Some women feel a strong desire to urinate during intense sexual stimulation or just before orgasm. This sensation may be sufficiently marked to interrupt the report for fear of a urinary leakage.
This impression can come from the pressure on the bladder and the urethra, from excitement, from female ejaculation or sometimes from a real urinary leakage.
When a person also leaks by coughing, laughing, jumping or during exercise, urinary incontinence can be involved. This problem is common after certain pregnancies and births, but it can also appear in people who have never had children.
What are the pelvic floor muscles?
The pelvic floor is a set of muscles and tissues located at the base of the pelvis. It supports the bladder, uterus and rectum in particular and participates in urinary and anal control.
These muscles contribute to several functions:
- support the pelvic organs; ;
- Participate in urinary and fecal continence; ;
- Contribute to pelvic stability; ;
- intervene in certain sexual sensations; ;
- contract during orgasm.
Want to urinate, female ejaculation or flight: how to tell the difference?
During stimulation of the anterior wall of the vagina, pressure may be felt near the bladder and urethra. It can make you feel like urinating, even when the bladder isn't really full.
Kegel exercises and anal contractions: what difference?
Kegel exercises refer to voluntary contractions of the pelvic floor muscles. They can be used in some incontinence rehabilitation programs, but they need to be done correctly.
The muscles work in groups: you have to learn to contract them, but also to relax them.
How to locate the pelvic floor?
Several sensations can help to understand where these muscles are.
You can imagine that you are simultaneously trying to hold a gas and stop a urine stream. A slight feeling of closure and ascent inside the pool can then be felt.
Voluntarily interrupting the urine stream can be used exceptionally to identify the muscles, but should not become a daily exercise, because repeating this practice during urination can disturb the emptying of the bladder.
How to do Kegel exercises correctly?
A simple method is to start in a comfortable position, without strongly contracting the abs, buttocks or thighs.
- Gently contract the pelvic floor; ;
- Hold for a few seconds without blocking breathing; ;
- Release completely; ;
- Leave a rest time between contractions; ;
- Repeat several times without seeking maximum strength.
Should you make Kegels in all cases?
No. Strengthening exercises are not suitable for everyone.
A person with pelvic pain, pain during penetration, difficulty in relaxing the muscles or certain pathologies can have a pelvic floor that is too tight. Adding more contractions can then increase the discomfort.
After a birth, surgery or a major tear, the time to resume exercises also depends on the healing and advice of the health professional.
Three useful precautions
Don't block your breathing
Breathe normally during contraction. Blocking air and pushing with the abdomen can alter exercise and unnecessarily increase pressure in the pelvis.
Don't contract the whole body
If the butt, thighs and abs work much more than the pelvic area, reduce the intensity and look for more precise contraction.
Do not use the jet stop as a drive
Testing once can help identify muscles, but urging urination is not recommended as a training technique regularly.
Why take care of the pelvic floor?
A well-coordinated pelvic floor contributes to continence, organ support and sexual comfort. Its functioning is therefore important at different ages and not only after childbirth.
When to consult?
A consultation is useful if the urge to urinate during intercourse is accompanied by burns, pain, blood in the urine, repeated infections, frequent leaks or feeling of pelvic gravity.
It is also advisable to consult when urinary leakage affects daily activities or sexuality. Solutions exist and it is not necessary to accept this problem as an inevitable consequence of age or childbirth.
to remember
A desire to urinate during orgasm or stimulation can have several causes and is not automatically abnormal. The pelvic floor plays an important role in continence and sexuality, but its training must be adapted to the situation.
If the phenomenon is occasional and painless, it can simply be part of your body response. If it becomes annoying, frequent or accompanied by other symptoms, an evaluation makes it possible to identify the cause and to choose the most suitable solution.
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