Gaaah! Potential lost tampon horror 😳 waay tmi

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Urgh! Most definately not a period troll!... But literally just been to the toilet whilst on 2nd day of period (realised no toilet roll - thanks everyone else in household for not replacing it 🙄). Loads running through my head from work today, so just auto pilot figured I'd leave tampon in place whilst flumped downstairs to pick up new rolls. Wandered back to backroom sighing, sat back down, replaced tampon, and then 'gaaah! gaaah! The did I actually remove last one question?!'. Had a good rummage 😳 but now laid back in bed freaking out about toxic shock syndrome. I'm at work at 8am so no chance of an emergency appt at the GP, and frankly questioning did I remove it or not? Obviously not a question anyone else can answer! 😒 I'm just feeling very unhappy currently. I doubt I'll sleep well tonight, and feel like the world's biggest moron!

I've lost one too and have never used them since. Hope all ok OP

ED staff here. Super super common. We tend to send you home to squat and cough now, ED is not a private spot and PV exams where avoidable are avoided. 9/10 times if there's something in there you'll get it out.

Bear in mind there's not always one in there.
If something does come out, ring the GP to see if you need antibiotics. Obviously if you start to show signs of temperature or become unwell while it's in there get to a hospital ASAP.

Still can't believe no update...I shan't sleep....well I'll try, but not before I've gone to the bathroom and done a squat and cough just to be on the safe side

I wish there was a like button on Mumsnet, some of these comments are hilarious.

I took a tampon out and two came out! I wasnt expecting that felt like I was pulling my cervix out

I also had a string snap that was uncomfortable to remove

The PP who pulled her coil made me

You dont get this hassle with a moon cup or after four kids. Last time I had a smear there was a trainee nurse and I was asked if it was ok if she watched. As I have had four kids I dont think I should refuse.

When the nurse said "right! Let's find your cervix" I told her to look around my knees. I think that's where my lost tampons would end up! I was told with my last two births my pelvic floor is good but I'm not convinced after I had norovirus once answer myself while throwing up. That never happened before!

Maybe be sick OP if all else fails.....

wet myself while throwing up

@Moonflower12 wins the thread. I can't stop laughing

I have, after 40+ years on this planet, finally joined this club :D I'd always wondered how people managed to forget one up there, but I recently had a box of tampons where a few were wrong (string on the inside of the applicator, so not hanging out) and I didn't notice right away. I think I'd been drinking one night, and combined with the fact that my flow slows down in the middle for a day then picks up again, I'd forgotten that I'd put a small tampon in because there was no string etc.

Putting the next one in wasn't easy, funnily enough, but I managed. Carried one for another day or two but something just seemed wrong, I remembered one of these threads and thought "surely not." Nope, absolutely surely did. :D

Can confirm, smelt of death even after 'just' a day or so.

Okay so I've name changed to share my tampon story...

Last day of my honeymoon, I came on and used a tampon. Asked DH to remind me to chance it before I get on the coach to the airport to return home.

5 minutes before coach is due, I go to the toilet and can't find the string or feel the tampon. Utter panic! Have a quick rummage before returning to DH as the coach is pulling up! Have to get on the coach. My neurotic side kicks in and I'm panicking about getting on a 5 hour flight with a tampon that's already been in for hours and TSS setting in!

Get to the airport check in, and head to the disables loos. No joke, my DH was lying underneath me on the loo floor trying to feel for my tampon! DH can feel the tampon but no string! He's trying to get a grip to pull it out.. so there I am, half squatting over my new husband while he's wrist deep in my vagina (not envy)!

We give up and decide to look for an airport doctor. Lovely ladies at Jet2 take me to a doctor and translate. Doctor refuses to look at me and says I either go to hospital and miss my flight or wait until I fly to the UK and go to hospital.

Having left my 2yo in the UK, I wanted to get home ASAP. So we get the flight home. Land in the UK and race to our local hospital at 4.30am. Wait an hour only to be told to return when it's less busy after 8am.

In the meantime, DH tries to remove the tampon again using tweezers. We try all sorts of positions and angles to no avail, DH can't pull it out.

Return to hospital where I'm examined by not 1, not 2 but 3 nurses who can't seem to find this stuck tampon. Turns out there is no tampon and DH was feeling my cervix 😂 Nurses reassure me that nothing is there and tampon must of fallen out! (I still don't believe this as tampons don't just fall out. A tampon exiting my vagina is not a feeling that goes unnoticed).

So that's my tampon horror story. Who knows where my lost tampon is 🤷‍♀️ I just hope it's not rotting in my vagina somewhere waiting to emerge 18 months later 😂

Not how I expected my honeymoon to end or the memories I wanted to make

This is my favourite thread for a good long while...
But OP WHERE IS THE TAMPON?.??..

Come back op!!!

I had one in for weeks when I was younger.

Now I have a severely prolapsed bladder (it's hanging out of my vagina) so all I have to do is bend over or cough and the fucker shoots out at speed.

Casualty may not be real, but the TSS episode has certainty raised awareness going by this thread.

I have always thought of that episode (and I actually thought it was the Bill too!) every time TSS is mentioned and I picture the policewoman on the bin bags.

I took a tampon out and two came out! I wasnt expecting that felt like I was pulling my cervix out

this happened to me, and the first time I thought I'd just been careless, but then it happened again and again, and yes it bloody hurt every time. I took a few tampons out of the box and soaked them in water and some were faulty and had two packed in the one tube.
These days I find that period pants are less dramatic!

So I’ve RTT and want to ask why people bin their tampons and don’t flush them? Serious question.

I was on the depo and period free for 8 years before having DC so it’s been a while, but I always thought tampons (but not plastic applicators) are flushable?

Isn't it odd how we all know people's bodies are all different - some people are very tall, some have small feet etc, yet some people on this thread seem to assume that internally we are all very similar!

I remember being told that there was no way I could feel my cervix (I could), but I certainly can't feel everything 'up there'.

Triangle it contributes to blockages in the waste system. They don’t disintegrate the way loo roll does. Even moist wipes aren’t recommended to be flushed these days - just normal loo roll.

tampax.com/en-us/you-can-help-proper-disposal

Even tampax no longer advocate flushing tampons (I'm pretty they used to, back when I used them but that was 30 years ago)

So I’ve RTT and want to ask why people bin their tampons and don’t flush them? Serious question.

Because it blocks the sewerage system. It might not block your toilet but it will be blocking it somewhere down the line.

Nothing should go down the toilet that isn’t bodily waste or toilet paper.

Just to update. The offending tampon dislodged itself this morning. So much relief! 😁 I'd convinced myself by last night it wasn't still there at all, but low and behold it was still lurking.

Phew! I can now go about my day calmly

Love how this has brought loads of us together having gone through similar!

I'm So happy for you op. loved the thread

Hurray!

I also remember the WPC on Casualty and it clearly has raised awareness of TSS (although I also remember diagnosing her before they did onscreen so I must have found out somewhere else first!) but it’s a bit worrying that people think they’ll get it with a tampon inside them for five hours or more. What about overnight when they are regularly in for eight hours or so? I am very forgetful and have light flow, and have often gone all day without changing one. It’s not best practice but TSS is rare - far better to be aware of the symptoms of it and be aware than assume you will get it if you have a tampon in for a bit longer than four hours.

Thanks for explaining guys. I won’t flush them anymore.