Even should you’re as slick as a slip n’ slide, it’s additionally attainable that the spike in blood movement to your vulva throughout intercourse and orgasm simply makes you extra delicate down there, which might probably set off a burning sensation throughout the first couple pees that comply with, Dr. White says. However in any of those circumstances, the stinging feeling will sometimes let up after a pair empties of your bladder, as your pure discharge soothes and remoisturizes your vagina and the additional blood leaves that area, she explains.
You’re combating an an infection in your vagina or urinary tract.
Burning pee is a symptom of a number of totally different infections that may plague your nether areas—together with yeast and bacterial vaginosis (BV), in addition to UTIs and some STIs. When you’ve got one, it’s attainable that you simply solely actually discover it after having intercourse, which might particularly irritate an space that’s already infected.
Amongst that checklist, a UTI is the one mostly linked with searing pee as a result of this sort of bacterial an infection happens proper in your urinary tract. It usually impacts your urethra (the tube from which pee comes out), however it may additionally work its manner up into your bladder if it’s left untreated, Dr. Gleaton says. The outcome is just not solely burning pee however, in some circumstances, blood in your urine, pelvic ache, and pressing and extra frequent journeys to the toilet.
Yeast and BV, alternatively, are infections that occur in your vagina—the previous, from an overgrowth of the fungus Candida albicans and the latter, from a surplus of the micro organism Gardnerella vaginalis. Along with painful peeing, they each sometimes trigger itching and burning in and round your vulva together with uncommon discharge (which might appear to be cottage cheese within the case of yeast or flip grey and fishy-smelling with BV).
STIs like chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis can chart a equally uncomfy path (which can be why they’re so simply confused with yeast). All of those “can result in irritation of the genital tissues and urinary tract,” Dr. Gleaton says. Should you don’t deal with them, this irritation can worsen when you’ve gotten intercourse, probably inflicting a burning sensation once you go to pee afterward, she explains. (In these eventualities, you may also expertise ache and bleeding throughout intercourse, Dr. White provides.)
You’re allergic or delicate to one thing you’re utilizing throughout or after intercourse.
It’s additionally attainable that no matter graced your vulva throughout intercourse simply didn’t sit effectively. Latex condoms or people who comprise spermicide and sure sorts of lubes (particularly the scented or flavored ones) can all spark an allergic response or trigger vaginal irritation in of us who’re delicate to them, Dr. Phillips says. And the outcome could also be flamin’ scorching pee. It’s uncommon, however it’s also possible to be allergic to semen, which might trigger post-sex ache, itching, and burning round your vagina for as much as a number of hours after having unprotected intercourse with somebody who has a penis.