Tampon adventures

[lynxypoo.livejournal.com]

Okay, so yesterday i got adventurous and decided to check out what tampons are like (since i'm at my sister's house and can use hers without spending money, teehee). It took a while to completely figure out, as can be expected, and how it felt afterwords was also a little expected, but i'm a bit concerned...

It felt a little pinchy around the opening for a while, and there was a little dull pain on the inside that grew to become mild to moderate cramps (when before i put it in- i had none). I couldn't stand having it in me for more than 2 hours and took a while of tugging before i finally got it out. It wasn't really the cramping that made me take it out, more like a gut feeling of repulsion of what was inside me...

While the yuck that i felt in that 2 hours was not altogether frightning for an experience with tampons for the first time (I was almost expecting half of it), I'm concerned as to how my body will react when i get a Divacup. I'm worried that my body will reject it just as fast as it did the tampon (though i know the diva is so incredibly healthier than tampons).

I'm also thinking that maybe since I've read so much on how tampons are so horribly bad that my body just rejected it because of what I read. -I've vowed to not use tampons ever again and i'm waiting patiently for when i can afford a diva cup-

So before i go repeating myself in a tired stupor, what thinks ye, ladies? Am i scaring myself away from tampons and do i have reason to fear my body's rejecting stuff getting shoved up there?

Comments

[lapelflower.livejournal.com]

OB! Did they stop making applicators? WTF? I use Tampax now, which works just fine, but I had to switch at one point and I did not know whyyy.

Tampons are better for my environment. Keeps it unbloodied.

[minipeds.livejournal.com]

tampax are terrible for me, for some reason they get to be like a yard long during the unpleasant removal process. ugh. how come they are made folded in half?! ob w/ applicators were the best things ever, i switched to playtex portables (small like tampax compak but not a yard long) but they're getting hard to find too. bastard companies!

[lapelflower.livejournal.com]

They're folded? I never noticed, I don't think I use those. I guess so that they're more compact? I use the regular sort.

Rah!