Woman who accidentally 'kept tampon in for a month' reveals 'traumatizing' aftermath

A woman has explained her ordeal after forgetting about a tampon for a whole month.

Savannah Miller, a reality TV star who appeared on season 7 of Netflix’s The Circle, admitted to the horrors she faced after not realizing she had left a tampon inside of her for weeks.

The 24-year-old shared that it was ‘actually traumatizing’, but noted how lucky she is for not dying from a fatal injection caused by bacteria.

At the time she was 22, and a college student when at the end of her period, she visited a bar with some friends.

However, because she was in the in-between stage of too much blood to wear underwear but not little enough to skip a sanitary product, she decided to use a tampon.

But shockingly, the next day it vanished.

“I forgot I put it in, and because there was no blood and the string had disappeared, I didn’t see it,” she said to The Post.

Savannah Miller was 22 when the ordeal began (Instagram/savannahcmiller)

But a few days later, she began to have a sick feeling, itchiness and a bad smell down below and decided to use new tampons each time as she put it down an ‘old period’ smell.

“It smelled like a rat crawled inside of me while I was sleeping and died,” she said.

From there, she wanted the smell investigated and visited her college’s on-site clinic several times, but STD tests and internal examinations came up with no answer.

“They thought it was just BV [bacterial vaginosis], but I knew there was no way people walked around with BV smelling like this,” she said.

However, it wasn’t until her third doctor’s appointment, that the question of whether a tampon could have been lodged in her vaginal canal came up.

When cotton particles were found in a urine sample, her doctor queried the possibility.

“I didn’t think so, but I was like, possibly?!” she said. “But I was desperate to make the smell go away.”

Later, they found the offending object - a tampon - which was ‘so far up in my cervix there was no shot I was gonna see it.’

“The doctor had to fish it out of my ovaries,” she said.

Thankfully, she missed developing the fatal toxic shock syndrome and was put on antibiotics just in case there was a chance she was asymptomatic.

Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) occurs when bacteria produces toxins and enter the bloodstream, causing the organs to shut down and even death if it isn’t treated quickly.

She narrowly escaped Toxic Shock Syndrome (Instagram/savannahcmiller)

According to the Mayo Clinic: “Toxic shock syndrome is a rare complication of certain types of bacterial infections. It can be fatal. Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, also called staph bacteria, often cause toxic shock syndrome. But toxins produced by group A streptococcus bacteria, also called strep bacteria, also can cause the condition.

“Toxic shock syndrome can affect anyone. Risk factors for toxic shock syndrome include skin wounds, surgery, and the use of tampons and other devices, such as menstrual cups and birth control sponges or diaphragms.”

Symptoms of toxic shock syndrome include:

· High fever.

· Low blood pressure.

· Vomiting or diarrhea.

· Rash that looks like a sunburn, most often on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet.

· Confusion.

· Muscle aches.

· Redness of the eyes, mouth and throat.

· Seizures.

· Headaches.

If you believe you are suffering from the condition, seeing a doctor as soon as possible is priority.