'small' vagina and keeper/instead troubles

[unearthlyfaerie.livejournal.com]

So, a while back I used to post to VP regarding my frequent troubles in removing insteads... No matter WHAT I did, they exploded as soon as i tried to remove them. (explode in the gush of blood-before-the-instead-was-nearly-out type) It never occured to me that the problem might be the size of my vagina. My theory is, that removal is SO messy due to there being absolutely no where for the blood to go as i'm removing the cup. There's barely enough room for me to pull it out comfortably. I just bought a keeper last week, and, I know if takes practise to insert, but i can't even get in in at all. It's almost as if i'm a child trying to put a large triangle block into a small square hole. I'm going to keep trying at it, but i don't see how it's possibly going to fit.

Now, I haven't, as of this time, ever had any vaginal-type experiences with anyone but myself soo... I have no idea if i truely am 'smaller than normal'. I haven't had sex in over 6 months, and even when i did, it was usually VERY painful. Perhaps if there are any other people out there with such problems, we should band together and create some sort of keeper applicator. (if there was some sort of rounded point, it might work a little easier)

of course, all of this might just be somehow related to my giant fibroid tumor, but, well, hopefully not.

thank you for reading!

Comments

[ourika.livejournal.com]

One way to see if the Keeper is really too small to fit into your vagina or if you're having problems with the fold "popping" open before you've got it in would be to fold it tightly and measure around it with a string. Then, if you can fit something that doesn't have a "pop" of that inside your vagina, the problem may be with holding the Keeper? (Maybe measure around the outside of the folded Instead with the string and see what the size difference is... it hasn't seemed that much of a difference to me, but I've never actually measured it.)

As far as Instead goes, I love them, but they are always messy (for me) to take out. It's because that when I "hook" my finger under to pull it out, it pushes all the blood up and over the edge. Also, it's got to become refolded to get back out, which pushes the blood over the edge (again, this is how it works for me, at least.) With the Keeper, once you manage to get it in, this mess won't be as bad (at least it won't be once you've gotten used to it, my experience was that I made a mess during the "getting a hang of it" phase!)