I have a small Lady Cup and I like it really, but its just such a small capsity. Plus, I just need a new cup! I'm a cup addict! haha
So, I've narrowed it down to Lunette and Fleurcup!
I really like those two, but I'm not even sure why!

can you help me pick? which one do you like better, if you've used them? the differences between them? or even anything helpful!

 Hullo! I'm Laurel, 16, virgin, etc etc. For Christmas I got a small Diva cup, which was very joyous. I have a really heavy flow and so I was always using tons of tampons. They have never really been comfortable for me, and always a hassle to carry around and buy.

So I attempted to get it in twice today. The first time I couldn't get it in at all, using the C fold. It wouldn't go in all the way and kept coming out. Then I found this lovely community, and some people mentioned that the push down fold was easier to insert. So I tried again in the shower using the push down fold and it went in fine (after about 5 tries...). The only problem was is that I don't think it popped open inside. It didn't feel very comfortable or suctioned. In the instruction booklet it says that you have to turn it 360 degrees. I found this really difficult to do. I couldn't get a good enough grip on the end to turn it. What is the best way to do this? Should I turn it while it is inside, or halfway out? I tried poking around the cup, but it was very hard to tell if it was suctioned, the walls of the cup didn't feel like they were spread out completely. When I removed it, it seemed like one side was still partially folded. Should it come out completely unfolded? 

Are there any folds you recommend that are small and easy to insert but suction well? I find the push down fold is so much more easier to insert and hold than the C fold. Does anyone else have problems with it? 

Obviously I'm very new at this and still getting the hang of it. I want this to work out very badly! Especially since my period is coming soon and I really don't want to use tampons. 

Thanks for any help you may have. 

Ok so I recently started nuva ring, this is my 2nd week, and me and my boyfriend decided to have sex with it for the first time. After having sex I felt a slight burning so i went to the bathroom checked it out and i realised that my left labia was red swollen and extremely tender! I put ice on it but it did nothing for the swelling, although it did take some of the pain away. Does anyone have any idea what could be going on? (i read it could be from roughness but this does not seem likely) Does it have anything t do with the nuvaring? How can i get the swelling to go down? Please help! Thanks!

So, I'm a college student, right?

I bought my cup about a year and some odd months ago and it's my love. I never go anywhere without it when I know my period is coming...or so I thought.


I'm currently home on break and I think I've left my cup back in my room 1,000 miles away. We have a Whole Foods that stocks Divas (which I use), but I really don't feel like shelling out another 30-40 bucks for one.
Fail, Sam. Fail.

Will send to anyone interested, just need to cover shipping.

Last month I went off my birth control. Long story short, it was YAZ and I was sick of it dicking around & not working.

I've had sex a few times with my partner, but we always, always used a condom.

My question is, I'm noticing that my discharge is a lot more, for a lack of a better word "gooey" than before. Does this mean anything?

I'm also switching to NuvaRing. Is there anything I really need to be made aware of? (I'm thinking my gynecologist isn't as great as I thought: she said endrometrosis isn't genetic, but a post here just told me otherwise)

I did read the packaging, but I'm looking for, ah, user reviews.

When you have a stick of incense or a candle or a minute herbal tobacco cigarette or you want to start a fire in your mud oven, what do you use to start your fire?

Matches?
Plastic bic style lighter?
Refillable Zippo style lighter?
Magnesium flakes + flint & steel?
A flint and steel?
Friction?

What's the smallest footprint, greenest, most environmentally responsible day-to-day fire starting you regularly use?

I just got my Lunette in the mail from the U.S. order!!! *EXCITED!* So I hope those of you who ordered one will get it today!!!

I love it! It is certainly different than the Ladycup (I LOVE the ridges on the Lunette and also that the rim isn't as stiff!) and even though it's not as "bouncy soft" as the LadyCup It is soft in a different way. I was surprised at how small it was even though it has a little larger capacity than the LadyCup...now I cannot wait for the Selene to be available in the states! ♥


I can say with confidence that the Lunette warning is correct! :P

WARNING: The use of this product may give rise to a haughty kind of confidence, which may cause the user to smirk uncontrollably. This in turn may also lead to open discussion of menstruation. Bless your cotton socks!

So my brother and his girlfriend are all about The Master Cleanse and I'm almost sold on it. But I thought I might just inqire here to see it any one has tried it. I'm only thinking of doing the ten day one and seeing how it goes. But any light anyone might be able to shed on this would be helpful.
Thank yous :)
~Nicola

so i'm completely clueless and definitely skeptical about this whole idea BUT:

has anyone tried to use shepherd's purse to stop spotting between periods and if so does it work? is it dangerous? does it decrease the effectiveness of birth control? if it's safe, useful and doesn't interfere with bc, how much do you take and how long does it take to work?

i never use herbs or anything, so it's hard to sift through all the google mumbo jumbo that pops up and i'm a little weirded out by everything.

Have any of you guys tried Jason shampoo?

I am using it now and I feel like it is improving my hair a little bit.

My 8 year old niece just developed one small breast, for Christmas my mother bought her some training bras. She seems to be fascinated with it and even lifts her shirt up to touch it

I feel sad; shes growing up. I don't know if its normal to feel this way. It seems like yesterday she was a year old and we were potty training her.

