out or trimming the tip, and different ways of ensuring that there is a good seal.
As to why any men would want to be in this thread, I don't know. But I suppose more knowledge about the female body would not hurt.0 -
Can you use it if you have an IUD?
Yep.
My girlfriend is convinced this is how she got pregnant -- using the Diva cup with her IUD. I wouldn't recommend it. You have to be super careful how you remove the cup otherwise the IUD can come out somehow? I cannot remember exactly what happened, but she swears this is what happened with her third child. She was supposed to be two and done.0 -
I really, really wanted to like it, I really did. First of all it was like trying to solve a Rubik's cube blindfolded to get it up in there and then get it to stay. I tried to fold it in a thousand different ways but it was fighting every step of the way and, in the off chance that I would finally be able to insert it, it would pop right back out and flop around in the toilet. If an inanimate object could have emotions that little *kitten* would have been laughing at me. Meanwhile blood is everywhere, I'm feeling pretty darn gross, my roommate is outside really needing to pee and I'm rethinking every life decision that led to me this moment. I finally, finally got it properly inserted and it was awesome until it came time to pop it out. Yeah, "slide a finger around it to break the seal"? No. Maybe the cup was too big for my delicate vagina but there was no room for my finger plus that sucker in there. It definitely had an airtight, vacuum-esque seal on it because no amount of cursing or tugging would pull it out. I want to say that I finally shoved a knitting needle up there to break the seal, and from there it promptly went into the garbage.
This is the best review of a product EVAH! :laugh:0 -
P.S. can you pee with it in or do you have to take it out every time?
are you a girl? if you are, you should know this.
tuffytuffy, the cup will hold the sperm closer to the cervix, which is what you want when trying to get pregnant. Unless she was bleeding, im not sure why your GF had a cup in during ovulation?0 -
First of all, where the hell were these before I menopaused.... and secondly, is there any correlation between using this and toxic shock syndrome?0
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The Soft Cups can supposedly be used during sex. I've never tried it though. Seems like it would be painful. The pink plastic rim seems pretty hard.0
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First of all, where the hell were these before I menopaused.... and secondly, is there any correlation between using this and toxic shock syndrome?
Nope. No risk of TSS. So it says on the box.0 -
Ohhhh and it's all coming back to me now..... WAY back when I was in my late teens/early 20's there was a new product called Tassaways. Same idea as this, but very rigid and VERY uncomfortable and difficult to use. I tried it once and that was enough.0
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This is the best thing ever!!!! I laughed so hard. Really made my day!
BTW...I've used a divacup for about 6 years now and I love it and will never go back to tampons."So one of the many new devices I purchased for this trip was a Diva "Moon Cup". Since feminine hygine supplies would be hard to come by and waste-producing, I opted instead to buy a thing like a Barbie Deluxe Toilet Plunger, and stuff it up my hooha.
The theory is that the cup catches your pan drippings, and you empty it a couple times a day, washing it with hippy soap, and reinserting. It presupposes you are enough of an Earth Mother to be OK not only with your monthly outpourings, but also with generally fossicking around in your flaps. Now, I am no stranger to gore. Nor am I squeamish about my delicate rose of delight, except that I have no such illusions about it and indeed am always reminded of nothing so much as stuffing an oddly-warm raw turkey. So, when after several weeks of teasing, the Period Fairy threatening to postpone the Communist Invasion until I was actually getting on the plane (I was about ready to scream and cry at some hapless unwary male just as a sacrifice to appease her) at last I greeted the rosy-fingered dawn and set about embarking on my new life as a eco-friendly Diva.
The Moon Cup comes in two sizes; Size A, for youthful nymphs under 30 who have never given birth and have silken tresses and tinkling laughs and are all size 0, and size B, for Big Ol' *****es like m'self, who have either spawned, or are so old (ie over 30) that they might as well have been poppin' them out like Duggar Donuts, because their sugar walls are now echoing corridors full of cobwebs and slackness. Of course the packaging phrases it more nicely, but I was miffed to see that despite having never replicated, I was still doomed to the Big Gulp size because of my age alone.
