Pain while masturbating/penetration
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 1:52 pm
Hi there,
I'm a cisgender 16 year old girl and I've been masturbating since I was pretty young--but it's always been clitoral and I've never had anything penetrate. Not even a tampon or something similar.
I used to avoid it because I thought penetration was gross, but now I'm curious and I'd like to try it, plus tampons seem really helpful.
But now whenever I try to put in a tampon/masturbate, it really hurts! It's a sharp pain that leaves an ache for a while even after I've stopped. I've tried when I know that I'm aroused, while I'm on my period with tampons, I've tried doing kegels to relax the muscles, basically everything you can imagine. I think I can feel my hymen (?) and I can almost fit something in, but by then the pain is pretty bad and it doesn't feel like it's going to move or stretch, so I just quit. I've tried enough times that I know it'll hurt every time, and I feel like maybe I'm psyching myself out?
Is there anything at all I can do to get rid of this? I'm worried about how much it's going to affect my future--will this be permanent? Do I have vaginismus? Do I need to get a surgery to get rid of excess hymen? Or is this all purely psychological?
I apologize if I seem anxious about this, but I've done a lot of research and nothing has really helped. Thank you so much!
I'm a cisgender 16 year old girl and I've been masturbating since I was pretty young--but it's always been clitoral and I've never had anything penetrate. Not even a tampon or something similar.
I used to avoid it because I thought penetration was gross, but now I'm curious and I'd like to try it, plus tampons seem really helpful.
But now whenever I try to put in a tampon/masturbate, it really hurts! It's a sharp pain that leaves an ache for a while even after I've stopped. I've tried when I know that I'm aroused, while I'm on my period with tampons, I've tried doing kegels to relax the muscles, basically everything you can imagine. I think I can feel my hymen (?) and I can almost fit something in, but by then the pain is pretty bad and it doesn't feel like it's going to move or stretch, so I just quit. I've tried enough times that I know it'll hurt every time, and I feel like maybe I'm psyching myself out?
Is there anything at all I can do to get rid of this? I'm worried about how much it's going to affect my future--will this be permanent? Do I have vaginismus? Do I need to get a surgery to get rid of excess hymen? Or is this all purely psychological?
I apologize if I seem anxious about this, but I've done a lot of research and nothing has really helped. Thank you so much!