Light Bleeding between period and a Foul Odor

Omg!!!! Thank u thank u thank u for sharing this!!! Exactly what happened to me!""

was there any memory loss or forgetting where you put the keys, loss of vocabulary or mixing up words during the spotting and smell?

THANK YOU! THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!! I thought I was going crazy, and was so worried and embarassed to lay in bed with my boyfriend :( it smelled awful! I thought I was so gnarly! Thank god I came across these responses...I would never have guessed that a Tampon was lodged in my nether regions. womp, womp...

Great thread. I stopped halfway through reading it, thinking it was worth a shot. And sure enough, Same thing happened to me. My boyfriend kept telling me to get checked because there was a foul odor when we had sex. I am so relieved I do not have an STD or infection.

 

-Thanks.

Holy c**p.  Same thing, same problem.  Was so worried!!!!

 

Like most of the other posters, I too had foul odor with my periods (not to gross out too much, but like a rotten smell). My period came as usual but the color was very dark brown. I'm 32 and never imagined I'd have forgotten to take out my tampon, but upon visiting with the GYN, that was the problem. She advised that she sees it mostly with those with heavier flow that change tampons often.

You're unlikely to need a professional to get it out, it can't be lodged too far up. If you check and there's no tampon, best to see a professional to rule out a bacterial infection.

GO CHECK YOUR VAGINA FOR A TAMPON IF THESE ARE YOUR SYMPTOMS! I am 25 and my period consistently only lasts for about four days, five days TOPS and I've had an awful smell and brownish/light reddish color when I wipe and this has been going on the tenth day now. I put a yeast infection dose up there two nights ago and it fixed nothing. My boyfriend and I just had sex and he got pretty deep (after not having sex for like ten days) and I bled and the smell was still terrible. We started panicking. He read absolutely terrifying things on WebMD and I THANKFULLY stumbled upon this thread on my own search and read almost all of the replies out loud and we could only think of one thing to do. We figured if it was a tampon it would have to be pretty far in there since we had just had sex (and he is blessed in the basement), so I asked (made) him dive in and dig around. Lo and behold! Vaginas are not apparently just holes that go straight back....he found mine only about three or four inches deep, but low. Vaginas are weird. I don't know how I forgot but I think it may have had to do with his sister's cheap tampons I'd been using. This one was obviously an old flattened-out sheet of gross old cheap redbrown tampon. Not the cute redpink octopus like I'm used to with Playtex. I didn't inspect it for a string (CAUSE IT WAS NASTY!) but I'd like to think that it broke off instead of me just being horrible at being a woman.

 

did you check out at the doctors to see if anything was wrong?

I'm 23... i do NOT USE tampons... I have light pinkish bleeding a bit of stomach cramps, and a foul odor.... I don't know what it is. I figured it might be my period, but Its too light and too little... Any suggestions?

Thank you SO much to the ladies who posted about the tampon!  I'm 28 and would never imagine losing a tampon inside me but it reallyhappened!  Same symptoms... Light bleeding when period should've ended a week ago, especially after sex, and VERY foul bad smell whenever the bleeding occurred.  Thank you again!

hi all,

 

thanks for the ladies who wrote about their experience of lodging tampon..

very helpful one. After reading all thru this thread i thought this cannot be my case, but want to try it out my self and make sure i have no tampon inside me. Surprise, that i have one. Unbelievable and saved a lot of emberassment as i wanted to visit my gyc tomorrow.

 

thanks again..

SO grateful for this post!

It is amazing how far up there the tampon can actually get stuck! The sad/gross thing is that I am pretty sure it has been up there for 2 weeks! How I did not notice and my boyfriend didn't feel it is beyond me. Bless my boyfriends heart for acting like the stench wasn't as foul as I thought it was.

My friends are suggesting that I go see a doctor just in case there is an infection? Does anyone have any experience with this happening after the fact?

Thanks for this string, it saved me some time money and now I don't feel disgusting. It is crazy how un lady like smelly lady parts can make one feel.

OMG thank god I found this thread.  I had exactly the same symptoms, light, pink bleeding after my period had finished, foul odor.  I thought, I'm 37, there's no way I will have forgotten I have a tampon up there it's never happened before EVER!  But, I thought, no harm in checking before I run to the doctor thinking I'm dying of cervical cancer.  Sure enough, after a deep root around, there was the string.  Thank you ladies, Thank you for sharing. 

I have the same problem but not lodges tampon... I really need help.. It's creeping me out

MY MIND IS BLOWN IT WAS A FREAKIN OLD MOLDY TAMPON LODGED IN THERE I AM SO GROSSED OUT THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS I AM TRAUMATIZED