Should you be able to feel tampon strings?

[Ancey]

I've just started trying tampons now, I'm a bit of an older teen, and tampons seem like they might be useful for daytime heavy flows (I still plan to wear pads at night to prevent TSS because I sleep for more than 8 hours sometimes.).

Anyways, I'm pretty sure that I've put the tampon in all the way, but I still think I can feel the string, and though it's not ever painful, I can tell it's there when I move (It's actually a bit of a tickle sometimes...) Is it normal to feel the tampon string, especially when you're just starting to use them? Or is it possible it's not in all the way?

[leopardlover1997]

if you follow directions on the tampon it says to put your middle finger and thumb leaving your pointing finger free 2 inches up from the bottom of the tampon and go up your vagina when your fingers touch your  vagina then  with your pointing finger discharge it you should change your tampon 3 times a day if not you will risk tts (toxic shock syndrome) p.s you can sleep as long as you want with one in unless you have a very heavy flow because then it might fall out

[Kim1989]

your supposed to feel the string. i dont think you can put it up there far enough so that you dont feel the string. that would be kinda painful. i might not be in all the way if you can feel the tampon on the outside.