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I’ve just birthed a fossilised tampon...what do I do?!

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MedicinalGin · 18/11/2018 15:29

Hello.
I’m so embarrassed about this. Have had loads of weird discharge for the past few days and was getting really worried- suddenly this happened. I feel quite well and everything but could I now have an infection or something? It must have been in there for two weeks.

Do I just presume I will now be fine or should I seek official advice (seriously hoping I don’t have to).

Excuse me while I now go and 🤢

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FeckingEjit · 19/11/2018 19:21

What the holy fuck is going on here 🤣 2018 and people are still washing inside of themselves because they've been brainwashed into thinking women are dirty smelly creatures.

Tampons get stuck all of the time, unless you have signs of infection or need help removing the tampon, you don't need to see a doctor
If you can feel a tampon (even if it doesn't hurt), you have inserted it wrong
You should never attempt to clean your vagina
Your vulva can be cleaned with plain water or a very very very mild body wash
Vaginal discharge was once used as perfume because men are attracted to the smell
Discharge is your vaginas way of cleaning itself, which is why it comes out into your knickers. It's literally taking the rubbish out FOR you
Discharge is also used to lubricate sex, so that you aren't uncomfortable or in pain and don't cause damage to the inside of your vagina
Your vagina should smell like a vagina, if your vagina smells weird it's because you have an infection or have changed the PH balance
If you aren't comfortable with the smell or natural functions of your vagina then you probably need some sort of councillor and/or a reality check

Thank you for coming to my TED talk, I hope you have learnt something.

SoyDora · 19/11/2018 19:23

^ FeckingEjit has summed it all up perfectly!

Starhaf · 19/11/2018 19:25

Be careful - same thing happened to me - all seemed fine at the time. A couple of years later hospitalised with severe pelvic inflammatory disease. I’d suggest antibiotics now!!

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Starhaf · 19/11/2018 19:25

Be careful - same thing happened to me - all seemed fine at the time. A couple of years later hospitalised with severe pelvic inflammatory disease. I’d suggest antibiotics now!!

Drogosnextwife · 19/11/2018 19:32

Reading this is making myvagina clench up😂. Surely it would sting of you washed the inside with soap!

HariboLecter · 19/11/2018 19:33

@marciebluebell I've done that before, well I'd taken the bottom half of plastic off so that bit expanded 🙈 At least it meant I could get the string to take it out.

FanfictionFan · 19/11/2018 19:34

@Marciebluebell... This happened to me back in my teens.

This thread is hilarious, and to the PP who likes to clean the outside thoroughly for two minute, there's nothing wrong in a little me time.

OP I'm sure you'll be fine but if you start to feel unwell please seek medical help.

Mumofferalkids · 19/11/2018 19:42

Sympathies OP it’s horrible.
I sometimes use those little sponge stringless tampons for period sex as my OH can’t feel them most of the time. After a lively session they can end up wedged pretty high, and before now I’ve put one in while tipsy/half asleep and forgotten in the morning, and after a full day have started to notice a smell Confused
Trying to get one of those bad boys out once it’s been pushed up is definitely a bit like giving birth!

cheval · 19/11/2018 19:45

Glad you’re ok. Yep, done this. Forgot to take original tampon out. Put in another. Then horrid pong a few days later. Found it without medical intervention, but it’s quite a shock at how stupid I can be. Quite relieved to be post menopausal now...

Nearly47 · 19/11/2018 19:52

People are confusing vagina with vulva. Vagina is internal. You don't wash it. Ask any doctor. The vulva you can wash with some mild soap. SimplesWink

BettyBitchface · 19/11/2018 19:56

I had no idea the vagina might be considered so slimy and disgusting if one fails to wash it on the inside.

I'm going to ask OH to dip his dangler in Swarefga first in future, kill two birds with one stone.

MadCow999 · 19/11/2018 20:00

Get an appointment with your GP straight away.

ToniHargis · 19/11/2018 20:04

Don't douche! You're washing the bacteria back up there.

Petalflowers · 19/11/2018 20:07

“I have just birthed a fossilised tampon” is one of the best headings for a post ever!

GreatAuntMary · 19/11/2018 20:19

FeckingEjit - absolutely spot on (did I intend that pun, I wonder?...)!

I had extremely heavy periods back in the day and, in the mid-part, had to use two tampons (plus, sometimes, a pad as well). During a very busy time (working and studying) I once had a faulty box of Lil-lets - all the strings came away - and I didn't have time to get another box.

