How would you like to learn about the world’s most mysterious medical problem? Independent auditors from the accounting firm of Cost-Riverhut have verified that this video fully complies with the Doc Gurley Trademark Motto: Just a spoonful of humor helps the medicine go down. So take a few minutes to watch this Doc Gurley Medeo – full of tips, priceless information, and with a phenomenal driving soundtrack from the fabulous singer, Krause – her song “I Lost My Tampon” (used with permission from the artist and her record label, Sony/BMG). Then head over and check out more of Krause’s hits at www.thisiskrause.com. Enjoy the medeo – and if you get a giggle out of it, consider sending this information along. You can both spread the joy and hopefully help someone in need.
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Oh, Doc Gurley…. I hurt from laughing, and the message was great! I think a Blogemmy is in order!!! (Get it? Blog Emmy..) You are a hoot….
Imperative information imaginatively illustrated.
You go Gurley!
Thanks, Robin and Renee!
Jan
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I’ve sent it around the globe, my friend. Look who’s getting into films now! Loved it! Absolutely!
movie star gurley, you just way cheered up my blue monday – thanks for the laughs! kudos to your excellent teen assistants & videographer, too.
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Very funny and well done. Would you consider re-editing w/the music only as intro and out-tro? It’s a tad distracting from the witty dialogue and production. You should win and award for this! If nothing else, you’ll get a ton of PR.
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Thank you for the laughs!
Shit we need more laughs these days.
So funny… and informative!
LOVE IT!
What an excellent video! Thanks for making this!
I do think that maybe a re-edit without the music might be good, because the music overpowers your voice.
Again, great job!
Thanks for the feedback about the sound levels. I’ll fix that puppy tonight after clinic. Dang. Now I can just see my Best Director of a Feminine Hygiene Movie-Product Oscar circling the drain…
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Hopefully the latest version is better!
Your video, with its over-sized props, made me feel as if I was watching an episode of Good Eats. Very creative of you.
I eagerly anticipate what you will come up with for your follow-up film, The Gurley Stages of Breast Regression. : )
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I couldnt stop laughing. I just came home from the doctor and never had this happen to me before. i thought i had a disease….it was hidden for over 20 days…. yuk never knew except for the well…… you know. I was crying to my doctor because I thought i was dying!!! Thanks for the laugh during this embarassing situation….
Doc, I am a nursing student at Villanova, and I just sent this video to my professor, for when we discuss womens health teaching!
FANTASTIC job!
OMG…hilarious and yet quite practical, too! Fortunately I’ve never had occasion to “lose” a tampon, but I can understand how that’s possible. And really, this information could very well save some ladies out there some of that embarrassment you describe about taking this problem to the doctor’s office. Thanks for the laugh!
What a great way to give important medical info! I always enjoy a humorous approach, and it makes something potentially embarassing funny so people are more apt to listen and learn.
Thanks for the fun and the info. Hope I never need it though. . .
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Seriously hilarious – yet also very informative!
Can’t say this has ever happened to me… and for the past few years, I’ve used a reusable menstrual cup (Diva Cup) which I’m pretty sure is TOTALLY impossibe to lose in one’s vagina!
Thanks for this video; I’ll be sharing it will friends!
Dr. Gurley I just want to thank you for making me laugh so much about such embarrassing situation… I had this happen to me TWICE already and I was so worried this time it was two days and I hadn’t even noticed I had it in there until I felt it in the shower >.<
The best thing to do also is to use the smallest tampon possible and use pads while you’re home…
Anyway, thank you again Dr. Gurley you’re the best!!! it’s so nice to see a funny Doctor nowadays hehhe=]
This helped me sooooooooooo………………..much!! I had been having this foul foul smell and I didn’t know what the hell was going on!! I am so grateful for this informative and hilarious video! This morning I went to the bathroom and low and behold it just came out!!! I didn’t even know i had lost the damn thing until I went to the bathroom and well let’s just say I found the damn thing!! And yes Dr. Gurley it was all on contact…Amazingly! I’m totally embarrassed, and shocked!!! I feel better knowing this thing is out and that it was the culprit to my stink! lol I’m gonna monitor myself for a couple days and see what happens. And also watch out for the Bad signs for a immediate visit to the doc! Thanks Dr. Gurley!!!
Yahoo for menopause so this doesn’t happen any more! In our early days together, my husband couldn’t understand how it could happen. Until he realized I could lose anything anywhere! Funny thing about the stink. Without it, I’d never have know it was there!!!Great video.
Thanks so much for this video. Super informative, and made me feel a lot better about forgetting I’d left a tampon in!
Thank you so much for this video. It is absolutely hysterical (as well as educational)! I use menstrual cups, never a tampon, but I loved The Lost Tampon Video.
Thank you so much, you are great, if only all Doctors were like you then more women would not have such a fear.
This was helpful to me, also. After a night of drinking, I was raped at my home. I was on my period and had a tampon in. It was bad enough to be raped, but to also have a tampon shoved up inside of me just made things worse. It has been four days and I have no odor and have felt for that tampon and still haven’t found it. I know I should probably go to the doctor and just get myself checked. This video was amusing and informative and really helped to make me feel a little more calm about having to go get checked. Thank You
Dear sweetie,
I so hope you get the care you need and deserve. If your own doctor doesn’t seem like a good person to talk to (or you don’t have a personal doctor) please call a local women’s clinic or Planned Parenthood. Most women who are raped don’t report it for days, and often struggle with long-term repercussions beyond the physical. Help is out there – please at least call a Rape Hotline anonymously, if nothing else. You’re not alone.
