What You Need to Know About the Diva Cup:
The Diva Cup is a menstrual cup that is made out of silicone and shaped like a funnel. On average, it’s sold for about $40. Once it is shoved up your coochie, it’s placed right underneath your cervix to catch any flowage that may be streaming out of you. I don’t know about you, but this sounded terrifying to me.
As you can see in the picture above, the Diva Cup has measurement markings along the sides for those of you who like to keep track of how much blood your beaver produces each month! Pretty neat.
The Diva Cup is folded in half twice before it is inserted into your cave of wonders. For all of you visual learners, look below!
What You Need to Know About Me:
I’m a firm believer in the saying, “you don’t know until you try.”
I’m a devoted user of tampons.
I have a generally light to normal flow (from what I know – I don’t usually compare my flow with other girls’).
What You Need to Know about my Experience:
I was a bit nervous to try out the Diva Cup. So, I did my research. Almost all of the reviews I found were positive and had nothing but great things to say about the Diva Cup. Sorry to contradict all of you Diva Cup lovers out there, but I did not have a similar experience. In fact, I have never had such a deeply rooted love and immense appreciation for tampons in my life than I do now.
So, there I was in my bathroom, thoroughly washing the cup before putting it into my love canal. I carefully read the instructions that came with the package. I folded the cup, just like in the diagram above and wiggled it on in. If you aren’t a fan of getting your hands a little messy, like myself, then this part will be very unenjoyable for you. I don’t know, maybe I did it wrong! Inserting the cup was difficult and uncomfortable. Once I felt as though the cup was as far in as I could get it, I left the bottom part sticking out so I could yank that sucker out later on.
I left the Diva Cup in for about two hours. I walked around, went to the dining hall and did some homework. I’m not sure if this was a “mind over matter” situation, but I could tell that there was something in me the whole time. It felt weird and a totally uncomfortable.
When I went to the bathroom to take it out, I was nearly mortified. I felt around to pull out the cup but the end of it was nowhere to be found! The cup must have slid around while I was walking, because there was nothing sticking out of me for me to grab onto!
This was by far the worst part. I immediately started panicking. I had to do what I never imagined myself doing; I had to search around my own snatch for a friggin’ cup.
The second I laid a finger on that sucker I felt like I found a gold mine. I was pumped.
I pulled it out of there, emptied out the cup, washed it off and threw it away. I felt kind of bad throwing it away, but I was never going to use it again. And it’s not like this is something that you can re-gift or give to someone else. So in the garbage it went.
On the bright side, there was no leakage!
What You Need to know if you’re Thinking about Trying the Diva Cup:
I would say I had an overall negative experience with the Diva Cup. However, don’t let that stop you from trying it out and forming your own opinions! Everyone is different. Be adventurous with your baby maker and give it a go. Just know what you’re getting yourself into- that’s why I’m here!