Almost half of women experience pain during or after having sex constantly or from time to time. If you're one of them, do not suffer in silence. Many women are embarrassed admitting this, prolonging their agony. Meanwhile, experts say that there are many tools that can help you and make sex painless.
Use our "guide" to find the cause of pain and ways to get rid of it.
9 reasons WAN SEX
1 What happens: You feel a sudden sharp pain in one side when your partner penetrates deep into you. You may also feel a dull pain during menstruation.
Possible cause: ovarian cyst. It affects almost 80% of women in the period preceding menopause.
Solution. Most cysts are harmless and disappear by themselves within two to three menstrual cycles. Your doctor will do a ultrasound to confirm the diagnosis and ask you to come check again, if after two or three months, sex continues to be painful. In the meantime, you can take 400 mg of ibuprofen an hour before the close, to ease the discomfort. You may prefer a position where you are on top: so in can control depth of penetration.
2 What's going on: your genitals itch and are sensitive even to touch. After sexual intercourse vagina red and seemed to be glowing.
Possible cause: a fungal infection. In the fourth case to describe symptoms is it serves as a "trigger mechanism" for pain during sex. Do not expect the typical "cottage cheese" discharge. Doctors say it is a myth that the selection is always accompanied by fungal infection. Sometimes the pain is the only signal. The culprits may be itching and hygiene sprays, scented pads, perfumed soaps, bath oils - they can irritate the delicate vaginal mucosa.
Solution. Visit the doctor who will refer you for tests to confirm the presence or absence of fungal infection. And if the infection is still there, prescribe medication. If you have sensitive skin buy flavored pads, hypoallergenic soap, wash underwear gentle means, such as those that are used for washing children's clothes. Meanwhile, use an ointment containing hydrocortisone (which is - the doctor will advise you): it would weaken the itching.
3 What happens: You have pain in the perineum during penetration and during intercourse.
Possible cause: the scar tissue, formed due to rupture or dissection of the perineum during childbirth. Almost all women who had undergone such interference, pain during sex for about three months.
Solution. Massage the painful area once a day for several minutes using a water-based lubricant. This will reduce the sensitivity of nerve endings and makes the skin more supple, which will facilitate penetration. If the region is very sensitive, ask your doctor to prescribe an ointment containing lidocaine. If, however, and after a few months the pain persists, will have to do a small operation to remove scar tissue.
4 What happens: during sex you have the feeling that his penis with something encounters. You may also be painful menstruation, back pain and the need for frequent urination.
Possible Cause: fibroid uterus. This is a benign tissue that grows on the uterine wall. Its sizes range from pea to grapefruit. Women with a tumor three times more likely to experience pain during sex than healthy ones. In this case, fibroma have up to 40% of women aged 30-40 years. Research has not definitively not proven that causes her appearance, but perhaps it is the female sex hormones - estrogen.
Solution. Consult your doctor, who will appoint an ultrasound study. When the size and tumor location to be determined, the doctor will choose the appropriate treatment. The operation - the most effective way to get rid of fibroids. But there is more sparing techniques. They aim to cut off the blood supply to the tumor. Those without power, she dies.
5 What's going on: your partner's penis does not slip inside your vagina. He has to push it and it hurts. The vagina is irritated.
Possible cause: vaginal dryness. This problem is faced by a quarter of women, almost continuously or intermittently. The most common causes are: antidepressants, low libido, which can not be excited enough to the natural lubricant stood out in abundance, lactation and menopause, when estrogen levels, and, accordingly, lubrication, decreases.
Solution. Use water-based lubricant.
6 What happens: Your genitals burn, and you experience severe pain during love foreplay and during intercourse. Likewise, it hurts to put a tampon, ride a bike, just to sit.
Possible Cause: vulvovaginitis. Tomorrow will look in medslovare or call someone who knows. If to him that something was wrong, I'll write). This is a disease that can affect any or all external genitalia, or a small area near the entrance to the vagina. Cause of the disease in the stimulation of nerve endings of the vulva. Although experts do not know exactly why this is happening, but they believe that initiate the onset of symptoms may be vaginal rash, frequent yeast infections, antibiotics.
Solution. Treatment is usually lengthy, mainly because it is difficult to diagnose and identify the cause of the disease. More than half of women suffering from vulvodynia have visited three doctors, and many of them have not been able to help. Unfortunately, many doctors believe the symptoms of vulvodynia - in the "head". Therefore first of all find a doctor who will treat your problem as a disease requiring treatment rather than as a "whim." Most women helps complex treatment combining antidepressants, analgesics and physiotherapy.
7 What happens: In the excited state, you feel a hot throbbing pain in one of the outer labia. You may even feel a bump the size of a large fasolinu.
Possible cause: congestion in the gland, the existence of which you previously did not know. Bartolinievy glands - two pea, located in each province. These are what produce lubrication with increasing excitement. Ducts of these glands can "clog" or infected.
Solution. Consult your doctor. He will do a small outpatient surgery: make a tiny incision in the prostate gland and on the edges of the cut will put such a way as to form a small hole. Naturally, the operation is done with anesthesia. It will provide continuous drainage in the gland. The incision heals two to three weeks. Having sex during this time is impossible.
8 What happens: During deep penetration and after sex you feel a sharp pain, pay-offs around the pelvis. Sometimes, the pain is similar to premenstrual, hurts you constantly.
Possible cause: endometriosis. They suffer about 15% of women of childbearing age. Tissue lining the uterus, grows in other organs of the pelvis, causing pain.
Solution. Endometriosis can cause infertility. Therefore, a woman who can not conceive for a long time, have to undergo a surgical procedure to determine how serious the illness and to choose the most appropriate treatment.
9 What happens: Generalized pain spreads between the thighs during the next and is followed by a constant need to urinate. Urination is accompanied by severe pain.
Possible cause: infection of urethra. This problem is familiar to 80%, more than half of them experience pain during sex.
Solution. Visit the doctor, who asked to check the urine for signs of infection. And, if the diagnosis is confirmed, will prescribe antibiotics. If you suffer from chronic infection, ask that antibiotics are discharged and your partner. Studies show that treatment of both partners, increases the likelihood of getting rid of the infection of urethra.
