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Embarrassed: Lost Tampax!!!!

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teabag · 08/06/2004 19:13

Please tell me someone else has done this. I just can't remember removing it. I've had a bath and investigated but can't seem to find it. How far can these things go and will it come out of it's own accord?????

Sorry I know it's teatime.

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WideWebWitch · 08/06/2004 19:20

I haven't done this but a very good friend of mine has. She and her husband tried and tried to get it out (once she realised) but in the end she had to go to hospital to get it out. Sorry, probably not what you want to hear. She forgot the last one at the end of her period and it was ages and ages before she realised it was there, although her dh said it was like sleeping next to a dead animal (sorry, tmi probably but that's how they found out what had happened) Eeeew!

gingernut · 08/06/2004 19:24

OMG teabag!!!!!

Did it have a string? If so, you could get a mirror and have a good look for it. Apart from that I don't know what to suggest, hope someone else has some bright ideas. If you can't find it and you really aren't sure you must get to docs because of the risk of toxic shock syndrome....sorry. Just going out so I can't ring you. Hope you're not on your own this week. Gingernut xx

SoupDragon · 08/06/2004 19:25

I would have thought you'd be able to feel it with a finger if it was in there. even if you were unable to remove it.

I've done the "can't remember removing it" thing and I clearly had.

gingernut · 08/06/2004 19:25

PS how long might it have been in?

SoupDragon · 08/06/2004 19:28

If you're really worried about it, go and see the nurse at your GPs practice. I'm sure I read that it is surprisingly common. It won't be any further up than your cervix!

discordia · 08/06/2004 19:30

This happened to me. Had to get doctor to remove it! Very embarrassing as I was 18 and not familiar with medical procedures below the waist and the doctor was drop dead gorgeous. However, it was quick and easy. Better safe than sorry, if it's not out by the morning, I'd ring your practice nurse, she'd soon fetch it out!

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teabag · 08/06/2004 19:44

Only today Gingernut. Thanks for the advice I'll call the nurse in the morning if nothings happened. Just spoken to my sister who said it happened to her ( years ago) She didn't realise and it finally came out '3 weeks' later!!!! She'd been to the doc's and they couldn't find anything even though she stunk. I feel a bit better now.

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suedonim · 08/06/2004 22:45

A friend had the same thing happen to her. Her GP removed it and said it's a job he does once or twice a week - very common.

Another friend once had to get a condom removed from her innards!! She and b/f couldn't find it after sex, searched the bed, floor and bathroom and eventually wondered if it could be stuck up there. According to the A&E she went to, it was tucked into her Pouch of Douglas, whatever that is!!

NomDePlume · 09/06/2004 11:22

teabag, I prob should've changed my name for this but, hey-ho. The same thing happened to me about 6 months ago. It got to about 2wks post period when I started to notice a smell and funny coloured greyish discharge . I thought it might be a form of thrush so I slapped on the canesten for a few days in the hope that'd clear it. Anyway it didn't and the smell got much worse !! I went to see the GP about it and she gave me a smear test and took some swabs, but told me that there ws no clear sign of where the infection was coming from and gave me anti-bs!!! The swabs all came back neg for any of the std-type nasties.

About a week and half later (now approx 3.5wks post period), it came out whilst I was on the loo - eeeeeeeeekkkk !!! Needless to say that it was in a pretty gross state . I told DH and he went white (the TSS thing). The next day I phoned the GP surgery again and arranged to see the doc. As is ALWAYS the case, my rotten luck gave me the sexiest heart-throb GP I've ever seen to do my consultation . I can't tell you how tempted I was to just leg it out of the room ! Anyway I told him what had happened and that I had found out the cause of it and disposed of the offending article. He just told me to take yet another course of anti-bs and come back if there was any pain/my period was later than expected or if the smell/discharge came back.

So there it is, all the gory detail ! Sorry if it was a little graphic, but it should console you with the fact that these mortifying things happen to others too !

codswallop · 09/06/2004 11:24

me too

the stink was bad!

