I was ready. It was ready. I'm ready now. Okay. Hello and welcome back to another episode of girls talk. My name is Caitlin and I'm Abigail and we are your hosts and I did not come up with a good adjectives and I'm sorry I'll work on it. I was just stressed. About getting this episode started. So we have not decided what exactly the title of this episode will be. But right now it's menstruation. So I slept on you guys. Yeah. I don't really have much else to say about that. So let's just start with life of these get into those. Okay, so it's actually been about two weeks since we last recorded. Which is kind of weird but it's why I didn't remember the water thing. Yeah. Okay, so we'll get to that in a second. Come on morial day. Brad's family came down or I guess up because they live south of us. But yeah, it was fun. And it was really hot. And I don't know I enjoyed it. It's better than going somewhere else for a family event because I like making my own space and I feel like I can get away for like 5 seconds if I need to I'm just much more comfortable in my own house. Also, I'm sick. If you can't tell which is very fitting for this podcast since we always seem to be sick whenever we record grew. Yeah, so my job interview was that she would say well, yeah. Okay last Wednesday. I know what it was I was saying it was on a Friday, but it was a Wednesday. I've yet to hear anything back. I'm very nervous that But it did go like super well, I don't know. I think my issue came into play where I'm self-taught with all of like HTML CSS web development. So like I know what it's called in my brain and I know the terms and stuff and I know how to do things like in my head, but I don't know the actual terms and like stuff for things like they were asking me CSS selector. T like what is that and then in my brain that and then she explained it and that's CSS like hierarchy for classes in so like Styles so like in line is top priority and they don't have IDs cost ya and I was like, well, I know that but I didn't know that's what it was called. I didn't either and I've taken classes on that. Yeah, so I just felt like I kind of bombed that part where they were like, well, what is it like they're asking me like specific things. I didn't know what they were called. But like I know the answers so I don't know. We'll see I just I really hope I get it. I need to keep looking for jobs. Basically you let's just start our own well development company Abigail became I mean, you know, I'd be down. This weekend. I am actually going home for a funeral which is kind of sad, but I'm excited to go home because I haven't been home since Christmas. So it's been a hot minute. Okay, what just happened? I just kind of notification. It's not expecting that. Okay. CrossFit is going well. I had my did I talk about my intro? Okay Dad you did you that messaging me you were talking about how you were gonna go do burpees. There's no maybe that was on I think I texted you that can you hear that? Well my Diane hear it. Yeah year are blowing. Oh, what the heck? Okay, do not disturb on so I was out of his mind. But yeah, so I went for my first class and my first class was actually a Conditioning class. So it was a Tabata style workout and we had to do step-ups wall balls burpees. We had to run. Yeah, it was so awful, but it was so fun. I died afterwards. I did the whole thing, you know like the stereotypical CrossFit thing where everyone just like laying on the ground dying. Yeah. That was me. And then I have my fundamentals class yesterday and let me tell you I have found my new favorite thing, which is Olympic lifting. Oh, I've always loved it. Oh my God, what did you do? So we just learned the basics of everything and we did we do. Did you do cleans? Yeah. We did cleans. We did snatches. We did clean and jerks. We did push presses just It was so fun. And I was there with there were these two other guys there and they were probably like 30 something and I'm sitting over there and he's like actually making me put weight on the bar because like I know what I'm doing kind of and I was just excelling in that I got my own horn there, but it was so fun and I loved it and I felt so powerful and it's my new favorite thing that I wanted to address something that came. Ellen talked about in last week's episode and that was the chickpea water where she was talking about eating only chickpeas and not the water because that stuff is now yes. Okay. It is now chickpea water is actually a thing. It's like people drink it or no. Okay. Okay. Okay. It's called aquafaba. You had to look this up. I knew I knew what it was called, but I need to like clarify it and it's used in vegan recipes to mimic eggs or egg whites. Nah. Yeah. I should be saving all my chickpea water then. Yeah it it mimics the fundamental properties of egg whites and cooking interesting. Well, maybe I'll be saving my my chickpea water. I had chickpeas for lunch. So I just In the can but yes, that's why you can use interesting love that. Okay, that's all I have. Okay, I literally right before we started filming filming recording this. I told myself out loud Caitlin stop writing stuff. You're going to make this short. So this is me trying to not talk forever. Okay guys. So last week I guess we'll start the majority of my week last week. I actually spent at Carl's apartment. I was there like 75% of the time because I had Memorial Day off on