I’ve had the diva cup for 2, maybe near 3 years now and it has worked wonderfully. But it’s pretty dark now so I’m thinking I should replace it sooner rather than later. My main issue with the diva cup was the uncomfortable stem, I have a pretty low cervix so even after I cut the stem off near completely it would shift pretty low and become uncomfortable.

Any recommendations on a cup with no/a small stem? I’m thinking the saalt cup, the soft one maybe since I like the colors those ones come in. Can anyone here recommend them?

Ok so this is my first time ever using menstrual cups.... I'm on day 3 and i have been changing it out every 6 to 10 hrs and rinsing it out before reinserting. This time that i took it out the cup smelled like rotting meat. Like im talking raw meat that has been left out of the fridge for days/weeks or a mouse died in the house and you cant find it sort of rotten.

I did research and a bunch of stuff about BV popped up but the thing is that I checked the smell of my vagina itself and there is no odor. Even wiped blood after sitting on the toilet for a few minutes and sniffed it and that blood smelled normal like how blood smells and shoved a finger up to double check because I was weirded out by the smell. Again that smell was normal. Not even a hint of rot.

The cup on the other hand smells so bad. Is this normal for cups to smell? Am I doing something wrong? I can't see this being BV because i smell normal. It's the cup that is rancid. I put in a different cup this time because I didn't want to risk infection because I don't know what is lingering on the cup but am I able to save the cup somehow or is it trash?

Title basically. On the market for a new disc and the only one I can find with the features I want is one of those random Amazon brands (when I google the brand name the only results are the menstrual disc listing in question and reviews for a mahjong mat). I guess my main worry is that it wouldn’t actually be medical grade silicone or may have unsafe chemicals or something but I wasn’t sure if Amazon independently does any kind of testing or verification for medical products, so just curious if anyone had any further insight