Doctor Oz television show segment on women’s health taboos included pain during sex and intercourse, especially after your menopause. Dr. Oz was joined by Dr. Lauri Romanzi, hilarious author of Plumbing & Renovations
Painful sex can come from the anatomy of the uterus which can be tipped back or endometriosis. However, if you are post-menopausal, then your estrogen levels are down which makes your vulva and vaginal skin dry… and if you don’t have enough lubricant naturally in your vagina, then your sex can be painful.
Another reason for painful sex is that after childbirth, sometimes your uterus can flip to the back. If you get painful sex after having a baby, this could be the issue, and often by the woman being on top during sex can help with the painful intercourse.
Dr. Oz’s Painful Sex Tips:
1. Talk To Your Doctor
2. Change your sex position, perhaps the woman being on top will hurt less since she will have full control then
3. Use Lubricant to make sure everything is well lubricated
4. Have longer foreplay to create extra lubrication
5. Hormone replacement therapy – systemic hormones like estrogen creams, vaginal suppositories or the Estring can be prescribed by your doctors.
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Hi, I was diagnosed with IC in 2001. I am 45 years old. My diagnosing Doctor said that I gave myself IC with my stress. She also felt IC was a form of Hysteria. She had my husband convinced that I was severely depressed. I saw this woman doctor for five years. It was five years of hell. This woman treated me like IC was a mental illness; this doctor had my husband treating me as if I had a mental illness. I had to go out of state to find a reasonable doctor who could treat my IC. This doctor told me that IC is a disease and no matter how hard you try that you cannot will yourself a disease. I also spoke with a shrink out of state and this shrink said that stress cannot give you IC; she said if stress caused IC there would be a lot more people out there who would develop IC. My diagnosing doctor has scared me for life with her miss treatment of me. She had me doughting myself. She caused my husband and I to have marital problems with her insistence of my IC being a mental illness. With my first hydro distention there were photos of the pin point bleeding all over my bladder, there were scars on my bladder, and my bladder has shrunk to 1/3 the size of a normal bladder. Not only should there be national awareness information on TV about IC. There should be hot lines for people to call and get help and information. This disease can affect your entire life and the lives of the people around you. Doctors/urologists/i.e. all medical professionals should have mandatory classed so they can be informed about the new findings and studies pertinent to the treatment of IC. No one should go through what I have gone through. It was enlightening for me to find out about five years ago that bladders are not painful to people who do not have IC. You see even after my diagnosis and treatment by a very backwards doctor, I did not understand that your bladder upon filling doesn’t hurt. All I have ever known with a full bladder is pain. This one little thing “that bladders upon filling should not be painful” would enlighten many people. Thank You Dr. Oz for getting the word out there about Interstitial Cystitis.