Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser

This almost killed me. And it's killed hundreds and thousands of women. If men's were falling off there would be a resolution tomorrow. Until something's done, I won't quit. Loren Wasser model, activist, and survivor of one of the deadliest diseases caused by a product millions of women use today, resulting in losing both of her legs. Like. October the third, twenty twelve.

Can you take me to that day? It was just on my period. It was super heavy and I I guess I must have passed out. They found me face down on my bedroom floor. Toxic shock syndrome caused by a tampon and I was ten minutes from death. I had two heart attacks, my kidneys, my organs were failing. My feet were turning black, so when I finally woke up, they needed to amputate my right leg or I was gonna die. But they're telling me that we cannot give you any pain medicine.

I felt every single thing. That was done to me. For those eight months I was alone. Every day I was throwing Screaming, crying. wanting to like think about ways I could kill myself.

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