29 Women Are Sharing The Things About Their Bodies They Wish They'd Known As Teens, And It's Literally So Important

14. "Not everyone tin usage tampons oregon menstrual cups, and that's okay! I tried utilizing tampons galore times arsenic a teen. I tried each size and each imaginable method of insertion, I adjacent asked my mom, grandma, doctors, and adjacent wellness teacher astir putting them successful correctly. No substance however 'deep' I got it, I could ever inactive consciousness it, and it was truthful painful."

"The 1 clip I pushed done the pain, I was leaking truthful severely I stained some my shorts AND my socks, similar humor was virtually moving down my limb aft an hour. Finally, erstwhile I was 17, I was capable to spot a pediatric gynecologist who checked maine retired and explained to maine that I was close to accidental that tampons did not enactment for me! Some women genuinely CAN consciousness a tampon oregon menstrual cupful adjacent erstwhile they're inserting it 100% correctly and utilizing the close size! Some women conscionable are that sensitive! I ended up having to bash pelvic level therapy successful assemblage erstwhile I met my now-husband, and we started having penetrative sex, truthful I could bask enactment painlessly. I get shamed and questioned truthful overmuch arsenic an big pistillate who inactive uses pads exclusively, and I hatred that truthful much."

—Anonymous, 25, Virginia