Orgasm and Migraine

Pheromone Science Studies & Abstracts
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Hate that line “not tonight, I have a headache”? If you’re like me, you’ve noticed that orgasm does do wonders as a natural analgesic.

This article claims that its not just me, and that she’s likely avoiding appropriate treatment!

…although it does conclude that it seems more potent for males, the females still have a VERY good success rate. Orgasm is slightly less effective than triptan treatment, but is actually FASTEST (with the exceptoin of intravenous dihydroergotamine)!

Here’s the full cite:

Randolph W. Evans MD, R. Couch MD, PhD (2001)
Orgasm and Migraine
Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain 41 (5), 512–514.
doi:10.1046/j.1526-4610.2001.01091.x

Does this have anything to do with pheromones?
…probably!

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ummmmm. look up coital cephalgia.

link here.

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Sure, but the study was not being done on the rare condition “coital cephalgia”.

Certainly there are exceptions, and the study was not performed on the population as a whole. Although if you read it, 3% of women’s headaches got WORSE after orgasm… so if the woman says it is the case that they become worse after orgasm, certainly she should be believed (or the man, for that matter, as coital cephalgia is generally more of a condition for males).

Not focusing on minorities, the article still has a optomistic pro-orgasm finding :smiley:

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Can’t quite get access to your article right now. :frowning: Direct link to pubmed? I want to read this for myself. The current theory about migraine is that it is a vasospasm phenomenon restricting blood flow to certain areas of the brain. That is why, in severe cases, it can almost seem like a stroke - the post-migraine neurological disturbances can range from visual diplopia to sensation changes in half your face, down your arm, weakness, etc. etc. I wouldn’t advocate asking a lady to have an orgasm in the middle of a riproaring migraine complete with nausea and vomiting just to see if it makes it better. If anything, orgasm raises blood pressure acutely, followed by a dramatic ‘release’. and that isn’t exactly good for migraine - the moment of raising blood pressure may actually be detrimental. If its a riproaring worst-headache of my life type “migraine”, it might even be an misdiagnosed brain aneurysm and raising your lovely lady’s BP at that point would definitely pop the blood vessel in the brain leading to ultimately, death if not a trip to the local ER.

Hope that helps.