How does stomach pain affect love?

May impair sexual ability

Stomach pain (mainly gastric ulcers) does not actually directly affect sexual activity. However, if it causes frequent pain, gastric bleeding leading to anemia, malnutrition leading to physical weakness, lack of oxygen in the body's organs, emotional inhibition... then it will lead to a temporary decrease in sexual ability.

When suffering from stomach pain, we must take medication. Some stomach pain medications have side effects that affect the body's secretions, affecting the vaginal secretions, which can cause vaginal dryness in women and make sexual intercourse difficult or painful. The patient feels uncomfortable and can also increase mental pressure and make the stomach disease worse.

Similarly, when men have stomach pain, taking medication will also affect their desire. If they strain to please their partner, it will damage their reproductive organs and can lead to disorders such as erectile dysfunction, ejaculation disorders, and even impotence.

Gastric ulcer has a definite impact on sexual ability.

However, because of such limitations, people with stomach diseases do not have to abstain from sexual activity. Depending on the patient's stomach condition, they should decide whether or not to have sex.

First of all, it is necessary to affirm that patients with stomach pain who still have the need for sexual intercourse and whose health still ensures the ability to have sex can still have normal, moderate, reasonable, and gentle sexual activity. Reasonable sexual activity not only does not affect the disease; on the contrary, moderate sexual activity has the effect of regulating emotions and balancing physiology. From this perspective, normal sexual activity is really beneficial for the treatment of gastric ulcers, avoiding being too violent can easily cause fatigue and affect health.

It should be noted that when the stomach pain is more severe, sexual intercourse is advised to be moderated or stopped until the disease subsides or is completely cured. If sexual activity is not regulated or too much sexual activity can make the ulcer symptoms worse or lead to ulcer bleeding. Female patients with gastric ulcers with mild symptoms can get pregnant, give birth and breastfeed normally.

Reasons to limit sex when having stomach pain

Patients with frequent and severe stomach pain may suffer from bleeding, anemia, poor nutrition, weak physical strength, stress and anxiety, which can temporarily impair sexual function, so sexual intercourse should not be forced in this condition.

When the symptoms of gastric ulcer are obvious and tend to get worse, acute gastric ulcer cases, such as perforated stomach, vomiting blood (a large amount) of course cannot have sex. Symptoms of chronic gastric disease such as: people with pyloric obstruction or repeated blackening, still have sexual desire but because of poor physical strength, sexual desire gradually decreases, the number of sexual activities also decreases accordingly.

For patients with repeated gastric bleeding, should be more careful in sexual activities, should not be reluctant, wait for the disease to improve and then resume sexual activities is not too late. To avoid consuming too much physical energy, can consider choosing a suitable sexual position to prevent consuming too much physical energy will lead to obstacles to the healing process and psychology.

After gastric surgery, the patient needs time to rest and the body can recover to its original state. During this time, it is best not to have sex to avoid strong impact on the surgical wound leading to bleeding or infection, creating conditions for bacteria to enter and make the disease take longer to heal or become more severe.