<![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> OMG - This just happened to me. During this week, I kept getting a brown discharge. I figured it was remants of my period and just used light flow pads. After a few days, the discharged continued and started to reek. I didnt know what was wrong. I kept cleaning myself and thought maybe I had a yeast infection or something. Of course, the stench only got worse and worse.... Finally, on Sat night the stenchc was so awful, like a dead rotting animal, I had to find out what the hell was going on. The stench was sickening. I started to feel around and sure enough I found an old forgotten tampon. I apparently had forgotten it in there - but from when?? and how could this happen???? Who the heck does this??? Am I that absentminded??

I freaked out but hadn't experienced any TSS symptoms so I chilled but was a bit worried because I still had that smell. I washed up, and was thankful that I caught it before it got worse or i got sick from it.

This morning - the smell and discharge were even worse. I couldn't figure out what the hell was wrong?? Did I have an infection or what?? So I decide to investigate again - - only to discover that - yep you guessed it - THERE WAS A SECOND TAMPON STUCK UP THERE. I panick, and after a solid 5 minutes of digging around I got it out. When I removed it, it was so awful, oozing shit all over the place, I vomitted. DISGUSTING!!!! And I flushed the toilet about 3x. I had always heard of this kind of thing happeneing to others, but never thought it would happen to me - let alone forget TWO tampons up there??

Seriously, the first one had to be stuck up there for atleast a 7-8 days and the second maybe a good 5-6 days. I am revolted by this - it still makes me gag. I am just relieved to learn that I am not the only person to endure this awful!! I did laugh as I read yours though - misery loves company!!!

Silly_Rabbit99

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> t@alktotehhand--why-oh-WHY did you have a bar of Zest up there? Good Lord!

I did once get a tampon stuck so far up that I couldn't get it out. I had to go to the gyno, and she had to use the speculum and forceps to get it out (it was deep, and painful). She told me it happens all the time, and that she was impressed with my composure during the removal. I'm embarrassed to admit that I was flattered.

reich

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I read this story not an hour after walking out of a construction elevator and hearing a story from a middle aged stone mason who, upon discovering his first ever hemorrhoid protruding from his asshole, was puzzled and opted to give it a firm yank. I'm going to go grab something to eat.

GustavusCarnabon

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Wow. I was almost speechless. THEN I remembered that this happened to me too. However, when I pulled the second tampon out, the first one came out with it. And I know that I sound like a prude, but I don't do dick AND tampons; and now I know why.

cicillionaire

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> o=@PeterAbe1ard:

the whole blood on the sheets during sex has happened to me too. I felt so bad because he washed them and then it happened again! he was annoyed with me, especially because he didnt want to have bloody period sex that day anyways. i felt like a bad dog that kept making messes :(

PIXI-909100

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> wow. i cant imagine how that must have felt. I had one stuck in for a day and a half after i forgot about it and that was bad enough. It hurt like hell. I ended up pulling it out and throwing it out of the window when my boyfriend braked at a stoplight. he chided me for releasing it into the wild, but we had another hour til we got to the airport and i was desperate.
Apparently it's really bad to have sex with a tampon in, because all of vag juice gets trapped in your body. haha, i love all of this gross stuff. I cant imagine how you managed to pull this off without getting some nasty infection.

PIXI-909100

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I read this story to my boyfriend. We agree it has to be one of the greatest tampon stories ever.

michellexlee

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Just when I thought the story couldn't be more funny, the comments kept egging me on. This also happened to me once. My best guess was about 9 days. I noticed the smell after sex and bamed it on the cat- "OMG Murphy's ass is rank!" Didn't have any trouble fishing it out, but I did have trouble not vomiting.

Lishmay

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @BeckySharper:I'd be careful having sex with anything other than a cup in. I did with a tampon once and spent a good half hour afterward at home trying to get the damn thing out b/c it had been pushed up so far. I have never used my keigel muscles so much in my life and don't expect to again until I give birth.

No thank you ma'am - never again.

susannapants

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @satori: I think people's vaginas must be different lengths. If I forgot about a tampon, I think before too long I would be all sticking my fingers up there & I'd notice it. Also, I can't imagine anything getting stuck so high up my vag that I'd have a hard time grabbing it. A guy I had sex with once told me that "they're all different." Ah, the miracles of nature.

Okay, I'll tell an embarrassing story! So one time my period took a really long time coming, or maybe I skipped a month or something -- I think I had just gone off the patch. So anyway, the period had just sort of reluctantly begun, & it was one of the first few times I fucked this guy who is now my ex-boyfriend. I was all like "there might be a little blood, it should be okay." Instead of which, all the pounding loosened up the built-up blood & caused it to all come out AT ONCE. It got EVERYWHERE, & was of a consistency that he denounced as "chunky." Like, afterwards he was like "it was really chunky blood, too!" & I was like "sorry, man."

Another time we got blood on his sheets & he kept them on the bed for like 2 days because he felt sentimental about them. True story.

PeterAbe1ard

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> oh. my. god. ew.

how can you forget a tampon is in you? seriously? how? i don't care how tired/drunk/stoned you are. how can you not notice this???

LucyInTheSky777

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Y'all girls who are really freaked out about this... ah, maybe I'm just older... sooner or later we all have stuff like this. You got the stories about home-waxing fiascoes, and the ones about condoms coming off and getting lost, and just all the results of all the possible combinations of body parts, birth control tools, lubricants, menstrual implements, sex toys, natural fluids, microbe-induced fluids, hygiene products we're dumb enough to try, strange 'natural' remedies our friends tell us about we're dumb enough to try ... being a woman means ya just gotta roll with the changing womanly conditions.

odelette01

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @Moe: Do yourself and the rest of society a favour...wear a condom.