As a consequence I had a Lil-let stuck very high up, with no string available. The tampon had to be left for nearly two days, and finally in desperation I became a human pretzel to get it out - imminently due on stage and too embarrassed/no time to visit doctor or get help.

I was very careful to check strings and count tampons from then on.

FanfictionFan · 19/11/2018 20:20

"I've just birthed a fossilized tampon"

Is just me who immediately thought of Jurassic Park with Jeff Goldblum being chased by stinky black tampon?

It's probably just me, I'll see myself out Grin

Cantaana · 19/11/2018 20:31

AChefIsTrappedInMyCellar
any unfortunate people that for whatever reason have the misfortune of entering it.

I'll have a sign made for over my bed.

'Abandon hope all ye who enter here.'

Did a proper belly jiggle at this Grin

Growingboys
Yes re anal sex. My gay friends put me off using a shower hose in hotels as they unscrew them and shove them up their bums to clean the area before sex.

WTF DID I JUST READ

mastertomsmum · 19/11/2018 20:36

I could never bear the thought of tampons and now I know I definitely can't go for the concept. Hope you continue to feel ok and do go see nurse or doc if the discharge continues or you feel unwell.

onefootinthegrave · 19/11/2018 21:01

I bought some tampons once with a cardboard applicator. Don't ask me how, but I put one in early on a Sunday morning and the fucking applicator didn't come out. I noticed a couple of hours later while I was in the bath having a good wash up there and it started disintigrating as I tried to get it out.

Panicked, got my son (who has aspergers) to call my sister who's the school nurse to ask her advice. I was getting more panicked and he's acting as a go between, she's not quite sure what he's saying (the poor sod also has a stammer). In the end he didn't actually asked her if she wanted him to change the call to a facetime one so she could see what the problem was (we both drew the line at that)

Cue a trip to the local walk in centre who didn't do internals, sent me to the walk in clinic at one hospital - poor woman tried her best but only got a bit out. Said I had to go to A&E because it was a foreign object and it would have to come out by any means necessary.

Walk into A&E, first person I see is my mums neighbour, first thing she says in the middle of A&E is 'What are you doing here?' They'd changed A&E and it's now more open plan with no discreet area to tell the receptionist I had a tampon applicator stuck inside my fanny adams. That started the nearest bloke sniggering.

Doctor finally calls me in, the first thing I said to him was I'm not half glad they don't film 24 hours in A& E here'. He then proceeded to get the fucker out but it took a while. At one point the poor bloke's chin was resting on my foot while he was tugging away. Half way through he apologies for not being able to get it out sooner, but the problem, apparantley, was my 'bulging vagina'

Seriously, you couldn't make it up. If you're his wife, reading this, I apologise if he came home and told you the story over your Sunday roast!

Zoosie · 19/11/2018 21:07

I birthed a tampon in the bath once.

Exactly like having it’s own birthing pool!

Very surreal as it was pre children! Just knew this thing was going to come out! Had no idea what until I saw it!😂😂

TheWiseWomansFear · 19/11/2018 21:21

Also, DSis has actually told me stories of the fossilised tampons she has extracted in A&E (she's a doc).

One smelled so bad after a month up there that the room had to be closed for the day.

One was a homeless woman - it had gotten so bad and she had been sleeping rough and had serious alcohol and drug issues - it was full of maggots....

You're welcome (yes, she told me this over dinner 🤢)

TheWiseWomansFear · 19/11/2018 21:28

@AsleepAllDay I recommend we take to calling discharge 'Flummery' after the jelly like dessert...

alienor13 · 19/11/2018 21:47

Apparently Shake n vac puts the freshness back ...

PeachyPeachTrees · 19/11/2018 21:55

This is what I love about Mumsnet, we can discuss in detail all sorts of things that we would never discuss otherwise!
The maggots one though...tmi x1000 🤢

BullshitometerCalibrator · 19/11/2018 22:14

It happened to me once. I couldn't feel the string or anything and contorted myself trying to fish it out to no avail. Being very prone to infections with being on immunosuppressants I sought advice and was told to attend my local A&E asap. After a gynae doc mined around down there for what seemed like an eternity, she proudly announces there was nothing there and could I possibly have passed it without noticing?! I said no way but she insisted and discharged me - no pun intended. I started to doubt my sanity and as time passed I forgot about it. Fast forward 3 weeks and whilst having a wee I wondered what the hell was falling out of my vagina!! Yep - a 3 weeks old tampon - I can't begin to describe the smell! However there was no infection - just got told the excess discharge was my vag doing its self cleaning thing very well. Lesson learnt - I make sure I can feel the string a little outside now before pulling my knickers up. Lol Apols for tmi 😂😂

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