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Tampons: Girls please answer?
15/f, could a girl answer this please :)
Well, I've had my period for almost 2 years now and I've never used a tampon. When I'm on my period not too much since i exercise a lot, i just don't go swimming when I'm on it. When i had practice and i got it i just went swimming anyways because i almost passed out trying to put in an extra slim one. I can't relax my muscles and i feel light headed and the feeling of trying to put it up there its the most grossest uncomfortable feelings ever. How am I ever going to be able to use tampons or have sex when I'm older?!
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It sounds like an issue of just having a hymen thats tight and your not feeling comfortable with your sexuality. And when not comfortable or you find it gross, it's easy to tighten up muscles out of fear or revulsion.
You will have to get over your distaste of discovery of your genitals and touching yourself, and getting intimately familiar with yourself if you want to ever get a tampon in, let alone be comfortable with sex and actually enjoying it later on.
I am giving a link to a video,"You cant pop your cherry"
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In it, Laci explains the hymen using props which I found very helpful in getting across the concept of what a hymen is and so on. The empty toilet roll has a stocking over one end with a hole smaller than the circumferance of the toilet roll in the middle of the stocking. The hymen can be stretched so that the opening to the vagina is larger. If a baby can pass through the vagina/birth canal and not be hung up by the hymen that should explain that it can be stretched quite far. But you should take a look with a mirror and try to feel with your fingers. There are rare cases where the female instead of having her hymen around the circumference, has a strip of it connected at both ends going down the middle in effect causing there to be two very small openings to the vagina, openings too small for a tampon to go in and apparently it is very painful to even try.
It's called a Septate hymen. It is easily removed by a Dr. and the procedure doesnt hurt and you recover quickly without any after effects. But it would be good to know that this isn't the issue. If you're not sure, it might be time to go for a Dr. visit.
If it's not septate, then you will need to get comfortable with exploring your body and using your fingers on yourself daily to stretch it out, starting with one finger, then graduating to using two and three, a tampon should go in fine by then.
I highly recommend watching others of Laci's videos, they are very good educational but also entertaining bits, just click next to her name on "165 video's" and you'll be at her main you tube page. Subscribe and enjoy learning at your own pace regarding anything Sex positive.
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