My sex headache put me in A&E – I feared my eye was going to pop out of my head
MIND-BLOWING sex may sound like your ideal night, but for some the phrase has more painful connotations.
These blinding headaches, caused by orgasms or sexual excitement, are absolutely excruciatingly - and have many fearing the worst.
The pain normally lasts for at least a few minutes, but can linger for up to three days.
Many people who have sex headaches will experience them in clusters over a few months, before they go away.
Men and those who get migraines are more prone to sex headaches.
They're not normally a cause for concern, but do see a doctor if it's your first one.
Beta blockers and painkillers can be used to treat them.
Losing consciousness, vomiting, stiff neck, any neurological symptoms or severe pain lasting more than 24 hours could be signs of a more serious condition.
Since that summer, it's not really happened again, thank God. I’m really lucky that it only lasted a couple of months.
Sometimes I still get minor headaches, but the doctors told me to look out for certain signs. If I start to get a headache, I think, 'oh s***, no I won't bother having sex today'.
I've been with my partner four years and we have sex three or four times-a-week now, where it used to be every day before.
That did panic me, I thought ‘what if I can’t have sex again?’ It would have been the end of my world
Sammi Rabbatts
Apparently, there are two types of sex headaches. One happens at the beginning of sex, when people get excited, but I get orgasm headaches.
So it’s a really awkward one because you have this debate with yourself, like ‘I can feel the start of a headache, shall I carry on so I can orgasm or should we just stop?’
It would depend on the severity of the pain. Most of the time I just have to stop.
They do say you’ve got to try and stay as relaxed as possible, if you tense up it restricts the blood vessels.
A weird twist to the story is that I told my parents, because we’re quite open, and my dad said ‘oh yeah, I used to get those!’
I had no idea sex headaches were a thing, which made it even funnier when I found out my dad got them too. It’s not something you really talk about.
I’m very open, but to say ‘just as I was coming, my head sort of exploded’, that’s not the sort of thing you bring up into conversation.
But the more people read about things like this, even if it’s on a jokey scale, it might put their mind at ease - to know they’re not dying if it does happen to them.
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