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Holy Hormones! Toxic Shock Syndrome
Leslie Carol Botha (pictured at left) has spent the last three decades of her life educating women about their menstrual health and how their hormones affect their behaviors. Botha’s work as a...
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Schools, Books and Periods
A guest post by Jenn Leggett So with fall comes back to school. And something lots of young woman will be learning to deal with are periods, and not the punctuation type. I mean that monthly friend...
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Share Your TSS Story
I was recently asked why it’s important for survivors of tampon related Toxic Shock Syndrome to share their stories publicly. And, why it matters if family members of those who died because of it come...
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Julie’s Story
My name is Julie and I am 17. On October 31st, when I was 15, I found my life was going to drastically change. It was Halloween and it was the day of hurricane Irene. My family and I were going to a...
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A Birthday Wish From our Founder
To my Amy on the 23rd birthday of your beautiful life. The day you were born was like a great sunrise. You were hand-picked by God to be my beautiful baby girl and it will always, ALWAYS be a day to...
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Gavrielle’s Story
My name is Gavrielle and I am now 16 years old. On November 8, 2011, I came home from school feeling very sick. I had a bad headache, fever, nausea and a sore throat. My mom thought I had the flu...
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Michelle’s Story
My story starts on June 23rd, 2007. I was at a Dance Nationals in Michigan. I had my period and I would change it every 2-3 hours. I had my old kind but since I was going to a Dance Nationals I...
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Peyton’s Story
15 year old Peyton Caples I’m Peyton and I’m 15. This is my story. In June of this year (2013), I was admitted to ICU. I started feeling sick right when I used a tampon – not from having it in longer...
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My TSS Story by Jessica Evans
My name is Jessica Evans and this Thanksgiving marks my 14th year of survival from TSS due to tampons. I was 17 years old when I became ill the day before Thanksgiving in 1999. It started with nothing...
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TSS Awareness Campaign
There’s no better way that I know of to raise awareness about an issue than to talk about it. And, talk about it. And, talk about it some more. The more conversations we have, the more comfortable we...
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