Launched in 2016, our innovative quiz is the first of its kind and set the standard for menstrual cup education! It was developed with more than a decade of experience and by working hand-in-hand with industry disruptors and thought leaders. The Cup Quiz continues to be thoughtfully updated with new brands and the experiences and feedback from our incredible community. Answer a few questions, and you’ll be matched with a selection of cups best suited for your unique body, period experience, lifestyle, and other needs.
The Menstrual Cup Quiz
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We’ve combined our extensive menstrual cup knowledge with our Menstrual Cup Comparison Chart to created the original and most accurate menstrual cup quiz (we know, we’ve polled!) to help point you to the best menstrual cup for your body, age, history, activity level, and more. Our goal is to help you find a cup that will work for your needs the first time!
We invite you to take this easy to use quiz, even if you’re a cup user but especially if you aren’t! We have included questions to address the most common complaints about period cups, in the hopes that the answers will lead you to a better cup for you.
Before you take the quiz please keep a few things in mind:
1. We are NOT doctors. We are advocates with decades of combined experience as cup users and countless hours talking with other users and learning from their experiences.
2. For the best results, answer questions based on your average – not doing so will cause your answers to be less accurate, resulting in a less than perfect cup. Keep in mind that It’s not abnormal to empty your period cup more often on heavier days.
3. We can help! If you take the quiz and only receive a suggestion for a cup you use/have used and didn’t love send join our Facebook community! Our quiz works for most people, but bodies are complex! We have a lot of tricks up our sleeves — some we even use ourselves to make our own cups leakproof, and would love to help you make your cup work.
What is the best menstrual cup / period cup for you?
We are often asked what the “best menstrual cup” is and the inconvenient truth is that it is really all about what works for your body and your lifestyle. We wish it were as simple as us telling you our favorite or asking a friend what works for them, but that’s just not the case. Our quiz was thoughtfully designed to help make choosing a cup as simple as possible while also helping to increase the odds that your first cup will work for you.
Our advice is to take the quiz and if you have questions or still need support, join our menstrual cup community on Facebook to get experiences and feedback from nearly 100k menstruators.
Additional Resources:
- Looking for The Disc Quiz?
- Menstrual Cup FAQ
- Menstrual Cup Comparison Chart (With Visual Comparison Tool)
- Video: How to Measure Your Cervix
- Video: Cup Folding Techniques
- Video: Cups for Heavy Flow
- Video: How to Find Your Goldilocks Cup
- Video: 4 Tips for Perfecting the Fit of Your Cup
- Video: How to Pick Your Size
- Video: How to Insert
- Video: How to Remove
- Video: Troubleshooting Cup Leaks
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Any advice for those of us in Australia? International post costs a pretty penny and if we’re talking about being ethical to start with, I really don’t want to be giving money to Amazon.
Hi there!
I am a first time cup user (actually coming-to first time cup user, still waiting for my first cycle I can use it on), and I would like to thank you very much for all the helpful information you provide on your Youtube Channel and on this website.
I just have two little questions: I’m living in Europe, and because of that some of the cups recommended for me by the quiz cannot easily be purchased or generally ordered where I live. I know it is possible to look up the availability of a particular cup on this website, but a lot of the links I have tried (especially Amazon-links) seem to not work anymore and some products do not seem to be available on Amazon anymore (I looked this up on the tables shown when you go to the shop-and-compare-site). So, first of all, I was wondering if it would be possible to update the links in these cup descriptions (some cups I tried to look up unsuccessfully on Amazon were Saalt (original and Soft), Loulou and Lena (original and Soft); cups that can definitely be found are f.ex. Lunette). Second of all, I was wondering, just for the sake of convenience, whether it were possible to add a question to the quiz, asking where someone lives. I don’t think it is necessary to point out the exact country, but the continent would do I suppose.
Thank you so much again for this website (and your Youtube Channel) and all the help you provide with it. It made my be a lot less anxious about trying a cup, I really learned a lot and I’m looking forward to try a cup!
Best wishes,
Melie
Hi Melie. I live in Europe too and it’s often hard to find things here that are available in other countries, I don’t know why, maybe companies just don’t like to sell or distribute in Europe? Or they forget that Europe exists? At any rate maybe you could just look for the cups directly on Amazon, or order directly from their websites. Also at least here in my country now many of these cups can be bought directly even in supermarkets. And those that can’t are often available at health food stores or pharmacies. Maybe you could ask around at these places. The cups I have I always ordered directly from the websites. Hope that helps!
I have used the Diva cup in the past, but it was too long for my body. I then tried the Lena size 1 (too small – leaked) and then the size 2. The size 2 gave me hemorrhoids. (Yes, I’m confident – I’d never had them before, and I haven’t had them since I stopped using it.) I really like using a cup, but I am wary of spending another $50 on a cup that I won’t be able to use. I have taken your quiz, but I was wondering if you could give me some idea of what factor on the Lena (diameter vs firmness or both) might have been responsible for the hemorrhoids so I can avoid that. Many thanks in advance!
I have taken this quiz many different times with different answers and it ALWAYS recommends the Lena cup and the Saalt cup. I tried the Lena size 1 cup and it never fit right. It leaked, half the time it fell down out of me and then other times it would go up so that I couldn’t get it out. It pushed on my bladder so that I couldn’t pee and gave me cramps. Basically, the Lena cup sucked for me. Then I had a baby and ordered the Saalt Soft cup in both sizes. After having in the Saalt cup for 5 minutes I got the most excruciating pain(felt like labor) until I removed it. I put it back in after repositioning, same thing again. I just don’t trust the results of the this quiz anymore. Are you sponsored by Lena and Saalt or something? Both of those cups don’t work for me and its all that is ever recommended by the quiz. Also my cervix changes positions a lot and there is no option for that.
The brands have no sway in the results in this quiz. They are chosen because they work well for most people who get each outcome and each outcome has several options listed. It is not limited to a single cup.
If your cervix changes position you can either choose a cup that is low enough for your lowest day (and risk it riding high) or choose two cups to meet your needs if the height difference is too great to work with a single cup. Lena has a very pronounced rim, which would not be good if bladder pressure is a concern. On that same note, Saalt (the original) is a similar firmness so, based on that, I would think that you need a softer cup. If you have already tried a softer cup (which ones?) I would recommend trying one that is softer than what you have previously tried or perhaps trying a disc instead.
Im unable to add a comment elsewhere so posting as a reply.
Curious about IUD / IUS and why this isn’t mentioned in the quiz. If someone has one of these, should they discuss with their doctor first to ensure it doesn’t contribute to displacement of their contraception?