So, chalice in hand, fingers washed, and let's fold that thing like a taco (no, not THAT thing, the other thing!) and cram it up where only one man has gone before and even then not for a damn long time even when he WAS still around. I'm sure I imagined the rusty creaking sounds as I tried to shove something which was larger than anything previous (with the exception of various medical speculums which, I believe, were constructed by the same person who designed the Montlake Drawbridge)into the Gaping Maw.
Now, you're supposed to roll the cup up, smuggle it past the border, let it expand, then turn it clockwise (or counter clockwise, or then one way and another, stopping when you hear the click, or something...) anyway, you're supposed to be able to turn this thing like a dial in there."If the cup does not turn easily, you did it wrong" Oh, of course, I'll just grasp hold of a thing about the size, shape, and slipperyness of the pointy end of a peeled hard-boiled egg, which is now buried in the meaty folds of my innermost femininity, which, I may add, are well-sluiced with the special effects from a Quentin Tarantino film, and spin that sucker like a dredel.
There is, also, a small stem at the base of this cup, which, being made of the same slippery silicon and about a centimeter long, is about as helpful as providing a live, untrained earthworm for a handle. More on this later.
So, rotate this thing in situ, to ensure a good 'seal' and a comfortable fit.
Does. Not. Happen.
Ladies (and gentlemen, although I hope for your sake none of you gentlemen are reading this), I tried. I hauled that thing in and out of there more times, and with much less joy, than Eeyore with his birthday present, and not once could I get that thing to "turn easily". I finally gave up, since it seemed, at one point, to be "fully inflated" and more or less in the right place. Frankly I think that having left my furrow unplowed for so long, I'm not exactly the proper degree of hotdog-hallway that the instruction-writer was intending to address, but so be it. Let's give this thing a whirl, if we can't give it a twist.
Fast forward a few hours in which I've done nothing much. To its credit, I don't feel the presence of THE CUP at all, no discomfort, not even a vague sense of "eugh" as I sometimes have when knowing all that stands between me and my khakis is a small cottony Dutch boy. In fact, I'm getting rather concerned that the Diva Cup has wormed its way in like some form of parasitic jellyfish and is now eagerly migrating up my fallopian tubes, with me all unknowing. Time to go fishing.
And that is where I discover that, while it's difficult to try and 'turn' a Diva Cup newly lodged in your sanctum sanctorum, it's a freakin' log-fall compared to trying to recover said Cup after it has gotten comfortably settled in the downy folds of your blood-engorged tissues. Yes, indeed, if cram my fingers up there to the point of pain, I can just, tantilizingly, tickle the end of that goddamn silicone 'stem'. Grasp it? Not in hell.
Of course the instructions say, if this happens, DO NOT PANIC. Well, thank god for that, because I was already running through the list of people I'd trust with a flashlight, a set of forceps, and an experience that would scar both of us for the rest of our lives. There were instructions for different positions, and "bearing down" and so forth, which I tried, to no avail, and I was pretty sure that my ham-fisted efforts (ahem) were just making things worse on the "swollen" front, so Diva and I took a break, and retired to our respective corners for an hour or so.
Now I brought out my secret weapon: Beer. If, gods help me, I ever have to have a baby, I intend to be drunk off my *kitten* for the delivery, and I surely hope that the Fairy Prince Unicorn Elvis who is my chosen Babydaddy will provide a bedside IV of godly ambrosia, or at least Jim Beam. But anyway, two beers and I'm good to go spelunking in quest of the Holy Grail once more.
Either the beer, or the break, or the combination of all of these and squatting on the bathmat like a Neanderthal crapping, finally, produced enough of that goddamn 'stem' to grab (which was good, because I was dreading having use the kitchen tongs Up There or something) and, with a surprising amount of horrible suctioning "discomfort", the invader was routed! And, wonder of wonders, it was indeed partially filled. Not filled with DELICIOUS CANDY, no, but it did seem to have been, you know... -working-, before I so rudely dislodged it from its parasitic feeding. I felt a combination of grudging respect and intrigue, as one might upon meeting a foe worthy of their steel. Provided we could agree to disagree on the whole "turn 360 degrees in place" aspect, perhaps this could indeed be a workable partnership. Better than bleeding into the Rupununi and attracting every caiman, pirahna, and candiru fish for fifty miles.
But not without some boundaries first. I tied a ROPE to that stupid stem this time."0 -
Can you use it if you have an IUD?
