this happened to me in the past too (i say the past, because i'm now celibate...damn ex-boyfriends to hell...). i came to a weird, but hopefully true conclusion though. i was a virgin before this last boyfriend, but i have been seeing a gyno since i don't remember when (well, ok, its about five or six years now). the last time she did a pap smear, she commented on my cervix being kind of irritated and when she poked it with a q-tip, it bled. this was before i became 'devirginized', a month or so before actually. i didn't ask her if this would have any adverse side effects at the time because i hadn't planned on giving up my virginity for a looong time then. she had said that this was partly caused by the bc (i'm on lo-ovral currently) and by the fact that i wear tampons and had been prior to the appointment. she said the hormones make the cervix a little thinner and easier to irritate or something like that.
so my thought on the subject is, is that birth control kind of makes you more 'easily irritated' in your inner girly bits, which makes you more prone to bleeding and whatnot after strenuous activity (or sex, if you will :P ). also, like someone else said, sometimes not all the blood gets completely out of your uterus before you 'stop' bleeding, and the contractions caused by orgasm can 'push' it out of you.
any way you look at it, it is kind of upsetting and disturbing, i know. my boyfriend wouldn't touch me sexually the rest of the night after he caused me to bleed a few times (he seemed a little too germophobic or something..even though it was kind of his fault in the first place :P ). needless to say, i hated my bod for a bit because of her quirky little surprizes that i had no idea existed.
if it keeps happening, i'd check with your doc though, just to be safe ;) good luck and sorry for the long reply :>
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Date: 2005-05-27 04:23 am (UTC)i came to a weird, but hopefully true conclusion though.
i was a virgin before this last boyfriend, but i have been seeing a gyno since i don't remember when (well, ok, its about five or six years now). the last time she did a pap smear, she commented on my cervix being kind of irritated and when she poked it with a q-tip, it bled. this was before i became 'devirginized', a month or so before actually. i didn't ask her if this would have any adverse side effects at the time because i hadn't planned on giving up my virginity for a looong time then.
she had said that this was partly caused by the bc (i'm on lo-ovral currently) and by the fact that i wear tampons and had been prior to the appointment. she said the hormones make the cervix a little thinner and easier to irritate or something like that.
so my thought on the subject is, is that birth control kind of makes you more 'easily irritated' in your inner girly bits, which makes you more prone to bleeding and whatnot after strenuous activity (or sex, if you will :P ). also, like someone else said, sometimes not all the blood gets completely out of your uterus before you 'stop' bleeding, and the contractions caused by orgasm can 'push' it out of you.
any way you look at it, it is kind of upsetting and disturbing, i know. my boyfriend wouldn't touch me sexually the rest of the night after he caused me to bleed a few times (he seemed a little too germophobic or something..even though it was kind of his fault in the first place :P ). needless to say, i hated my bod for a bit because of her quirky little surprizes that i had no idea existed.
if it keeps happening, i'd check with your doc though, just to be safe ;)
good luck and sorry for the long reply :>