so, i’m almost 14 and i have had about 3 periods so far. i decided that it was time to try a tampon, bc my mom bought me a box a while agojust in case i needed them in the future. i put in the tampon after lots of tries and it only hurt a little. it was way easier and less scarier than i thought it would be. so i left it in for a little while to get used to it, and when i went to take it out, that’s when the hard part came. i started to tug, and it began to hurt like bad. so then i had a full blown panic attack, every once and a while tugging just a tad. (btw it was 2am) after about 10 minutes of panicking and ocasional tugging, i finally got the hand mirror out, and to my horror i saw a band of skin over one side of the tampon. “oh my god oh my god oh no oh no” is all i was thinking. the tears starting coming as i tried to work the tampon around the extra skin, but there was no luck. i then turned to the internet. i started reading and reading and finally found a diagram of different types of vaginal openings. the “normal” one had one hole. it wasn’t like mine at all; i moved on to see an opening called “septate”. it looked like mine! i realized that i had been tugging and tugging on this piece of skin, and if i had kept going, i would have torn it. so i tried to search up things like “how to take tampon out of septate vagina” but no one had a guide bc apparently, us hymen ladies are special. but eventually i angled it upward and to the side, away to the ring of skin. i was so relieved to finally get it out, all thought my area still hurt. the next day i talked to my mom about it, giving her an article about septate hymen from a hospital website. she said thank you for telling me and said that she would talk to her OB/gyn about it. that was about two months ago and i honestly just want it removed. only that i can’t really set up an appointment rn bc of the bad timing with coronavirus. i know that i’m not gonna be having sex ANY time soon, but i just want to feel normal and put in a tampon without it getting stuck. my mom doesn’t want me to have the surgery to remove it for some reason, probably bc she doesn’t want me having sex when i’m like 16, but that’s not even the reason i want it removed. it’s irritating and i just wanted to vent. sorry 😂 (also i put this in the wrong category whoops)