hi all, this wont stop your period but it is the best thing i have ever purchased and i cant believe i didnt hear about it earlier as i have saved a fortune already!!! it is called a mooncup and costs between £14.99-£20.00 but lasts for life. no more pads or tampons ever horray!!!
lindsay.

A helpful link MOONCUP

thanx for that miss chief 1 i am not clever enough to know how to do links yet so thanx again for your help.
lindsay.

i am not clever enough to know how to do links yet

CLICK HERE!

Will check out this mooncup have never heard of it.I am due on my hols but I am really poorly don't want to spoil hols.Can't have hormone tablets as I have had Thrombosis so the ones mentioned are no good doc won't give them to me.Am in mid forties now and am 3 weeks late (no not pregnant)am so hoping that I don't start on hols in September.

I got a Mooncup about 5 months ago and it's brilliant! I took it on holiday to Croatia and had no problems at all.
It's made of a sort of flexible latex/rubber like material and is roughly the size of an eggcup (just the the part you put the egg in). You don't feel it inside you at all, and I'm apt to forget I'm using it!
Everyone's reaction is usually yuk, but it isn't yukky at all.
One of the best buys I've ever made, and I won't have to buy tampons or pads ever again - can't be bad.

Probably going slightly off topic so I'll make it short. Have any of you ladies who have the mirena coil fitted noticed any significant weight gain which can't be shifted however hard you try, or is it just an age thing?

Helen
I had the Mirena coil fitted when I was 34. Due to medical reasons I was unable to continue with the pill and this was the only option other than sterilisation for me or the snip for the husband, something neither of us wanted. I have just turned 48 and have noticed over the last six months or so my body shape is changing. I am not actually putting on extra weight it just seems to me moving to other places I have never been a big person, at 5' 11 I have always been size 12, I do feel like I am bigger around the trunk these days. So for me personally I am putting it down to age

Don't know about you but I think this coil is brill, not seen any sign of periods since having it fitted, BLISS

Hi Jackie I too am 48 and this year for the first time I have what used to be called "midriff bulge". It doesn't matter how much I try to cut back on food I just can't shift it. I would much rather have this though, than remove the coil. I get no pmt and only an occasional scant period - mostly when I'm stressed

In past year 18months have been on holiday 6 times EACH and EVERYTIME my dear friend comes with me as ive said it be on time comes either late early and puts a mark on my holiday, this year im not going to risk it i have my no flow pills ready to take!