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bomberqueen17 · 7 years ago

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lalabob11 replied to your post “I was able to use a Lena cup after giving birth, and liked it a lot...”

I have a really low cervix, so I’ve had trouble with getting my menstrual cup to fit and sit correctly. I finally found the MeLuna cups, which come in a wider variety of sizes than other cups. I highly recommend them.

Oh that’s good to know-- almost all the ones I’ve seen just come in the two sizes. But how are you to know what size you need??? Age is clearly not the factor that the manufacturers assume.

i’m just gonna cut because this got long, but there are a bunch of great replies here. Read On for Menstrual Cup Discourse from Stars Of Stage And Screen My Dashboard:

icantbearsedtothinkofone replied to your post“I was able to use a Lena cup after giving birth, and liked it a lot...”

I'm 48 and still using a small. I read somewhere that women who have a strong core (ie who do a lot of lifting) tend to be tighter down there, so.

...40. Thanks, autocorrectm

You know, I don’t even lift, and I wouldn’t have guessed my core would be all that tight. I get like, no exercise currently in my lifestyle, I’m basically veal.

But my vaginal passage does not seem to noticeably change size along with my state of fitness. Almost like it’s... a complex structure simultaneously governed by many processes and also not all that affected by much because body parts tend to do what they do. I don’t know.

(The followup message made me laugh a little; I had thought you weren’t much older than me, but I lose track of people sometimes.)

chippanfire replied to your post “I was able to use a Lena cup after giving birth, and liked it a lot...”

I've never had kids, but it took me 4 months to work out how to use my mooncup

For something whose sole instruction really consists of “kind of fold it up, and then WEDGE IT INTO YOUR VAGINA” they’re not really that intuitive to use. You know, folks, it turns out, YMMV, but the vagina isn’t really actually all that friendly to having things put into it. Turns out it mostly doesn’t like it, and for good reason. But since we’re so discouraged from experimenting, both by societal pressure and by the fact that the vast majority of the time the vagina would prefer to be left alone thanks, it’s real hard to get a sense of just what the hell is going on in there, let alone any real notion of the lay of the land.

I’ve been using these things a decade and a half now and I still sometimes just can’t get it to fucking work. At the moment, I just woke up and went and emptied it and my body did not like that, and then I put it back in and my body is like WHY, and I’m super cranky and crampy and having trouble doing all the shit I got out of bed early to do this morning. (Hence sitting here and being cranky on the Internet.) These things hurt when you’re using them correctly!

I saw a post recently about a kickstarter for a cup that an Ehrlers-Danlos (am I spelling that right?) sufferer had designed, that was meant to be usable by people with reduced handstrength, and the OP had captioned it “can you imagine, a menstrual cup that doesn’t TRY TO SUCK YOUR EYEBALLS OUT VIA YOUR VAGINA”, and I LOL’d super hard and then didn’t back the kickstarter because I’m a total idiot. But can you imagine??? I mean usually I can break the suction before I pull it out but sometimes that just makes a huge mess and sometimes I just can’t, so it’s like, SCHLORP, that is so disturbing and also HURTS.

Deputychairman reblogged your post and added:

This is good to know! On the recommendation of my earlier 30s, no-kids colleagues (the beauty of an all women office is we can talk about menstrual cups at work, it’s wonderful) I tried a Fleur cup and after 6 months just gave the fuck up because neither size had ever ONCE been comfortable or without leaks, but maybe I just need a nearly 40, have had 2 babies one? Also with this IUD I have a very light but long lasting period, which perhaps isn’t the flow these things are designed for - does anyone know?

Middle-Little sister has an IUD and has found that a menstrual cup is Not For Her either, but I don’t have more details on that.

(I am currently the only woman in my office. I don’t let that stop me, because the two dudes who are most often there are the manager, SuperDad, who has five children, four of them girls (the oldest 2 in their 20s by now), and my deskmate who is married and needs to Fucking Deal (and honestly is usually pretty chill about such things), but-- while they get it, they don’t understand and have no advice. But, I do have a huge number of actual sisters to call upon for all my anecdata, so I remain #blessed in that respect.)

I imagine it’s that the cervix undergoes Some Changes, moreso than the actual structure of the vaginal canal itself, by having entire human lives pass through it (pause for the obligatory nulliparous mind-blow moment, can you imagine that, wow), and there’s got to be a way to measure this that isn’t just Larger Size For Moms And Old Ladies Or Possibly Both. But I just don’t know how one goes about getting a fitting for such an item. Bra fittings are hard enough, I can’t imagine menstrual cup fittings.

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