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Coital Failure
Some infertile couples may experience difficulty in having a baby because of coital difficulty, infrequent intercourse or wrongly timed intercourse. Besides psychological causes, the physical causes are -
Male -
- Damage to the special nerves which cause erection. This could have been the result of an injury, surgery or disease.
- Impotence or erectile dysfunction due to deficient blood flow to the penis .
- Chronic illnesses such as kidney or liver failure and diabetes.
- Side effects of prescribed drugs e.g. certain drugs for lowering high blood pressure.
- Diabetes (30 % of diabetics suffer from some form of sexual dysfunction).
- Hormonal eg. hyperprolactinemia or low testosterone levels.
- Heavy smoking, alcohol and drug abuse.
- Congenital penile abnormalities
Female -
- Painful scar (e.g. episiotomy) or a vaginal infection causing superficial pain
- Congenital abnormalities such as a tough hymen or unusually narrow entrance.
- Endometriosis when the woman experiences pain deep in her pelvis in the organs that surround the top of the vagina.
- Vaginismus or the inability of the woman to relax her vaginal muscles, preventing penetration by the male.
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India & International : +91-9860755000 / +91-9371136499
UK : +44-2081332571
Canada & USA : +1-4155992537