Is sepsis a thing?

Sepsis is very rare. More likely Munchausen's/frau "disease"

Vaginas kill!

Sure Jan R1. Almost 200,000 cases in the U.S. each year and one of the leading causes of death in hospitals.

Sounds scary.

I understand some of you old queens used to use tampons.

IT'S A THING!

Five days is a problem? I've left one in permanently since the mid 90s so I don't have to keep changing them all the time. Do you think that's a problem?

What does Karen say about all this?

Moon/Diva cups, ladies. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times.

I almost died of sepsis after having a prostate biopsy in July 2007 The idiot urologist (and former married bf) forgot to prescribe Cipro, which is a required protocol. Four days later, I had a 104 temp and was shaking from convulsions. Luckily, a neighbor had 750 miligram Cipros on hand which saved my life until I could reach my primary doc. Came within hours of dying. When the urologist called me, he was drunk and it was late, and he said we were talking too much in his office, and he just forgot to prescribe the Cipro--the first time ever in 18 years of practice.

No they just made it up.

Didn't a porn star die from it?

I am completely appalled that women forget their tampons ffs.

R12 that was Stormy.

Yes it’s very much a thing and kills hundreds of thousands every year. Most Pneumonia deaths are sepsis, terminal cancer patients sometimes succumb to sepsis but young healthy people can absolutely die of sepsis from cuts, kidney infections, tooth infections, surgery, childbirth and I guess tampons! It’s a good idea to be familiar with the symptoms but once you know them it’s an easy diagnosis but if you don’t it’s easy to think mom is just sleepy after surgery or your partner’s clammy skin and chills will get better if he takes some aspirin and sleeps it off.

Regarding OP I read about a women who has sex twice with a tampon still in and then got toxic shock. Granted I’ve never even seen a vagina in person but that sounds crazy to me! The sepsis though I get. The body starts to “react” when it senses a foreign object on the body. The surgeon left a piece of gauze in my brother after surgery, he got a local infection then sepsis and it nearly killed him.

Fat hoes will die from diabetes before sepsis can get into their blood stream.

I didn't even know you could fuck a woman who had her tampon in.

Yes, a lot more people used to die of it until they found a sepsis protocol that works in all hospitals about 10-15 years ago.

Girls these days, mostly, don't seem to be able to cope without their mothers.

Before abortion was legal sepsis was the biggest danger of illegal abortions. I remember reading about a hospital in San Francisco that had an “abortion ward” not where abortions were performed of course but where there was always young women with sepsis from “back alley” abortions. After Roe v Wade the “abortion ward” disappeared in a matter of weeks.

R17 Apparently you can. Any ladies here? Would that not hurt like hell?

I almost lost my mom last year due to sepsis. She was in the nursing home to rehab a broken leg. She was pretty much bed bound due to a stroke that limited her left side. The scumbag workers at the nursing home neglected her and she developed a UTI which eventually went into sepsis. The infection got to her heart and triggered off her AFib which caused a heart attack.

It common for older people to get it through a UTI.

Female here, r21. Yes, it has happened, but I was told that it was the "nasty" women who would have sex with tampons in. Every time of the month for me I don't want a man to touch me let alone have intercourse. Plus, some men get freaked out by period blood. There are men out there who get turned on by that shit.

Toxic shock was more common to happen with the super absorbent tampons because they get left in longer and some of them would forget about it.

The heterosex beggars belief.

"I didn't even know you could fuck a woman who had her tampon in."

It takes a special kind of dink.

On of the initiations to be a Hell's Angel is to suck blood during a period.

My sister almost died from it after knee surgery. Scary. You can die quickly from it if you don’t get (good) medical attention quickly.

Told ya that it's possible to ruin your body with tampons.

That hospital photo looks like a photoshoot. OMG I'm dying, quick take a picture ! Hang on, let me fix my hair and show a bit of skin....

I almost died from it. I had a UTI that went on to infect my bladder and then I noticed red stripes on my arms. I had a shunt if antibiotics put into my neck. The doctor said if I had waited another hour to come in, I wouldn’t have survived.

Do you mean infections are real??

It killed my aunt.

A girl I knew in middle school went into the hospital for an appendectomy, but her appendix suddenly burst and she died on the operating table of sepsis. This was back in the 70s, but it's not as common today.

A guy I knew in NYC died of sepsis after surgery. The Dr. accidently punctured his intestine during surgery. . It was a case of extreme negligence. His family sued and settled out of court.

My cleaner's 27 year old husband died of sepsis pursuant to a case of the flu. He apparently had a bad case of the flu for a few days, and then suddenly went into sepsis and died within a few hours. All within a week or so.

Yes my mom had it and died. Blood poisoning from a blatter infection that wouldn’t heal with antibiotics after months. The oxygen level of the blood drops quickly and you die within a matter of hours.

BlaDDer

I never use tampons, unhygienic disgusting things.

