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Is sticking tampons up your vagina before you have ever started your period bad for you?

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Dr. Andrew Blazar answered

No: Inserting a tampon before your period is not harmful. By ever-if you mean not ever having a period at age 34-you should be checked medically as to why.

Dr Ali agreed

Answered 8/19/2013

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