Her_royal_Highness

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> This is, hands down, my worst fear. I have nightmares bout it, I triple check sometimes, I doubt myself. Periods are a living hell for me

nicoolio

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> "Don't lose your affinity for the female body. You have plenty of time to knock one up and watch it morph into something totally alien, then splatter out a whole mass of fluids and split open to yield one of those babies you are so fond of eyeing warily on the streets of Park Slope, as well as some inadvertent fecal matter."

PURE EPIC POETRY.

divine_debris

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Best. Story. Ever. I am howling.

rosemarypepper

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Diva cups (well, I'm in the UK, mine is a mooncup) are awesome. Anyone who is sick of tampons should try one.

Though it is a bit weird to have something in your vagina with a URL embossed on the side :D

metalouise

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I have a friend who did something similar, as a teenager. But she started cramping something fierce after a day or two and went to the hospital. She is still pretty emabarrassed about it, to this day.

Blujai

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Happened to me once, I'm ashamed to say. Stayed in for a couple of weeks. It was so foul, just unbelievably stinky. The stench wafted up as I walked around and got in and out of my car. I can clearly remember having to sit on my gay friend's lap in the passenger seat of an RX-7 with the vent pointing right at my crotch. I totally expected him to comment.

But it didn't deter my hookups during or after. I had NO idea what was going on down there. I remember my panties reeking even after I washed them. The discharge was like tar. Anyway, the thing came out one day while I was pushing a #2. The sensation of having both of those things shoot out of their respective holes at the same time was horrifying. I wish I could erase the memory of what I saw sitting in that toilet bowl. That not so nice smell cleared up right away though.

hazyd

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> MOE! get thee back to Whole Foods and pick up some high-quality PROBIOTICS. it's good bacteria that wages war on bad bacteria, especially in the vadge.

i know i'm late to this party, but honey, please do as i say. take them every day and you'll smell sweet down there within a week.

slauza

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> You know... there's a REASON that when you tell your OBGYN that you don't use these things -- she reacts the same way your dentist does when you tell her your floss.

thenewmasses

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I gotta say that the Macbeth reference at the beginning was really, really appropriate.

ssarrahh

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @hharlowe: Whaaaaa? This I have not heard! Firsthand knowledge?

meaverly

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I love these stories... but I think I must have a mutantly short vadge or something. I couldn't POSSIBLY lose anything up there, and any time I've had any trouble (tampon string sucked up, or those verdammt sponges, which I also remember) I just bore down and there it was.

The Diva Cup is brilliant. I remember there was about a two-cycle learning curve before my bloody passage and I worked out exactly where the thing should be placed, but after that, no leaks, no slips, and a miraculous reduction in cramping.

Merkin

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I'll bet $20 that Heather (Dooce) would die laughing to know that she was on the teevee while this was going on.

miz_dj

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> This reminds me of the time I, unknowingly, had "the lost condom" stuck up there for almost a week.

Which actually, was more of a relief [and damn funny, too] than having it still lost in my bedroom somewhere for some poor future guy to discover...

turtle.

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> One more plug (ha!) for the Diva Cup. I love mine more than almost anything.

GeorgeFayne

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> That is the most sickening thing I have EVER read. I am nauseated. If I didn't despise pads I would switch to them.

azi

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> The shit we have to go through!

KrissyLikeWoah

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> This is gross, but I'm imagining the smell right now. Guys are so lucky they don't have to worry about these things

AnnaXC09

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> This story was completely worth the blarf hanging in my throat right now.

Dizastress

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> PSA on Diva Cup: It can sometimes "suction out" an IUD...

(sorry if someone already said this)

hharlowe

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @southernbitch: @scbelle: I thought rayon was part of that saga.

Itsjustcatnip

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Wow--I've been using tampons for 20 years and have never lost one and actually never worried about it happening. But now I am just a bit worried. I'm hoping the fact that I am always sober will reduce the chances of it happening.

I am quite interested in this Diva cup... I think I will have to try it.

Also, I wasn't grossed out at all reading this. Is something wrong with me?

FormicaLinoleum

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> So wait, did I miss the finale with the big TSS or no TSS reveal? Also, I'm feeling very hypochondriac-y having read this.

robyns

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @rumblerumble: So are you a woman that would never forget a tampon, a woman that sexes but rarely, or a man? You've already confirmed that you're judgmental. I've established a few judgments about you, as well.

This story is a PSA, most entertaining, and not uncommon. Why are you judgey about a common occurrence?

Mrs. DeLesseps To You, Dahling

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> This was the funniest post I've read in a loooooong time. Keep that roommate forever.

lesbiansayswhat

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @aflyingwallenda: Ok, so the bit about the basket just made me laugh so hard I almost peed. Then, I had to relate this entire thread to my boyfriend because he just *had* to know why I was laughing so hard. Thankyouthankyouthankyou.

Saddletramp

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> This happened to me.

It must have been up there for two weeks. I was leaking stinky brown fluids and thought for sure my uterus was rotting away. One day I stuck a finger up there, and there it was.

It smelled so bad they had to condemn my vagina.

trashywilma

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Oh my! This happened to me as well! And the gyne told me she almost thought I had cervical cancer when I walked in the door because it stank so much. She took care of fishing it out though ... can't imagine doing it myself (like Moe did!).

penngal

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I never thought this would happen, but...I think I have been put off my Vegemite. Possibly permanently.

sheela-na-gig

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @rumblerumble: Hello, so if you know you're being a "*~*judgemental*~*" bitch as you called it, why would you post that?

