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[trophoblast.livejournal.com]

So, my period started unexpectedly and it's been going on for days and is still quite heavy. I wanted to use softcups again, but I guess they don't sell them at Smith's anymore (wah!), so I'm back to the old pads and tampons. Well, anyway, I ordered a Diva Cup online. I know it won't be shipped over in time for this period, but I've been dying to try it for a while. I told my mother about it, and she asked how you sterilize it. I said that on the website, it said you could boil it in a pot of water. She said, "I hope you throw the pot out afterwards!" I'm a poor college student, and I'm not about to throw out a pot, since those are pricey. I figure that just washing it should be fine. If I had AIDS or some other disease, it would be different, but I don't have any such diseases, and I have such a fear of AIDS anyway I try my hardest not to contract it. Now I just have to figure out how to boil it privately, since I have roommates.

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[dinkydo.livejournal.com]

Technically, since the boiling water will sterilize the cup, it will also sterilize the pot in the process.

[xinmyheart.livejournal.com]

hm. Im not familiar with softcups? What are they..?

[amiga500.livejournal.com]

Instead cups, I think, or at least I've seen them using that name.

[macabre-grrl.livejournal.com]

Blarg. Your mother is silly, I'm afraid. I can't boil my keeper and it has never given me a problem, cleanliness-wise. I'd just boil in the middle of the night.

[squixy.livejournal.com]

You could make DivaCup tea?

Put water in a mug and heat it in the microwave until it boils then just drop your DC in. Very discrete, mug and DC sterilized, and if you're squeamish you can just use a certain mug that is used for nothing else.

[squixy.livejournal.com]

OH! But be sure that the water is boiling when you drop in the DC or else it won't kill all the germs.

[balmofgilead.livejournal.com]

I was gonna say that I think it's perfectly fine to boil it in a pot and not throw out the pot afterwards (that's what I do...~waits for people to be grossed out~), but I just remembered...the divacup instructions say you can boil it OR clean it with rubbing alcohol!

That might be the best solution for you since you don't need a pot and wiping the thing down with alcohol can be done in the privacy of your own room :)