Monday and then his birthday was last week. So I just stayed with him for like four days, but on Monday, he literally worked Memorial Day and I went up to his apartment to use his pool while he wasn't there and I was really like scared because I didn't want to like get kicked out. As apparently you have to have a pool pass and Kyle had picked his up yet. But I had his apartment keys. So I could go back and forth between the apartment but I literally like pulled up part like right next to the pool and then like God the car run on myself inside and then like went out to the pool sounds like this kind of looks a little suspicious but it's fine. So I just kind of like walking sit down. There's like 12 kids in the pool and their parents and they're having a good time or whatever and then someone puked in the pool. Yo, yeah, so are you know like oh, it's okay and then they're all like a let's leave. So all the parents make them leave they get into two trucks and leave they don't live there wait. So can you access can you access the pool without a it's not locked? Okay. Yeah, but it's right next to the leasing office. So but they weren't open because it was Memorial day, but one guy was on staff and literally as soon as these people left. Comes in and he goes, how was your day and I was like, I'm nervous because I'm oh my God, he's talking to me and I was like, oh, it's fine kind of quiet. He's like, yeah not those kids left. They don't even live here and I was like, yeah, they don't live here. This shouldn't be here. It was just so awkward. But I survived I didn't get tan at all and I was so mad because it was like cloudy all day, but it was hot, so I didn't really care that much. So that was my Memorial day, but then like I said, so Kyle turn 24. He's an old man. Yeah Brad currents 24 this year. Yeah. Kyle's really old but we just watched a bunch of movies like while I was there and like I got drunk on mimosas. It was good time just chill and doing nothing. But yeah, my last week's kind of like a vacation since I wasn't home when I actually got back to my apartment. I was like, what is this home? What? It's just weird. I literally had like packed a suitcase and everything. I mean that's understandable. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for not judging me. I mean it was like four days. Yeah, I would practice you case. Thank you. Also, I'm since I haven't like been to a gym. The only time I ever go to the gym is with Kyle because he has the Planet Fitness stuff so I can let go with him for free but it always goes with his brother now, which is rude so I can't go to the gym. So I've just been like running all the time and it's kind of nice because I've been wanting to get like really really Reebok into running but it also kind of sucks because I'm too lazy to get up at like 8:00 a.m. When it's not hot and run. So I'm finally going to like go check out gems, but I want to go to like a chain since I don't know exactly I'm going to live so I'm either going to get a plane at Fitness membership for a short time or Crunch Fitness, but I've never been to Crunch so it looks really cool. It does and it looks better than Planet Fitness. Yes, it will because it has barbells. Yeah, I know. So I'm going to go out try crunch like sometime this week because I have like a one day free trial thing, but I was trying to sign up on their website and it is like do the recaptcha and I'm like, there is no recaptcha on this page. What do you want me to do? So I have to like actually call or go in and do it and I'm upset fixture website crunch. That's about all of my updates for this week. Aren't you proud of me? I talked less than you did. I know I am. Okay. So now that Caitlyn is done with her hour-long. Oh shut up. We're gonna take a teeny teeny tiny break and hear a word from this week's sponsor and we will be right back. This episode is sponsored by anchor if you didn't know Abigail and I use anchor to host our podcast who even know you needed a podcast host not us when we first started and we're thinking about creating our podcast. So luckily for us Abigail stumbled upon anchor and it's what we've been using since day one. 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I think it will be better to it's just it's weird to record it because literally there's no time change for us like so I'm like, okay, let's go. Let's go. No, there's just one more thing that just reminded me something. So every time Kyle streams on Twitch and he's winning or something. He'll be like let's go. Let's frickin go but who actually use like the f word? Yeah and let us remind me. I started saying it to Bob to piss him off. We'll just be like laying in bed or like I'll be reading or something and I'll be like, let's go. Let's fucking down. He's like, what are you doing? Okay moving on. I'm like literally crying. I think it's the most funny thing ever and it's like okay don't get it or even to the gym. We went to the gym at like really early in the morning and Kyle's not a morning person and I am so we were just like sitting in the car and I was like, let's go Kyle. It's freaking go he was like shut up. Okay actually moving on now to the real part of the show. So we thought it would be kind of fun to do not really like a follow-up. We've talked about both of these things like extensively but not a lot a lot. That was actually my phone went off this time. Hello, sir. I didn't