Are there different types of dyspareunia?
Are there different types of dyspareunia?
The location of the pain can help determine what type of dyspareunia you are experiencing:
- Entry pain (intraorbital or superficial dyspareunia): This pain is felt at the entrance to the vagina during initial penetration. Some factors associated with entry pain can be lack of lubrication, injury or infection.
- Deep pain (collision dyspareunia): This is pain that occurs in deep penetration and can feel worse in certain sexual positions. You will feel this pain in the cervix or lower abdomen. A medical condition or prior surgery usually causes sexual pain that occurs deeper.
Pain during intercourse can also be described as primary, secondary, complete or situational:
- Primary pain is pain you've had since becoming sexually active.
- Secondary pain develops after experiencing pain-free sex.
- Complete pain means you feel pain every time you have sex.
- Situational pain is when the pain only happens at certain times.