A couple weeks ago I conducted a poll asking readers: What do you prefer to use? Pads, tampons, menstrual cup or other?
Pads were the obvious favourite! For those of you who voted for pads, have you tried tampons yet? And if you have, what don't you like them? If you haven't tried tampons yet, why not?
For me, I have just always been scared of the whole process and also too lazy to bother trying! I've also heard a handful of things and stories about tampons that have both intrigued me and disgusted me.
Here is a list of some things and stories I've heard about tampons.... I am going to go in order of least disgusting to very disgusting... (NSFL!) CLICK ON READ MORE!
- They are more convenient than pads.
- They are so comfortable that you can't feel them!
- The plastic applicators don't decompose meaning they will sit in a landfill forever!
- They hurt when you put them in.
- They hurt when you take them out!
- They are leaky.
- You can swim in a tampon. The tampon may absorb some water but that is okay.
- You should wear a pantiliner to catch leaks.
- You can get Toxic Shock Syndrome.
- You cannot flush tampons.
- They can break your hymen.
- You can leave them in when you pee.
- When you pee, the string may get a little wet but that is okay.
- Most are bleached, have rayon, and many other chemicals that can be left behind inside you.
- It slides out easily when they are fully saturated with period.
- It is possible to sneeze so hard your tampon falls out.
- It is also possible to poop so hard your tampon falls out.
- Because you can't feel them, you may forget it is inside you and forget to take it out and then...
- ...You can lose it inside you and you will have to fish it out...
- ...And by a week's time it will look like a dead rat.
- If you pull the string to hard and the tampon is fully saturated, it may come out with such force that it will fling out of your hand and leave a bloody streak when it hits the bathroom wall (thanks reddit)
This post is part 1 of 3 posts of My First Tampon Story.
To read part 2, click here.
To read part 3, click here.
I always use tampons, they are much more comfortable, you don't start to smell, you don't have to worry about blood in you underwear... every girl/woman I know uses tampons. But I live in Europe, maybe it is more common here. Btw, we only have tampons without applicator here.
ReplyDeleteAnd if your hymen breaks, so whatever? Do you need it for anything? :D
Thanks for sharing magdalena! That's really interesting.. I didn't know tampons were more popular in Europe.
ReplyDeleteHonestly some of those things on your list are a pile of crap.
ReplyDeleteThey don't hurt to insert or remove.
They don't leak if you change them regularly (4 to 8 hours depending on your flow).
Then use the ones with the cardboard applicators. They really feel the same as the plastic ones. Or use non-applicator ones.
If you don't leave them in for longer than 8 hours, you won't get TSS. It's very rare anyway. It is also not caused by tampons. It's caused by a bacteria that lives in the kind of environment there is if you leave a tampon in for too long.
If you are part of the main sewerage system like most people are, you can most definitely flush tampons. You can't if your house have its own septic tank and you can't flush the applicators.
The string won't get wet if you hold it to the side.
You cannot sneeze or poop a tampon out.
You won't forget it because you'll notice it leaking. And if you're dumb enough to "forget" it for a week, you deserve what infection you get.
Also, tampons cannot get lost inside you. Where on earth did you hear that?
As for the tampon flinging out your hand, then you're pulling it too fast.
Thanks for sharing. Don't become a gyno or a plumber.
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ReplyDeleteI've had my period for about 7 or 8 years as well and tried tampons once, a very long time ago....it didn't go well. A couple years ago when I was around 18 I went to a gyno for the first time and found out I had an abnormally small hymen opening (you know when you google "how to put in a tampon" and it says less than 2% of girls have that? yeah, I had it) and he was afraid I'd get TSS just from that, so I had surgery to make the opening normal sized. I haven't tried tampons since because I'm just so afraid after not being able to for all these years. However, I have my period now and am going on vacation in exactly four weeks and would like to actually enjoy it, so I'm trying again (which is how I found your blog tonight). Thanks for these funny, readable and helpful tips :)
ReplyDeleteArgh, I hate my period. I get mood swings, and I happen to be on it right now... Gawd why can't it just go away! I was determined last night to wear a tampon to school today. So, this morning, as planned, I put in a tampon. But I was basically panicking, not really I guess. I mean I wasn't breathing weird or anything, but I took it our right away because I didn't put it in far enough. Anyway, when I put it in, it slid in easily at first, but then it stuck for a second and then moved in suddenly, which felt very weird. After I took it out (which also creeped me out...) I put it in the wrapper...
ReplyDeleteBut then I started to feel like I was going to throw up all of a sudden. I sat down on the toilet, and after a minute or so I decided to drink some faucet water. So for almost 5 minutes I sat there slowly sipping my water, trying to avoid throwing up! ): And even later in the day I was still a little "sickly" feeling! What the watermelon?
I also use tampons they are very comfortable... but you can flush the tampons just not the applicators... there are cardboard applicators and ones without applicators on the plus side u can move which is a good thing for I m a dancer
ReplyDeletewhat if it gets stuck?!? wat if i cant pull it out?!? wat if it hurts so much that i cant pull it out?!?
ReplyDeleteIt wont' get stuck :)!
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