Woman reveals she left a tampon inside herself for two years - Daily Mail

A pistillate has revealed that she near a tampon wrong herself for 2 years, saying she thought she had Lyme illness until she yet saw a gynecologist.  

Melanie Galeaz, 22, from Massachusetts, archetypal shared her shocking communicative successful a now-viral TikTok video, which shows her lip-syncing the lyrics to Lana Del Rey's 'Mariners Apartment Complex.'

'When I accidentally near a tampon in for 2 years, but I was virtually conscionable a teenage girl,' the 'Just for Tonight' writer wrote successful the on-screen text. 

'Not my proudest moment,' she added successful the caption. 

The abbreviated clip has earned much than 16.2 cardinal views and 28,000 comments since it was posted connected December 8. 

Many TikTok users were baffled by her confession and questioned how she didn't get toxic daze syndrome (TSS) — a highly unsafe bacterial infection.  

'YOU'RE MEANT TO CHANGE THEM EVERY 2 HOURS NOT EVERY 2 YEARS,' 1 idiosyncratic commented, portion different asked, 'How DIDN'T you get toxic shock.' 

Galeaz shared the afloat communicative successful a follow-up video, admitting that she spent years reasoning her gynecological issues were related to Lyme disease. 

'When I was little, I got spot by a cervid tick and had each the symptoms of Lyme disease,' she explained. 'But the tests were benignant of confusing if I had it oregon not.'

Galeaz said the doctors gave her medicine to dainty her symptoms, and she was 'fine' up until her sophomore twelvemonth of precocious school. 

'I started getting each these pains successful my assemblage and immoderate truly gross worldly was happening down south,' she recalled. 'I went to the doctor, but I didn’t truly notation the issues happening down south, which I cognize was my fault. 

'But the doc was truly disregarding me, and helium was being mean. It was truly embarrassed. I was similar 14, and this was truly disgusting and embarrassing, truthful I conscionable didn't privation to woody with it,' she continued. 

'I benignant of conscionable hoped that possibly it was thing related to Lyme illness and that I could conscionable disregard it with the meds and it would spell away.'

Galeaz said the medicine she was fixed helped with the pain, but determination wasn't immoderate betterment successful her gynecological symptoms.  

'When I get stressed astir something, I disregard it, truthful I don't person to woody with it until it goes away,' she explained. '[That] ne'er works, particularly successful this case.'

Two years later, she was a elder successful college, and inactive having problems. This time, she opted to spot a gynecologist. 

'She cranks maine open, looks in, and she gasps,' she recalled. 'I'm like, "Well, that's not what you privation to hear." You don't privation to perceive idiosyncratic gasp erstwhile they're looking wrong you. 

'And past she says, "You person a tampon stuck horizontally nether your cervix." And I go, "What? What did you conscionable say?" 

'Let's conscionable accidental taking it retired wounded due to the fact that it was dissolving inside me, truthful it kept breaking isolated and it was specified an unpleasant experience.'

Galeaz noted that the gynecologist didn't judge her erstwhile she said the tampon had been wrong her for 2 years.    

'She was like, "This was not stuck wrong you for 2 years." I'm like, "Well, I've been having these issues for 2 years, truthful I don't cognize what to archer you,"' she explained. 

'Not believing maine is fair. Honestly, I person nary proof. Me and the tampon person since parted ways,' she continued. 'All the pains successful my body, it was not Lyme disease. I don't adjacent deliberation I person Lyme disease... 

'The doctors deliberation I had immoderate benignant of corruption successful my assemblage from the tampon, which makes sense. That was conscionable my body's reaction. 

'For everyone asking astir the smell... I [come] from a household that perfectly would person destroyed maine for the odor if it had smelled. It didn't,' she insisted. 

'At times it did odor precise bad, and I was precise bittersweet reasoning I smelled similar that naturally, truthful I figured retired ways to disguise it and it did work.'  

If the communicative wasn't shocking enough, she shared that determination was a play successful which she had a full of 3 tampons wrong herself arsenic a teen.  

'During that two-year period, I took 1 retired and different came retired with it, and I person nary thought that 1 was successful for,' she said. 'So I had 1 successful maine for 2 years, 1 successful maine for an chartless magnitude of time, and 1 successful maine for similar 8 hours.

'That's the story. Please beryllium bully to me. It was stupid, but I americium sensitive. Don't beryllium mean,' she pleaded astatine the extremity of the video.