#menstrual cup

I’ve cut my menstrual cup’s ring! And it feels much better now ;) I’ve had an continuous feel of it poking me and it was irritating my vagina, now I can’t feel it at all ;)

I wanted to wait with cutting the stim utill I get comfortable with inserting and pulling out my cup. I adapted to this quickly ;)

I’m also considering buying a bit smaller cup, but for now this one is okay.

Check out my previous post about menstrual cups;)

Greetings!

I bought a menstrual cup.

I’ve been using it for six months and things are both good and bad about it.

Good;

Wear all of the time. To bed, as a just in case before my period officially starts, for all activities (swimming and exercise).

My period has shortened from seven days to five.

Nothing to throw out.

Bad;

I do leak on my first two days (the heaviest). Have started emptying it more frequently because of it.

It needs to be boiled for four to five minutes before the first use (just wash with soapy water when emptying and reinsert during the period). This meant I had to buy a separate pot to boil it.

It is made from silicone which cannot be recycled at the end. My fault, should have gone for the rubber one (even if it was in a yucky brown colour).

Side notes;

At first it felt like I was being penetrated when I inserted. Now, it doesn’t feel like that and in fact, my vagina feels tighter. Perhaps the cup has been helping to train my muscles.

TMI I know, but I am really happy with it. If you’re in Australia look up menstrual cups Australia and find the website. They have different options available and all for the same price (at least they were when I purchased) and free national shipping if your order is over fifty dollars. Have a look there first before checking other places. Or if inserting isn’t for you, period panties or reusable pads are out there. Which I am looking into the panties so I can wear them with the cup on my heavy days and not fear the leak.

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my girl poured her diva cup out into her plant and now the plant’s alive again her pussy voodoo

I have questions…

this is green consciousness and ecofeminism

Period blood is full of nutrients and can act as a plant fertilizer. Which isn’t much help if you use disposables like pads and tampons, BUT if you use moon cups you can pour them onto your plant OR if you use reusable pads you can soak/rinse them in warm water before you wash them and pour that water onto your plants.

Stop being scared of ya own blood 2k18. Do magic. Revive plants. Curse enemies.

Woah, plant tip of the year!

Wonderful fuckin post

To clarify

Blood contains nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus. All three of these macronutrients are good for plants.

This is a great alternative to blood meal fertilizers. While blood meal contains large quantities of nitrogen, some gardeners do not agree with its use due to potential animal cruelty nuances. For anyone who feels that this is gross, please understand that organic fertilizer is usually full of poo - this is hardly different than period blood. They’re both great fertilizers that are produced in different ways.

ok but won’t it introduce pathogenes to plants and soil?

@thirdfloorgarden Excellent question! The answer in general is no (assuming that the person does not have any type of menstrual disease or a disease like HIV). Menstrual blood also does not contain elements that are necessary for coagulation. Before you decide to use it as a fertilizer for your plants, I recommend understanding it, and if you have a menstrual disease/STD, as a preliminary step.

This is so disgusting

Interesting. But if rather my plant die before my apartment smells like period blood

@fadeinto-gucci You add water to it to. The nutrients is absorbed by your plants anyway. I’d also like to highlight that it’s only 2-4 teaspoons of blood in general, which is hardly enough to create any strong odor that lingers.

To anyone who keeps sending me messages about how menstrual blood is not sustainable for farmers

I realize this - this isn’t intended to sustain farmers with acres of crops. A women couldn’t produce that much menstrual blood within a given cycle.

Also, even if there is some sort of pathogen, like some generic bacteria or whatever, this is unlikely to hurt your plant, or you. I mean, assuming you’re not eating the dirt.

Plants aren’t necessarily vulnerable to the same pathogens as humans, and vice versa. That’s why it’s safe to water them with untreated rain or stream water, but not safe to drink it. Giardia is one of the risks of drinking such water, but plants aren’t vulnerable to this bacteria.

As is recommended up-thread, do your research if you have a specific pathogenic concern. But in terms of the risk to plant or household from just generic blood that isn’t carrying any particular blood-borne illness, it’s not really anything to worry about.

As far as smell, well… if this was an issue, don’t you think your plants would also smell when fertilizing with pre-processed blood meal? You do realize it’s pretty much the same thing, just dehydrated, right? So, when you add it to water, it… turns back into blood? And can grow bacteria just as readily as menstrual blood does?

The reason our plants don’t smell is because the plants themselves process the stuff we give them. They don’t just sit there festering, like dumping a body in a puddle. The plant – and the soil itself – breaks it down and recycles it.

By all means don’t use menstrual blood if you, like, don’t feel like using menstrual blood. But it is unfortunate that even in 2018, we still have this idea that menstrual blood is dirty, unclean, or disgusting, but pulverized fish guts in a bag is “clean and safe” by comparison.

Menstruating bodies are not disgusting. Please educate thyself.

I’ve been successfully doing this for the last few years now - the important think is to water your blood down, a lot. So if your cycle happens to align with your plant watering days, mix some of your blood with at least 3 times the amount of water, the more the better, you don’t wanna burn your plants, and then use it like you’d use fertilizer.
If you take meds, like antidepressants or even just birth control, don’t use it on plants you’re planning on eating/feeding to someone (or at least not without research).

softcup + bronchitis = coughing really hard then realizing you have blood all over you.

this is probably my only problem with the softcup.  if you bear down to hard it leaks