peeing to take it out? i've never heard of that one...

i don't have trouble with tampons, but i know of plenty of people who do have trouble with them.

one thing you can do it make it a little easier to get them in is to smear the end with a little KY or lubricant that is okay to go internally. i had a friend who used to carry a little tube of KY with her tampons for precisely that purpose. another thing is to make sure that you use the smallest size that is appropriate. i often wear a liner or a pad (on my heavy days) as well as wearing a tampon so if i misjudge and it leaks that is fine because the pad still won't fill up as much as it would without the tampon.

i remember being really nervous to try tampons... but i was really hating having to do the two pads thing. had to do that because when i was sitting down i needed one further back and when i was standing up i needed one further forward and i could never seem to place one pad in quite the right place (maybe it simply wasn't long enough). i learned how to do it by reading the little information instructions on the tampon pack and at school (in our puberty change unit) all the girls got a free starter (sample) pack of tampax with this case for them and a little book with diagrams on how to insert them and questions and answers that people have about them and so forth. it really was easier to insert them with the applicator too. i remember being quite nervous about switching to carefree because of the lack of applicator...