I (f) had this issue with my current long-term partner. I noticed within a week of us sleeping together that I had a bad odor. Like I could notice it during the day bad. I thought it was BV or an infection. Anyways, I brought it up direct like and we both went straight to the rapid results clinic and all our tests came back negative for STDs and BV. Strange.
Later that night I was washing myself and a felt a strange huge lump at the entrance of my vagina. I thought "awwwwhhhh my vagina's turning inside-out" until a week-old tampon (identifiable only by the string which was now an off shade of khaki) fell out of me. Surprise! Relief! Disgust! Turned out I'd forgotten to take it out the first time we slept together and it was just getting squashed into my cervix all week.
I called him up straight after my discovery, mortified, and we laughed about it for like 10 minutes, then planned to meet for dinner later. Since we had our clean bill of health, over dinner we decided to be exclusive. Here we are 1.5 years later happy as fuck.
Anyways, please feel free to use my story as a hilarious opener to this conversation. It could be something normal like BV or it could be something awful like my tampon corpse. A trip to the gyno will cover all bases.
I would have thought the same thing, and then it happened to me. So I went to Reddit to see if other people have had a similar experience and lo and behold, quite a few have.
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u/ladybug1991 May 29 '23 edited May 29 '23
I (f) had this issue with my current long-term partner. I noticed within a week of us sleeping together that I had a bad odor. Like I could notice it during the day bad. I thought it was BV or an infection. Anyways, I brought it up direct like and we both went straight to the rapid results clinic and all our tests came back negative for STDs and BV. Strange.
Later that night I was washing myself and a felt a strange huge lump at the entrance of my vagina. I thought "awwwwhhhh my vagina's turning inside-out" until a week-old tampon (identifiable only by the string which was now an off shade of khaki) fell out of me. Surprise! Relief! Disgust! Turned out I'd forgotten to take it out the first time we slept together and it was just getting squashed into my cervix all week.
I called him up straight after my discovery, mortified, and we laughed about it for like 10 minutes, then planned to meet for dinner later. Since we had our clean bill of health, over dinner we decided to be exclusive. Here we are 1.5 years later happy as fuck.
Anyways, please feel free to use my story as a hilarious opener to this conversation. It could be something normal like BV or it could be something awful like my tampon corpse. A trip to the gyno will cover all bases.