even hear it. So whatever but we wanted to talk more about Abigail's IUD and my use of the menstrual cup because I've been using it for a while now and I'm Abigail has had her ID for like how long for five. I bought it in November. I don't know like six seven eight months. So yeah, it's like that so we felt qualified to talk about them and honestly, I'll use any platform. I can to talk about my menstrual cup because it's life-changing. So yeah, because the last time we talked about it was back in September. You blame that that's crazy. Yeah, so long ago back when we were in school gross. Where were you going with that? I don't know. Honestly don't know. I'm like, I'm really hyped right now for just saying that makes me really like it gets you high up. I get why Kyle doesn't now Okay, cool, so Turn your CrossFit classes whenever I don't want it, whatever I want to throw up. Yeah, just kidding. Oh, okay. Yeah, so I think the last time we talked about this was before I actually got my IUD. Because I got it in November I think. October November, I know we talked about it a little like in life of dates you told us about it. But like that doesn't it's over. So anyways, I have the IUD and I got it back in the fall and I did a three part series on my blog about it because I really wanted to go in depth and kind of share my experience because a lot of things on the internet are very negative towards it and I feel like that kind of skews opinions. So I was I'm going to go into this share exactly what I went through. So people can make their own judgments. I have the marina which is a hormonal IED. So it's not the copper one. It lasts for five years. And so far other than like the first month two months. I haven't really had any issues with it. It was god-awful to get inserted. I'm just saying it was horrific. I've never been in that much pain in my entire life. The cramps afterwards were awful. But after like the first two days, I was pretty much okay. I had some pretty bad crappy when I got back into the gym. I don't know why they don't know why they said it's not really related. But I think it is related. I'm sorry OBGYN. I think you are incorrect. I think it was just because I was 10. So all those fossils of than it would just cause me to cramp. Let's see. What else? I don't really bleed anymore. I just get hormonal and really bad cramps not like really bad cramps. It depends on the does that like freak you out though that like comes out of nowhere. Yes, because sometimes I'm like, why am I so irritable? Like why am I just so annoyed with everyone and then I'll get cramps and I'm like, oh, that's fine. Yeah, it's kind of weird, but it's kind of nice. Other than that, I haven't really had any issues. I had some really weird pain sometimes but I don't know if that's related. It probably is I don't know. I have no idea like now you do. Yeah every once in a while, it'll just be like really sharp pains on one side of my ears, but I don't but then I just like goes away so I don't know. Okay. Is there anything else you want me to say? No, I'm just like I'm like, I'm not a doctor I can't diagnose you. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know either. So one thing okay thinking about like the how it comes out of nowhere though. That's why I feel like you should use like a period tracker because then you would like know when you're going to be hormonal. I know it's kind of towards the end of the month. But also I'm very irregular like I wasn't very regular before I had the I was on the pill. Then I was on the pill for like 10 years. So I don't really know what my psyche was like. So yeah, I could just fluctuate. That's one thing that I love about using a pair of tracker is because since I've been using it for I've been using the same one since I graduated high school, so it's like it really knows like it's almost always accurate. It's always for some reason it always says I'm going to start two days before I start which is weird that it hasn't corrected that ever that it but it's fine because I know what it is. Can I just ask you a bunch of random questions that I want to know? Sure. So I want do you like feel the strings? Okay, so that you're technically supposed to but like a month after I got it and I was having all those cramping with going to the gym. I also couldn't feel the string. So I was like freaking out I was like, oh my God, my body is rejecting this but sometimes they can go back up inside your cervix and into your uterus and it just like Sits there. Yeah, so I can't feel mine. Yeah, I feel like that because like if you have like a high cervix, I feel like you wouldn't be able to like feel the strings. They're supposed to cut them long enough to where you okay? Yeah, they can change the length of it. That's yeah thing. That's really cool. Yeah, I would also probably just freaked out if I was able to feel them like oh my God, this is so weird. Yeah, like just like moving inside you. Yeah, that's really gross. Yeah. Well, that's like whenever you were like a tampon like there's a string hanging out of you but like you never like I haven't but you can see it you would see it but like I never felt it. I don't know. It's just weird. I will say the other night in bed. I did have a slight panic attack how it would feel to get it removed. Oh God, because sometimes sometimes I'm not going to lie it. Sometimes I do have like pts you from the