{"id":350194,"date":"2025-08-16T22:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T22:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/350194\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T22:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T22:37:13","slug":"woman-who-accidentally-left-tampon-in-for-a-month-lays-bare-horrifying-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/350194\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman who accidentally left tampon in for a MONTH lays bare horrifying symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman who accidentally left her tampon in for a whole month has laid bare the gruesome symptoms that she endured while doctors struggled to figure out what was wrong with her.<\/p>\n

Reality star\u00a0Savannah Miller, 24, who is best known for starring in season seven of Netflix<\/a>‘s\u00a0The Circle, opened up about the ‘traumatizing’ ordeal during a recent chat with the New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She explained that despite feeling sick and developing a horrific smell in her private area, medical professionals failed to uncover what was causing it across multiple visits.<\/p>\n

The TV star said it began after she put in a tampon during a night out with friends near the end of her period.<\/p>\n

But the next morning, she had ‘forgot she put it in’ so she never took it out.<\/p>\n

‘There was no blood and the string had disappeared, I didn\u2019t see it,’ she told the publication.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Savannah said the first thing she noticed was that a strange smell started to come from her vagina… and as the days went on it got so bad she compared it to a dead animal.<\/p>\n

‘It smelled like a rat crawled inside of me while I was sleeping and died,’ she confessed.<\/p>\n

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Reality star Savannah Miller, 24, who is best known for starring in season seven of Netflix ‘s The Circle,\u00a0accidentally left her tampon in for a whole month<\/p>\n

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She\u00a0laid bare the gruesome symptoms that she endured while doctors struggled to figure out what was wrong with her<\/p>\n

She thought the smell meant she was still on her period so she ended up putting in another tampon, which likely pushed the other further back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She soon started to feel run-down and itchy down there, so she went to her college clinic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Doctors tested her for STDS but everything came back negative.<\/p>\n

‘They thought it was just [bacterial vaginosis], but I knew there was no way people walked around with BV smelling like this,’ added the 24-year-old.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until her third visit when the doctor noticed traces of cotton in her urine that they realized what was causing her mysterious illness – nearly a month after she initially put the tampon in.<\/p>\n

‘It 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.<\/p>\n

In the end, she said she’s grateful she didn’t develop Toxic Shock Syndrome, and\u00a0she hopes that speaking out about it will help prevent others from suffering the same fate.<\/p>\n

Back in June, Shannon Toner spoke exclusively to the Daily Mail<\/a> about how she almost died from using a tampon at age 15 after developing Toxic Shock Syndrome.<\/p>\n

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The TV star said it began after she put in a tampon during a night out with friends near the end of her period. But the next morning, she had ‘forgot she put it in’ so she never took it out<\/p>\n

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It wasn’t until her third visit when the doctor noticed traces of cotton in her urine that they realized what was causing her mysterious illness<\/p>\n

‘It put me in a coma and nearly took my life – I hadn\u2019t even had my period for a full year yet,’ Shannon, who was on a family vacation at the time, explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shannon revealed she began to feel ill in the evening after she landed, but she assumed it was just jet lag and tried to sleep it off.<\/p>\n

But she woke up the next day\u00a0with extreme symptoms, including: vomiting, diarrhea, a fever, and fatigue.<\/p>\n

‘I was brought to the doctor that afternoon, given a shot for nausea, and sent home,’ she continued.<\/p>\n

‘I continued to deteriorate and was brought back to the doctor later that same day.’<\/p>\n

‘My last memory is collapsing in the office and laying on the ground because it hurt too much to sit up,’ she recalled.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘My heart rate was extremely high, my blood pressure was dangerously low, and I was rushed to the ICU. I didn\u2019t wake up until a few days later.’<\/p>\n

Toxic Shock Syndrome is a ‘rare complication of certain types of bacterial infections,’ according to MayoClinic<\/a>. It can be fatal.<\/p>\n

‘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.’<\/p>\n

Shannon was\u00a0given a 50\/50 chance of survival and while she ultimately recovered, she suffered from the after effects for years.<\/p>\n

‘I dealt with memory loss, anxiety, attention issues, and depression. My periods also became extremely painful,’ she explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who accidentally left her tampon in for a whole month has laid bare the gruesome symptoms…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[92,368,105,451,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-350194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-femail","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-netflix","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115040842382470336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}