so for the last 10 years of my life I have refused to use tampons because I’ve always thought that they hurt extremely bad. Everyone I know uses them and it always confused me because I never understood how they could make them work without it hurting. Yesterday, as a 20-year-old female in college about to finish a whole degree, I realized that my entire life I had been inserting them completely wrong. I was inserting not only the cotton but the applicator as well. So I would disconnect the plunger from the applicator and just put that in my vagina. THAT’S WHY IT HURT. when i told my mom, who obviously never taught me how to use them, she laughed until she cried! Now, I’m the happiest girl ever because i can finally use tampons correctly and i don’t have to wear pads or be in pain with a plastic applicator up my vagina 😂😂😂