Why do I feel back pain after sex?

The harmony of a family, in addition to the feelings and relationships between the family members themselves, the harmony of sexual life is also an indispensable part. During the process of sexual life, many people will have various problems, but the topic is sensitive, so many people keep it in their hearts and do not talk about it. Often, problems will increase and finally break out. In order to avoid such situations, let’s talk about what causes lower back pain after having sex. What aspects should we pay attention to in the future?

1. Cause: Too frequent sexual intercourse, too long or too intense each time, may lead to back pain after sex. As the saying goes, "too much is as bad as too little." Adjusting the frequency, duration and intensity of sexual life can generally relieve the symptoms.

Another possible cause of unilateral lower back pain is improper posture during sexual intercourse, which causes excessive force on one side of the waist. Everyone has their own preferred sexual position, but if this position puts too much pressure on one side of the body, it may cause problems. Try changing to other positions to give your body balanced exercise and improve the quality of intercourse.

If you have made the above adjustments and still feel back pain, or even if it lasts longer or becomes more severe, you should be alert to whether an injury has occurred, such as lumbar muscle strain or lumbar disc herniation. At this time, you should go to the hospital as soon as possible.

2. Causes of back pain

1. Fatigue during pregnancy and postpartum period

During pregnancy, as the fetus grows, the ligaments of the pregnant woman's lumbar and pelvic joints relax. At the same time, the weight of the uterus also increases with the growth of fetal age, causing the body's center of gravity to move forward. In order to maintain body balance, the waist is often straightened forward. If you do not pay attention to rest, it is easy to cause back pain. During pregnancy, the fetus needs sufficient nutrients such as calcium and phosphorus for development. If the dietary intake is insufficient, it can cause osteoporosis and decalcification in pregnant women, and can also cause low back pain. Excessive postpartum bleeding, premature labor, excessive fatigue, and cold can also cause low back pain.

2. Kidney deficiency

Women, like men, are prone to kidney deficiency. The consequences of kidney deficiency in women are similar to those in men, and both can cause low back pain. If the lower back pain is caused by kidney deficiency, you should pay attention to nourishing the kidneys. In addition to taking some kidney-nourishing health products, you can also eat things that can nourish the kidneys, such as some animal offal, or other vegetables and fruits.

3. Lumbar muscle strain

People who work in certain jobs are prone to lumbar muscle strain, such as barbering, salesperson, nursing, etc. This is because continuous standing causes strain on the lumbar ligaments and causes pain. Or often carrying heavy objects puts too much burden on the waist, causing lumbar muscle strain and thus back pain.

4. Lumbar spine disease

Many women find that they experience more back pain as they age. This is because the bones of the elderly are prone to osteoporosis, which can cause vertebral collapse fractures. Osteophytes in the elderly can cause persistent low back pain. This condition is common among older people. Not only that, osteoporosis can cause lumbar spinal stenosis, which in turn compresses the nerves and causes pain.

5. Low back pain due to blood stasis

Lumbar muscle strain or sprain causes local blood stasis and poor circulation of qi and blood, leading to blood stasis low back pain. This type of low back pain is also relatively common, and the pain manifests as local tingling and needle-like pain. In this case, we must first rule out organic diseases, such as lumbar disc herniation, kidney stones, nephritis, etc. Low back pain caused by organic diseases will last for a longer time and is difficult to distinguish from low back pain caused by blood stasis in the early stages, so examination is necessary.

6. Wearing high heels for a long time

Wearing high heels is also one of the causes of low back pain in women. Wearing high heels for a long time affects the balance of the lower limbs, making it difficult to stand and walk as desired. The reaction and coordination ability of the whole body decreases, and acute lumbar sprain is also prone to occur. When a sprain occurs, the muscles and ligaments will be torn to varying degrees and there will be slight bleeding, swelling, and even bruising, which may manifest as low back pain and cause great inconvenience to work and life.

7. Pelvic tumors

Patients with uterine fibroids, cervical cancer, and ovarian cysts may experience low back pain due to tumor compression of nerves or cancer cells infiltrating the pelvic connective tissue. This type of patients often have widespread pain in the entire abdomen when they have low back pain, and drug treatment is often ineffective.

8. Lumbar disc herniation

This disease is a common cause of low back pain in young and middle-aged women. It is mostly caused by lumbar injury and long-term chronic strain, and manifests as lumbar pain, radiating pain and numbness in the lower limbs, etc. Treatments include bed traction and surgery.

9. Cold and dampness-induced low back pain

This type of low back pain is mainly caused by wind and cold invading the lower back. The pain is local (upper part of the waist), manifested as cold pain, and worsens on rainy days.

10. Sacroiliac joint strain

The sacroiliac joint is composed of the side of the sacrum and the bilateral iliac bones. Although it is a synovial joint, the articular surfaces are staggered and fixed by strong ligaments, with only a small amount of forward and backward and rotational movement. Sacroiliac joint sprain is one of the most common causes of lower back pain in women. Endocrine effects in late pregnancy can cause ligament relaxation and make them prone to sprains or prolonged walking in the early stages after delivery. The clinical manifestations are persistent local pain, fear of weight bearing, aggravation during activities, and difficulty turning over.