pain of getting it inserted. Oh my God, like I'm not that's not a joke, like for the first few months, like I was just like really scared not scared, but I would just get like really nervous like for Brad to even like touch me or anything. Yeah, like yeah, but well, I have a friend that has an ID and she got hers before you so when she gets hers taken out and like four years I can tell you about she said it hurt. Apparently, it doesn't hurt that bad because I just like folds back in upon itself and comes out but like God, I don't know wait, so when they like stick it in like is it in that weird like t-shape or is it like a aligned now? It's like a line and then when it goes through your cervix that pops open. Is that what the heart that hurts? I don't know. I have no idea probably all I know is I almost threw up. Yeah, it was so bad. Yeah, okay. But other than that, it's been really nice on top of taking a pill every day. So yeah. It sounds like the nicest one of like all of the the birth controls because you don't have to do anything except for the fact that like it hurts like a bitch. I think men need birth control just saying me too. Like literally I was like, well, I was on my run today. I was like prepping this episode in my head and I was thinking about all this stuff and I was like, okay, but why do like, why was it why did scientist first think of a way to control women's like ovulation like why not men we can't get pregnant by Ourselves it takes to I know and I'm just like like back in that time. Like it was obviously more men that were sexual because they were even more sexist than so. Why didn't they can try to try to control men instead of women? I don't understand because women were a lower they receive is lesser. But also I'm like, how would you how would you duman's birth control? Like would you just like because I feel like if they had to take something it would like kill their sperm, but I feel like that would make them sterile forever. So I'm Also, like I understand the struggle but like no get them some birth control, please. Yeah, I I agree. They need to go through the same turmoil that we go through. I was reading this thing. Okay side know I was reading this thing and I don't know if it was true or not. But okay because it's on the internet because the internet I don't know but it was like they initially were doing research for male birth control, but then all the side effects were so intense that they were like, no, but those are like the surrenders to in skit I read this to and that made me so mad. Yeah, I read that and I was like what baby so bad. Okay. Anyways, I think if there's anything else I wanted to ask I wonder if the part that hurt I wonder if it's just like going like through your cervix because isn't that like a really really small hole? Like that's probably that's so the I think that might all is part of it because if you have given birth and you get the idea, it doesn't hurt as bad. I think that's it then because your cervix is stretched. Yeah. Hmm. Okay. So before before we recording I was like him questions for this but I'm going to ask you this now. So like do you did you get yours inserted while you're on your period? Yeah that was supposed to but because I was on the pill like I never really got my period so so it was like was it that time of the month whenever you had been taken like the sugar pill or whatever though? I just stopped taking the pills and I was usually get got my period if I just stop taking them so it's like three days after I stop taking them. But and the reason why they do that is because when you're on your period your cervix is softer. Yeah. Yeah, but also I've heard of people who get the IUD and their doctor gives them like a cervix softening medicine. What so it like softens your cervix, so it's not as painful and I'm like, why did they not do that for me? Can I have that please? I don't know also, why would you not dumb? Area because it hurt. I know I've always thought about that. Look why don't they do that, but I guess it's let me tell you this if a man if a man I'm a man because I knew they would be put to sleep probably to get it done. Oh for sure for sure. Kyle's over her complaining about getting his wisdom teeth pulled and I'm like boy shut up. Yeah be quiet before I started using my menstrual cup. I actually don't even know what a cervix with Was Caitlin was dumb hello, but not down because I'm sure a lot of people don't even know what that is. What they don't research it. What that's not something they teach you in school Abigail. I did not grow up going to the the gynecologist all the time. That's true. I did like you had a bit of a very specific experience that not a lot of people have that's very true. Like I didn't go to the gynecologist until like four months ago. So yeah, I know I remember Yeah, but I that's one thing that I've liked about like starting to use my menstrual cup is because it's taught me a lot more about my body then any educational system ever has and like I didn't even know what to look up because I can just go to Google and be like, okay what's in my body like, you know, because I didn't know it was there. So make sense. Because like the menstrual cup you get the size and fit depends on like where your cervix it's so like before I took before I bought one. I had to take a test and one of the questions was how high is your cervix? And I was like