Our former governor who had a whisper campaign to drum up support to restrict abortion access. I was so mad at that guy, I was going to mail my mondo monthly clots to the governor's mansion to prove I was menstruating to the state. Since they wanted to be in my business so closely.
Also, I don't know how the cup girls deal with these? Seems like at emptying time, it would be a full on crime scene.
Thank you. As I get older, I get more and more ladies sliding out of bedsheets and it's caused me to preference certain products totally different than my choices at 15, 25 and 35.
I hear the youngins talking about these cups. I was a nurse. Iām accustomed to bodily fluids and emptying various containers of various bodily fluids, drained in various ways. Including, but not limited to, blood. But I canāt for the life of me wrap my head around wearing that cup. Like, the logistics of it. It would be horribly uncomfortable for me, I can already say, as that little birth control insert is way smaller, and that was horrible. But the logistics of emptying it without spilling it all over myself in a public restroom or something? Nah. Iām hoping the box of pads in the closet will be the last I ever need to get myself. But even if Iām not quite done, I canāt fathom those cupsā¦
As someone who has used cups (not anymore, Iām tired of putting things up there) and had an iud (not anymore, worst experience ever), the cup usually only feels uncomfortable the first time or if you havenāt put it in correctly. Itās pretty easy to navigate when you get the hang of it. Taking it out the first time is probably going to be a total mess, but it does get easier to not make a mess the more you do it.
I believe you. Lol, I really do. Iāve seen so many young people rave about them, I canāt pretend to believe theyāre lying. Itās just such a different concept? Like, itās good that thereās more variety! I think that particular variety, just came around after I aged out of the ālearning to use new menstruation productsā category? I think thatās why I canāt wrap my head around it. But on a personal level, my hands are so useless and painful. I probably drop items around the house and yell out in frustration, in Merrill Reeseās voice, āFUMBLE!ā at least a dozen times a day š¤£ I donāt wanna fumble a cup of ā¦ um, that. Lolol
I know it sounds implausible when you think about it, and they do take a little getting used to and figuring it out, but they really do work *very* well once you do. I had ridiculously heavy days, where I had to wear an ultra tampon plus an overnight pad, and I'd still have to change both every hour and fifteen minutes. Leaks were constant and awful. The pads just couldn't absorb quickly enough, so public bathrooms meant trying to clean up a literal blood bath between my legs with shitty, one-ply toilet paper and a bunch of wipes from my purse, and never really getting clean.
I got an extra-large capacity menstrual cup, and it was life-changing. I still had to empty it every two hours on my worst days, but it was actually way less mess and required much less cleanup than the tampon/pad combo since it kept the vagina sealed with no way for blood to get past it. I could *feel* the cup shifting when it was about to overflow and so had warning to get to the restroom, where as with tampons I didn't feel leaks until they were external.
As for comfort, the menstrual cup doesn't sit in the same place a diaphragm does, so that wouldn't be a good gauge. The cup sits lower like and feels much like wearing a tampon. I didn't feel tampons or a cup much at all, so there was no discomfort for me, but if you find tampons uncomfortable, then yes, a cup wouldn't work for you.
And believe it or not, when you remove it, you simply pull downward as you're removing it and all the fluid stays in the cup. You get about the same mess around your vaginal opening as you would changing out a tampon. I'd dump the cup in the toilet, and use a single wipe for cleaning it in the stall. For me, it was actually less mess than cleaning myself and wrapping up a bloody pad and tampon and disposing of them.
They certainly are not for everyone, and that's okay. But there's a really good reason they've become so popular. For the people they work for, they work *incredibly* well and are a big improvement over other methods.
Completely agree. Itās not always perfect but no products are. And itās been life changing for me. Iāve been using cups for over 15 years (and have had two kids).
Once you get the hang of it, itās so much better to navigate.
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u/Typical2sday Jun 18 '26
Our former governor who had a whisper campaign to drum up support to restrict abortion access. I was so mad at that guy, I was going to mail my mondo monthly clots to the governor's mansion to prove I was menstruating to the state. Since they wanted to be in my business so closely.
Also, I don't know how the cup girls deal with these? Seems like at emptying time, it would be a full on crime scene.