After a perfect sex life, both men and women will be exhausted, with general weakness, floppy limbs, drowsiness and dizziness, etc. However, it can get better after a few minutes of rest. However, the fatigue of middle-aged and elderly people can last for several weeks, seriously affecting the quality of work and life, and even affecting the harmony of couples.

Why do you tend to feel tired after sex?

Sex is a complex process in which most muscle tissue is involved, the endocrine and nervous systems, muscles and multiple organs move in a coordinated manner. During sex, sexual excitement will gradually increase, and the muscles will slowly become tense. In addition, spasms or clonic contractions are prone to occur during orgasm, and they suddenly relax after a few seconds. Due to endocrine influences, orgasm can mask fatigue and soreness caused by muscle tension or contraction. Generally, weakness and fatigue after sexual intercourse can last for several minutes or hours. If the fatigue lasts for a long time, you need to be alert to other causes.

What causes fatigue after sex?

1. Psychological defense

If both men and women have a big dispute about the frequency of sex, or have anxiety and guilt about sex, various discomforts will occur after sex. There is also a term for fatigue or avoidance and refusal of sex, which is a psychological defense.

2. Excessive sex life

If sex lasts for a long time and the movements are violent, it will consume too much physical strength and energy and easily cause physical fatigue. This kind of fatigue will last for a long time and is common in people who sit for a long time and lack exercise. Such people need to replenish their energy properly before and after sex, try to choose sex positions with hand strength, and at the same time, do what they can. Don't think that the longer the sex, the better. It is usually controlled to about 10 to 15 minutes.

3. Suffering from disease

Severe anemia, thyroid disease, hypokalemia or hyperkalemia, and chronic diseases can be directly reflected in sexual life, causing people to experience sexual fatigue. If you feel tired and accompanied by other symptoms, you need to seek medical attention as soon as possible to find out what is causing the physical fatigue. There are also certain drugs that can cause people to experience dizziness, fatigue, and drowsiness. If it seriously affects normal life, you need to follow the doctor's advice to change drugs.

4. Chronic fatigue

Excluding drug or disease factors, if you feel headache and sore throat, general weakness or discomfort, joint pain without swelling, insomnia, dreaminess, and memory loss after sex, you need to be alert to chronic symptoms if these symptoms last for more than 6 months. fatigue. You should adjust your work and life rhythms, reasonably arrange your workload and rest, and pay attention to the balance between work and rest. Leisure activities can be arranged during holidays to help restore physical strength and energy. People with chronic fatigue should try to arrange sex on Saturday or Sunday morning, because they are more energetic at this time. After a busy day at work, you are exhausted before going to bed at night. If you force yourself to have sex, you will not be able to achieve the desired results.

Warm reminder

For young people, they need to control the frequency of sex and not overindulge, so as not to consume physical strength and energy and affect their mental state. Generally, it is about 2 to 3 times a week. In addition, you should not fall asleep directly after sex. You can have 10 to 20 minutes of tenderness, such as hugging or kissing, and you can also communicate your feelings. It is worth reminding. Both men and women should pay attention to personal hygiene before and after sex and wash the genital area carefully to avoid bringing bacteria or viruses into the other party's body, thereby inducing disease.