what the fuck was that? So I had to Google it and then and then I remember I couldn't find it. So I was like, I don't know. How are you supposed to measure that so you're supposed to measure it with your finger. You're supposed to use your middle. Your index finger. Okay, and you're supposed to like reach up there and depending on which knuckle you go to is ok. How tall it is. So it's like how how long in your vagina? I don't know. I can't say that in a good way. Okay, it's just funny because it's not all it's just a link. I mean, I don't know. What up. Anyways, but and then also I found out that like your cervix like changes position during your period which I didn't know and that because that also affects like how you insert the cup and that's why that's one of the reasons why people have a hard time inserting it and they have to like they won't most people don't do a good job at using it until like their third or fourth cycle using it which saying but after you figure it out, it's like a godsend. Let me tell you how does it change positions? Your cervix? Yeah, does it like tilt? I don't I don't know that exactly because I know that like I've read I'm a part of like a Facebook group that's all about like menstrual cups. And when people ask questions like sometimes they're like I'm known like my doctor told me I have a tilted uterus but I don't know if that like affects your cervix or something or let me Google this. Let me see. I don't I never thought about that. I just I was always just kind of like, okay your cervix moves. Let's Google it. How does the cervix is? Maybe it isn't? Just has feet and walks around just walks around in her vagina. Yeah, it just says as ovulation approaches your cervix will typically change positions moving higher up into the body. Okay doesn't say like how But I guess so it because it gets lower like when you're on your period. but like People still like I have like a high cervix. So it's still really high and I can like barely ever reach it which is why I have to have like a longer cup but the cup I have it's not actually long enough. I'll probably get a different one eventually because sometimes it's really hard to reach but like throughout my period I can feel it. Like I don't have to push it up as like you don't have to push it up right on the cervix because if you do that it'll hurt but like there's sometimes where I if my cervix is high it goes up for some reason, but if it's not it just kind of sits where I put it in the beginning. It's really weird it has It has a mind of its own you guys. It's a lovely lady. I love this episode. I feel like this is kind of like sex education that I never got in high school sex education High School sucked. Literally. I'm all I remember from sex education is learning about STIs as CDs and then we were shown pictures is pictures of penises. And that was it. I don't know why no idea why I just told don't do it. And it was I remember it was a unit in health class and that was it. Yeah, don't move them help out since I started using my cup my my period has gotten shorter. And my cramps have not hurt as nearly as bad, huh? And I looked into this because a bunch of people in that Forum that I'm in has said the same thing and it turns out that when you use tampons, well not all tampons. But a lot of them they can leave very very very tiny abrasions and your vagina when you pull them out and they are not something I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah, so and they also offset the pH balance of your vagina, which can Both of those things put together can cause cramping and if your if the tampon is pushed up too high and it touches your cervix. It's going to hurt. I didn't know all these things like knowledge is done. Why does no one tell us that? I don't know. They're just like here's cotton put it in you. Yeah, I hate being a woman. I just think products are not designed for us. Even though they are. Yeah, I will there are other people that are like or other women that like understand or just people that menstruate want to be gender inclusive people that menstruate it's about that. Not only women menstruate if you're trans, man, you could menstruate. Well, that's true, I guess. I'm trying to be gender-inclusive. I didn't think about that. I was just trying to like well, I've been reading a lot of like I'm reading a book right now called Yes means. Yes, and there's a lot of essays and it and they're like really gender inclusive and they don't use his or her that use like hir. It's really weird and they use a it's very strange but it's kind of interesting. I'm all about all about that, but I was just very confused there for a second. Sorry, but like there are people that mints right that are starting to make Menstrual products and I feel like those are a lot more high quality because I understand it better. So I'm excited for that. But yeah. I remember when I first got it the like I was so scared to put it in. I was like how the heck is this huge cup benefit inside of me? But it really like because it's not the full size when you put it inside like cuz you fold it down to fit into like your little vagina hole. Morgan scientific in here man, dying laughing with us right now. You are cold hearted and have no so let me tell you I'm crying but who is when you fold it down to fit it up inside you and you're supposed to push it up barely passed your pubic bones. It's