I’m not anti cup in anyway but with an iud my period is so light I’m happy with just a few tampons a month.

Cup for the last 10 years. Would never go back to tampons and pads feel like diapers

Anonymous wrote:Your fingers may get blood in them when you remove a tampon while in A public stall too. And maybe even a little splash if you are heaving a heavy day

Taking out yes. But not putting in. I use the applicator so the tampon is sterile going in.

Everyone I know still uses tampons including my teen DDs. But we don’t live in a crunchy area.

Your fingers may get blood in them when you remove a tampon while in A public stall too. And maybe even a little splash if you are heaving a heavy day

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Anonymous wrote:Team tampon for life.

None you cup-wearers chanting about the environment better have a 3-row SUV, have more than 2 kids, or keep your AC below 76 and heat above 66.

How many square feet is your house?

Now subtract the square footage of the house you lived in during elementary school.

Oh....

My home is about 1/4 the size of the house I grew up in. So... negative.

Anonymous wrote:Team tampon for life.

None you cup-wearers chanting about the environment better have a 3-row SUV, have more than 2 kids, or keep your AC below 76 and heat above 66.

How many square feet is your house?

Now subtract the square footage of the house you lived in during elementary school.

Oh....

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Anonymous wrote:How do you get the cup out cleanly?

You empty it more often. But if you have a heavy period or it's your heavier days, you just accept that it's a messy process. Women who must empty it in public places (like work) may not enjoy it during the day but may like it more overnight or on the weekends.

It should be illegal to empty it in public places. It's a blood bath. And rinsing it in a communal sink? That is NOT safe, it's a huge public safety hazard not to mention gross. Just don't.

Unless you are eating out of communal sinks this isn't a public safety hazard. As a cup wearer I just wipe it in the stall and reinsert. It isn't that hard, can be messy but you don't need to rinse it.

This is unhygenic. When you enter a public bathroom, I assume you are using your fingers to close/lock the door. "Wiping" it and reinserting it without sanitizing your hands is an invitation to have whatever you picked up on your fingers in that stall, to start growing inside you.

I'm baffled how germphobes make it through the day.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you get the cup out cleanly?

You empty it more often. But if you have a heavy period or it's your heavier days, you just accept that it's a messy process. Women who must empty it in public places (like work) may not enjoy it during the day but may like it more overnight or on the weekends.

It should be illegal to empty it in public places. It's a blood bath. And rinsing it in a communal sink? That is NOT safe, it's a huge public safety hazard not to mention gross. Just don't.

Unless you are eating out of communal sinks this isn't a public safety hazard. As a cup wearer I just wipe it in the stall and reinsert. It isn't that hard, can be messy but you don't need to rinse it.

This is unhygenic. When you enter a public bathroom, I assume you are using your fingers to close/lock the door. "Wiping" it and reinserting it without sanitizing your hands is an invitation to have whatever you picked up on your fingers in that stall, to start growing inside you.

Ok, I know this is going to sound crazy but if it is the rare occasion where you have to empty your cup in public then you prepare for that. It isn't that hard. We are women and we can multitask! And if you think I touch ANYTHING in a public restroom you would be wrong. I always have hand sanitizer on me because of fecal matter because people are disgusting.

I'm serious - please explain exactly how this works. How do you "prepare for that" when you are in a public restroom? See the PP for her take ... waddling in and out of the stall? Do you squat over the seat, splashing blood when you remove it? And when exactly do you use the hand sanitizer, before you reinsert the cup? Isn't hand sanitizer made of ALCOHOL?

What do you mean? Do you carry a tampon to the public restroom? Preparing for that? Do you squat over the toilet splashing blood when you remove a tampon? Have you heard of OB tampons that have been around for decades? Considering the number of women using cups have you seen a blood bath in the restroom or women washing their cups in them?

Tampons make my cramps worse.

I have a heavy enough flow that I have to empty a cup every 1.5-2 hours during the first couple days of my period, including overnight. It's not fun. But neither is changing a tampon every hour.

I have an IUD so no periods. Prior to that, I was team tampons (during the day, pads at night) for decades. Haven’t worn a pad during the day, except post partum, since high school.

I'm not old, but I don’t like tampons. They feel uncomfortable, and it's horrible removing them unless they're fully saturated. On my heavy flow days, I do have to use both a tampon and a pad if I want to leave the house, but otherwise, I prefer just pads with frequent changes.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you get the cup out cleanly?

You empty it more often. But if you have a heavy period or it's your heavier days, you just accept that it's a messy process. Women who must empty it in public places (like work) may not enjoy it during the day but may like it more overnight or on the weekends.

It should be illegal to empty it in public places. It's a blood bath. And rinsing it in a communal sink? That is NOT safe, it's a huge public safety hazard not to mention gross. Just don't.

Unless you are eating out of communal sinks this isn't a public safety hazard. As a cup wearer I just wipe it in the stall and reinsert. It isn't that hard, can be messy but you don't need to rinse it.

This is unhygenic. When you enter a public bathroom, I assume you are using your fingers to close/lock the door. "Wiping" it and reinserting it without sanitizing your hands is an invitation to have whatever you picked up on your fingers in that stall, to start growing inside you.

When YOU enter a public bathroom, you should assume it’s effing gross, covered in germs and filth, and worry about your hygiene accordingly.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you get the cup out cleanly?

You empty it more often. But if you have a heavy period or it's your heavier days, you just accept that it's a messy process. Women who must empty it in public places (like work) may not enjoy it during the day but may like it more overnight or on the weekends.

It should be illegal to empty it in public places. It's a blood bath. And rinsing it in a communal sink? That is NOT safe, it's a huge public safety hazard not to mention gross. Just don't.

Unless you are eating out of communal sinks this isn't a public safety hazard. As a cup wearer I just wipe it in the stall and reinsert. It isn't that hard, can be messy but you don't need to rinse it.

This is unhygenic. When you enter a public bathroom, I assume you are using your fingers to close/lock the door. "Wiping" it and reinserting it without sanitizing your hands is an invitation to have whatever you picked up on your fingers in that stall, to start growing inside you.

I don't use a cup, but what you're describing is an issue with tampons too - and yet we don't have mess infections from this. I think you may need to accept that we all just touch a lot of germs (including germs from people who touched blood!) all the time without knowing it and it's mostly fine. Basically everything you touch in public from doors to hand rails to pens and touchpads is going to have trace blood and poop on it, because people don't wash their hands enough.