Older people might know sepsis as its unofficial term ‘blood poisoning’.

It’s very real and very deadly.

This woman was drunk and left a tampon in her for 5 days. The problem was her drinking.

I had a bad wound on my face about a decade ago and went to the clinic, but my doctor wasn't there -- the county wouldn't let him out of jury duty! -- so I saw another doctor. She prescribed an antibiotic and said it hadn't gotten into my bloodstream but gave me some symptoms to watch out for. I asked if I was at risk for sepsis and she said, "What, are you a doctor? How do YOU know what sepsis is?" and both me and the nurse just stared at her. She was so offended! I'll never forget it.

R40 is right: you'd have to have a mental or drug problem of some kind to forget a tampon for that long. For starters, the string is a big clue there's something there.

Sepsis is a real thing. Golden staph is what toxic shock is all about: she probably got that, and yes, you can die of that. Not sure whether its lethal stages = sepsis, which IIRC is blood poisoning.

I dated an oncologist a while back. He told me that when a patent develops sepsis, they're a goner.

[quote]Is sepsis a thing?

No Erna, it is nothing for you to worry your ugly little head about.

R43 And a lot of terminally ill cancer patients do especially with certain cancers like lung and pancreatic but when you’re that ill it’s a nice, peaceful way to go.

R45 you loose consciousness and it’s not painful. I agree with that

My daughter nearly died from sepsis at 3 days old. It is very real and very scary

That Jezebel story that went around several years ago was written by a lady who said they don't have strings, R42.

Not that I necessarily believed her. She also said she had sex with it in and didn't notice. That doesn't seem likely.

You fucking bet it's a thing OP! I had septicemia once after some dental work and I didn't know you could even be that sick and still live. I couldn't stand up to walk because I was so sick - I had to crawl. I crawled out into the front garden and lay there on the lawn to wait for the ambulance I called. I didn't know what was wrong with me. I spent a week in hospital on an IV drip of antibiotics and then it took about 12 months to recover properly and I have never really been the same since.

Numbers: Each year, at least 1.7 million adults in America develop sepsis. Nearly 270,000 Americans die as a result of sepsis.

Those numbers come direct from the CDC.

Sepsis is not just "an old word" is a medical term, like most of them, come from Latin or Greek. From Greek sepsis "putrefaction". Septic, antiseptic, etc come from this word.

Septic shock can happen from many things.

It doesn’t happen often from tampon use, but it is deadly enough that there are strict warnings.

This thread seems designed to flush out (pun not intended) the real women here.

Do I have this, or sleep deprivation, or panic, or COVID? Am I dying?

After another sleepless night gasping for air, I just went on WebMD (I know, I know) and got a Moderate match for Sepsis or septicaemia, among other lovely things like COVID, flu, anaemia, appendicitis, tachycardia, cardinal myopathy, bacterial pneumonia, atrial fillibration, sarcoidosis, mitral regurgitation, stenosis, Barrett oesophagus,and diabetic ketoacidosis.

My symptoms are, in conjunction with months of GERD (can still taste the acid coating my mouth, ugh): dry mouth, faintness, infrequent pain in lower abdomen (around navel) and anus/rectum, rectal mucus (orange- reddish brown)., strange sensation in the lungs (like forgetting to breath). racing heart, weird ‘woozy’ feeling (borderline nausea but not quite), occasional shiver, slightly cold clammy hands

Freaking out here.

what happens most commonly is occasionally after your period you spot. you think you are done and get up to pee in the middle of the night, 3/4 asleep, notice spotting when you wipe and put a tampon in. no memory of it in the morning.

I had a neighbor who's husband worked the night shift(ish). He'd get home at 4 in the morning and they'd have sex when she was basically asleep. a few times she had a tampon in and he had to dig it out in the morning.

it happens.

Yes Sepsis happened to me from an infection in my leg. My kidneys started shutting down and if I would have waited a few more days to go to the hospital I would be dead. And I have never had any major health problems, surgeries, or been hospitalized before. Very lucky that I decided to go to the ER.

r52, most of that sounds like cumulative anxiety getting ready to turn into panic. do breathing relaxation and make a dr appointment for at least an ekg and blood work.

Patty Duke's died from sepsis!

r52 I had a number of your symptoms and eventually had a GI map done which showed I had C. difficile. I was told not all strains cause watery diarrhea or I had a low grade infection due to a less aggressive strain. I had terrible GERD and nausea for months plus mush for stools that were orangish brown. The mucus is your colon being very irritated. I knew I had some kind of infection because I had chills that would get worse when I ate sugar. I also got pneumonia in one lung due to the Reflux getting aspirated. I had no idea C. difficile could cause such bad upper GI problems.

A round of Vancomycin and I feel much better, try and get your doctor to do a GI map to see all the good and bad bacteria in your colon, something is wrong there if you have mucus in your stool. Definitely talk to a GI doctor about the mucus.