this might be gross for some--used tampon talk

bigpinkjellybean · **Posted:** Fri Dec 10, 2010 5:21 pm

kibbles wrote:

On a related note, how do you gals insert your cups? I can't do it anything but standing, one leg on the toilet. Don't flush the toilet before standing up or else your housemate/partner may walk in (thinking you're done) and get an eye-full of vagina-insertion.

I've only had mine a month, but I have to squat right down, which I find a bit annoying, as I could just change my tampons while sitting on the loo.

sunshower · **Posted:** Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:39 pm

Fee wrote:

Whoa whoa wait...people stand to put them in too!? Well I can't wait for my next period!

i am another in the demi-plie insertion camp. when i first started, i pretty much always had to put one foot on the seat because i wasn't really comfortable with it -- but i haven't done that in ages.

CNA · **Posted:** Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:39 pm

When I used to use tampons, I would demi-plie 50% of the time, and sit the other 50%.

I kinda want someone to say they insert/remove their tampons in this position:

Momo · **Posted:** Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:49 pm

I stand tot put my Divacup in but I sit to take it out. I wish i could change it in the shower but because of all the water it never fully opens when I put it back in and leaks.

semiautomatic · **Posted:** Fri Dec 10, 2010 9:16 pm

kibbles wrote:

On a related note, how do you gals insert your cups? I can't do it anything but standing, one leg on the toilet. Don't flush the toilet before standing up or else your housemate/partner may walk in (thinking you're done) and get an eye-full of vagina-insertion.

i sit and spread my legs and gliiiide that forker in

is that why it takes a minute to open up after i stand? should i stand while inserting? i can't imagine standing

Meggs · **Joined:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:49 pm **Posts:** 9136

CNA wrote:

When I used to use tampons, I would demi-plie 50% of the time, and sit the other 50%.

I kinda want someone to say they insert/remove their tampons in this position:
http://studiodancefusion.com/TheAra2.jpg

I'll definitely do that next period. For research purposes.

alligatordisco · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2010 5:59 pm **Posts:** 425

semiautomatic wrote:

is that why it takes a minute to open up after i stand? should i stand while inserting? i can't imagine standing

Happens to me even standing. You gatta do the diva shimmy to get it to open!

CNA · **Posted:** Fri Dec 10, 2010 9:41 pm

Meggs wrote:

CNA wrote:

When I used to use tampons, I would demi-plie 50% of the time, and sit the other 50%.

I kinda want someone to say they insert/remove their tampons in this position:
http://studiodancefusion.com/TheAra2.jpg

I'll definitely do that next period. For research purposes.

Yessss... Please remember to report your findings! :)

semiautomatic · **Posted:** Fri Dec 10, 2010 11:37 pm

Meggs wrote:

CNA wrote:

When I used to use tampons, I would demi-plie 50% of the time, and sit the other 50%.

I kinda want someone to say they insert/remove their tampons in this position:
http://studiodancefusion.com/TheAra2.jpg

I'll definitely do that next period. For research purposes.

for research purposes, can i have photographic documentation, please?

chimrichalds · **Posted:** Fri Dec 10, 2010 11:37 pm

semiautomatic wrote:

kibbles wrote:

On a related note, how do you gals insert your cups? I can't do it anything but standing, one leg on the toilet. Don't flush the toilet before standing up or else your housemate/partner may walk in (thinking you're done) and get an eye-full of vagina-insertion.

i sit and spread my legs and gliiiide that forker in

is that why it takes a minute to open up after i stand? should i stand while inserting? i can't imagine standing

always standing! in the shower if appropriate. some ungraceful plie-ing involved.

bunniee · **Joined:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 3:31 pm **Posts:** 1435

I love this thread so much. Has anyone else ever left in a tampon and forgotten about it for an embarrassing amount of time?

Meggs · **Joined:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:49 pm **Posts:** 9136

CNA wrote:

Meggs wrote:

CNA wrote:

When I used to use tampons, I would demi-plie 50% of the time, and sit the other 50%.

I kinda want someone to say they insert/remove their tampons in this position:
http://studiodancefusion.com/TheAra2.jpg

I'll definitely do that next period. For research purposes.

Yessss... Please remember to report your findings! :)

Absolutely!

semiautomatic wrote:

for research purposes, can i have photographic documentation, please?

If I could also take a picture, I'd have too many hands. Or too much talent.

semiautomatic · **Posted:** Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:51 am

chimrichalds wrote:

always standing! in the shower if appropriate. some ungraceful plie-ing involved.

i love showering right after changing a cup (or when i used to use pads/tampons)...i like being cleeean. the cup is really clean, and i'm happy, but i should try this.

Meggs wrote:

If I could also take a picture, I'd have too many hands. Or too much talent.

set up your camera with a timer. if you want, i can come over and take the pictures for you.

Jeni Treehugger · **Posted:** Sat Dec 11, 2010 1:38 am

I am a sitter and I can't imagine putting my cup in standing but I'm just gonna have to give it a try.

Jeni Treehugger · **Posted:** Sat Dec 11, 2010 4:22 am

bigpinkjellybean wrote:

I've only had mine a month, but I have to squat right down, which I find a bit annoying, as I could just change my tampons while sitting on the loo.