supposed to sit above your pubic bones and it kind of opens a little but it's not going to open all the way because different people have different. Shaped vaginas like some people's are more oval shaped but obviously like cups are more circle shape. So it's going to fold to fit. However, your vagina is shaped which I guess is something I also didn't like realize I didn't realize that either. Yeah because there are menstrual cups made of silicone. Yeah silicone. I have a silicone one and there's ones made of it's not so it's for people that are allergic to Silicone. I don't remember what it is. But those ones don't they don't pop out right? I don't know how to say this. Like the one I have will always keep its shape. No matter what but the ones made from non silicon won't they will become form to the shape of your vagina. So when you take it out, you'll like be able to tell what you're trying to shape is so it is I don't know if it's really cool. I love doing well. I know. The one thing I also really like is that you can leave it in for 12 hours. So like literally I'll just get up put it in the morning and then go all day take it out at night put it back in and then I'm going to the morning. I was really scared to sleep in and up first. But then I after I did it once I was like it's so easy because I wasn't sure if I was like putting it in right it was still the time when I was still learning how to use it but not have you worked out in it. I have I went running with it in I had one issue with it. Once I when I did leg day once with it and it came out Like it didn't come out all the way but I guess it kind of like I've heard about that happening. Yeah it like the I didn't want the hardest thing for me is getting a good seal. I almost never have a good like suction, but I can get it to stay in. I don't know why that happens, but mine won't it's supposed to when you pull on it. It's not supposed to come down but mine always comes down easy. So whenever I do like squats and stuff it kind of moves and it leaks so I have to figure that out. I'd like to like day with the cup in but I can do everything else. No problem. It's just it's just it's kind of funny because one time though it actually like I don't remember what I was doing, but it just kind of like started to come out and I could feel it like coming out of me and I felt like I was giving birth like, I'd burst a Minstrel cup. It was very to make sense because when you're doing like intensive movements like that, you're bracing it were thus everything in there is being squeezed. Yeah, we should have asked for questions. Oh, yeah, we should have but you know, if you have more questions about iuds are menstrual cups. Let us know we do there's that message thing. Now, that's what the sponsor is right now. I'm pretty sure as of when we record this. Yeah. I'm excited to see if we get some I know I've been Like waiting so many people literally so many people a lot more than I thought were have already listened to the first episode and I'm just like in awe like I like that also side note. We have 17 ratings on iTunes. I told you that a couple weeks ago. I was saying that for our listeners Kate, okay, you're telling me no. We also what was it. We had like 38 subscribers on one of the other ones. I looked it and literally every single platform. We're on today to see which one's accepted ratings and not to see if we had any anywhere else. I was like I need to know. Also, we should talk about the new cover art. Oh, yeah, I love her just randomly off topic, but I love it. Yeah, well I love how as soon as you make our cover art, though. Literally Kyle many make a logo for his twitch. So I did that this morning. It's so basic but I mean I did it so I'm proud. Yeah, Abigail again did our artwork. Thank you very much. Oh, yeah. You're welcome. But I had a lot of say in it. Yeah. And it looks really cool. I feel like we're going to be those people that change like every two seasons though. Yeah, whatever until we finally get it to where we're both in it. That is classmate. That's the goal is the goal you guys someone started a GoFundMe so we can get Abigail up here into Kentucky for Kaitlyn down here to Columbia. Yeah, but I'm definitely gonna lose my job. I so I put in unpaid timely because I'm going to Florida in like three weeks and I'm gonna be gone for a week and a half and then I'll be back for a week. And then I'm leaving again for a week and a half to California and my boss. She emailed us. She's like, hey, I need your time off requests for July and I cannot accept any time off requests between July 14th and 17th. And I was like, LOL. Oops. Sorry, you're going to prove it for me because I already bought the plane ticket. And I've been planning this since last May so sorry fire me if you want. That's rough. I hope you keep your job. I mean, I'm at the point where I'm kind of like I literally got to work yesterday. I cried. I was like, I do not want to be here. I hate it because all I do is get harassed every day to say it is so much now that's not cool. So I'm like, you know, maybe if I get fired in a put more like fire under my butt to find a real job, but I was Like I'm like a mental breakdown yesterday. I was like, I don't know what else I could do and Kyle was like I'm going to teach you how to use LinkedIn the right way and I was like, okay, whatever. Is there even a right way to use LinkedIn. Apparently