

"If the nausea is due to deep penetration, we'll advise switching up sexual positions and experimenting with your partner to find an alternative that is both comfortable and pleasurable for the both of you," says Dr Huang. The type of treatment or advice you receive will depend on the cause of your discomfort.

Given the conditions that nausea after sex could be a symptom of, it's best that you see a doctor if this is something that happens regularly. "This is especially so if you have had unpleasant sexual experiences or have gone through sexual trauma," says Dr Huang. The nausea you feel can also be due to psychological causes. She notes that both of these causes can be linked to underlying medical conditions such as endometriosis (a condition where the endometrial tissue which lines the womb grows in other areas of the body outside the womb), ovarian cysts or pelvic inflammatory disease (where infections like chlamydia and gonorrhea cause an inflammation in the uterus, fallopian tubes or ovaries).īut that's not to say that something is necessarily wrong with your body.

"If the nausea is associated with painful intercourse, you could be experiencing dyspareunia. "If the nausea is associated with pelvic pain after orgasm, you could be experiencing dysorgasmia, which entails painful spasms of the pelvic muscles during or after orgasm," says Dr Grace Huang, a resident doctor at DTAP Clinic Robertson. Like, when the penis goes so far into you that it hits your cervix or uterus.īut it can also be a sign of a more serious underlying medical problem. If you're lucky, the discomfort you experience is a vagal response (a reaction that, due to certain triggers, causes your heart rate and blood pressure to drop suddenly) to excessively deep penetration. THERE ARE PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CAUSES So what does it actually mean when you feel queasy after getting frisky? But even when it's bad, it's not typically nauseating - feeling sick after doing the deed just isn't normal.
