OMG! Woman Thought She Had Lyme Disease -- Instead She Had Left A Tampon In For TWO YEARS!

24.12.2022 - 21:55 / perezhilton.com

One woman got the shock of her life when she found out all of her health problems were not the result of Lyme disease as doctors said but instead because she accidentally left her tampon in for TWO YEARS!

Melanie Galeaz took to TikTok earlier this month to share the shocking story, first lip-synching the lyrics to Lana Del Ray’s song Mariners Apartment Complex while the on-screen text reads:

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OMG!!!

The brief video quickly gained more than 16.2 million views and thousands of comments from social media users who were stunned and baffled over how she did not get toxic shock syndrome – which is a rare and life-threatening complication of certain bacterial infections, per the Mayo Clinic. People reacted in the comments section, writing:

And of course, one of the biggest questions everyone in the comments section had was how this could have happened. Well, she answered the question in a follow-up post – and the story gets wilder! Melanie explained that the situation began after she started experiencing symptoms of Lyme disease. When she went to the doctors, they just figured Melanie had the condition since she was bitten by a tick as a kid:

However, things soon changed when she began to experience some pain and gynecological issues that she thought were related to Lyme disease:

She took some more medication for Lyme disease. While her pain went away, her other symptoms remained the same. Two years later, Melanie’s problems never improved – leading her to go to the gynecologist:

WHAT?!! The now-22-year-old added:

Oof! According to Melanie, her doctor had been so stunned by the find. In fact, she didn’t believe Melanie that the tampon