irritating tampons
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vaginapaginai looked through all the tags and couldn't find the info i was looking for, so i will post with my problem.
in the past few months i've somehow found myself a boyfriend, which spurred me into taking HBC (alesse).
with my earlier periods, i usually used a combination of pads and tampons. since i moved in with my boyfriend though, i've started to use tampons all the time, including night time. mostly because pads tend to irritate me/i don't like them much anyway. it seems like they're all made of gross plastic and the thought of them gives me SHIVERS. but also to be kind to the person i'm sharing a bed with. i did a bit of research about leaving tampons in overnight, and felt fine with it.
so my period ended a day or two ago, and i used tampons exclusively. now, however, i am extremely irritated. i thought it was just on the outside, but i tried to have sex today and it was unbearable. afterwards there was a bit of bleeding too, and i could tell it was real blood, not period-type blood.
i'm convinced it's the tampons, as i can't think of anything else to cause it. i just did a bit of research about tampons and such, and it all said that pulling out a dry tampon will irritate the vaginal walls. this makes a whole lot of sense, because since i've been on HBC my periods have been weiiird. one or two days of sporadic bleeding, a day or two of heavy, and then a few more days of really light, annoying bleeding. so, for those light days, i was inserting and removing a (light!) tampon.
so i'm wondering if there's anything i can do to help this along so that i feel better? i think i'm definitely going to invest in a divacup, i've been wanting to buy one anyways for environmental/cost reasons, but if pads and tampons are going to be so terrible to me, this just seals the deal.
in the past few months i've somehow found myself a boyfriend, which spurred me into taking HBC (alesse).
with my earlier periods, i usually used a combination of pads and tampons. since i moved in with my boyfriend though, i've started to use tampons all the time, including night time. mostly because pads tend to irritate me/i don't like them much anyway. it seems like they're all made of gross plastic and the thought of them gives me SHIVERS. but also to be kind to the person i'm sharing a bed with. i did a bit of research about leaving tampons in overnight, and felt fine with it.
so my period ended a day or two ago, and i used tampons exclusively. now, however, i am extremely irritated. i thought it was just on the outside, but i tried to have sex today and it was unbearable. afterwards there was a bit of bleeding too, and i could tell it was real blood, not period-type blood.
i'm convinced it's the tampons, as i can't think of anything else to cause it. i just did a bit of research about tampons and such, and it all said that pulling out a dry tampon will irritate the vaginal walls. this makes a whole lot of sense, because since i've been on HBC my periods have been weiiird. one or two days of sporadic bleeding, a day or two of heavy, and then a few more days of really light, annoying bleeding. so, for those light days, i was inserting and removing a (light!) tampon.
so i'm wondering if there's anything i can do to help this along so that i feel better? i think i'm definitely going to invest in a divacup, i've been wanting to buy one anyways for environmental/cost reasons, but if pads and tampons are going to be so terrible to me, this just seals the deal.
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Date: 2008-04-16 12:31 am (UTC)