Bunglie · 09/06/2004 11:37

Been there, done it, stunk, and got the t-shirt for managing it a second time!

Have you tried lubricating your two longest fingers, and crouching down and coughing. Sorry to be so graphic but after the second time that is what my wonderful FEMALE doctor told me.
Why don't I get drop dead gorgous doctors ?

Bunglie · 09/06/2004 11:39

Thinking back I must have looked and acted like a frog on her surgery floor.
Ahhh I think I am now going to die of embarrasement, How do you change your name????

Gingerbear · 09/06/2004 12:03

Gulp, I found some pretty gruesome pics (aimed at med students) on the web. One none gruesome one here -
The Pouch of Douglas is also known as the Recto-Vaginal Pouch -picture here

discordia · 09/06/2004 12:07

Well well, I didn't know I had one of those. Always exciting to discover new parts of the anatomy. Well, teabag, what happened???

glitterfairy · 09/06/2004 12:21

Yes this has happened to me and I dragged my brother to the doctor with me as I was working as a student nurse in a gynae ward and thought I had a prolapse at twenty!

My brother was 18 and came along as I was sure there was something wrong. I had to explain it to him when the dr found the disgusting thing and he has never stopped laughing!

PotPourri · 09/06/2004 12:28

A good friend of mine had that happen to her. She didn't realise for ages, and was sleeping with her boyfriend etc (no condoms). Then it just dropped out. We were getting daily updates on whether it had appeared or not. I am not surprised there is a little pocket in there as she and her boyfriend really did look hard for it once she realised!

Teabag, probably best to go down to the GP/Practice nurse. Looks like this is not at all unusual. And it's better to be safe than sorry...

dinosaur · 09/06/2004 12:30

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suedonim · 09/06/2004 14:03

Crumbs, GB, an amazing place to get a tampax/condom stuck!! Isn't the human body wonderful?

Chinchilla · 09/06/2004 20:02

Yup. Happened to me when about 16. Had to have Canesten cream via a syringey thing twice a day. Yuck, yuck, yuck.

Bunglie · 09/06/2004 20:22

My sister-in-law is a doctor. When she was training she used to put us off our meals by telling us tails of what people had in various orifaces of their bodies. I have never got over the rush on satsumas in the wrong place at Christmas time!!
So a tampax REALLY is nothing to them.

magnum · 10/06/2004 19:08

Oh no, this has brought back terrible memories. This happened to me years ago. I didn't even realise I'd left one in and went for my first smear test. The nurse referred me to the hospital as she said there was something wrong with me but didn't know what it was. I was beside myself for a week until my appointment, when lo and behold the gynae pulled out a forgotten tampax . I was relieved at the time as I thought I was dying (i was very young). It's good you know its there, and get it sorted asap. I had to take antibiotics for a while afterwards just in case.

SoupDragon · 10/06/2004 19:12

Satsumas???

Bunglie · 10/06/2004 19:17

Yes Soup Dragon, satsumas is all the rage at Christmas it seems with young homosexual males, problem is they put them where the sun does not shine and can't get them out. You really need to have a meal with my sister -in-law!!!!
The worst one she told me about was a light bulb, the mind really does boggle.
Are you having fruit salad for tea Soupdragon.....heee...heeee
I was VERY innocent until I met my sister in law. What am I saying I am STILL innocent!

Easy · 10/06/2004 19:19

This happened to me, the string sort of curled up to the tampon, and I couldn't find it.

Dh could tho' and dealt with it for me. If your dh 'knows' your anatomy (iykwim), he will know if it's there, and should just be able to pull it out.

If he can't feel it with his fingers inside you, it isn't there.

Don't panic, it can't just disappear up your internals.

Bunglie · 10/06/2004 19:23

Easy - that is such an obvious solution, ask dh. Why did I not think of that when it happened to me. I have never even told dh of the occurance. I thought it happened to very few, but judging by the addmissions on this thread it has happened to half of mumsnet. Yes, why did I not think of asking my dh? You are so logical!

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