Squatting in the shower with my hands covered in blood, I cursed my menstrual cup for its leak-proof suction, which, while great at preventing leaks as it said on the box, was winning the battle I was waging to get that slippery little bugger out of me. For more than an hour, I had twisted and contorted myself trying without success to get a grip on that two-inch piece of silicone. This was my first time using a cup and the first time I had spent such an extended period of time digging inside my vaginal canal. Somewhere along the way, I was horrified to feel something warm, soft, and round bulging out far lower than I had ever felt before.
Feeling a renewed sense of urgency to get the hell out of there, I cried tears of joy when I finally managed to hook a finger under the cup’s seal and pull it out. Then, I turned to the internet to see if what I had experienced was normal. What I found was several women online reporting a similar experience and a BBC article that claimed “menstrual cup misuse ‘can cause pelvic organ prolapse.’”
