Forgetting a tampon can be life-threatening. 24-year-old Amy Williams from Essex, England, knows this better than anyone. She faced death after taking a tampon out of her vagina after only five days. She had simply forgotten the thing.
If a tampon stays in your vajayjay for too long, you can develop toxic shock syndrome. This is a tampon disease of which your body can go into shock and you can even die. Amy can talk about it. She now shares her story to make others aware of the dangerous risks. “I had heard about toxic shock syndrome, but didn’t expect it to ever happen to me,” the woman said, according to Metro UK.
Amy used tampons for ten years, but thinks it’s unlikely she’ll ever touch one again. It went wrong in the summer of 2019. She was out with her boyfriend and went to the toilet to change her tampon. When she couldn’t find the string, she was convinced she didn’t have a tampon in her vagina. And so she put in a new one. “I was drunk and couldn’t remember if I put one in,” she says.
For five days, a strange smell came out of Amy’s vagina. “It smelled like death. I took a shower to wash but the smell didn’t go away. Then I lay down on the bed to inspect everything. When I felt something with my fingernail, it dawned on me that there was a tampon in it. ” The thing turned out to be stuck, so it took Amy half an hour to remove it. She nearly passed out from the pain. “The tampon was black. It was disgusting. ”
It didn’t take long for Amy to develop excruciating cramps in her abdomen. Two days later she started to feel nauseous and was rushed to hospital. There her organs began to fail. She went into septic shock, after which she was diagnosed with toxic shock syndrome. “The doctor said if I hadn’t come that day, I wouldn’t have woken up. I can’t believe a tampon almost killed me. ”
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