Oh, I may have added the bitch part myself. So sorry, except not.

formergr

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Oh my God. WHO ARE YOU? (Goes to the corner to shudder and cry).

pheagan

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> You have huge rocks for telling that story. I use pads, and now will never ever use tampons.

Haystacks

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I need to know how you managed to get laid so many times with such putrid lady odor. Either you're that hot, or the dudes you know are that desperate.

resident

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I nearly pissed myself reading some of these comments.

Chalk up another one for the plastic tip of the OB wrapper. My OB/GYN found mine during a routine exam. I was mortified. They really should change that packaging.

Has anyone tried those "menstrual cups"? I think they're big in Europe. Anyway, I was having horribly heavy periods to the point where I would have to wear a tampon AND a pad just to be safe. I had read something about them working better than tampons so I thought I'd give one a try. Well, it worked really well--no leaks or anything--but I could NOT get that thing out. I started to seriously panic after about 15 minutes of trying. I finally managed to grab a hold of that sucker but ugh, what a mess.

Screw that. I finally just had the doctor put me back on the pill. MUCH easier to deal with.

MadameX

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @graceful_gamine: yessssssss. the disposable one, Instead, can be washed and reused for a short time. I know it's not as green as the diva cup or the keeper, but I like it better cos it's shaped like a diaphragm and sits further up. and a huge plus is that you can have sex with it up there. you know, if someone's not into period sex. and it's just like reg sex. pretty cool.

BIG TMI QUESTION:
so I don't get it. I've never lost anything up there. I can totally feel everything. I can feel all the way around my cervix. are vadges different lengths?? I guess that would make sense. seriously, how deep is the average vadge? I'd say mine is about six inches at rest (although you'd be pretty amazed at what all I can fit in it).

satori

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @ElleL: your post just made me laugh so hard! "it's a 10!" thanks for that :)

marib

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> wow..moe, my love for you knows no bounds..

dcdulce

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @Whinemaker: the stem of the diva cup is long so that it can be clipped to whatever length is comfortable for the wearer. its got little ribs to make it easier to pull out, so cutting it shorter makes removal a little more difficult. I fretted about all the bloody cotton and stinky pads I was producing, so the diva eased my (ridiculous) guilt. then I got my iud. I mentioned it before, but I gotta reiterate, because this thing is sweet. five years of birth control and no periods. the commercials for the mirena market it as a minivan mommy kinda thing, but I'm 20 and I had no problem getting one. the diva cup is nice because you don't have to think about your period for most of the time (I only emptied mine in the morning and at night), but the iud is better because I don't have to think about it for another five years.

coykoi

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I consider myself to be a tolerant sex-positive person, but then I read things like this and all I can think is SKANKY DIRTY WHORE.

*~*judgemental*~*

rumblerumble

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> sorry... except, not expect

marib

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Same thing happened to me expect I WAS 13! Which made it so much more traumatic. It was just a little piece of a tampon, and there was no evil stench (thank god!), but that sucker was up there for months!

The doctors couldn't figure out why my period wouldn't go away and they put me on ridiculous doses of birth control and gave me an ultra sound to make sure I didn't have cancer. I even had to leave summer camp. :(

The gyno finally saw it during an exam and dug it out of my little 13-year-old cooter. I had to take baths twice a day and be on antibiotics for a while after that.

On the plus side, I'm pretty sure that intense gyno experience broke my hymen and losing my virginity was pretty painless!

marib

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> GAH! I love this site so much!!! Great story, Moe!

I have never left a tampon in, but almost as bad, got 'The Sponge' (help me out here, some of you mature Jezzies ... wasn't it called "Instead"???) stuck up in me. The sponge came in a 3-pack, was shaped like a small flying saucer, and had the texture of a squishy marshmallow. You'd moisten it, fold it in half like a taco, and slide 'er on up.

In any event, the attached loop wasn't long enough, and suffice it to say, I'll never be a piano player with my short fingers. I went to do my post-coital removal - attempting to hook that dang loop with my stubby index finger, and it was nowhere to be found. Panic ensued as inserted more fingers up my hoo-hoo, clawing bits of foam from inside myself.

Thankfully, I worked for a doctor, so the following morning I prevailed upon my boss to don his miner's helmet and go on up there and GET IT OUT! NOW! (some might be weirded out by this, but I'm not shy, so that aspect was no big deal - I assisted him with dozens of pelvic exams each week). I made my friend/co-worker stand by with a Ziplock and can of Ozium for the shredded, offending item once it was retrieved, which I then personally walked to the outside dumpster.

Sidebar: I am really curious about the Diva cup - I can see many raves about it. Am I the only one here who now gives an inordinate amount of thought to where all my plastic applicators are going, and whats gonna happen in a hundred years when they still haven't decomposed?!

One question about the Diva cup ... does that little tail thing hang out of you, like a tapon string? Is it annoying?

Whinemaker

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> In my currently crampy gross condition, this story was delightfully hilarious. Especially the last part. I will always remember to be vigilant in remembering my tampon use. And Stinkytofu: good name or great name?

Agrado

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> p.s. Before discovering the Instead cups, I bought a Diva cup and could not ever once get the damn thing in there right. I kept trying to fold it up like they tell you and it would only go halfway as far in as it should have and feel really weird. I still have it, in a drawer in my bathroom. Any alternate uses for it?

polkaparty

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> This happened to me too, when I was in high school and too dumb to even realize what was up -- I thought I had a crazy infection or something too. I finally freaked after a few days and had my mom take my to the doc, who dug it out of me -- she was all, "yeah, this happens pretty often." Horrifying. And I've never told anyone.
But yeah, I don't use tampons anymore either, I graduated to the Instead. Tampons are kind of gnarly when you think about it.

polkaparty

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> This totally happened to me and I didn't know what it was. The smell is, indeed, unbelievable, beyond appalling.

