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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not PP but you clearly don’t have the kind of heavy period that’s being discussed here. Let me give you the full picture: after an hour or so, the cup is full to the brim, it’s overflowing. When you remove it, your hands get full of it. There’s no sink inside of your stall. [/quote]

If you've actually tried a cup and it is full to the brim as you describe after an hour (and for the record mine was full like that after a couple hours, even with the larger cup I used after having a baby), then you need to see a GYN  because that is not normal. There are no pads/tampons that can absorb that either. There is something medically wrong. Please get it checked out [/quote]

Yeah I'm skeptical about PP having tried a cup. If it were truly overflowing like that after an hour you'd be losing like 3 to 4 cups of blood a day which goes well beyond any normal variation in flow. Definitely time for medical attention if you're losing liters of blood in yhe course of your cycle.[/quote]

Yes, I did try a cup (the larger of two sizes) and what I mention would happen when the flow was at its very heaviest, not during the entire duration of my period.

To the person who said that the largest cup has a 32 ml capacity, that’s just a little over 2 tablespoons. So essentially a couple of “gushes.”

I have an IUD now and thankfully no more periods. [/quote]
I overflowed menstrual cups like this (due to a medical condition that Drs were blowing off, but that is another story) and ended up with "abysmal" ferritin (a store of iron). I almost passed out and knocked myself out on a brick wall one time. If anybody is emptying menstrual cups like a tampon they need to see a gynecologist and do not let them blow you off [/quote]

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