Just for fun, Ladies.
I have just had a sandwich. Can you guess what was in it? 2 ingredients.
The first person to guess either one of the ingredients will win a Lunette Pin Badge http://www.femininewear.co.uk/lunette-badge-p-659.html so there are 2 pin badges up for grabs!
If anyone correctly guesses both ingredients you can choose any cup from my website as a PRIZE! http://www.femininewear.co.uk/menstrual-cups-c-15.html - If you win and are in the USA you can't choose a Lunette Selene, Mooncup or Fleurcup as we can't ship those to you, but there are plenty of others to choose from.
One guess each, just for fun. This competition ends at midnight today - UK time, it's 10.00am now.

Please answer on my Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Feminine-Wear/262280740292


Teresa
http://www.femininewear.co.uk
Reusable menstrual products

So, this probably the same old hum-drum, and I've looked through the tags and such, but found nothing precisely like what I was looking for, so here I am!

I am 23, sexually active with my fiance but we have a very lazy sex life (read: once a week or less, less lately, more like 2 times a month) and I am not on BC. We have been dutifully using the same brand of condoms for as many years as we have been together, he with no previous partners, me with one long before him.

My cycle is usually on the long end, around 31-32 days, with a 6+ day period. My last one started on the 3rd of November and lasted 10 days, including a day or two of spotting in the estimate. The one before that was equally long. I tend to spot for a few days before and after as well to make up around 12 days or so, which is sort of miserable. I usually have a fair amount of normal discharge regularly. My period likes to "migrate" throughout the year, coming a day or three later every month until eventually it works its way from the beginning of the month to the end after several months. I chart my period on mymonthlycycles.com, which estimated that my period would be on December 3.

( Read on! )

The holidays are a wonderful time of year, aren't they? Family getting together, magic in the air...little cousins telling you they've lost their virginity and have already had a condom break in 4 times of having sex. (wait, what?)

So, today I saw my little cousin (well, I suppose she's not so little anymore...) and she told me she had lost her virginity and I asked her if she would like to go to a clinic and get a secondary form of contraception or just to talk to a doctor about sexual health etc. She said yes. Herein lies my question:

What have all your personal experiences been with the Planned Parenthood in Toronto (I think there is only one)? She lives in Toronto and this would be the ideal clinic to take her to (based on reputation and location), but I am not familiar with it. She's 15 (nearly 16) and although I wouldn't say she's shy, I would definitely say that she is not the most comfortable talking to adults about this sort of thing. Would you say that this particular clinic provides a comfortable environment? If you've been to this clinic as a young teen, did you feel confident that you were not being judged on your age?

There are a few other clinics I'm sort-of familiar with in Toronto, but if anyone could give me recommendations for clinics you've gone to & loved, it would be great! We really do need a place that will allow for reduced-cost contraception, too.

The second question is about this condom mishap. She said that he was able to pull out and judging by where she was in her cycle, I don't THINK she had ovulated yet/was close enough to ovulating, but I'm still pretty worried. Unfortunately this happened a week ago-- if she'd told me the day of/day after I would have just got her to take plan B. In any case, I just told her to drink some parsley tea and not worry about it, because then she'd stress and her period would be late. Is this the best advice? I didn't really know what else to say because, well...I've never had pregnancy scares (there have been times when I've wondered, but it's never been a "scare" or a worry...). I personally think it's best to wait & make this appointment at the clinic for January, when enough time has passed that we can do a pregnancy test AND talk about birth control at the same time. At the same time, I'm worried that she could have another mishap before she can get a secondary form of contraception. Thoughts? Note-- I'm seeing her on the 29th and I WILL be having a demonstration as to how one should properly use a condom-- just to make sure.

My third question is, does payment for PP in Ontario count under OHIP? All the clinics I've gone to have been covered by OHIP but I've never been to PP and I was wondering if it's different.

Thank you so much, VP!

(ps: I feel so old [though I'm certainly not!] that I'm the one imparting all my sexual related wisdom upon a newcomer to the world of intercourse...wisdom which I surely would not have without you, VP! <3)

About two weeks ago I experienced a little bit of bleeding after sex, and thought it might be related to my cervix. I didn't stress too much over it.

Today I started my period and it was very difficult to insert a tampon both times I tried over the course of the day. Usually it's not difficult to insert a tampon right at the start of my cycle, and even when it is I always find an angle that works. It's making me worry that maybe there's a problem with my cervix.

Any ideas? Should I try to see my gynecologist before I go back to school at the end of January or do you think I am overreacting and I can wait until my yearly check up in the summer to tell him about this?

Hey, I need a little help with my Divacup. I bought the smallest one but I'm still having trouble putting it in. I tried to insert it the smallest way I could put it but folding it in. I can get it in just fine but I have trouble pushing it up more. I already tried trimming the end a little but it still pokes out. I relaxed for  a while then tried again and again. It's my 5th time trying to insert it as far as it can go without feeling uncormfortable, but it won't go in... >_< Is this problem because I've never had sex or something else? I really want to use this but I feel that my money has gone to waste right now. I'm at the point where I'm about to cry.

Can anyone help me please????

How do you suppose I get cigarette smell out of raw wool? My mother-in-law gifted me a pound of undyed wool to spin into yarn, but her husband smokes, and the plastic bag was not sealed. So now I have one pound of stinky wool. It's airing out in the other room, but I'm not sure what I can do to aid the process. I don't think I can stand to work with it and turn it into yarn before trying to get the stink out, so I need ideas for regular wool roving.

ETA: Do you think sealing it in a plastic bag with an open (upright) box of baking soda will help?

Hey everyone!

Just wondering if it's normal to have a super light period for no discernible reason? I got my period yesterday, it normally starts with lots of red blood but this time was brown and just a little bit, so I thought, I guess it'll start properly tomorrow. It didn't and all I've had is a tiny little bit of brown blood. I'm definitely not pregnant.