Most embarrassing moment due to lack of knowledge?

Lol, my life is an open book. I'll share anything. =) Maybe in a few years I won't be so open lol!!!!

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...

I hate tampons..i think that experience i said above tramatized me ...i dont wear them unless i absoluty have too!!! Oh Another embarressing moment anyone? I have tons of them believe you me but this so funny that you guys might relate alittle more too!! My friends and I walked into Spencers...the store that has tons of weird and cool stuff and some of it can be um....sexually interesting to put it nicely. Anyway. There were a ton of really hot cute guys and i was kinda flirting with them. My friend walked up to be and put it in my hand..it was pink and a fluffly and like a pillow...I held it up and turned it around and said what the heck is this...and then i turned it the way is was supposed to go and it was a pillow in the shape of a p*nis!!!!! I almost died. all i could manage to say was..."OH" my friend took it and was dying of hysteria and all those cute hot college guys started laughing...i grabbed my friends arm and high tailed it out of there
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Haha! Gotta love girlfriends!!!!

Does everyone here know that they shouldn't douche?

I was about 7 yrs old in Brownies and we were learning about first aid emergencies and what to do. The leader pulled out a maxi pad....my mom hadn't covered the purpose of a maxi pad to me yet. The leader asked the group what are these (the maxi pads) for? I said aloud...they are for fart stains in your underwear!

AAAAahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I, too, would never post such stories, and didn't read all of all of them either... I kind of hoped it was meant to be about ANY subject, but gather that I was wrong on this one I have stories because of lack of knowledge, but not in this category. LOL y'all tc!

Oh tell us! It doesn't have to be about tampons!!! LOL.....tell us tell us!

I never heard of the peeing to get a tampon out, either, alexandra. I've had slight difficulty in getting them out sometimes, but nothing major. You're supposed to keep them in until they're slick with blood (sorry to be so gross), which makes them easier to pull out. Of course, this is much more difficult when you're having a lighter flow. But as alexandra said, I have heard of using a little artificial lubricant (like the KY Jelly) to make it easier to take them out.

You guys have some great stories! This is a fun thread!

And isn't Spencer's a fun store?

I learned long ago that you're not supposed to douche, and never have.

Before I went to kindergarten, my mom taught me some basic manners. Like "please & thank-you". I was 4 yrs old at the time. I asked my teacher if she could help me zip up my jacket for me. After she did so...I said "please & thank-you (teacher's name)"! The teacher later in a parent-teacher interview told my mom what I said....and they couldn't stop laughing! My mom came home and told me when and how to use "please" and "thank-you".

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Sorry. Maybe I shouldn't be laughing... but you guys are too much!! Now I KNOW I'm old because there's NO WAY I would post anything like you guys have!

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Good luck getting away with that excuse SeptemberMorn -- remember when there weren't adhesive napkins and you'd get the belt hooks stuck in your hair? OUCH!

I love the things kids say. I'm an only child; my mom had a hysterectomy from cancer after she had me. When I was a toddler, a lady in the grocery store was saying how cute I was and did I have any brothers or sisters. When I said no, she asked why, and I said, "My mommy doesn't have a ooterus." Maybe she explained too much to me when I was a child, lol!

I've had MANY embarrassing moments in my lifetime but the one that comes to mind that I care to share is when I was in labor with my first baby. It was a very long labor and the nurses and doc would come in and out of my room to "check" my status. Each time I would hear someone coming in I would pick up my feet and put them in the stirrups to get ready for the "check." Well, this one time I heard someone coming in and I got "ready" like I had done a million times before. This time, with feet in stirrups, I looked up at this strange man looking back at me. He said "lady, relax, I'm just here to fix the tv."

LOL okiedokie...that is sooo funny and cute!!!

