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MY RELATIONSHIP WITH MY MENSTRUAL CUP-WE LOVE EACH OTHER

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Let me first start with talking about how my relationship was with sanitary napkins. For about 15 years of my life I used sanitary napkins thinking that they were ‘’the only option’’ and I had no way out. Like every other girl/woman I suffered from rashes, itching due to the chemical present in sanitary napkins and the biggest pain at times was removing the napkin, discarding it by rolling it in a newspaper or paper bag. All the more buying a sanitary napkin pack every month without fail before it was ‘ ’That time of the month’’ ,again a task you see. God alone knows as to how much of money I spent behind it in the last 15 years.  Every month I would grab a pack or two to mark the beginning of my monthly friend-my periods. Even worse was moving or tossing around the bed at night in order to get a good night sleep. The fear of staining the dress if the sanitary napkin is not in the right position, the fear of getting up to a stained bed sheet,the fear of someone seeing the spo