TGIF... and this weekend I'm not gonna work.

[flexagon]

As I suspected, blue gets the prize.

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I just ordered two mooncups, one for me and one for a bachelorette present for RC (I understand this isn't a very normal gift item, but this person is very into the environment and we always talk about bizarre girly stuff, so I think it's all good). Oddly, I don't think the environmental impact can possibly be that great... compared to other things we throw away all month, surely tampons/pads are a pretty small part of the whole problem unless one is gushing like a fountain. But I do like the way cups don't dry you out and aren't associated with TSS.

QA drop at work is... today. Good. If last night's build passed and they take it, I can charge forward on my fourth and last milestone without fear of the "if I break the build, I'll break the world" kind.

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[webrat.livejournal.com]

Curses! *Raises a fist to blue* You shall RUE the day!

[webrat.livejournal.com]

On a side note, Flexy... you always find the weirdest girl products. :>

[flexagon]

Menstrual cups are getting pretty common now, I think. They get talked about all the time on vaginapagina.

[webrat.livejournal.com]

I'm not in that community and ... I'd never heard of them otherwise. Interesting product though. Just can't imagine anyone using it.

[flexagon]

Haha... tampons are pretty gross too in their own way. Sticking a big wad of dry cotton into a normally moist place, leaving cotton fibers in there, risking toxic shock syndrome, then yanking it out when it's all bloody... probably doesn't sound like any fun either, does it?

[webrat.livejournal.com]

I don't disagree with that either. I'm all for greener vaginal solutions and I'm glad that people out there are looking for solutions. I thought it was neat when I went to the website (weird, but neat).

[savage-rose.livejournal.com]

They have a US version called "Diva Cups".

[flexagon]

Indeed... and there's also "The Keeper".

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

You know, I use insteads ocassionally - but really only because you can have sex with them in. I find the whole part about having to deal with a messy, bloody cup in public restrooms too much to deal with. I suppose I could use the mooncup at home and take tampons elsewhere, but I dunno.

I read a testimonial on that site about a woman who had extremely heavy flow - used two super tampons and a pad...YIKES. Two tampons? At once? Am I the only person who sees potential problems with that?

[apfelsingail.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've known a couple of women who have had flows like that. *wince* Actually, the mother of one of them is an RN and recommended the double-tampon use, so it may not be quite that bad?

[flexagon]

I find that with the Instead (and thus, presumably, with a reusable cup) I really can go pretty close to 12 hours. So the public-restroom argument doesn't sound like it would really be a problem for me. I'd probably have to empty it out at work about once/twice per cycle, and I'm usually alone in that bathroom anyway.

I've been through about 3 periods now with Insteads, and was liking them pretty well until I read a story on vaginapagina about a woman who used them for quite a while and then found she couldn't keep a tampon in. Yeeks. :s On the other hand I have been LOVING the doesn't-dry-you-out aspect. So a try at the other kind of cup seemed like the next step.