When i was three i had a big vocabulary because i was reading books by then..i dont know but they caught it on tape lol so growing up with that and only being around adults i learned alot of big words mom said i came in from playing one day and shut the door and said "Mom i am so frusserated!" My mom looked at me and said what? and i said frusserated...you know? she almost died laughing hysterically and said oh your frusterated! She tried to be serious because i waas being dead serious but the way i butchered frusterated was too much apparently!

lol actually i didnt know we were not supposed to douche! Ive never done it before but i thought it was ok...i mean the sell them like their candy or something....hmm now i learned something new

Douching can cause yeast infections...etc. The vagina has a natural cleaning mechanism. If discharge is coming out.......go see a doctor .....do not douche!

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Or your butt got hungry and tried to eat the elastic in the back, and the gripper dug into your crack?? OUCH!!!

I had an acquaintance that called her period "the curse". I used to condemn her for it in my mind. "Yeah, it's a curse to you because you can't have kids!" I was glad I had a period... but guess what? When I got done having my kids, it DID become a curse! GAWD, I hated it!!! So, I took care of that little problem and had a hysterectomy! No more curse! LOL

Ooooh, did my aunt get on my case about it, though.

Douching is also bad because, some girls and women used to think (maybe still do?) that douching after sex could help prevent pregnancy, by washing the sperm out, but it actually increases the risk, because it washes upwards first, pushing the sperm into the uterus area. This is also why you're more at risk for developing yeast and other infections, because it pushes the bacteria further into you.

You're also not supposed to do colonic irrigation, except perhaps if a doctor tells you to. Some people do it as a health fad--there are actually centers where you can just go in and get a colonic! But you can weaken your rectal muscles and even make it so you can't poop properly. Again, your body has its own way of cleaning you out. If you want to help your body, drink lots of water, and don't eat heavy or unhealthy foods.

And okiedokie, that was great, about the TV repairman!

<font color="green">I don’t know that I have any stories as funny as y’all have but I do have a few.

I was one of those girls who had an awful time with their menses, so at age 13 I had to have a pelvic exam. It seemed like have the staff of the clinic was in there with me, a doctor, two interns and two nurses to guard my innocence. First, I had that wonderful horror of being gassy when the doctor pressed on my tummy. But even worse was the doctor turning to one of the interns [with his hand in there] that “this girl will never have a problem with having children – she is built for it.” Even worse, he had no clue as to why I had so much pain. Sigh.

I was also one of those dumb women who got toxic shock cos I had to use two tampons at a time or would have blood everywhere. One time I must have forgotten that there were two and left the other one in – I had this ugly discharge and the doctor pulled out this nasty green thing. I was soooooo embarrassed.
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I can't believe a doctor would say that! That's unprofessional! It might be even something one could sue for, but I'm not saying it is or that you should. I just find it really degrading and inappropriate.

I've never heard of wearing two tampons at the same time, but as some of us have stated, we've worn two pads at the same time. I understand your embarrassment, but it's understandable that you might forget one when you wear two. At least you survived...I'd rather be embarrassed than disabled or dead, although when you're embarrassed, sometimes you want to die.

Ahhh that is so embarassing about the tampon! But I always wondered.... if you get sent to the emergency room and you have your period and they're like performing surgery on you or something what do they do? Like if you have a tampon in then you start leaking or something then you're bleeding from somewhere else. Sorry that was random!

But discharge isn't normal? I read online it was for women between periods.

That would have to be when I was about 18 years old, just married, and working at a local 5 and dime..I was a cashier, a young man who had been standing in line, asked me for something I had never heard of before...so I got on the loudspeaker and asked my manager, "I need help Mr...., there is a customer up front looking for a package of "Trojans"..

Well, by the time I turned around to tell him, that the Manager would be here in a moment, all I saw was him quickly leaving out the front entrance...

I was slightly miffed, but two Elderly women in line were just busting out laughing, and the Manager was cracking up as he approached my Register. then I noticed others in the store were giggling too..

It took the Older women a few minutes to regain their composure, but they whispered to me what they were (Trojans)...and boy howdy was my face red..I felt so bad for the poor young man...who was probably just as embarrassed as I was...I actually thought they were a brand of cigarettes...

That is quite funny, but embarassing for you and the customer!