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Hello Ladies,
As I am kind of new to having sex, I have noticed a lot of specifics about my body post coitus. My main concern as you can read from my headline is my hips hurt badly both during sex and for a couple of days after. Is this normal? Do our bodies get "used to it" or am I going to be walking like a duck everyday after I have a "good time" with my hunny? We try to swich up positions so its not all missionary, but I am kinda weak and don't have alot of strength. Help any ideas, suggestions, advice... Thank you as always.
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I had horrendous hip pain after sex and it turned out I had a labrum tear in my hip. This is not as uncommon as you may think. Many people have knee or back pain (body compensating for hip issue) which is what I had originally (knee pain). I noticed standing for long periods of time or walking was uncomfortable as well. Hip pain during and after sex was pretty bad-an 8 on a scale of 1-10. X-rays and a hip arthrogram confirmed the tear and it required surgery to fix. Not that this is what you have, but you may want to research and see if the symptoms match yours. Good Luck!
May 2, 2019 - 8:35pmThis Comment
My hip is hurting after sex
February 9, 2019 - 12:26pmThis Comment
Hello, Anon.
If you are new to sex, or it's been a while since you had sex, or you tried an odd or different sexual position, that might be why your hip is sore. Your body, or rather your hip, is not used to be being flexed in such a way. If you think there is an issue with your hip that worsens with sex, see your doctor as then the issue is with your hip in itself.
Helena
February 9, 2019 - 12:51pmThis Comment
Hi, Anon, and welcome to Empowher! Thank you so much for your question.
I'm very sorry that you're experiencing such hip pain after you have sex. Can I ask you a couple of questions?
How bad is the pain, on a scale of 1 to 10, say? Is it similar to the kind of pain we have after a gym workout or anything else that stresses our muscles when we aren't used to it?
Have you ever had any sort of injury (back, hip, pelvis, etc) that might be contributing to your pain in this position?
The short answer, without the answers to your questions, is that if you are new to sex, yes, it would be perfectly common to be sore in places you aren't used to. It might feel even sorer if you don't feel that you are a particularly flexible person. And I would guess that it is your muscles and tendons that are hurting, not your actual hip bones. But I would also think that it would ease over a fairly short period of time. Is your "hunny" someone who perhaps is much larger than you are, which might contribute to the weight your hips are bearing during sex? If so, you may also need to talk with him just to let him know that you're hurting and that it's not pleasurable for you; perhaps he can support even more of his own weight while having intercourse in that position.
One thing that might help you is to attend some yoga classes, specifically Vinyasa Yoga or Flow Yoga if it is available to you, but any kind of yoga would help. Yoga helps our strength, our flexibility and our ability to help stress leave our bodies. If, for instance, your hip flexors are simply too tight, yoga classes will help stretch and strengthen them. And one of the beauties of yoga is that nearly everyone can do it regardless of their stamina or level of strength going in.
Here's some information about Vinyasa Yoga:
http://yoga.about.com/od/typesofyoga/a/vinyasa.htm
Please write back and give us any more information that might help.
April 9, 2009 - 9:20amThis Comment