Anonymous
Post 01/29/2026 07:10     Subject: Do you sleep with a tampon in?
I can’t understand why you wouldn’t. I don’t think TSS comes from sleeping with a tampon. I’ve been doing it for 3.5 decades and am fine.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2026 03:19     Subject: Do you sleep with a tampon in?
Yes, I do. I only need to for the first couple of days. Then being horizontal makes the flow stop and I use nothing while sleeping.

I can’t stand pads. I tried cups and period underwear but didn’t love them. Old fashioned ob tampons for me.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2026 02:21     Subject: Do you sleep with a tampon in?
Anonymous wrote:Gah, the thought of sleeping with a tampon in is nauseating. I’m surprised at the number of people saying they do.


It's more nauseating to have to clean up my night clothes, change underwear, change sheets, wash out blood in the sink from them and then ... what, slap a pad on new underwear for it to happen again? No thanks. Tampon changed every 3 hours is the key for me.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2026 02:19     Subject: Do you sleep with a tampon in?
Gah, the thought of sleeping with a tampon in is nauseating. I’m surprised at the number of people saying they do.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2026 00:40     Subject: Do you sleep with a tampon in?
I do, I got tired of the blood gushes and associated messes on the sheets and underwear. It was affecting my sleep, it would wake me up! Now sleep much better without having to worry.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2026 00:37     Subject: Do you sleep with a tampon in?
I’m 55 and no longer have my period but slept with a tampon on for every period for decades.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2026 00:10     Subject: Do you sleep with a tampon in?
Anonymous wrote:No. I'm old enough to remember warnings about TSS, so I use pads at night.


+1
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2026 23:58     Subject: Do you sleep with a tampon in?
Anonymous wrote:yes - even though I know you aren't supposed to. i have had one patient in my 20 year career with TSS.


There's nothing inherently wrong with sleeping with a tampon in. It's keeping it in for too many hours that's a problem. But the act of falling and being asleep is no big deal. Just wake up and change the tampon.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2026 23:57     Subject: Re: Do you sleep with a tampon in?
Of course. I don't want to drown in a red sea. I wake up every 3 or so hours throughout the night to change it.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2026 23:38     Subject: Do you sleep with a tampon in?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When I used them, of course I did - I don't really understand anyone usig pads for any reason, they are gross. And yes, I started using tamposn when I first got my period. Then I switched to a menstrual cup in my 30s, OMG, life-changing, never went back. Sleep with that in too


I’m old. And yet I don’t understand how a pad is any more “gross” than removing and emptying a cup of bloody uterine lining. isn’t that just as messy? I think both are kinda gross. Tampon for the win. At least it absorbs while inside.


Gross as in incredibly uncomfortable, like wearing a dirty diaper for 5-7 days
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2026 22:39     Subject: Do you sleep with a tampon in?
yes - even though I know you aren't supposed to. i have had one patient in my 20 year career with TSS.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2026 21:48     Subject: Do you sleep with a tampon in?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No. I'm old enough to remember warnings about TSS, so I use pads at night.


+1
I think those of us 45+ were terrorized by this warning.
And it seems in the mid to late 80s everyone knew someone whose friend of a friend died from TSS, for real! Just like everyone knew this one kid whose cousin’s best friend’s mom died from contaminated Tylenol.
Our 80s lives were filled with news horror stories verified by testimonies of “real life eyewitness experience once-removed” which somehow elevated and personalized the concern and made it 10x scarier than the Internet. Those stories stay with you.


I couldn’t agree more.
Toxic Shock Syndrome is real and I do not want to be THAT person.


I’ve never met anyone IRL who got TSS.


I have. She was hospitalized for long time. You don't want to F with that.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2026 21:45     Subject: Do you sleep with a tampon in?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No. I'm old enough to remember warnings about TSS, so I use pads at night.


+1
I think those of us 45+ were terrorized by this warning.
And it seems in the mid to late 80s everyone knew someone whose friend of a friend died from TSS, for real! Just like everyone knew this one kid whose cousin’s best friend’s mom died from contaminated Tylenol.
Our 80s lives were filled with news horror stories verified by testimonies of “real life eyewitness experience once-removed” which somehow elevated and personalized the concern and made it 10x scarier than the Internet. Those stories stay with you.


I couldn’t agree more.
Toxic Shock Syndrome is real and I do not want to be THAT person.


I’ve never met anyone IRL who got TSS.


Same. I’m almost 49 and I remember all the warnings about it, but never knew, or knew of, anyone who had it.

I now find tampons horribly uncomfortable so use them as little as possible, but I slept with them at night for years.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2026 21:25     Subject: Do you sleep with a tampon in?
Always
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2026 20:58     Subject: Do you sleep with a tampon in?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No. I'm old enough to remember warnings about TSS, so I use pads at night.


+1
I think those of us 45+ were terrorized by this warning.
And it seems in the mid to late 80s everyone knew someone whose friend of a friend died from TSS, for real! Just like everyone knew this one kid whose cousin’s best friend’s mom died from contaminated Tylenol.
Our 80s lives were filled with news horror stories verified by testimonies of “real life eyewitness experience once-removed” which somehow elevated and personalized the concern and made it 10x scarier than the Internet. Those stories stay with you.


I couldn’t agree more.
Toxic Shock Syndrome is real and I do not want to be THAT person.


I’ve never met anyone IRL who got TSS.