A number of conditions may cause pain or discomfort during intercourse, sex is meant to be an enjoyable and happy experience. If you get pain, it isn’t.

Vaginismus can cause both deep and superficial pain and is a common cause of pain during sex. It’s a spasm of the vaginal muscles, caused mainly by fear of being hurt. Certain vaginal infections, such as vaginal yeast infections and trichomoniasis are other causes.

Vaginal dryness  often causes painful sexual intercourse,  cysts on the ovary can cause deep pain. Pain may also be caused if the tip of the penis hits an unusually positioned ovary.

The pain that is experienced in head or upper neck area is called headache. It is one of the most common ailments affecting people these days.

Some of the possible causes of headache are, Allergy, Eyestrain, Exposure to bright light and loud noise, High blood pressure, Hangover, Stress, Lack of food or sleep, Emotional stress, Infection, Low blood sugar, Nutritional deficiency, Tension and Head injury.

Ear is one of the five sensory organs in our body. When there is any inflammation in the middle ear or the outer ear, earache is bound to occur, earache usually occurs due to cold and is most common in winters and spring months. It can either be a mild pain or a severe one that even results in hearing loss. Though there are many reasons of earache, infection in the outer or middle ear is the most common one.

Some possible causes Of earache are otitis externa, otitis media, ear infection, ear disease, nose, mouth or throat infection, injury to jaw bones, arthritis of the jaw, an insect in the ear, fungus growth in the ear, wax buildup in the ear, cold or sinus infection, poor sleeping, blockage in the ear tube and damage to the eardrum.

Primary dysmenorrhea is caused by strong contractions of the uterus trigged by prostaglandins, chemicals in the body that are involved in inflammation and that stimulate pain receptors. Higher levels of prostaglandins are associated with more menstrual pain.

Secondary dysmenorrhea can be caused by endometriosis (inflammation of the lining of the uterus), blood and tissue being discharged through a narrow cervex, uterine fibroid or ovarian cyst, infections of the uterus, pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and intrauterine device (IUD).

Labor pain begins when your uterus (womb) begins to contract, in the days before labor starts, you may experience tightening of the uterus which cause discomfort rather than pain.

Labor pain start when you get regular contractions, which increase in frequency and intensity throughout labor and can become painful in a similar way as you may experience pain in other muscles in your body when you do vigorous exercise.  At the same time the opening into the uterus (the cervix) is stretching to eventually allow your baby to pass through into your birth canal.

A heart attack is when blood vessels that supply blood to the heart are blocked, preventing enough oxygen from getting to the heart. The heart muscle dies or becomes permanently damaged.

Most heart attacks are caused by a blood clot that blocks one of the coronary arteries. The coronary arteries bring blood and oxygen to the heart. If the blood flow is blocked, the heart starves for oxygen and heart cells die.

Appendicitis is the inflammation of the appendix by micro organism, often following an event brings about reduction in the blood supply to the appendix, leading to perforation and huge pus formation and collection if not quickly diagnosed.

Most commonly, feces blocks the inside of the appendix. Also, bacterial or viral infections in the digestive tract can lead to swelling of lymph nodes, which squeeze the appendix and cause obstruction.

Pain between the shoulder blades is a question of concern, as the reasons can be numerous, heart attack is one of the causes. Other causes, as heart attack has been ruled out. Simple pain in the muscles or strain, due to excessive work, sleeping in improper position, hunching over the computer and muscle injury due to sports are some of the common causes.

Chest discomfort or pain that comes on or gets worse with exercise, stress, or eating a large meal and goes away with rest may be a warning symptom of heart disease.

Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disease, people who have the disease inherit two copies of the sickle cell gene, one from each parent. The sickle cell gene causes the body to make abnormal hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the iron-rich protein that gives blood its red color and carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body.

Sickle cell disease results from mutation, or change, of certain types of hemoglobin chains in red blood cells (the beta hemoglobin chains). The changes in the building of normal hemoglobin result in the abnormal hemoglobin of sickle cell disease.

Although the exact causes of diabetic neuropathy are unknown, several factors may contribute to the disorder. metabolic factors, such as high blood glucose, long duration of diabetes, abnormal blood fat levels and possibly low levels of insulin.

Autoimmune factors that cause inflammation in nerves, mechanical injury to nerves, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, inherited traits that increase susceptibility to nerve disease,  lifestyle factors, such as smoking or alcohol use are the basic factors of diabetic pain.

Thyroid pain has different causes, some of them are;

Viral thyroiditis (type of Thyroiditis), Viral infection, Thyroid carcinoma, Thyroid cyst, Bleeding into a cyst or tumour, Trauma to the neck causing soft tissue bruising, Subacute thyroiditis, De Quervain’s disease, Inflammation of thyroglossal cyst, Inflammation of thyroglossal fistula, Hemorrhage into cyst of the thyroid, Hashimoto’s disease, Advanced carcinoma of the thyroid and lack of iodine in your diet.

The ankle is among the most commonly injured joint in the body. The entire weight of the body is supported by the ankle which makes it very vulnerable to injury.

Common causes of ankle pain include:

Achilles tendinitis, Achilles tendon rupture, Avulsion fracture, Broken ankle or broken foot, Gout, Osteoarthritis, Pseudogout, Rheumatoid arthritis, Septic arthritis, Sprained ankle, Sprains and strains and Stress fractures.

Various conditions can affect nerves and may cause neuropathic pain as one of the features of the condition. These include the following:

Trigeminal neuralgia, post herpetic neuralgia (pain following shingles), Pain following chemotherapy, Spine surgery, HIV infection, Multiple sclerosis, Alcoholism, Cancer, Atypical facial pain, Auto accident, Broken bones and Various other uncommon nerve disorders.

The possible causes of wrist pain are wrist injury, wrist strain, wrist sprain or wrist fracture. Other causes are Colles fracture (common fracture of the forearm near the wrist) and Scaphoid fracture (fracture of a small wrist bone).

A sudden event or an acute injury can break a bone or tear a ligament. Less apparent, but more slowly developing insidious causes of wrist pain are repeated patterns of activity, which over time may cause undue strain on the wrist.

When outside forces are applied to bone it has the potential to fail. Fractures occur when bone cannot withstand those outside forces. During repeated efforts (as in running),the muscles become unable to support the skeleton during impact as the foot strikes the ground, the load is transferred to the bone.

As the loading surpasses the capacity of the bone to adapt, a fracture develops. The nerve endings that surround bones contain pain fibers and and these fibers become irritated when the bone is broken or bruised.