Hi, I’m not sure if this is the right subreddit to post this so I’m sorry. So this happened 2 weeks ago and I’m still ashamed and embarrassed about this when I think about it. I went to a party with my 3 girl friends at 10pm (I’m not that close with them I’ve probably met them about 8 times in 2 years but they’re super nice) I was on my period which wasn’t heavy the whole day so I thought yeah fuck it I’ll go, my period is never usually heavy and doesn’t smell at all, I thought I knew my body for the past 22 years but I was wrong. So I’m in the party and an hour goes by and I start to smell period blood in the air, I assume there’s no way this could be me, I go to the toilet to pee and I don’t smell period blood so the panic was over, hours later I’m chilling with a group of around 5 in a small room with my 2 girl friends and 3 boys, I’m on the bed next to my friend and I smell period blood heavy in the air again, thinking back I’m so embarrassed I’m certain she must’ve smelled it. I went to the toilet 3 times and I couldn’t smell any blood, I bent my head down to smell if it was me but nope. Finally when I got home the next day I pulled my tampon out and it was heavy af, way heavier than usual to the point I had to change my tampon every hour, that’s when I realised it must’ve been me the whole time, I already struggle with anxiety and now this has made it worse. I went to the doctor about my period being super heavy all of a sudden and they gave me tablets to reduce the flow. I’m so embarrassed I feel like I could cry, the thought of people thinking I stink as a grown woman makes me want to crawl in a hole and stay there. I feel like my friends must be secretly judging me now and assume my hygiene is bad when it’s usually always good, it’s my worst fear to stink in front of people. Since then they acted normal with me and still talk to me like everything is okay, but I’m not sure if they’ll ever want to meet me again because of it. I just needed to vent because I feel like I’m alone and I don’t know who to talk to about this.