Helpful Tips For Removing and Disposing of Instead Soft Cups

[tonilacross]

Hi all

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[kuradi8]

The only reason that they are called "disposable" is so that you will use them once, throw them away and buy more, and more, and more...

It is perfectly OK to wash and re-use them.

Take one out, pop a clean one in, then wash the one you just took out for next time.

They will last multiple cycles and with reasonable care, you can probably get a year out of two of them.

[tonilacross]

Thank you for passing on that information. While I completely admire users that reuse and wash their menstrual products

[trejoy]

Interesting that some people have trouble removing those. I could never get one to stay inserted!

[tonilacross]

Really? That's interesting... I wonder if you didn't have it in far enough?

[trejoy]

This is when it was called Instead (about 7-ish years ago), and trust me, it would not go in any further. The cup was much too wide, all it did was leak and try to work its way out!

[trejoy]

According to THIS POST they made changes a few years ago.

[por_que_no]

I think the biggest issue that users of reusable cups have with the Insteads is the environmental waste that results from disposing of them as the company tells you to (but like Kuradi said--they are totally reusable as long as you take care of them).

Additionally, since the diameter of the Insteads is rather large, and they are inserted while folded, they require the user to have a pretty high cervix. The one time I tried one, I could barely even fit the whole thing in, and I'm the one always joking about my World Trade Cervix. Seems most other users can't even fit them inside.

[tonilacross]

Yeah... see my response to trejoy on that... I wasn't really looking for a reusable product. At least, not yet. I might get braver later.

I could be wrong... but I think a big part of that is people not getting them in far enough or at the right angle. They are inserted in a completely different way than other menstrual cups and don't actually belong in the same position as say, a diva cup, at all. It's a really tight fit... til you get to a certain point and then it slides into place and stays.

At least, that's my experience. Now, granted, maybe I just have a cervix for which soft cups were designed lol. It's definitely true that no two bodies are cookie cutter alike...

[kathlyne]

I just want to add that all other menstrual cups are different from the Instead cups. They look and fit differently.

If the Insteads work for you, that's great, but someday you might want to check out the other menstrual cups.