Herbal tampons/ yoni pearls... Don’t do it!

Hi all, I just wanted to share my experience with using Yoni pearls/ herbal tampons for anyone who may be interested. BE WARNED- GRAPHIC IMAGES BELOW. Also super long post. I had gone into this all excited and I was convinced it would be great. I had seen so many good reviews and the only people who were saying ‘don’t do it’ were those who hadn’t done it themselves. Well I’m now on the don’t do it bandwagon.

Anyway, I ordered mine online from an Australian based company. I wanted to try herbal tampons after hearing a TTC success story on here a couple of months back. For anyone who doesn’t know what they are, it’s a little ball filled with herbs that is meant to cleanse/ detox your vagina. Its not a regular tampon and you do not use it during af. It’s a herbal remedy that’s been used for many years in Chinese medicine to help with many lady ailments.

I have been ttc for almost a year and in this time I have had an ectopic pregnancy where my right tube had to be removed and then a suspected chemical pregnancy a few months later. I had to have two surgeries for my ectopic as apparently I had bad endometriosis (🤷🏻‍♀️ never had any symptoms) which was the cause of my ectopic and it was in other worrying places too. I wasn’t prepped enough to have it all done at once. I’ve since gotten the all clear to try again- no more endo and my lonely left tube came up clear in the dye test.

So I ordered my Yoni Pearls because I’m still not convinced that everything is ok inside me. I don’t know if the Dr missed something or if I had a reaction to the dye they ran through my tube or if it’s all in my head, but something just doesn’t feel right and the doctors just brush these feelings off. So last night I opened my pack and out wafted this amazing herbal scent! They arrived 3 days after af finished which happens to be the earliest they say to insert them. I’m going for the full detox so I put all three pearls inside and in they will stay for 72hours! I’ll keep tabs over the next week and post all in one big go!

Day1:

I woke up with a herbal taste in my mouth. It’s all I seem to smell too. I wanted to feel where the pearls where so I had a feel and about 50ml or so of yellowish liquid gushed out of me! Thankfully I was in the bathroom, on a tiled surface! I did feel dry though which I’ve heard is normal. I have felt some tightening/ cramping going on but it feels kind of good, like things are happening. At the same time I do kind of just want to take them out because it all feels a bit strange, but I do want to see this through so they are staying put. I’ve been very thirsty all day and have been drinking a ton of water!

Day 2

I felt completely fine all day. If I hadn’t put them in, I wouldn’t know they were there. Except I just went to the loo and had some white tissue like substance come out. This prompted me to feel around and I’m so dry I can’t even get a finger in. I got a mirror and lay down to have a look... My skin is actually dying! It’s dried up so badly! I can’t even describe how bad it is. It peels off and looks exactly like all the pictures women post of what falls out of them after the detox has been done. Didn’t take me long to decide it was probably the same thing and that these yoni pearls simply make you shed your vagina lining. I doubt it even penetrates the cervix. The opening to that is probably so dry that nothing can get in or out. Probably a good thing. Needless to say I removed them right away. And oh look, the one pearl has the same white tissue on it as what is coming off the opening of my bits!

I’ve just had a quick warm bath in chamomile tea and I’ll be applying some coconut oil to the outside because I’m a chump and apparently listen to what the internet tells me to do! Honestly, I don’t see how it can make things worse at this point.

Day 3

Our lady parts are really amazing. My cm has started to return already and all the dead white skin is starting to detach. I think I must have been a bit swollen yesterday too because I had no issue slipping in a finger today. I managed to scoop probably 80% of the dead tissue out and I did have a couple of surprises. I’m not sure what it all is, but I don’t think it is all dead skin. Still not convinced that it’s toxins or blockages that have been drawn out of me. I think it’s the equivalent of getting a bad sunburn that makes your skin peel. I numbered the below pics for reference.

Pic 1 is Ye ol dead skin flap as per usual but it’s got really weird powdery bits in it that crumble when touched 🤷🏻‍♀️

Pic 2 is quite thick and seems to have some old blood pooled in the middle. This bit was scooped from the very back, under the cervix. It came out with a couple of small red bits that were jelly like.

Pic 3 is again just like a dead skin flap but it’s super thick! Like 5x as thick as the rest of it which is as interesting as it is concerning.

Today has fascinated me. I’m feeling a lot more comfortable but I still don’t think this was all a good idea and I definitely won’t be doing it again.

So lesson learnt- don’t stick random shit in your vagina! I’ll stick to my menstrual cup and what hubby has to offer from now on. I’ll just stick to what I have been doing and head back to the Dr when I’ve reached the anniversary of my ectopic ☹️

Feel free to say ‘I told you so’.