I went to the emergency room and the doctor who took it out treated me like I was some total moron bimbo, explaining in one-syllable words that if I couldn't remember the tampon, maybe I'd better just stick to pads. Asshole.

Augusta

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @alysbrangwin: Um, no. Never heard of the Diva Cup. I am both horrified and insanely curious by it.

smopenna

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I have done both the sex w/ a tampon in and inserting another one without removing the first. For the sex, there was much alcohol involved, and after, when I realized what I had done, my bf and i were both like, "how the fuck did neither of us FEEL that?!?!?!". Seriously, didn't feel it one bit...and I know I don't have many nerve endings inside my vajajay, but the fact that he didn't feel anything? weird.

scubachick

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Cannot. stop. laughing. Comments are killing me too. Hilarious.

sidesteppinggnome

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> hmm, well I'm glad this stuff doesn't happen to me since I don't use tampons. Ever heard of the Diva Cup? It's useful and it won't cause TSS if it's up there too long. One time I couldn't get it out for about 36 hours, but gravity did the trick after a while. It's made of silicone and doesn't absorb everything, just collects the flow. I can't imagine having lost a tampon up there. How horrifying, and good to hear you're okay after that!

alysbrangwin

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> holy shit.

whateverhappened

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Epic fail at posting. Sorry y'all. Was supposed to be "made him dig it out right now." Stupid html.

Branza

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> My ex used to... overestimate his size, so condom slippage happened more than once. I always made him dig it out >.right now.

Branza

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> [www.flickr.com]

Hey, no shame. The SAME thing happened to me a few years ago, complete with the sex.

I couldn't get it out myself, and had to make a trip to the gyno. She said that she has clients in their 40's who do the same thing YEARLY.

Once is understandable, twice may be excusable, but YEARLY?

Allibird

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> HAHAHAHAHA Best reason to stay at work after my 5:50 policy ever. This has totally happened to me...eeek.

Linzy85

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @astralgravy: that's called pregnancy for most women, guess you lucked out by not having an actual human at the end of it all though.

TwiceShy

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> OMG! Not only has that happened to me, but once a FULL condom fell out of me on the toilet. It had been 2 days since I had sex. Truly disturbing.

champale

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> wow... that was like me after my period magically stopped for 9 1/2 months from stress...and after a month of birth control, kicked on like a disgusting, brown FAUCET. i feel your pain!

astralgravy

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @AndYourLittleDogToo: omg that's happened to me too! twice! note to everyone: do NOT use trojan twisted pleasure. anyway, the first time we finish, we're drunk, i go back to my dorm room (omggg so long ago) and my cooch is itchy. i give her a good rinse, you know sometimes after too much booze, you get dry, whatevs. next day is a little worse so i start downing water. i'm thinking fuck, i have a yeastie. no good. the third day as i'm wiping after a pee, i feel something weird, lumpy almost. i'm like WHAT THE EF, my cooch is not lumpy. i drop the tp, and search. i find. i pull, it was the fucking condom. the ass clown didn't even tell me there wasn't one off him when we were done.

the second time i went on a fishing expidition right away when the itch started. so gross.

barstarCAB

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @thebeerbitch: OMG!!!! And here i was thinking, nah nothing like this ever happened to me... until i recalled that fateful day at work i removed a suspiciously failing OB, only to discover it was still IN THE WRAPPER. And i was at work when I inserted it. Sober. EPIC FAIL

dolbonner

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I am glad to know I am not the only one this has happened to. This is my one really great horror story that I tell only a select few.

punkrockgirl

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I'm another passenger of the Diva Cup bandwagon. Far more confortable than tampons or pads. However, I find that's its a good idea to pair the cup with a pantyliner on the first day of menstruation since I'm prone to spotting.

laughingacademy

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> SOOO, when I was growing up in Alaska we were good friends with this family. The Mom was one of those crazy fisherpeople (PC!) who goes out for 6 months at a time. Well, she put a tampon in, then another tampon, forgot about the first, thought her uterus was rotting for a month and a half before returning to land, and lo and behold, just a giant smelly tampon. NO TSS EITHER!!

saradise

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Oh God -- I am filling the bathtub with bleach for a long hot soak even as I type. The fact that this has never happened to me makes no difference at all.

Sunflowercat

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> i feel strange: that didn't gross me out. instead i thought to myself, "wow, what an awesome story."

lauralk3

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I admit to having had a similar experience while dealing with a lot of stuff at once.
The first three days are horrible - a new plug almost every hour and I forgot one.

When I started to feel sick a week later it crossed my mind that I could have forgotton one and I had. I felt like an idiot.

CreoleSugar

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I've accidentally piggybacked tampons, but never more than a couple of hours. The idea of losing one horrifies me.

Jesus, Moe. Glad you lived to share with us!

touchmyshoe

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> The most competent I've ever felt was removing a three day old tampon from my best friend. Also, how can you just randomly fuck your best friend? I can't mix friends and lovers, ever. Strangers only. Especially at a WEDDING. Jesus.

J.D.Regent

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Moe honey, you MUST have an industrial strength immune system to have warded of the toxic shock syndrome I know HAD to be brewing in your vadge!

If you really want/need to remove the tampon yourself, a helpful tip for removing lost/forgotten tampons is a pair of small flat tongs like you have in the kitchen. Make sure it has smooth edges and is cleaned thoroughly. Although, the safest/best bet is to call your gyn provider!

