My periods were pretty unpredictable when I was young so one time on our family trip overseas I got my period and I didn't have any pads with me. It was unusually rough that time. So blood was running down my thighs. I locked myself in the hotel bathroom for an hour and was sooo embarrased at the time. Later that day we went swimming and I had to use a tampon for the first time. I was crying because it hurt and I couldn't get it in. Then I fainted alone in the bathroom/changing room on the beach. My mom wasn't much of a help. Safe to say I haven't used tampons a lot after that. It was kind of traumatizing😂