mooncup (Merged Discussion Thread)

Destined_to_be_skint

ahll wrote: »

ICan anyone give me recommendations of the best places to buy these products ?

Cheapest place atm is https://www.bodykind.co.uk. Just bought one for £14.36 including VAT and shipping. Reading this thread convinced me to get one! Now then, can anyone tell me - the booklet says to remove it every 4-8 hours. What do I do - rinse it and pop it back in? Then sterilise it at the end of my period?

dagrowler

i bought a mooncup after lurking on this thread and used it for the first time this month.

It is scary at first (i had a right panic about getting it out again as i thought i'd cut the stem too short) but now i'm a bit more used to it its great (and i realised i hadnt cut the stem short enough).
I did have a couple of leaks but i think thats where i was beinga chicken with it and not putting it in right.

Am off to buy some lovely pads now, i find disposable ones so uncomfy!

GromitFan

Yes, just empty it down the toilet, then rinse it out and put it back in. Sterilise it between periods.

Mooncups are great. Had a little bother getting it out when I'd just started using it, but now find it dead easy. Definitely wouldn't be without it now. At least there's no nasty string! And don't need to think to buy anything like tampons.

emma396

i don't actually use tampons, i think ive only used them once. Do u think i'd have difficulty inserting the mooncup?

dagrowler

it is tricky at first and i got a bit panicky, the nice thing i that you can practise as you dont have to leave it in for a certain amount of time. with tampons once its in its in. with the mooncup you can put it in out in out if you need to.

it is hard to get your hands etc coordinated but once it works it feels ace - well you can't feel it at all!

I honestly can't bear the thought of using tampons now, I never want to have that scraping feeling as they come out again!

crutches

mooncups £14.99 in the sale at ethical superstore

see post by jap200 on this board/codes board to get free deliverty

MrsTinks

Ok at that price I'll give this a try I've always thought it was very very yucky but today I thought I'd read the thread, visit the website and to be honest I have no actual problem with blood - I don't use tampons any more because I just don't like them or trust them to absorb everything and that string hanging out etc etc etc So normally i use always or whatever is on offer. But I will give this a try... it may be a huge money saver or not, but it's certainly in keeping with trying to minimise my footprint (especially as you can't really recycle tampons and menstrual pads and if you can I do NOT want to know about it!!!) but there would be minimal waste with this other then the blood that you flush down the loo anyway
So girls I'll be trying this myself and letting you knw how I get on!

Eco-warrior-mum

I've recently bought a mooncup after reading the threads here, so thanks to everyone for their comments. If anyone's reading this because they're undecided as to whether to buy one or not, then perhaps this will help.

I've used mine for 2 periods now and I wish I'd had one years ago. I had really heavy periods after having my 2nd daughter and was getting pretty desperate - the final straw was sitting through a funeral knowing that I'd soaked through a tampon and a towel and I'd have to get up off my chair any minute and ... ugh. I'd prefer not to remember that moment! I also had really bad period pains which I'd finally worked out were caused by tampons, but was always worried that somebody would be able to smell me if I used towels.

I've always tried to do my bit for the environment, have never flushed any sanitary stuff down the loo and amazingly had never actually heard of a mooncup until recently, and then wasn't quite sure how it would work. It works just like a tampon, and just like you know when to change a tampon (there's a feeling, isn't there, and you know you need to go to the loo) you know when you need to empty the mooncup and there isn't any mess or any smell. I went to a very formal works dinner with my husband 3 days into my first use and coped fine. No mess, no period pains whatsoever, no stress, and it's brilliant with a heavy period - much better than towels and tampons. You have to cut the stalk when you first use the mooncup but it's no big deal. It's no worse than messing about with a tampon string. And once it's in there, it's so comfortable that you forget it's there.

Of course, I'd be lying if I said that I hadn't had one or two moments where I needed to wash my hands quickly (!), but fortunately never in a public place, and those experiences haven't made me change my mind about the mooncup. In fact, I'm getting quite evangelical about it!

I bought mine from Bodykind.co.uk which had 20% off (I think it was £14.90 with free postage). I feel that it's always worth trying these things; if you like it you'll soon make back what you'd have spent on towels and tampons, and if you don't, you've at least tried it and have thrown away a few less sanitary products. (Incidentally, Nature Babycare who make 70% degradable nappies also make sanitary products which rot down much faster than the usual ones.)

You can use a mooncup from your very first period, so when my daughters are old enough (heaven forbid - 3 premenstrual women in one house!) I'll definitely be encouraging them to use one instead of tampons. I really don't know why they're not more widely advertised and why everybody doesn't use one!

One more mooncup used means less tampons in the sea!

Tetsuko

I thought I might give the mooncup a try but I'm a bit confused about sizes. To say that I am on an extremely limited budget would be an understatement so I don't want to risk getting the wrong one.

I saw that there was one size for before childbirth and one for after. I had my son when I was really young and sproingy and so I don't know whether my body would have recovered or if I still need to get a post-baby one.

Any ideas muchly appreciated.

Hapless_2

Daisy wrote: »

One tip; if you need to change it in a public toilet, go in the disabled one if there is one cos there is a handy sink by the toilet.

try using disabled loos as they usally have a sink in the cubical, discoverd this as i use the disabled loos so i can take son in buggy in with me.

I'd rather you didn't!:mad: I can't believe that members are advocating the use of disabled facilities for this!