TMI - urine in tampon

[Anonymous]

When was the last time you saw your gynecologist? I’d probably go see my doctor just to be sure. Or at least ask them on patient portal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When was the last time you saw your gynecologist? I’d probably go see my doctor just to be sure. Or at least ask them on patient portal.

2019. I just made an appointment for June.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When was the last time you saw your gynecologist? I’d probably go see my doctor just to be sure. Or at least ask them on patient portal.

2019. I just made an appointment for June.

Do they have a patient portal where you can ask them a question? Just to ease your mind.

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Anonymous wrote:When was the last time you saw your gynecologist? I’d probably go see my doctor just to be sure. Or at least ask them on patient portal.

2019. I just made an appointment for June.

Do they have a patient portal where you can ask them a question? Just to ease your mind.

Hmm, I’ll try

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Anonymous wrote:How does the tampon get soaked with urine? Urine doesn't come out of the vagina.

I have no idea! That’s why I’m asking DCUM

Tampons are absorbent. Sometimes they hang a little low and when you pee, the urine gets soaked upwards. Do people really not know this?!?

+100

And it will actually turn yellow. Looks and smells like urine=urine. It happens sometimes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That sometimes happens to me if my tampon is a little low/not quite in there right or if I pee a lot. Always thought it was normal.

It is normal. The people scaring her with uterine cancer are complete nut jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:uterine cancer makes weird discharge. and BV from weird PH. there's PH tampons you can try

Hmm. OP here. That’s scary! Yikes

I'm sorry, I don't mean to scare you. But after MIL going through 3 rounds of chemo at stage IVB, ignoring weird discharge for 2 years, just get uterus checked. But most likely it's ph balance or nothing at all. you're pretty young.

Thanks. I made an appointment w/ my doctor, although they didn’t have an opening until end of June.

Good. You will check and it will be fine. But I would not accept a pap smear only. MIL pap was negative and she was told it's nothing. But she pressed for MRI or whatever imaging, and it was IVB. In her 60s though, not 40s.

[Anonymous]

This has never happened to me, but I always change tampons when I pee (ie I take it out before I start peeing and insert a new one after I'm done peeing and wiping), so I'd suggest doing that and seeing if it is still odd looking even if you haven't peed. The other thing that comes to mind is a fistula, though I'm not sure why you'd be leaking urine only during your period and not other times, and I'd think you'd have other symptoms you'd be aware of.

[Anonymous]

I have stress incontinence. And it's worse around my period. The PT I was seeing for it suggested wearing a tampon when exercising to see if it helped - and yes, I know that urine comes from a separate location, but apparently it can help "hold everything in." When I do that, after I exercise the tampon is soaked with urine. So...I'm wondering if you do have some kind of leakage issue but it's not apparent otherwise and/or it's brought on by your period.

Regardless, I agree with PPs that you should go to the GYN. But just because that's not the same space urine passes through doesn't mean that it couldn't be from leakage. It's just odd you wouldn't have noticed any incontinence otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Are you 100% sure it's urine and not a different kind of fluid?

https://helloclue.com/articles/cycle-a-z/getting-wet-cervical-fluid-vs-arousal-fluid-vs-discharge

[Anonymous]

This happens to me if I pee and don't change the tampon. Every time you pee, you have to change it.

[Anonymous]

I get this as well. All my checkups have been fine and we did IVF so I’ve had pretty much every test imaginable and countless ultrasounds so I’d imagine if there was an issue causing it it would have been caught.

[Anonymous]

Switch to a cup.

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Anonymous wrote:You're peeing on the string and it's wicking urine up into the tampon itself.

Yes I think this is it.

Yup, this happened to me before I stared using a menstrual cup. Check with your on to be sure but it’s likely no big deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have stress incontinence. And it's worse around my period. The PT I was seeing for it suggested wearing a tampon when exercising to see if it helped - and yes, I know that urine comes from a separate location, but apparently it can help "hold everything in." When I do that, after I exercise the tampon is soaked with urine. So...I'm wondering if you do have some kind of leakage issue but it's not apparent otherwise and/or it's brought on by your period.

Regardless, I agree with PPs that you should go to the GYN. But just because that's not the same space urine passes through doesn't mean that it couldn't be from leakage. It's just odd you wouldn't have noticed any incontinence otherwise.

New poster. That's probably what's going on with OP. I don't have incontinence but I do have a prolapse and it gets worse with hormonal change during my period. She is probably leaking drops that get absorbed through the string.