I had to squat down for the first 2 months.

bigpinkjellybean · **Posted:** Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:11 am

Jeni Treehugger wrote:

bigpinkjellybean wrote:

I've only had mine a month, but I have to squat right down, which I find a bit annoying, as I could just change my tampons while sitting on the loo.

I had to squat down for the first 2 months.

There's hope for me yet then - ballerina poses here I come!

Magpie-Grin · **Posted:** Sat Dec 11, 2010 1:32 pm

Fee wrote:

It totally depends on the applicator for that. Those cardboard ones that they typically have in those bathroom dispensers - I don't even bother, I can't do it. The plastic ones hurt a lot less, and the applicatorless ones are the same amount of hurty for me, dtbk. I think it's friction.

I find I need an applicator when my flow is light, but I just go with the cardboard ones. I get freaked out by sharp arrow points on the plastic applicators - plus I feel guilty buying the plastic ones.
I've thought about using a little lube to ease with insertion.

Magpie-Grin · **Posted:** Sat Dec 11, 2010 1:38 pm

mel c wrote:

I insert and remove in the famed demi-plié. I'm really baffled by this sitting thing. It reminds me of the wiping thread. Are you sitting sitting or just squatting/hovering? I feel like you must be sitting for the tampon swing to hit the toilet, but then how is there enough room between the toilet and your crotch to even maneuver a hand?

I sit far back on the seat and point my toes (tippy toe). I can insert standing, but it is not as comfortable. Removing, no way. There is too much gripping involved. Talk about friction!

Scruffleupagus · **Posted:** Sat Dec 11, 2010 1:45 pm

I love my diva cup. I will never ever ever go back to tampons/pads.

Dane · **Posted:** Sat Dec 11, 2010 2:15 pm

~Sz wrote:

coldandsleepy wrote:

The other day I dropped a full DivaCup on the bathroom floor though. There's a phrase for that: INSTANT CRIME SCENE.

OMG yes. I will only use the thing if I can time it so I can remove it in the shower. I am not graceful about removing it and it can become a missile. Why can't there be a better way!!!!

Ok, I had to roll in here to mention this:

Yesterday I was in one of my school's libraries and went to go to the bathroom. Someone must have emptied a divacup in there because when I went into the stall it seriously looked like someone had been stabbed. It took me a second to realize what probably happened (I'm a tampon user).

vijita · **Posted:** Sat Dec 11, 2010 2:28 pm

Scruffleupagus wrote:

I love my diva cup. I will never ever ever go back to tampons/pads.

I really miss my diva cup.

Did anyone ever solve the mystery as to why the fork diva cups stop working properly when you have an IUD? Once it was the perfect solution, but now it is just leaky. I'm pissed.

alligatordisco · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2010 5:59 pm **Posts:** 425

vijita wrote:

Scruffleupagus wrote:

I love my diva cup. I will never ever ever go back to tampons/pads.

I really miss my diva cup.

Did anyone ever solve the mystery as to why the fork diva cups stop working properly when you have an IUD? Once it was the perfect solution, but now it is just leaky. I'm pissed.

Do IUD's have a tiny string/wire/something that pokes out of your cervix? I seem to think they do, or maybe I'm crazy. IF they do, then maybe that is breaking the seal and causing it to leak. OR, maybe the procedure or medications caused some swelling or the cervix or something, which is also breaking the seal (temporarily)? Just educated guesses. If it's not those things, I have no idea what it could be, very perplexing.

boychucker · **Posted:** Mon Dec 13, 2010 3:57 pm

I sit to insert and remove tampoons. For some reason I have to be super relaxed to put one in and I would have a hard time at work if someone came in the bathroom while I was taking care of business. I only really used them when I had a heavy flow, and my periods aren't that bad anymore-only first two days, so I mostly use pads unless it's a plug-worthy period.

cstadt · **Posted:** Tue Dec 14, 2010 9:22 am

j-dub wrote:

Fee wrote:

I never thought of standing to remove them, but I'm gonna try from now on because I've had one too many episodes where I've peed and then thought about removing my tampon and then I'm just grabbing onto a peas string and that's even grosser than everything else going on.

You know what's even grosser? When the pee-string gets caught in your butt crack while wiping and then you have to root around your crack for a wet string. I haven't used a tampon in years and I still have nightmares about that.

wahh. Anatomy is so unfair.

When I was younger, I left bloody tissues on the counter more than once. It proved my nastiness (Hey counter, hold this vagina trash while I clean up) as well as my forgetfulness. Whoops.

vegetalion · **Posted:** Tue Dec 14, 2010 1:32 pm

I'm a sitter, and I don't use applicators, so maybe that's why there's enough room for my hand? I've never had to touch the toilet or grip anything while I was inserting/removing my tampon. There's always been enough room for my, my hand, and the little stick of cotton.

As for cups and IUDs, it's something to do with the suction and how you break the suction (or seal? I don't use a cup and am a little fuzzy on the terms); if you do it a certain way (the wrong way, basically), it can make an IUD expel.

Muffin-Tuffin wrote:

The "red vadge of courage" is what we refer to wayward splotches that get on my pantaloons. It sort of doesn't make sense, but *shrug* my partner and I have our own language I guess.

I LOVE THIS.

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