We would love to give a warm welcome to our guest blogger, Tricia! Tricia is a security guard training to be in the RCMP and enjoys participating in a number of fitness courses, like Tough Mudder and Spartan Beast. Due to her active lifestyle, having a menstrual product that’s comfortable and reliable is a must! Read about her experience “putting the DivaCup to the test” during one of her hour-long combat training sessions! 

My name is Tricia and I am a recent joiner of the DivaCup fandom.

I’m a security guard by day, a writer in the evening, and training to be in the RCMP at night.

I’d heard about reusable menstrual items only recently, having grown up on pads and tampons since my first period, and immediately I was struck with how useful it would be to have a reusable version.

At first I was unsure of where to find a reusable option in Ottawa, ON until I happened across the DivaCup in the local Mountain Equipment Co-op and purchased it. The DivaCup held up well during my day job of copious amounts of sitting, and it was easy to forget I was using anything at all.

When I was home and had an hour of Combat training, I knew it was going to put the DivaCup to the test. Most menstrual items are absolutely ridiculous for exercise; pads twist and wedge in uncomfortable ways, while the plastic of them can be quite irritating. And tampons are usually uncomfortable, unable to keep in position and sometimes come out altogether.

I have always hated the feeling of tampons, and the fear of toxic shock syndrome had kept me chained to pads unless I had no other choice. Now I do and I am grateful for it and I have already spread the word about it to those that I can by writing a user’s review of it for the website I write on. I appreciate the easy-to-use, easy-to-clean product and look forward to having a much simpler method of handling menstruation in the future.

Putting The DivaCup to the test

Tricia F.

I am 28-years-old and married without children. I engage in a wide variety of fitness related debacles, from Tough Mudder to Spartan Beast, Army Runs to zombie walks. It’s a fun way to pass the time and aim for a healthier lifestyle and my husband loves to be dragged along for the ride. I write for entertainment and to earn the occasional dollar, but I work in security and aim to be in the RCMP before the end of 2015, so I expect life to get very interesting very soon. Perfect timing to have the DivaCup take away some of the monthly stress of menstruating.