Think your love life lacking lately thanks to varicose veins? In this guide, we'll provide clarity and solutions from real experts in vein care and sexual health.
You'll learn what truly causes varicose veins to hurt during sex, simple lifestyle tweaks to prevent pain, when medical treatment may help, and how to restore passion despite these venous issues.
Living with unwanted veins is a thing of the past, when you can simply schedule a free consultation with Vein Center Doctor and find your ideal solution today.
No, engaging in sexual intimacy does not make varicose veins worse on its own. While sex does not directly worsen varicose vein progression, it can aggravate existing veins in the moment, though.
Here are a few ways that sex could potentially exacerbate existing varicose veins:
2. Physical Irritation - The friction produced during intercourse could potentially irritate or compress enlarged varicose veins close to the skin's surface, especially in the genital region. In some cases, this irritation could worsen inflammation. But sex alone does not damage the vein walls or valves.
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Varicose veins hurt during sex primarily due to increased blood flow, friction, and pressure on the veins from sexual activity irritating the weakened valves and walls of enlarged varicose veins.
Varicose veins around the pelvis, known as Pelvic Congestion Syndrome (PCS), can cause deep aching or dull pain during and after intercourse. The abnormally high venous pressures in
PCS enlarges pelvic veins and impairs valve function, allowing backward blood flow. This venous insufficiency leads to painful symptoms that worsen with standing or menstruation.
Varicose veins around the vulva and vagina often arise during pregnancy from increased pelvic blood flow. Symptoms may include visible twisted veins, swelling, fullness, and discomfort in the genital region.
During arousal and sex, irritation and inflammation of these delicate varicosities can cause painful symptoms.
The underlying chronic venous insufficiency associated with varicose veins makes them prone to inflammation and irritation from physical triggers like sex.
Mild infections may also contribute by increasing problematic blood pooling. Even without PCS or vulvar varicosities specifically, varicose veins aggravated by poor vein valve function can hurt during intimacy.
Yes, vulvar varicose veins can cause painful sex due to veins around the vulva and vaginal opening becoming irritated and inflamed with the increased blood flow and friction that occurs during intercourse.
The good news is that Pelvic Congestion Syndrome (PCS) is very treatable in most cases. Based on our experience, there are effective medical and procedural interventions that can significantly improve PCS symptoms like chronic pelvic pain and discomfort during sex.
Treatments include:
According to medical research shared by the Cleveland Clinic, ovarian vein embolization offers excellent pain relief in 75% or more of PCS cases by blocking blood flow through enlarged ovarian veins.
While there is no singular standard treatment, our experience aligns with studies showing that interventions like embolization and medications provide significant improvement in pain and other PCS symptoms for most patients.
Though some residual pain may persist, the right treatment plan can successfully manage PCS in most cases. Our team specializes in these effective techniques.
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