Are you a Tampon Virgin?

[2mum]

I seen the other thread and realised id never used a tampon ever only sanitary towels. Even my dh thought i was a bit weird when he started going out with me as his exes used tampons. I dont know if its weird or not. I know it sounds daft but ive always been scared to use them in case they got stuck or i got that toxic shock thing. I know thats stupid but im still to scared to!

Oooh I really thought I was the only one never to have used a tampon!! Glad I can join the club now (bit like an AA meeting this!). They make me feel really dry and sore too so I just opt for the Always thing.

You'd think that after 2 babies I wouldn't be at all bothered by a small tampon really, but they were 2 sections so maybe that makes a difference.

Don't think it has much to do with the birth thing - I've had 3 so called normal deliveries, and I still don't feel comfortable with them. I dig why pple dislike the smell etc, but you know, horses for course. For me, its the dryness thing.........

even in the early 80s which really doesn't feel that long ago my mum put a pair of pants with kind of hooks on and a packet of really thick pads with corresponding hooks attached to them in my drawer... never mentioned them to me... I have no idea where she found them as even then they looked like something out of a museum. I had a go with her Lilets but could never get them to work (still can't) so for years I used ye olde wingless Vespre and am still furious to think how badly they were designed - tiny weeny double strip of useless adhesive so that they walked whenever I did, and I was constantly worried about them falling out of the back of my knickers (once or twice they actually did), so eventually I safetypinned them into my pants, which was much better, except that btch K once saw my pants when I was sitting crosslegged and asked me why I had a safetypin in there, and kept asking just to embarrass me. Btch.

Anyway, eventually I lost my virginity and started using tampons. I'm now on washables but that's long after the scars of using olde towels had faded.

Oh God, after just one period I thought 'sod this' and switched from towels to tampons - what a liberating day that was! With towels/pads you can feel it coming out and it's soooo uncomfortable. I can remember at school standing up after being sat in a lesson and feeling it run out while legging it to the toilet! Eewww, yuk!

Whatever suits you obviously but I just can't be doing with towels.

Too right, GDG. Felt like I was wearing a soggy nappy. And the smell! Ugggh.

NO way.

Nope, never liked pads me. I used them at first until I worked out where to put the tampon! And then... phew...

I distinctly remember getting my period and my mum giving me sanitary towel (it came up to my belly button and half way up my back, well not really but felt that way!) I had to walk to school with what felt like a brick between my legs and I hated it. One day not long after i think it was in sex ed class they gave out free tampon in the case and I never looked back, I felt clean and didn't feel like I was having a period, all has changed since I had dd last year and for some reason I can't face using a tampon (strange eh?)