there is and Kyle knows how to do it. So I'll keep you updated. Yeah. Well, please help me. Just pads Colin. Let's have a LinkedIn episode. How how do you properly use LinkedIn? Yeah, I know right? Okay, we're completely off topic but not surprising though. Not at all. Oh, we should probably talk about. Hello. Yeah, I sorry I was typing um. So I have this fear of using on a menstrual cup. Okay, and it being my IUD being sucked out. Oh, yeah that happens a lot. Yeah in and the Facebook group. I'm in people talk about it all the time about how they're really scared to use one. I'm gonna see if I can find a post about it really quick because I don't really know what causes it unless like I don't see don't understand why it happens. Like do you know? Why it happens? So I'm reading something right now on the internet. Okay, and it says that people can accidentally pull on their strings of their IUD whether pulling out their menstrual cup, okay? That's about it. I feel like maybe like the strings can get caught like on the sides of the cup and when you pull a cup down it pulls the whole thing down. Yeah, because you pull all the strings to get it to fold up to remove it. I know that but a lot of people so there's also something called menstrual discs that you can use which are apparently a lot better if you have an IUD. I've seen those they look really strange but like really cool. Okay. Yeah, I think it's because of the strings. Did I just get like caught as yeah, so it's yeah, it says that you can I can accidentally pull on them. That makes sense. I guess you just have to have them like trimmed really high or like be able to feel them whenever you put the cup in so they're not like in the wrong place. Yeah. Well, that's interesting. At least. I know It Won't Suck my IUD out. Yeah, because I've seen a bunch of like Post in the face. Which I'll put a link to it in the description because it really helped a lot of people use it just for like questions about menstrual cups and menstrual discs and they talked about like weasel pads panty liners like stuff like that in there and a bunch of beginners go in there and just ask questions before they use one and stuff. So I'll leave the link in the description. You just have to like answer one question. I think to join or something, huh? Cool. Yeah. Yeah, I can link. Well, we could link to all of my ID post ID post yeah, and you have a Shortcut post to right? Yeah, I do. Yeah, I don't really have anything else. Yeah, neither do I? Okay. Well guys thanks for coming and hanging out listening to us ramble again again, if you were not laughing you have no soul and don't forget to follow us on Twitter at Girls Talk podcast without being podcast. I'm so excited to start using the Twitter again big height. And yeah guys try out the the mess. Thing the anchor message thing. It's in there's a link and description always it's at the very end and you can like send us a voice message. Like we don't have to play it in the episode, but we could put it in the episode. Yeah, send us your comments. Also if you want some podcast stickers from what last season just message us and I we can send them out to you because we have plenty. Yeah. Yeah. So now we need to make new ones. Yeah, how about once we get it and then we can make me but yeah, thanks for listening again. You guys I'm excited to be coming at yet every week on The Daily Monday morning on the daily. It's not every week every day. Just listen to us every single day the episode on recreating and that's why unit, duh. I'm just nervous. I don't know how to end it it's not that hard. All you have to do is be like, thank you guys so much for listening. We appreciate your love and support and I guess we will talk to you guys soon episode next week. Well Abigail did it. So, okay. Bye see, it's not that hard.
In this episode, Caitlyn tests out how many times she can say vagina! Jk however that word is used a lot so if the basic female anatomy bothers you, you may want to listen to a different episode. This week, Abigail finally talks more in-depth about her IUD and answers all of Caitlyn's pesky questions about it. Then Caitlyn discusses her newfound love, the menstrual cup! Don't forget to click the link at the bottom of the description to send us voice memos! We'd love to hear your thoughts about the episode and your experiences with IUD's and menstrual cups. Mentioned in this episode: IUD Blog Posts: http://livingthegraylife.com/2018/11/13/iud-experience-part-1-the-before-my-struggle-with-pcos/ http://livingthegraylife.com/2018/11/30/iud-insertion-experience/ http://livingthegraylife.com/2019/02/15/iud-experience-part-3-three-months-later/ Menstrual Cup Blog Post: http://collegewithcaitlyn.com/is-a-menstrual-cup-actually-life-changing/ Put A Cup in It FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/paciichat/  Okay bye! girlstalkpodcast99@gmail.com  Abigail:  Blog - http://livingthegraylife.com/  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/livingthegraylife/  Twitter - https://twitter.com/livingthegray   Caitlyn:  Blog - http://collegewithcaitlyn.com/  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/CattyElizabeth5/  Twitter - http://twitter.com/CattyElizabeth5  Music: Friends by Ikson @ikson Music provided by Free Music for Vlogs youtu.be/0sUIfW8R2BM   ---   This episode is sponsored by  · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. 