Quote Originally Posted by xeney View Post
I am having the opposite experience ... I've been using a Diva Cup for about three years but I am about to toss it and go back to tampons. I had trouble with fit ... I bought the big one because I was over 30, but around my house we call that thing "the doorknob" because that's what it felt like. Even the smaller one feels too big to me sometimes, and sometimes it leaks because it just will not unfurl. (I also wrote the Diva Cup people to tell them that they should find a better way to describe when you might need the larger size, because what they had online sounded like, "When you get old and your vagina starts to turn into a giant sagging canyon to match your big fat hips ..." Wow, I feel empowered!)

Recently I am also finding that it is just plain uncomfortable. I have never found it to be as comfortable as promised, and it definitely never helped with my cramps -- I wear a pad instead if I am having really bad cramps. But in the last six months I have had two really awful leaking incidents, and I am too old for that nonsense. I have been using it on light days but those are the days when it is most uncomfortable, so I am about to just give up on it. Too bad, because the reusability appeals to the environmentalist and to the cheapskate in me, but I think I am just not shaped right for the cup.
I finally got to put my Diva to use. I was pretty much sold until I got these weird cramps. SO I figured out it was full. Emptied it. Put it back in, got weird cramps. Took it out. Left it out all night. Put it in this a.m. (no probs getting in, except after you shower it's a challenge bc of no moisture), and started getting the 'pelvic exam cramps'. Took it out. Mournfully put on a pad.

I can't wear a tampon. Don't want to go into why I can't. I bought the Model 2 of the Diva, bc I'm over 30 but never had a kid. Could it be that I'm too small? At least something on me is small. Guess vagina size is not correlated with shoe size

I'm going to call the customer line and see if they can help me out. I loved wearing it but I still have funny stomach muscle cramps right below my bikini line, like I held my pee too long. Weird. Ah well..I still liked it and boy, what a feeling not having to worry about when I stood up that the gush would occur. I hate that so much.