LADIES I'M DEAD SERIOUS. I realized last week that I had a tampon stuck up inside me for 6 WEEKS. I had forgotten to take it out and must have just put another one in... I was experiencing a weird/gross/unusual smell coming from my vagina and I could not figure out what was going on. Then one day in the shower when I was cleaning down there, I realized that there was a tampon!!!! Then I put it all together and realized what had happened and I almost passed out from shock lol. TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELVES DURING YOUR PERIODS.