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Tampon lost for a year
This sounds crazy but i had a drunken experience were i thought i lost my tampon about a year ago and i couldn't find it in my vagina so i decided i either removed it and forgot or it fell out. Now I'm having pelvic pain vaginal discharge yellow in color and a foul odor with an open sore on my labia minora nausea and pain that radiates towards my back on the left side. There is no STDs because I've been to the ER several times recently and they've checked all that. However they don't do a scan or vaginal ultrasound or any test other than a physical pelvic exam and Pap smear. It will come back that I have some type of bacterial vaginosis and they will give me Flagyl and send me on my way at what point do they listen to me and try to find the tampon that I may have lost it's been over a year I mean I don't know if it's possible it's still there I feel like a crazy person please help me I'm not crazy but it sounds crazy and I'm desperate I'm going to see a OBGYN tomorrow again and hope that He suggests maybe removing my uterus hell I don't know
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If you have talked about a lost tampon, and if a doctor knowing this has done a pelvic exam with a speculum and a light, he or she would have seen the tampon. Obviously something is going on, but it seems unlikely that it's a lost tampon. (An ultrasound will probably not help even if the problem is a tampon.) If you are having repeated diagnoses of BV, talk to your doctor about your partner. Has he been treated with the same antibiotics as you, at the same time?
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Ugh. Hard to say. I had a forgotten tampon I'm embarrassed to admit. Really, I now recognize these things can happen to anyone. I wasn't drunk, just a tired mom. lol I had some funky, thin watery but black discharge that smelled really bad. And the thing is, gravity can help you figure out if it is there. Reach up while baring down. Since you are seeing an ob/gyn, tell them your suspicion. The thing that makes me doubt it is that you feel that it would have been a years time. I think you'd be in worse shape than you are if a tampon was there for a year. Anyway, come back and tell us!
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