Tampon horror stories that will make you forget about that time you bled through your jeans

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Tampon horror stories that will make you forget about that time you bled through your jeans

‘I went to the ER so someone could pull it out’

The first time I used a tampon, I fainted. It wasn’t a slight lightheaded kind of fainting — it was a full blown blacked out on the floor, 911 call, police showing up kind of fainting.

Think having to tell the police you fainted because you put in a tampon for the first time is bad?

Just read these tampon horror stories that will you counting down the days to menopause.

‘I didn’t know you had to take off the plastic’

I had no one teach me about my period or tampons. I didn’t know you had to take off the plastic on them, so I used to use the whole thing. One day I did this and I went out for a four-wheeler ride with my cousin. I sat in agony for over an hour wondering why my tampon was hurting me so much. I was practically in tears but I didn’t let my cousin know because we were doing some work for our family. After that, I didn’t use tampons for a while. I didn’t know until a year later that you push it up into you. – Veronica, 22

The not so drug deal

Once, at work, it looked like I was doing a drug deal, but my friend was just giving me a tampon. God forbid anyone sees a tampon in public. My manager took me back into the office and almost wrote me up because I was too shady, I guess. Then I showed the tampon to him and he just started laughing his ass off. – Kacie, 18

Somebody call 911

My first time trying on a tampon was my freshman year of college and I got scared to take it out so I called 911 and an ambulance came to get me and I went to the ER just so someone could pull it out. It was only in for like 2 hours, too. – Gigi, 21

The stubborn sister

So the first time my sister put a tampon in, I taught her and she hysterically sobbed and wouldn’t take it out. So 24 hours later, me, my mom, my grandma and my younger sister all sat her down in the bathroom and stood there and were her cheerleaders so she would finally pull it out and she just LOUDLY sobbed and finally pulled it out. It was absolutely terrible and dramatic as hell. — Rachel, 19

The surprise attack

I don’t get my period because of my birth-control and I haven’t gotten it in over a year. So today, I put on a pair of really light pink lacy underwear and specifically thought, “Wow, it’s amazing that I don’t get my period because I don’t have to worry about the underwear that I put on.” I’m driving to work in the pouring rain when I realize that I’ve gotten my period and it is aggressive. So I have to put in a tampon while driving in the pouring rain and I cut myself with the plastic applicator. So I had to whip into a random driveway that I was passing, pull napkins out of my glove compartment and emergency fix myself. I arrived to work in a less than calm state of mind. — Claudia, 21

The bloody breakup

One time a guy was breaking up with me and when I stood up, I had bled all over his bed! — Lisa, 20

The late bloomer

I didn’t get my period until I was 16 years old. Most people agree that’s pretty late. All my friends had gotten it years before and were past that stage in their lives, so I kind of subconsciously stopped expecting it to come. I had been underage drinking at a dance one night and the next day when I went to the bathroom, I got my period, but because I totally forgot that was a thing that was going to happen, I thought my asshole was bleeding. Deathly afraid of my parents finding out I was drinking, I eventually went to my mom crying, saying I thought I was dying because I drank too much last night and then she told me it was my period and I wanted to die even more. – Ashley, 21

The moment of realization

When I was 14, I tried to put my first tampon up my pee hole instead of my vagina hole because I didn’t know they were two separate things. – Ciara, 20

Thanks, grandma

My mom died before I got my period, so my grandma had to sit me down and help me find my hole and teach me how to insert a tampon. She ended up fingering me for 30 minutes trying to find it. – Emily, 21

I’m all the way up

I was having drunk sex and forgot I had my tampon in. It went all the way up (don’t know how the fuck it happened) and I had to stick my finger all the way up to take it out. – Rachel, 22<

‘Ketchup’

I was leaking one time and I had this huge period stain at my daycare job. One of the little boys at my job asked me why I had ketchup on my ass and I was soooo embarrassed. – Gail, 20

The many traces left

So one time, I was coming back from London and came on my period and got off the train and I’d leaked EVERYWHERE. The seat, my jeans RUINED. I had a 10 minute walk back to my uni house and wanted to jump in a taxi but the taxi drivers were having NONE of it. I had to waddle back to my uni house with blood everywhere. – Anna, 21

‘Just stick your fingers in there’

Last month, my faulty logic was like “If you use a super plus tampon then you won’t have to change it at all today,” and I was like “Hell, yeah.” Then, 14 hours later, I had to pull a dry-ass tampon the size of a fuckin’ baseball bat out of my vagina and I screamed the whole time. Also, one time the plastic applicator broke inside me, so I called my best friend telling her how I wanted my funeral to go and she was just like, “Dude, stick your fingers in there and get it out.” I still died, but it wasn’t that bad. – Sarah, 22

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