{"id":2922,"date":"2014-08-15T14:43:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T14:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2023-09-07T01:50:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T05:50:34","slug":"tampons-and-vaginismus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/vaginismus\/life\/period\/tampon\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampons and vaginismus","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women with vaginismus will often not be able to use tampons because they are afraid to insert them, or they tried in the past and it &#8216;got stuck&#8217; and scared them, or because they heard many scary stories about tampons and Toxic Shock Syndrome, or because they were told that &#8216;good girls don&#8217;t use tampons&#8217; prior to marriage, etc, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>Vaginismus and Tampons<\/h2>\n<p><a data-wpil=\"url\" href=\"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/vaginismus\/treatment\/\" data-wpil=\"url\" target=\"_blank\">Curing vaginismus<\/a> and being able to use tampons is always a thrilling moment for our patients &#8212; it is about them, and about their own monthly hygiene; it is not about the partner, nor about having to forgo activities that were a problem before.\u00a0 The following is what a recently cured patient just posted on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/vaginismus\/vaginismus-a-private-pain-support-group\/\" data-wpil=\"url\" target=\"_blank\">Vaginismus- A Private Pain support group<\/a> page:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The start of my period usually doesn&#8217;t cause for celebration&#8230;but I am celebrating today. :) I&#8217;m celebrating that it was no big deal to insert a tampon this morning! I&#8217;m celebrating that I can go for a run without worrying that my skin will be chafed by my maxi pad and that I can accept offers to go swimming and go to the beach, no matter what time of the month it is.<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0 (Aug 13, 2014)<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> has many entries about tampons and tampon tips that you and\/or your friends will find valuable.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women with vaginismus will often not be able to use tampons because they are afraid to insert them, or they tried in the past and it &#8216;got stuck&#8217; and scared them, or because they heard many scary stories about tampons and Toxic Shock Syndrome, or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,338],"tags":[],"acf":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}