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What if they got like a super absorbant tampon...like one you would wear overnight and then they just leave it in all day? I've heard of that happening.

The putting in a tampon without taking the other one out, if I read that I would question the character's intelligence. Unless you're going for comedy but then getting TSS isn't that funny. But then on tampons it does say remove used tampon before inserting a new one so putting in two at once must have happened often enough to add that in the directions/warnings.

How on Earth would you not feel it?

Well, I once had a neighbor who forgot to remove her tampon before sex, so he pushed it all the way in and she completely forgot about it. She didn't notice until it rotted inside her and it started smelling, so she went to the gyno and she found it.

I don't use tampons.

Haha you're welcome! I knew this anecdote would come in handy someday

I definitely have heard of it. I'm thinking if it were of the slimmer variety and, god help me, very soggy, it could maybe go unnoticed. Then the original one would totally be forgotten about.

Urg. Very unpleasant.

DamaNegra said:

Well, I once had a neighbor who forgot to remove her tampon before sex, so he pushed it all the way in and she completely forgot about it. She didn't notice until it rotted inside her and it started smelling, so she went to the gyno and she found it.

I don't use tampons.

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I actually know someone who was raped with a tampon still inside. She was only a young teenager, so it wasn't about being particularly roomy.

I actually did that once. I was using the "lite" tampons (do they even make those anymore? I don't think I've seen anything below "regular" in a few years). I didn't realize it until I was removing the tampon(s) later; pulled the cord and both came out.

I didn't feel it, but maybe that was because they were both lites. And yes, I was very stressed/distracted at the time: it was the day before the bar exam.

So, anyway, it can happen, even to intelligent women.

Smish: they still make those (and "juniors").

I can see it maybe happening in the middle of the night if your character was really tired and out of it...maybe she'd been drinking the night before or something?

I've never worn tampons so to me it sounds implausible. It does make a lot more sense when someone is under duress and stressed out.

What's interesting is that there are actually very few nerve endings in the vaginal walls. What nerves there are mostly allow for the sensation of pressure, but like any static pressure, the awareness of it fades quickly.

So, that's why you wouldn't feel it if, for some reason, you didn't realize it right away.

TWO of my friends have done this. One said she realized right away, the other not until later in the day.

Maybe I'm just tight as a drum, then. You wouldn't get a matchstick up my foofar without me noticing.

I don't think it'd be so implausible. Our school nurse used to tell horror stories about when she'd had to help girls get the first one out after they'd put in a second and not realised! The joys of an all girls school. I don't think it's such a push to imagine it happening. I don't know the ins and outs of TSS but I'm sure it most likely happens when a single tampon is left in too long. Maybe if the character had a too high absorbancy tampon in towards the end of her period and just forgot about it?

Rattling around? What are you saying, woman? It's not like throwing a mars bar up a closey, you know!

CaroGirl said:

But I'm not imagining they'd be there side-by-side. The 2nd one would push the 1st up into the uterus. I don't expect you'd feel it rattling around up there, would you?

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Unless her cervix was for some reason dilated, it wouldn't go up into the uterus. It could get wedged up or off to the side beside or behind the cervix.

Eeep.

ETA - I guess, on second thought, the cervix is slightly dilated during menstruation. Maybe it would be enough. I think that makes me want to cry.

CaroGirl said:

But I'm not imagining they'd be there side-by-side. The 2nd one would push the 1st up into the uterus. I don't expect you'd feel it rattling around up there, would you?

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Into the uterus? Through the cervix? Um, no, I wouldn't buy that.

Even if she somehow managed to not notice the string that was hanging out of her, I can't imagine she wouldn't feel the pressure of another tampon against her uterus. In no way do I believe that a tampon would fit through a cervix. Unless she was in labour.

Re; Perk's comment about dilation during menstruation: Tampons are supposed to sit right next to the cervix. If it was dilated enough for a tampon to slip in, the first one would have made it in on its own.

CaroGirl said:

But I'm not imagining they'd be there side-by-side. The 2nd one would push the 1st up into the uterus. I don't expect you'd feel it rattling around up there, would you?

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Lol! No. The vagina is actually a folded tube, so there are nooks if you will. (Not crannies. Never crannies.)

A sodden tampon could get crushed into one of those.

I think if it went through the cervix, you'd know.

Yup.

I did this..somehow. I never realized it until I went to the doctor because I kept bleeding this deep red color. Long after my period should have been over. She was really nice about it and took that second one out. It'd been knocked so far in between the second tampon and subsequent sex...pretty gross and very embarrassing.

I am never going to be able to unread this thread. I hate you all.