AGreenEyeDevil

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Has happend to me before... more than once.

sparklytoesfairydustbutt

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I'm in the how did guys not notice camp?

redheadedstepchild

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @briardahl: Insisted was probably too strong a term, it's not like he was opposed. But, also, to be *very* frank I had done such a good job scrubbing that I was desert-dry down there and he wasn't doing particularly well at the rest of foreplay. It was that or get up and go home as far as I was concerned. Dry vagina + condom = painful.

Also, I guess the reason I did it despite knowing that it didn't smell great was that I actually didn't care if we did it again. The sex part was so bad, though, that I do care, now. I care not to.

Megan

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @Megan Carpentier: Haha, don't worry, I'm mostly joking about the "frightened" part. But something about the word "insisted," which doesn't entirely fit the context -- "I'm sorry, sir, but I'm afraid I absolutely must insist on it"? -- might be throwing me off. I wind up imagining something really guyish, like the same story in reverse: "My balls totally reeked, but this chick wanted to get with me, so I made her suck it anyway?" Ha, lots of head-pushing and smugness.

I am laughing, not judging.

(I will also admit that if I'm feeling smelly, my instinct is to keep people's heads far away from it, for basic customer-service "I hope you've had a pleasant experience and would like to come again" reasons.)

briardahl

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> oh, and I got a UTI once from what I suspect was leaving a tampon in for far too long, and that UTI caused a kidney stone that then caused the MOST PAINFUL DAY OF MY LIFE thus far.

apparently kidney stone pain is a lot like labor pain, according to the ambulance people who laughed at me as i am screaming, "the pain is a 10! its a 10!"

ElleL

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> i put a tampon in the day i knew i was getting my period but then didn't get it because i was preggy. that sucker was in there for weeks and IT STUNK even without blood. and i had sex at least 10 times and the hub didn't notice.

themontmorency

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I just gave a brief description of this to the boyfriend and he gagged. A lot.

Oh men, you dont realize how lucky you are.

ElleL

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> this has happened to me but it was with a condom. he pulled out, and we realized the condom was nowhere to be seen.

about three or four days later, while in the shower, i looked down and saw something...peeking out.

and there it was.

ugh, i can't believe you just reminded me of that disturbing experience.

onestrawplz

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @katrei626: that is the funniest thing i have ever heard. i am sitting at the library, laughing so hard, trying not to do it loudly so nobody stares. and failing

jemandtheholograms

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> i'm so glad to know that i'm not the only chick to have lost a tampon OR the only one to have had sex while it was MIA. i always wondered how the dude could have not noticed it... but maybe the briardahl theory holds and he was just being a polite guest.

man, never thought i would be laughing about it someday. thanks for sharing, moe!

shannanigans

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @meaverly, team herbivore: NOT shilling for the company, honest. It just treated me so good, and I had used OB applicator-free for nearly my whole bleeding life. zing.

meaverly

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Diva Cup, Moe. Diva Cup.

meg9

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Oy! That sucks. Never let it go that long (that's where being obsessive is helpful), but have had a fun moment with digging one out before. Kind of interesting to see "the lay of the land", if you know what I mean, but not especially fun in the circumstances. Worse was when I tried using one of those "alternative" methods before finally figuring out OB. I think it was called "Instead". Spent forever trying to find this fucking painful plastic cup thing, too embarrassed to tell my mom and spending a fucking year in the bathroom. Good times!

I mostly have problems forgetting to put one back in when drunk, but that's just me. :)

lautaylo

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @briardahl: It's ok, but if you figure it out, you let me know? I think it might be you feeling a little like I took advantage. I did, but 'twas his idea to hook up in the first place.
@SgrMag: Hon, let me second BeckySharper and say there was something fucked up with that guy. In my experience, most heterosexual men that aren't porn/masturbation addicts kind of like the smell of (clean) pussy. Hell, even some homosexual men like it.

Megan

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]>

Oh, it's happened to me like three or four times, but tampon #1 never stayed inside for longer than a couple of days. I blame it on faulty memories when inserting tampons during a 3 a.m. drunk. You know.

I think that, despite its horrible name, the diva cup (ooh picture!) is the best Menstrual Aid ever. I got my period right before a 15-day vacation and I didn't have a single period-related incident! The little fucker stayed in place during bungee-jumping, is how good it is.

In public restrooms, you empty it as much as possible into the toilet, wipe it clean with toilet paper, and just wash it when you go wash your hands. Afterward, reenter stall and reinsert magical cup. For serious, no leakage whatsoever, and once I learned how to use it, it was so simple.

You'll never get it lost up the birth canal, either, AND you can leave it in for way longer than tampons because it "lets the vagina breathe" or similar. Ugh I hate the word "diva" so much but I really do love this goddamn product. Vegan & made in Canada!

meaverly

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The other link isn't really working either-- so here.

It was like those scarves that clowns pull from their sleeves.

missdona

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> oh my, thank you moe. this totally happened to me when I was 15. I had a high fever, and vomiting flu, and then after a week, I got conjunctive itis. I couldn't figure out why my body was in muntiny. I showed up for a dr's appt for my eyes, and wound up leaving with my first ever pelvic exam, by my very embarrased, smalltown, male family doctor. Mortifying. It was one of the secrets of my life until a friend told me a few years ago that it happened to her. This event and peeing in a basket once instead of the toilet when I was very drunk were my secretest shames. They're not anymore.

aflyingwallenda

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Also Moe? The egg-salad sandwich was a nice touch.

whoneedslight

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @undiepoo: Why you gotta bring the poor goats down with you?

briardahl

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I had a tampon stuck in there for God knows how long. I just went pee one day after having sex, and felt something fall out of me. At first I couldn't for the life of me figure out what it was, it looked like something my cat coughed up and I was on the verge of tears. But then my drunk ass finally put two and two together. I remember it smelled like a petting zoo. Like the goats.

