Using Meluna for the first time.

Menstrual cup. Ladycup. Mooncup. That's what is more commonly known.

I heard about this product since a year or so. Thought it is quite a nice substitute for pads. But as it seems, it's not so common in here as in western countries.

Finally, someone posted something about hearing it for the first time in a group and said it was the best thing ever that happened and she had never looked back since. I thought wahh.. so good ah.. mustn't procrastinate any longer, I must go and get it. Asked around some more and someone told me I could get it at BV Tiny Tapir but it's much expensive compared to US.

So I delayed for another few more months, hoping someone could probably buy it back from the US for me.

But that never gonna happen and I do not know how much more money would be spent on pads, I should buy this cup sooner than later.

So I did. And what a time to start using the cup for the first time! It happened on the day we were to fly to Bali. But as I was determined to use it, I didn't care and I didn't even carry some pads for emergencies. What was I thinking!!!

I thought inserting the cup would be fine, since I'm so *ahem* used to .... NO! not anything else, for goodness sake! To my dismay, it's not so fine. I was still having a hard time to insert it in.

Though I didn't feel anything when it's inside, I was pretty conscious about it and THAT made me very uncomfortable.

Thank GOD for KLIA lounge, I managed to empty it in the shower room and had a nice hot shower as well. My first time using the lounge shower. haha.

I thought I would be safe for the rest of the time until at least we reach first stop in Bali, but I was so wrong. Horror among horrors, I found my panties stained while on the flight itself and I had to struggle to pull it out and empty it in the tiny toilet IN the airplane! I was so slapping myself that I should have at least put a pad or two in my bag so I don't need to worry about leaks and quit using the cup for the moment. But I really had no choice. I just had to continue with the cup. What an experience it was!

After 2 more days of inserting and pulling it out, I was getting a bit the hang of it eventually. The feeling of doing both the action is just indescribable. Sometimes, I freaked out finding for the tip of it to pull it out, scared stiff it would go in further and lost somewhere inside. And the moment when it's pulled out..oh my heavens, such a big satisfaction and relief. It's pretty much a love hate relationship with the cup.

Fortunate for me, by the day we were to go out to sea venture, I need not have to use it anymore.

Now let's see how I get along with it next month.