My period finally showed up today 6 days late and this is brutal. This morning I went to the bathroom and saw blood (no cramps at this point). I showered then put in a tampon and got ready for work. I went ahead and took some medicine which always works to keep me from cramping too bad. I got to work this morning and changed my tampon. About 30 minutes later I started having hot flashes and feeling like I’d throw up, but I haven’t eaten today or last night so I was just dry heaving. I was so weak and thought I’d faint. I was short of breath and started to feel dizzy. I changed out a tampon for a pad and the symptoms began easing up and were gone within 20 minutes. Did the tampon do that to me? The first one didn’t affect me. This has happened to me once as a teenager and as soon as I took the tampon out it helped then too. But I’ve used them off and on since then with no problem.