Vaginal varicose veins and sex - okay or a big no no?

[Olihan]

Not for me, as I'm not pg, but a friend who is too embarrassed to ask her mw . I have no idea, not having suffered from them so I thought I'd ask you lot!

I know they are fine for labour etc so long as not really, really bad but what about sex? Quite a lot of friction going on there...is it safe? Does it risk bursting them? Or is it in fact good for them since increased bloodflow means less pooling of blood?

[bubblagirl]

i had these and was fine to have sex just a bit uncomfortable

[RedOnHerBeheadedHead]

have had two children and didn't know you could get these - I knew about the piles, but not vaginal ones.

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[hattyyellow]

I have these...they're just grrrrreat. .

Doctor looked at them when I was about 14 weeks as I couldn't quite work out what they were, didn't know they could occur there either!

Said no reason not to have sex, but it was too uncomfortable anyway.

[Olihan]

So no danger of them popping or anything then .

I'll let her know, thank you.