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By: maple weekend

maple weekend — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:19:23 +0000

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By: Shana

Shana — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:10:10 +0000

Yeah, I used cloth pads before the Moon Cup, never having gotten comfortable with tampons (yet comfortable with the cup — issues with the moisture-sucking cotton, I think), and they are so, so much better than plastic pads. It’s unreal. No chafing, no feeling icky, all nice and breathable and comfortable. Cloth pads are an entirely different animal from plastic pads.

But I still like the cup (a particularly salty acquaintance of mine insists, to tweak me, upon calling it “the snatchcup”) better than cloth pads. Best thing to happen to women since…chocolate? Birth control? I dunno.

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:45:23 +0000

I just had to thank you for posting the link to MenstruCon ’07, because I have been able to spend the last hour of my work day snarfing and giggling like a little goofus. I am DYING over the names, the sounds, all of it. HILARIOUS. I was definitely a lurker here in the days of the MoonCup discovery, but for some reason I must have skipped reading the comments that day. WHAT WAS I THINKING???

By: jonniker

jonniker — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:58:28 +0000

Shana – I can’t use cloth pads, because, well, I’ve never been able to use ANY pad, but honestly? My Moon Cup rocks the house. I never thought I’d be such an advocate, but I love that thing.

By: Shana

Shana — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:18:29 +0000

“My sense is that before medications were readily available, more people died from hypothyroidism or its side effects (depression) than found natural remedies.”

Well, crap. You got there first! Yeah, in times past people died from the most mundane (to us) things, and today’s treatments are really just sort of sidestepping what would have been early fatalities back in the day.

Now, as a bit of a hippie, Moon Cup-loving, cloth-TP-using, far-leftist feminist sort (though I do insist upon hair removal), I dig the alternative therapies, and use them for lots of things (allergies are the biggest), but my Lexapro does more for my depression than St. John’s Wort ever did, and you will have to pry it from my cold, dead paws. I’m not really on the better-living-through-chemistry bandwagon, in the traditional sense, but there are some conditions that are pretty far-reaching, and affect so many different body systems, that chemicals can be very much the lesser of the evils.

But still. Tanya, you sound like one of my peeps. Ha.

I miss New England, man. My aunt moved from VT (Brattleboro) to Coral Gables, FL, and I can’t help but think that she’s just nuts. You need to post some pictures once stuff starts blooming! Nothing like spring there, after months of giant, filthy snowbanks.

By: Trina

Trina — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:27:55 +0000

I think I need to read back through the MenstruCon posts because I’m having an issue – my Diva cup seems to have a maximum capacity (NOT that of the cup itself – eww!) after which the damn thing starts causing me all kinds of pain and discomfort. And always in freaking public!

And personally, I think all doctors should go to Western medicine (pills, baby!) first, and alternative options when requested. We call them “alternative” for a reason, dammit! Give me evidence-based medicine any day! I hope you find a doctor (or several) to fit your needs.

I see your “parking lot walkers” and raise you one “a-hole kids who think sidewalks are for pussies”.

By: Maggy

Maggy — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:22:21 +0000

I use cloth pads and a DivaCup. And I leave the house. Nobody knows. I throw everything into the wash on hot and don’t presoak. I’m not worried about germs. The germiest things that go into the washer are the kitchen linens and my scrubs, not underwear or cloth pads.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:21:43 +0000

Parking lot walkers?

Oh
Mah
Gawd!

By: jonniker

jonniker — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:58:08 +0000

Tanya, I think if it were anything else, I’d be right there with you. But knowing after years of living with this that my thyroid doesn’t do anything on its own at all, and seeing the effects of the disease on my body and mind, I won’t do anything but synthetic thyroxine.

It should not, if prescribed right, take anything out of your system — rather, it should bring us to a state of euthyroid, like normal people, but again, that’s my Western medicine sensibility. Rather, it is meant to replace what your body isn’t making. I don’t know anyone who is severely hypothyroid who can/should survive without a hormone replacement. The consequences are far too dire (and include death, heart attacks, high cholesterol, infertility, etc.)

My sense is that before medications were readily available, more people died from hypothyroidism or its side effects (depression) than found natural remedies.