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Tampons and retrograde bleeding (sorry a bit icky!)
Hi girls,
Just wondering if, in your talks with GPs and fertility peeps, anyone had talked to you about retrograde bleeding and tampons. I had this crazy gp, who we have now dumped for someone else, who told me that you shouldn't wear tampons and it makes the blood flow backwards into your tubes and can add to blockages.
Now i didn't believe a word of it, but when I got home and googled it, just to check, there was some info on the internet about it adding to what they call retrograde bleeding, which we all have a little of naturally apparently. Then I read in Zita Wests book (who i think is quite good and who we're going to see in a few weeks) saying that she doesn't advise the use of tampons either - something to so with natural energy flow...
Anyhoo, it made me slightly paranoid, so last month I tried not using them as much as possible and my period only lasted 2.5 days which oh suggested might be because i didn't use them.
Part of me knows this is crazy, but does anyone know anything about it? It's probably my crazy, clutching at straws brain, but....:roll:
Rach x
Just wondering if, in your talks with GPs and fertility peeps, anyone had talked to you about retrograde bleeding and tampons. I had this crazy gp, who we have now dumped for someone else, who told me that you shouldn't wear tampons and it makes the blood flow backwards into your tubes and can add to blockages.
Now i didn't believe a word of it, but when I got home and googled it, just to check, there was some info on the internet about it adding to what they call retrograde bleeding, which we all have a little of naturally apparently. Then I read in Zita Wests book (who i think is quite good and who we're going to see in a few weeks) saying that she doesn't advise the use of tampons either - something to so with natural energy flow...
Anyhoo, it made me slightly paranoid, so last month I tried not using them as much as possible and my period only lasted 2.5 days which oh suggested might be because i didn't use them.
Part of me knows this is crazy, but does anyone know anything about it? It's probably my crazy, clutching at straws brain, but....:roll:
Rach x
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I've not actually heard of retrograde bleeding but just to let you know that when I started ttc I stopped using tampons. My Zita West book recommends not using them but I suppose its personal preference. I wanted my downstairs area to be as natural as possible so every month let the blood make its natural way down and out of me. I kept imagining the tampons absorbing all the conception friendly juices that I had! I know that your lady-bits have to have a certain level of acidity (or is it alkaline?) in their juices to be compatible with the sperm so I didn't want anything to intefere!
Just read that back and it sounds a bit bonkers, hopefully you'll get what I'm trying to say xx
rach x
Personally, I never liked them anyway and never felt comfortable with them when I did use them, (I always think of them as a 'plug' keeping all the crap festering away inside!
I've never heard of retrograde bleeding, but you have got me curious now! I do remember reading ages ago about how endometriosis can be caused by menstrual blood flowing back up the tubes and into the abdominal cavity tho. Bodies are soooo high maintenance :roll: x