Some people experience pain or light bleeding when their hymen breaks, but most will feel nothing. Since it's a flexible piece of tissue, it stretches and thins over time from day-to-day activities or from using tampons. If you bleed when your hymen breaks, many believe it's their period or spotting.
The bleeding should resolve after 24 hours and the tear will heal. However, if someone has penetrative sex again before the tissue has completely healed, they may experience bleeding again. This is normal and is not cause for concern. But if the bleeding is heavy or prolonged, it's best to see a doctor.
This largely depends on the thickness of the hymen. The thicker it is, the more painful a potential tear can be. Bleeding during the first sexual intercourse happens in only 43 percent of cases. The amount of blood can vary from a few drops to bleeding for a few days.
Any girl who has her period can use a tampon. Tampons work just as well for girls who are virgins as they do for girls who have had sex. And even though using a tampon can occasionally cause a girl's hymen to stretch or tear, it does not cause a girl to lose her virginity. (Only having sex can do that.)
It's normal to have bleeding the first time you have sex, but it's also normal not to. Vaginas have a thin tissue that stretches across part of the opening. This is called a hymen. Sometimes when a person has vaginal sex for the first time, their hymen gets stretched open, which can cause pain or bleeding.
Like many other tissues, your hymen is elastic and can be stretched, and it usually doesn't tear or break on the first impact.
The hymen surrounds your vaginal opening like a ring or donut, and then, as it tears or stretches, it appears more like a crescent. If you have an annular or crescent-shaped hymen, it might look slightly different depending on the way your hymen has stretched or torn.
As the hymen heals, it will effectively grow back together so that the covering feels and responds exactly as an undamaged hymen would. There are some patients who have absolutely no remnants of the natural hymen. Impact related injuries or other events may have damaged or removed the hymen entirely.
Treatment of a hymen variant (imperforate, microperforate, septate or cribiform hymens) is a minor outpatient procedure, called a hymenectomy – during which the gynecologist removes the excess tissue, leaving a vaginal opening that is the appropriate size. Once the extra tissue is removed, it does not grow back.
A good rule of thumb is that if you can easily insert a finger or feel any irregular flesh around the vaginal walls (without experiencing any resistance or discomfort), it's likely that your hymen is torn.
If you're curious to see if you have a hymen or what it looks like, you can take a look yourself at home with a hand mirror and a flashlight. The hymen may be visible if you part the labia on your vulva and look inside the vaginal passage.
Further, your hymen can't grow back or somehow “break” twice. In the case of penetrative vaginal sex, your hymen stretches and generally tears, leading to potential bleeding for some people, Dr. White says.
Hymen blood is the result of tearing, and it is usually very bright in colour and thin in consistency. It typically only lasts for a short while. For some women, it will be spotting, and for others there will be a very light flow for up to two days.
Your hymen is thick when you are born but wears down over time. It gradually tears or rips due to physical activity, hormones, using tampons or having sex. This can cause symptoms in some people, but others feel nothing.
No, the hymen can't grow back once it's been stretched open.
Secondary virginity—a sexually-initiated person's deliberate decision to refrain from intimate encounters for a set period of time and to refer to that decision as a kind of virginity (rather than "mere" abstinence)—has largely eluded sociological scrutiny, despite its increasing popularity as a concept and practice ...
noun A women that has not been vaginally penetrated or a man that has only experienced oral sex and more generally a person that has no yet experienced a common or particular sexual act.
This has traditionally been tested by the presence of an intact hymen, which was verified by either a physical examination (usually by a physician), who would provide a certificate of virginity or by a "proof of blood", which refers to vaginal bleeding that results from the tearing of the hymen.
You might have heard that a virgin is someone who has never had sex. And losing your virginity usually means having sex for the first time.
Women, after losing virginity will also notice a change in the way their clitoris and uterus respond. Since the uterus and the clitoris become more used to the sex, they'll adjust and will become more instinctive.
Everyone's hymen is different. Many peoples' hymens naturally have less tissue, or are already stretched out of the way from other things (like tampons), so they don't have pain or bleeding the first time they have sex.
It can happen, but if a woman is relaxed during intercourse and has good lubrication and she or her partner has tried to stretch the hymen with fingers, then it likely won't break. So, you can't tell if someone is a virgin if they have a hymen.
Answers (2) Normally you can't insert a single finger also so yes it can break the hymen, for more detailed answer contact me on Practo consult app online. Was this answer helpful?