I need to discuss and ask advice about something far too TMI to discuss with anyone in RL

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For a few weeks I have wondered if I have BV (again) as it does not smell good when we have sex. I haven't made time to go to the GP, OH works away.

Have been accusing OH of eating bad food which is making his sperm smell bad

Today we were DTD and I kept getting wafts of this awful awful smell. He said he felt something weird - I felt something weird and ran to the loo and was worried I was pulling out some type of weird prolapse (not medically trained!).

To my horror it was a forgotten about tampon which as I have a Mirena and no periods I cannot remember for the life of me inserting - we are talking months

I have Googled and think I am lucky not to have dropped dead from TSS (been feeling dizzy for 3 months!).

Apart from feeling totally mortified should I go to the GP and share this mortifying info or as I haven't dropped dead am I probably ok?

Has this happened to others?

After having ds1 I had to have surgery for a vaginal prolapse. A few months later I noticed a foul smell and went to docs - he had a root around, found nothing, gave me some AB's and sent me away.

It was only when I went back to gp a year after my original surgery (still stinking) that he realised my prolapse surgeon had used stitches which rather than dissolving had rotted.

I can still remember the smell of this probably 1cm piece of rotten string when he got it out, I could still smell it in reception.

The smell disappeared immediately after removal but he still gave me some AB's so prob worth going to get checked out.

God they can't pay these doctors and nurses enough if they have to do that, seriously.

Has anyone else read that Wikipedia article? It is named after the Scottish anatomist Dr. James Douglas (1675–1742) who extensively explored this region of the female body. < snigger snigger >

It's happened to me OP, stench was truly horrendous...

Wouldn't it be noticed at smear tests etc?

That was exactly my reaction when I read it Stephen, glad I'm not the only juvenile here!

This is why i never use tampons

If I did have this issue I would have to insert something interesting before attending a removal situation. Just to distract the doctor with humour I suppose. A small bust of Napoleon sounds ideal.

I sniggered too.

Anastasie, I believe it is traditional to insert parts of a hoover.

Blimey. Well, this is obviously a 'thing', but I just don't understand how you all don't realise there's something up there! Or several things, in some cases ... !

Or some sort of vegetable Boff?

i'm pretty sure some infections can lead to infertility so go to the docs asap. The other poster is right, they'll have seen much worse, it's not like it's some bizarre thing you put up there as part of some sex game etc.

it's not worth the risk hun, and it sounds like such a common occurance that the doc won't bat an eyelid (besides it's their job and you pay their wages)

Nothing to add to the tampon thing (although I can see how it could happen) but Cod is still around intermittently under a name change.

I've never been able to keep a tampon in comfortably for more than ten minutes and even I feel the need to check after reading this thread! Hope you're Ok OP.

Whoa.

nervously considers checking self even though I haven't used one in months

Do tampon strings actually break or fall off, though? It was my big fear when I first started to use tampons, but I had convinced myself it was an urban myth -- the sanitary wear version of the nun with a pin in the condom factory.

Did it smell like rotting meat? I had an infection following surgery and rotting meat is symptomatic of pelvic inflammatory disease (generic gynae infection) which can result in infertility so best to get swabbed.

no Lio! ppl with heavy periods often use two. sometimes people get drunk and they get pushed up by a willy, and more...

I feel so much less alone in this thread. When it happened to me, I was really quite horrified and my friends pretended said it never happened to them. I thought I was some sort of medical anomaly.

I suspect I forgot about a tampon at some point during the night. I know you're not meant to sleep in them but I cannot bear pads.

Oh god I've done this. Not for long though, and alcohol was involved. Found it's easier to forget the mooncup tbh as it's so comfy.

Also just to clarify - the Pouch of Douglas is not accessible from the vagina. It's a little cul-de-sac of the peritoneal cavity (what most of our abdominal organs are in) and very definitely should not be open to the outside. If you've got a tampon in there, forgotten or otherwise, you definitely definitely have bigger problems .

This happened to me and ended up with BV. See how you are over next day or teo.

Becoming infertile would not be a massive issue here - dropping dead would be (6 kids)!!

Cesare has beaten me to it! Just came in to say that the pouch of Douglas us external to the uterus/vagina and is a peritoneal pouch. Tampons cannot go there.

There are however vaginal for ices and the vagina itself is pretty roomy so lots of spaces for things to get lost!

Vaginal for ices? Does that mean you can stick a lolly up there?

I'm glad I found this thread because no one I know has ever put a tampon up without pulling the string bit out first. Only me.

I am so glad I do not use tampons anymore