How does the cup hold up?
The first thing to remember – especially for beginners or skeptics – is that the menstrual cups hold up in the vagina thanks to the muscles that compose it.
Indeed, once the cut inserted, it does not aspire your interior as could a real sucker.
Indeed, imagine the disaster if it were the case! All the cups could find their organs directly in the cup after use …
What you have to understand is that you want to get a seal by inserting the cup: it happens once the cup is open and filled with air, and marries the walls of the vagina.
The properly inserted cut must be well rounded all around its perimeter: it cannot do suction (since air is always present to keep this convex appearance).
Then, the small holes present on each of the models make it possible to regulate the pressures between the inside and the outside. In fact, when the cup fills with blood, the liquid occupies more and more volume. The “extra” air volume is naturally expelled to the outside through the small holes.
Moreover, the risks of leaks can often come from there (but I will come back to this topic in a future article). In this case, it is advisable for the cups to enlarge the holes if necessary.
The suction effect: at the opening of the cup and the withdrawal only
The suction effect exists only at 2 moments:
The suction effect does exist, but it only manifests itself at two points: opening the cup during insertion, and removing it later .
And every time we try to suppress it by bringing air into the cup:
- so that it does not stay folded when it opens,
- so that it does not aspire to our interior by call of air when it is withdrawn, it is what one calls “to remove the sucker effect”, and it is this expression which induces the belief of the “cutter suction cup.”
As you can see, this suction effect only really exists very briefly, and at these two very specific moments.
It is then non-existent because of the balancing of the pressures thanks to the small holes in the cup.
Inadequate medical concerns
So here, watch out, we swim in the most absolute delirium …
Menstrual cup and lowering of organs
It has been said before, the menstrual cup CAN NOT suck your internal organs since it does not produce aspiration.
So, let’s stop 2 minutes thinking that a cup can be a kind of sucker …
This is a sucker for the toilet … not a menstrual cup!
Menstrual cup and vaginal deformity
For those who did not know, the vagina is extremely well designed because it is able to stretch and distort at leisure – especially to let a baby pass, to talk about the most extreme case (to my knowledge, in all case).
Moreover, the walls of your vagina are not likely to be distended or damaged by the insertion and wearing of a menstrual cup: they will resume their natural form as soon as you have removed your cup.
So NO, your vagina does not risk any distortion, do not worry!
At the same time, if you really have any doubt about it, do not hesitate to open it with your favorite gynecologist.
Mine just told me:
No medical contraindications to using this procedure, it’s just a matter of personal well-being.