Doc Gurley
I will contact planned parenthood. Thank You Doc Gurley.
I’m so glad you’re getting some help, and taking steps to protect yourself. Thanks for sharing the lovely pet photo – and the timely reminder that NO ONE should use a personal photo when leaving a message of a sensitive nature – here or anywhere online!
Hugs,
Doc Gurley
One last thing… I was able to get a 5 year protective order. He will never be able to hurt me again. I should have pressed charges. I am glad I found this site and thank you for advice.
Great video, awesome and honest! LMAO! ROTFL!!!! You are great, that is hysterical! PRICELESS!You are terrific!
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Doc G, I’ve just cackled my way through this masterpiece of public health education… only thing is that with the various music levels, echoey halls etc., people who are hearing impaired or who struggle to understand spoken language are gonna miss some of the best – and most important! – bits. Any chance of sharing your script, a transcript or subtitling the film?
This is FANTASTIC!!! so funny! luckily never happened to me, but a friend had this happen back when we were in our early 20s. She was so embarrassed!
Just awesome!
OMG…this HAS to be the funniest video ever!!! I too lost my tampon, not once but TWICE…The first time I was 20, then like clockwork, it happened again…20 years later…I am hoping when I am 60, it wont happen again….LOOOOOOOOOL. This is classic!! You have a great sense of humor. I guess looking at hoo has all day long, must make you laugh!!! Thanks for the laugh!!
You don’t know HOW I needed this humor. I called my OB/GYN office and was put on hold for about 6 minutes, felt like a fool. Thanks for putting this out there for us, that feel inept about our nether region orifices.
Due to this debacle, I realized that I am still limber with all of the yoga poses that I did to try to look in a mirror, remove it and search for it.
A la recherche du tampon perdu, un e-learning du 3e type http://bit.ly/9J5Lz (via @kevinmd et @drgurley) #WTF
Thank you Dr. Gurley….nuf said ;D
OMG, this was great!
While I have thankfully never lost a tampon, I *HAVE* lost a condom – which was even more disgusting! Eww! It was up there for almost 4 days before I figured it out. *shudder* I thankfully figured out on my own that my own body would take care of it after a few days & got myself some STI testing after, just in case! 
Thank you so much for this informative (as well as humourous!) video!
This is too funny and I think I may have a lost Tampon as well right now…I’m headed to the Doctor…I have had that smell and it awful, actually I am praying that that is what it is because if it’s not, I am worried that it could be something more serious. Video was lol so funny!!! I am not embarrased because after 3 C Sections and all the different surguries that I have had, everybody has seen everything anyway lol there’s nothing to hide…:) Thanks Doc
Dear @BurbDoc have you seen @docgurley on the lost tampon? http://www.docgurley.com/2008/10/24/the-premiere-of-the-lost-tampon-video/
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Thank you, Dr. Gurley, so much for this very informative and funny video!! I especially love (and find it super helpful) how you went through the phases. Like another person said, I didn’t even know I had a “lost” tampon until it just decided to come out on its own (a few hours ago). Since then, I have been helplessly searching the web for advise/information on what happens next. I am feeling so blessed that I came across your website & video. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
One thing though- I am a bit puzzled that my husband didn’t noticed anything “different” when we had intercourse.
Long story . I have been testing positive for a urinary tract infection for a while. Almost a year now. Despite my many urine cultures and sensitivity tests, no matter how many antibiotics ive taken, it never has went away. I have none of the common signs of a u.t.I. Other than the white blood cells in my contaminated urine. My cooch, is not feeling the greatest tho. Ok, so the natural lubrication that comes out, seems like it still does, but I feel this god awful dryness and it makes me itch. My urine is positive for e.coli which is common they say. I am 27, this is my first and only infection I’ve everhad and it will not go away. My cooch has went thru arrange of different odors that do not smell like me. They haven’t been so foul that I wanna jump off a bridge or anything but have been mildly offensive at times.I’ve had spotting in between periods (which never happened before) when I have sex with my husband (which isn’t very often) my vagina feels so tight. I feel like agirl again.. Which I kinda like that bc it does the job faster… But now it’s ripping my poor skin so much that it bleeds horribly. I will get a mirror and I can see it just torn and bleeding. It hurts awful. My periods have been so awful that I vomit thru the first 2 or 3 days of my period.i literally cannot function. No work, no nothing.im bedridden and violently ill. Like I have the flu. I do have a cyst on my left ovary thatthe ultrasound lady saidi had… But all this whole time, I’ve been seeing my medical doctor who is a man. He has done a stone study, checked for abnormalities.. Eerything was good .. Just said I had an ovarian cyst about 2 cm long and a retroverted uterus. The lady said my uterus was flopped completely over. She said “poor thing”. We did a vaginal ultrasound and she said “do u have a tampon in?” and I said no…. And she said ok and kept fishing around in there. It got me thinking tho. Could that be what’s wrong w me all this time? I have had bad constipation bc of a certain medication im on and everytimei try to go to the bathroom, it looks like puss is sitting imperfect disgusting littl blobs in the bottom of the toilet, but it looks like discharge to me. Just looks like a lot fell out at once. Wtf is goin on w me? Is my va j j committing suicide? I have stuck my fingers inside to try to find it, but I don’t feel nothing in there… I hate sticking my fingers in the anyways but I have done it to check and had no luck. I’d say after 8 months, it’s probably disintegrated… Ewwwwwww….. Help… I made an appointment wmy obgyn for Monday… I feel disgusting.
Wow, that is so embarrassing and I am so thankful for your video! Now I can watch for warning signs but not worry about the rest… Thanks!