Symptom: Painful intercourse
Painful intercourse: Pain during sexual intercourse
Detailed cause information for symptom: Painful intercourse:
Medical articles on symptoms: These general medical articles may be of interest:
- Symptoms of the Silent Killer Diseases
- Symptoms and Medical Malpractice
- Medical mistakes and their rates, causes and prevention
- Deaths and sudden death
Symptoms related to Painful intercourse: bleeding after sex (6), sexual pain (33), sexual symptoms (58)
Painful intercourse type of: Intercourse symptoms (40), Sexual pain (33), Vaginal pain (25)
Symptoms: symptom center, symptom groups, symptom descriptions
Possible causes of symptom: Painful intercourse: The following medical conditions are some of the possible causes of Painful intercourse as a symptom. There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor about your symptoms.
- Vaginal dryness
- Inadequate foreplay
- Poor sexual technique
- Menopause
- Perimenopause
- Lactation - causes vaginal dryness
- Sjogren's syndrome
- Scleroderma
- See other causes of vaginal dryness
- Some other physical medical disorder causes of intercourse pain in women include:
- Post-childbirth - many women experience intercourse pain while the vagina recovers from childbirth changes.
- Episiotomy - if this procedure is performed for childbirth, this can cause painful intercourse.
- Vaginal infection
- Cystitis
- Urethritis
- Vaginal infection
- Vulva infection
- Skin condition
- Atrophic vaginitis
- Vaginal abnormality
- Vestigial vagina
- Vaginal changes from childbirth
- Narrow vaginal
- Hymen
- Endometriosis
- Hemorrhoids
- Endometriosis
- Pelvic infection
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Genital tract tumor
- Vaginal tumors
- Vaginal surgery
- Pelvic disorders
- Sexual organ disorders
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome - suggested by a web site vistor.
- Some psychological disorder causes of painful intercourse in women may include:
- Sexual pain disorders
- Dysparenuia
- Vaginismus
- Sexual aversion disorders
- Anxiety
- Some causes of deep penetration intercourse pain in women include:
- Some possible causes of intercourse pain for men include:
- Poor sexual technique - an unlubricated partner can cause men to feel pain too.
- Penis pain
- Penile skin infection
- Penile candidiasis
- Genital herpes
- Painful erection
- Peyronie's disease
- Prostatitis
- See also causes of penis pain and painful erection
- See also causes of vaginal dryness, vaginal pain or penis pain
Conditions listing symptoms: Painful intercourse: The following list of conditions have 'Painful intercourse' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
I
M
N
O
P
S
T
U
V
Last revised: Nov 9, 2003
Medical Tools & Articles:
Next articles:
Medical Articles: