A HOTT BLOODY MESS! Literally...

I will spare you the gritty details but I will say that I went into this VERY hopeful that I found a natural, cost-efficient, and ecologically sound alternative to my monthly tampon and pad runs. NOPE! It was an absolute nightmare! It took minutes for the insertion and literally an hour and a half (plus 3 panic attacks) to remove it. I have always had a light flow and was told that this could be kept in for 12 hours... how am I, on a light flow, having a CSI (crime scene) situation just under 5 hours in? Something isn't right here. I had to google and youtube extraction methods while freaking out in my bathtub. Never... Again.