SweetFancyMoses

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> after reading the warning in the beginning, i'm a little disappointed in the lack of explicate detail. although i am a guy, and haven't experienced anything like that. i do know a guy who got a highlighter stuck in his ass, though.

origamimavin

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> this happened to me too. it began its descent during my boyfriend's mom's birthday dinner in a fancy restaurant. very difficult disguising my horror and fear of TSS while trying to make a good impression.

sloe-eyed

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Can we all just say that, this is our worst fucking nightmare ever? vaginas are sooo crafty like that! I just had a dream that I had crabs and everytime I reached down to my vadge these little like fishing row thingies would just fall out, I can never eat sushi again...

wickedflea

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @dancingcupcake: hey, where do you get this thing and how does it work?

I've had a vanished tampon I had to dig out from a place far, far up inside my body. Very, very painful. That's what you get from having sex drunk as a skunk, forgetting about it being there..

CrazyRatLady

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Once, after a party, a woman brought me back to her place for a little hook up. Once we were on the bed, I started to finger her for a little bit. As I was doing it, I noticed a terrible stench. I could also feel something strange and non-vaginal far inside her. I immediately knew that she had lost a tampon inside her. I was scared that she might get TSS, so I said to her, "Wait, there is something wrong here" I then managed to pull the old tampon out with my index and middle fingers.
I think we were both a little stunned and a bit embarrassed! Very strange night!

theJesusHorse

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> My homosexuality has been solidified by this article.

Thank you.

BobbyMoon

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> holy crap.. I had no idea this was such a common problem.. I'm totally surprised. I finger myself all the damn time, I can't imagine anything going undiscovered for long. but anyway, the diva cup is a good recommendation. no leaks, no feeling of seeping blood. I loved it until I got an IUD. now I don't get my period. it's mirena magic!

coykoi

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> In "The Satanic Witch," Anton LeVay advises ladies to make a sachet out of a small bit of menses-soaked tampon because it would attract men. Guess he may have been right.

Awesome post, totally made me feel as if I were going to faint like I did in 5th grade sex ed class.

trikitixa

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @talk2tehhand: That is horrifying. How do you ... why was it there in the first place? Aren't you not supposed to soap up in there cause vaginal bacteria is your friend? Am I missing something here?

Branza

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @Megan Carpentier: I'm slightly frightened by that post, but I can't really articulate why.

briardahl

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @ilikenoise: Whoops, sound a bit sycophantic there, but still.

ilikenoise

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> i, like so many others did the 2-in-1, and had the second one up there for a few days, and didn't know it until my bf and i were having sex and he said that something felt weird. i was totally fine. in a completely unrelated incident my boyfriend almost died of tss. true story.

wigglepuppy

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @SgrMag: He was a loser. Not that you don't know this, but just offering independent confirmation. And if you ever wonder if you don't smell good and that was what turned him off, just take your fingers, rub around down there and sniff (gross, sorry, but it's that kind of post, so I'm going to go there). If it doesn't smell bad to you, it won't smell bad. It will probably just smell like vagina, which normal healthy guys are turned on by.

There are some guys, however, who get freaked out by normal female smells, and they are to be avoided for a whole host of reasons, so it's a good litmus test.

BeckySharper

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @NoInheritance: ahhh! that is horrible. I will not be super careful with my ob's.

Beesley

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Moe- best Jezebel post I have read in my 6th months of reading, hands down. Good job.

ilikenoise

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> This is my first time posting, because this is my favorite story ever. Awesomely told.

emmalouhou

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @briardahl:

Then I am so glad I broke up with the dude that told me that I smelled down there and that was why he didn't want to give me oral and couldn't come.

Him: (after me complaining about his need for porn sex for three hours at a time): "well you smell down there. can't you smell it? the smell wafts up and bothers me and I can't come. didn't you notice I never give you oral?"

Me: "No, I just figured you weren't any good at it. But I think we should break up now."

It made me paranoid for forever until a friend offered to smell for me. I politely declined and promptly got over it.

Oh that I found out that he pleasured himself serveral times a day...like 10 or more to porn.

Well that is enough sharing for my second day of posting.

SgrMag

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I've told this story on here before...but when I left a tampon in and then had sex with an old hs friend who i had f*cked before I was all "ohhh you're so much bigger than i remembered" little did i realize it was the tampon banging against my cervix!

thereisalight

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @brookidy: Funny. A few weekends ago I was on my period and I was too afraid to put a tampon in (I've never done it) and convinced my boyfriend to do it for me.

What a nice guy.

Atsumi

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> The fact you wrote about this just raised mt respect for you like 400 points.

Sadly, this story didn't gross me out one bit. I'm so weird.

Atsumi

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> THIS is why I come to this site. I laughed! I gagged! I learned about tampons!

Private Hangnail

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @briardahl: The one time I had sex when I knew I smelled bad (I had a gyno appt on Monday b/c it was obviously a bacterial- not-a-yeast-infection) I showered immediately beforehand. And, um, Catty Is Cumbersome, I insisted he go down. I could tell he could tell (it wasn't his first time down there) but he didn't say a damn word.

