Tampon Question ***WARNING TMI*****

[Anonymous]

Ok...Has this ever happened to you and if so, what does it mean?

I started my period a few hours ago. I took a shower, put in a tampon, and put on clean underwear.

So, an hour later, i notice that its starting to leak onto my underwear. So, I take the tampon out and it's practically dry. Why would it leak onto my underwear if my tampon was dry?

Do I have a huge gaping vagina and need reconstrutive surgery?

Thanks in advance...

[Anonymous]

...Writing "TMI" will always get me to click...


Is it possible that perhaps what you saw in your underwear was in front of the tampon and not comign out of your cervix? Kind of like, "too little, too late?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:...Writing "TMI" will always get me to click...


Is it possible that perhaps what you saw in your underwear was in front of the tampon and not comign out of your cervix? Kind of like, "too little, too late?"

Well, I guess that could be possible...That might be the reason.....never thought about that

[Anonymous]

Before you spring for that reconstructive surgery, see what happens with another tampon, or one from another box.

[Anonymous]

That happens to me all the time. When I insert a new tampon and I have been especially heavy or leaky there is always blood on the tip of the tampon. I can wipe, I can be fresh from a shower and it never fails.

[Anonymous]

No scientific reasoning here, but I think it's because the string and part of it gets wet in the shower. Somehow that seems to soak up things the wrong way or not completely...for lack of better words/phrases it's an easy out. Try changing the tampon after you get out of the shower and completely dry.

[Anonymous]

I have a very small vagina and it happens to me! I agree with the PP about the string getting wet in the shower.

[Anonymous]

Was it an applicator tampon? If so, the applicator prevented the tampon from absorbing the fluid that had already worked its way down. So the blood was essentially behind the tampon. Like setting up a road block after the bad guys have already gone by, or like the first response said.

If you use OB brand non-applicator ones, this doesn't happen. 'Course, then you have that whole other problem. Speaking of TMI!

[Anonymous]

Happens to me all the time. Heavy absorption at the bottom and much less at the top. One of those mysteries of life.

[Anonymous]

"If you use OB brand non-applicator ones, this doesn't happen. 'Course, then you have that whole other problem. Speaking of TMI! "


What whole other problem??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"If you use OB brand non-applicator ones, this doesn't happen. 'Course, then you have that whole other problem. Speaking of TMI! "


What whole other problem??

OB tampons dont have an applicator, so you have to use your fingers to stick it up your pussy

[Anonymous]

I never have this problem with playtex, but almost always do with tampax.

It may be the shape of the tampon causing the problem, not you!

[Anonymous]

It happens to me sometimes - I think its the string, too. But I switched to OB after delivering DC because of another DCUMs thread about them staying in place better if you've gotten too stretched out after childbirth.

[Anonymous]

I really could have used the OB tip the first couple of years after delivering! How did women pass on delicate information before DCUM?

[Anonymous]

Many times you've simply had a small clot of blood (and it can be very tiny) that has become caught in an internal fold below the tampon. Then, when the clot disintegrates, it ends up looking like a lot more blood than it seems a tiny clot would have warranted - so we think we're bleeding past. My experience, fwiw.