Dyspareunia is the medical term used to describe painful sex. Love should never be painful, not even if it’s your first time, not even if you just had a baby, not even if you are experiencing menopause.
If you struggle during intimacy or you are unable to have penetration during intercourse, let me tell you that you are not alone.
Dyspareunia: the medical term for painful sex.
The medical term to describe pain during sex is dyspareunia. Dyspareunia means having pain during intimacy, and this is never normal.
Is important to know that dyspareunia has different levels and types, for example, you can have deep or superficial dyspareunia. Depending on the location and the intensity of the discomfort this condition can have different origins. Some women have moderate pain after a while of having intercourse and other women can not even insert a finger or a tampon, so they can’t even imagine about having intercourse. Let me tell you more about it.
Dyspareunia or painful sex might be caused by an underlying medical condition.
It’s very important that you talk about this with your gynaecologist. Your pain might mean that you have an infection that your doctor will treat easily and you will forget about it. Other cases of dyspareunia happen because of conditions as endometriosis, adenomyosis or different pelvic diseases, that’s why is so important that you describe your kind of pain, the location of the pain and when it happens to your doctor.
A lot of women spend years handling pain during sex just because they think is normal. Some rheumatological conditions’ first symptoms can be dryness causing pain during intercourse, and some pelvic cancer are very silent and don’t give other symptoms but pain during deep penetration. As you know, for these kinds of diseases, the sooner you start the treatment the better.
Causes of dyspareunia or painful sex.
Pelvic floor physiotherapy can help you with some of the Dyspareunia’s different origins.
The involuntary contraction of the walls of the vagina, making penetration impossible, is well known as vaginismus. The involuntary contraction of the muscles or vaginismus is a cause of dyspareunia or pain during the penetration.
I know it may sound confusing, but it’s important to understand the difference:
· Dyspareunia is the pain during intercourse.
· A spasm of the pelvic floor muscles might be the cause of dyspareunia.
· Vaginismus is the muscle spasm in the pelvic floor that avoid penetration.
Women suffer regardless of their age, race, or beliefs. One solution for Vaginismus is the physiotherapy treatment program: a simple and painless way.
Patients affected by vaginismus have trouble finding a solution, and it is difficult to know which specialist to go to. However, with a few sessions of physiotherapy, the problem can be solved.
Are vaginismus and dyspareunia the same thing?
Vaginismus is much more common than you think, but it is difficult to find people who talk about it openly. Although it seems something complicated, to treat vaginismus you only need one thing. YOUR PHONE! Once you make an appointment with a physiotherapist specialized in the pelvic floor you’ll start working on solving this condition straight away.
Give a read to this other post if you want to learn how to start treating vaginismus.
Keep in mind that to find a solution for vaginismus and dyspareunia it is not only necessary to be able to have intercourse or to be able to use devices for menstrual hygiene. Finding a solution is important to be able to have an annual gynaecological examination to detect any disease in time!
There are a lot of women postponing their visit to the gynaecologist due to fear of the pain they could feel during the visit. This is something dangerous because as we were mentioning before, a gynaecological visit prevents serious health problems.
If you would like to know how to approach the condition drop me a message. We will talk about your case and the possible solutions.
Physiotherapist specialized in pelvic floor rehabilitation
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