Dispel the Myths

My brother’s girlfriend is a Hippy-Wanna-Be/Wiccan. About 4 yrs ago she invited me to an in home sales thing. It was mommy/baby products. Natural fiber nursing pad, natural baby toys. Natural Fiber menstrual pads, organic diaper rash ointment. And of course, the Menstrual Cup.
What a nasty, icky idea it seemed. A little ‘rubber’ cone you insert to catch your blood.

Fast forward 2.5 yrs. A chick on a small message board I was a member of talked about getting one of these cups. She was pretty ‘crunchy’ –in my mind. She ate organic food, had clothes of all natural fibers, and had that ‘hippy look’. She would walk to the local Farmer’s Market. Natural Childbirth, breastfeeding and al that jazz.

She told of her new experience with her Diva Cup and the messy fingers, etc. Then she told us how she fed her menstrual blood to her plants. And how well her plants did! Well, that was grossly weird enough to dispel the heebie-jeebies of using the Cup in the first place. But there was still a mystical ickiness surrounding the idea of a Blood Cup.

Her name is Shel. She was great, I miss reading her blog. Not sure what happened to her. I remember when she told us about her husband penis piercing. He had about 10 rings pierced through the ‘seam’ all up his shaft.

Well, for the past 2-3 yrs tampons have been even more annoying. And they get worse and worse each month. I feel them up there, like a big ol’ wad of cotton crammed up a bloody nose. Cotton packaging. This is pretty much what it is; cotton wadding with cancer causing chemicals. The pressure is so annoying; I feel it up in there. And sometimes it hurts.

And the first day or two it’s Okay removing, but then it hurts and feels like it’s ripping tissue when I pull it out. That combined with feeling it up there makes me worry about TSS the whole week.

And the dangly string is just annoying, esp when it’s urinated upon. It’s painful or anything, just ickily annoying.

Last month I started feeling very achy about the second day of my period- mainly my legs. Well, leg aches in on the TSS symptom list. And I had this general weak feeling and headaches. Turns out it was just from my very first pilates class, but it gave me quite a scare. (well, I always seem to get headaches- it was probably just menstrual stuff and allergies)

So, I decided to try buy my own Blood Cup- Maybe that makes ME the Hippy-Wanna-Be
….. To Be Con’t