Megan

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I read it out to my boyfriend and his face was classic. It made me keel over with laughter. Aw dudes just have no idea.

mepo

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> best post ever?

also? this has happened to at least three people I know. So.

frannyincognito

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @zivah: I don't remember, I think: "Umm, fish around and see if you can find it. If you don't have any luck come in and see me and my speculum."
I also can't remember if it was the ball from a captive bead ring or one of the threaded balls from a curved barbell. Hopefully the former because the latter would tear your shit up.

stasis

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @brookidy: that's a sign of true love right there! also- you are awesome for asking for the sake of your nails

thatsrealbutter

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> This happened to me once, too. It was in there less than a week. It was discovered when the guy I was having sex with felt the string. He got "string burn" on his tip.

I pulled it out myself, called the doctor, who called in some antibiotics I could take if I started feeling feverish (sign of an infection).

She said it happens all the time and added that when someone comes into the office to have it removed, they change everything in that exam room afterwards, mop it, and don't use it for the rest of the day because of the stench.

vivakittyvol

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @Begorrah: It's not a wire, it's a piece of twice and I've been reliably informed it doesn't hurt. Also, there are plenty of guys you can crack jokes with during sex. Actually, I never have sex more than once with someone I can't laugh with because, otherwise, what's the point?

Megan

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @graceful_gamine: I just used one for the first time too, thanks for the Jezebelle recommendations. So much better than tampons, for all the reasons you listed. When Jezzies speak, listen!

Rebecca

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @zivah: I think there might be a little nook up there aside from the cervix. A long vagina, and shorter fingers, could also make things difficult, I would guess.

Catty Is Cumbersome

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @Megan Carpentier: Yeah, a smell -- from any body part -- would have to be pretty grotesque to be some kind of dealbreaker, and in that case you'd probably notice it before the deal ever got made. There's also an easy solution to this stuff, if people aren't at their best-smelling: suggesting that you maybe take a shower together, and disguising your washing as groping.

A poke I can see leading to a discussion opportunity, for sure. A blunt "I'm hitting something generally soft" is more like ... I dunno what that is, but so long as it doesn't actively hurt, I'm just gonna work around it and ask later. And enjoy the experience of being kinda mystified and distracted and not wanting to inadvertently insult someone's vagina.

briardahl

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Really? I'm the only one who has a similar story? This same thing actually happened to me, but with a diaphragm. I left it up there so long that it is now permanently stained brown from being filled with blood for over a week. I won't tell you what the blood looked like when I finally took it out....

sweetbeans

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> This story would be so much more amusing, disgusting if oral had been involved. Sorry, I had to go there.

Catty Is Cumbersome

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Okay Moe, you are seriously trying to beat out Tracie as my favorite Jez girl. Best. Post. EVAR.

kityglitr

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> My mom had to fish one out of me once when I was 14. It really wasn't that big of a deal.

ceejeemcbeegee

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Speaking of mother's day...

Moodacris

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I have done this.

Who knows how long it was there, but I went to reach for tampon no. 1 and then ...whoa, bonus round!

ladypony

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @BeckySharper:

looks like I date too many delicate fellows. stupid me.

Bellzaboo

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @stasis: What did your mom say?

zivah

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I've gotten drunk several times and put a tampon in on top (er, underneath?) another one. Fortunately, each time both the tampons have come out at the same time. When this happens, I obviously vow to quit drinking immediately.

Also, isn't the furthest up you can really reach your cervix? Moe? You've never felt your cervix before?

zivah

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Unshockable me just worries that things are getting back to normal and that you feel alright. Are you feeling alright? I'd imagine crampin'/back pain or somesuch. Please tell us you're OK!

jezebelacious

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @MissAnthropy: "Laying a ben wah ball ..."

Ohmigod, you HAVE to tell that one!

broad

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> oh man, oh man, oh man. this article rawks! such description made me reel and cry out, but, it was good. accurate portrayal of the average period sufferer in a refreshing way. i feel like a member of a greater sisterhood, now. kudos.

Ed_Monstah

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @Megan Carpentier: I've been planning on getting an IUD for the longest time. When I read about the chance of guys getting "poked" by the wires I figured I'll finally have a chance to make a vagina dentata joke during sex. This is why I don't get laid, fyi.

andBegorrah

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> This happened to me about a year ago, but I (apparently) wasn't smart enough to figure it out on my own and actually went to the gyno. She fished it out (thank goodness, no condom or tongs for me) and told me not to be embarassed, that she has this happen all the time. But YUCK! It was nasty.

hookem1991

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I can't even think about being with someone if I smell or imagine I do. Props, Moe. This phantom tampon trumps Tracie's phantom condom anecdote. I thoroughly enjoyed this.

Elevendy has a sequin for an eye

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Aiieeek! A truly impressive cautionary tale. And I thought the evening I turned my vag inside out with both hands to retrieve a lost condom was kind of nasty... not even close.

City_Dater

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @briardahl: I can second the part about a dude not willing to stop because it smells funky down there. I think if things feel weird there's more of a discussion opportunity, but maybe that's because I have an IUD and the twine at the end pokes occasionally and any dude that's felt it never fails to mention "um, something is poking me?"

Megan

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Wait, so did Moe get TSS right? If she didn't I feel a whole lot better about forgetting for 6+ hours (and suddenly thinking I am going to die of it because I haven't changed it).

Jen82

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @Heycupcake: That happened to me too! I think it was up there about 10 days, and it kind of started falling out when i went to the bathroom after my period was over. I fished it out and recovered a teeny tiny piece of plastic, covered in brown goo that smelled absolutely HORRIBLE.

scrizzlescrazzle

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I absolutely love this story, thank you.

richcreamerybutter

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Fucking hell! I just forwarded this to every girl I know. This is my paranoia every month. I use the seventh generation w/ no applicator and I am paranoid about those wimpy strings breaking on me too.