Yep.
My girlfriend is convinced this is how she got pregnant -- using the Diva cup with her IUD. I wouldn't recommend it. You have to be super careful how you remove the cup otherwise the IUD can come out somehow? I cannot remember exactly what happened, but she swears this is what happened with her third child. She was supposed to be two and done.
I am guessing she would have known if she pulled her IUD out.0 -
P.S. can you pee with it in or do you have to take it out every time?
are you a girl? if you are, you should know this.
tuffytuffy, the cup will hold the sperm closer to the cervix, which is what you want when trying to get pregnant. Unless she was bleeding, im not sure why your GF had a cup in during ovulation?
I was referring to kegels..sometimes tampons move out when you go to bathroom, hence why you change it every time you go to bathroom. Iud scares me though, cup may not be for me.0 -
I bought mine on ebay for $12.00. Came with an adorable satin carry bag too :P
Please tell me it wasn't used...
you can sanitize them and they are fine to sell used. I bought mine brand new but you can re-sell them.
Tell me your %^&* joking.
No im not- You can buy them used. Not full of blood or anything but used. lol. Just wash it. Ive bought used cloth diapers and cloth pads- doesnt mean they come with blood and poop on them. JUST WASH THEM.
Cindy- the same way you know to change a tampon, how do you know that needs changed?
and NO washing it in the sink is not gross. Youve already dumped the waste-
Well, I only wear a tampon on my two heavy days because without one, I'd have to change my pad like every hour. But when I do use the tampon, I still wear a pad, because it usually ends up leaking before I can change it, and I don't trust just the tampon. So basically, I know when my tampon needs to be changed when either it starts leaking, or it has been about 6 hrs, whichever comes first.
If I'm going to use the Diva Cup to eliminate having to use tampons or pads, then I wouldn't want to wait until it starts leaking obviously. So I'm not sure what the benefit is, other than not having to buy tampons.0 -
Can you use it if you have an IUD?
Yep.
My girlfriend is convinced this is how she got pregnant -- using the Diva cup with her IUD. I wouldn't recommend it. You have to be super careful how you remove the cup otherwise the IUD can come out somehow? I cannot remember exactly what happened, but she swears this is what happened with her third child. She was supposed to be two and done.
I don't know how that even makes sense or how the Diva Cup would possibly effect your IUD. Unless she pulled the IUD out some how (no idea how), and she would've known that I would guess.0 -
This is a pretty gross question..but what about the clotty stuff? I usually get some big clotty pieces of yuck during my period that come out.. Would the cup hold those??
YUP...it all comes out together...it all collects in the cup...it all flushes well.0 -
oh my god.0
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oh my god.
Regret was instantaneous wasn't it?0 -
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But not without some boundaries first. I tied a ROPE to that stupid stem this time."
Dear lord, I wish you could know how hard I fought not to howl with laughter as I read that whole thing. My co-workers would not have been amused.0 -
im sorry but to me this is yucky..... ewwww... omg idk... soo gross i googled it and EW idk why or how this was invented... i cant even process this straight... ick!!
do you have a vagina? do you get a period and use tampons and pads? grow up, you sound like a male.0 -
I really, really wanted to like it, I really did. First of all it was like trying to solve a Rubik's cube blindfolded to get it up in there and then get it to stay. I tried to fold it in a thousand different ways but it was fighting every step of the way and, in the off chance that I would finally be able to insert it, it would pop right back out and flop around in the toilet. If an inanimate object could have emotions that little *kitten* would have been laughing at me. Meanwhile blood is everywhere, I'm feeling pretty darn gross, my roommate is outside really needing to pee and I'm rethinking every life decision that led to me this moment. I finally, finally got it properly inserted and it was awesome until it came time to pop it out. Yeah, "slide a finger around it to break the seal"? No. Maybe the cup was too big for my delicate vagina but there was no room for my finger plus that sucker in there. It definitely had an airtight, vacuum-esque seal on it because no amount of cursing or tugging would pull it out. I want to say that I finally shoved a knitting needle up there to break the seal, and from there it promptly went into the garbage.
unless your vagina is as loose as a wizard's sleeve, there is no way a menstrual cup can just fall out......0
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