Maybe I should just start using that cup thing. Still the paranoia of using it at work in a 2cube bathroom... walking to the sink to rinse that shit out... horror.

tokyomonamour

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I thought it was bad enough when I lost a contact lens to the side of my eye and couldn't rub it out but getting a tampon stuck sounds so much worse.
Maxi pads only for me, thx.

Birki

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> While we're all sharing our lost condom and tampon stories, here's another fun one:

My mom, a gyno, got a call in the middle of the night from a patient who wanted to know what to do after the ball from her husband's Prince Albert went missing during sex. Imagine trying to find one of those up your vag...

stasis

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I had a conversation with a gal once about what we would do if we switched bits. If she had my wang for a day, she said she'd just run around sticking it in whatever she could: gals, guys, pastries, couch cushions, mailboxes, whatever...
When she asked what I would do with her cooch, I said: "read the manual."

My first impulse was "make date with rugby team and keg of cider," but the more I thought about, the more appreciation I had for those dealing with such a complex and often difficult set of equipment. I'd be afraid of breaking it.

Kudos. For...um...having a vag. You know what I mean.

beefer

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @BoredButNoLongerInNH: I dated a guy like that. I only slept with him once. I was so insulted that he ran off into the shower aftewards. I don't think my feminine secretions are ambrosia, but they're not nasty or smelly or anything. (since I've never accidentally left a tampon in for a week, thank God)

And you know, it's not like cum is so delightful in taste/texture either, but I don't think of it as nasty or needing to be showered off right away.

BeckySharper

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> do you have those dreams that you can't remember whether or not they actually happened? like you've had them so many times that you're not entirely sure it isn't a real memory?

well, i have one of those were a tampon just mystically APPEARS one day, and it had been a couple of months since i'd used a tampon. i'm 99% sure this never happened, but i have that nagging little 1% still...

RemoteCommander

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> I would like to thank you for sharing your story as this just happened to me end of March. The sex part too - which btw I don't get that often either but somehow got very lucky in that 2 weeks.
I hestitate to tell you that since then I have had a horrible pain in my labia like two hot pokers pinching in from each side. The gyno thinks I pulled a ligament while said tampon was up there getting poked in further. The pain extends from my labia, across my bottom and then shoots down my leg. OH and I haven't had a period since. Or sex.
Now I am sad.
So anyway , good luck to you!!!

SgrMag

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Two answer two questions-for-guys posed here:

1. By the time you've gotten up close enough to notice such smells and know where they're coming from, you've usually made your intentions clear enough that it'd be incredibly rude to go "eww, I'm out of here," so you focus on the positive things that got you there in the first place and (in Moe's old terms) cash the check you wrote. Then, if you're anything like me, you sit around the next day really wanting to tell people about the weirdness of it, but knowing you'll sound like a serious asshole if you're going around saying "but man you should have smelled it, something was definitely wrong in there."

2. Most of us non-vagina-havers are decent enough to just trust that women know their parts and can take care of them without any outside input, so if we find ourselves touching or bumping into something that feels a little strange, one gut reaction is going to be to assume that you know what's going on don't need us asking questions like "did you leave a Mooncup in there or something?" or "are you using an extra sponge that's slipped into a weird place?" or "did you have some kind of surgery at birth that's resulted in your having kind of a different topography in there than I'm used to?" Some of us will just presume that you have your stuff sorted and don't need any kind of special review or question/answer session in the middle of things. (Also, if you ask us about it later, we will say mild reassuring things like "oh, I thought something felt different, no big deal" instead of "OMG that was MESSED UP I had no idea what the hell was going on and thought you might be a mutant.")

I hope that's been reassuring to somebody or other.

briardahl

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Woah.

Did they cover this in the female health classes in middle school? I'm thinking no. "Now young ladies, one day you might throw back a bit too much to drink. At that time, stick to pads."

NoDowdAboutIt

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Jesus Tapdancing Christ. I'm going to go scoop my brains out with a rusty spoon now. *shudder*

snidelywhiplash

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Impacted tampons are fairly common. As are forgotten sea sponges (more commonly used by the hippy bunch). I worked at a clinic and we removed them fairly reqularly. The longest that one was in? 3 weeks.

ULookinAtMyJunk is the Hate Mitigator

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @missdona: wow! you could bait a worm on that!

la_phantom_lady

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Woah. I have a pretty strong stomach. But that story gave me the horrible tickle feeling in the back of my throat that I get right before I gag.

Okay, I'm temporarily migrating to cute overload for a cleansing moment.

SniperAndAPastryChef

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> Btw, this is the BEST SITE EVER.

Heycupcake

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @BeckySharper: I wish I could meet those kind of guys. One guy I dated had to immediately go to the bathroom and wash himself after non-period sex, so period sex was obviously a no go.

BoredButNoLongerInNH

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> My friend had to have her gyno do this once cause it would not come out. The actually story is the reason behind me not using them anymore. I am way too forgetful.

ArtfulSlinger

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon]]> @Moe: Um... If the tampon had 3 servings of splooge on it and you were asking if you should take Plan B... Does that mean you thought being on your period is acceptable birth control on it's own?

There's no nice way to put this. I didn't know people besides Christian nutbags and 6th graders thought period sex prevented pregnancy.

It's true that women are only ovulating for about four days a month, but sperm can live in your snatch for something like seven days, widening that for day period to closer to two weeks, even without a tampon's help.

Get thee to a CVS for a pee stick!

Ttteri

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