Orgasm headache - A&E?!

Great minds!

This comment is the reason you shouldn't turn to Mumsnet for medical advice.

a relief in many ways! 😂

Good news!

I had this then 4 days later had Bells Palsy. It can be an onset to Bells Palsy and is the point at which the nerve goes. Keep an eye on yourself and make sure others are as well as I didn’t realise what had happened until my husband saw my face.

Same. 111.

I suggest you actually read what I said in all my comments.

And neither you nor OP knew that till she had had a scan in A&E. You can rest assured the doctors wouldn't have ordered that if they thought she shouldn't be there.

Yes - with no thanks to people like you saying it didn't require A&E despite her getting a brain scan.... In A&E.

Read her update. She's fine.

This is so true. I remember a thread with someone claiming to be a doctor dishing out not only incorrect, but dangerous, advice. This person has misspelt every medical term in their posts. I reported the posts to MN, who said they would not be removing them because "they were just typos".

A thunderclap headache can be indicative of a bleed in the brain or even an aneurysm.

Why don't you think that's an emergency?

Probably a better informed than average audience

I respectfully and wholeheartedly disagree. For every person on here with genuine medical knowledge you have myriad others who can’t spell Wednesday reliably and believe viruses can be treated with antibiotics.

The general population is woefully ill-informed about any specific topic, especially medical ones - everyone knows somebody who knows somebody who had a weird, tenuously-related incident with various outcomes - and sifting out comments with any credibility is a game of luck.

I had one of these, freaking terrifying. Like someone whacked me round the back of the head with a cricket bat. Mortifying having to describe the “post coital” headache in detail to the docs in A&E, but had a CT scan & then a lumbar puncture to rule out a haemorrhage. Worst of it was when my parents turned up at the moment the doctor was going thru the findings… I now suffer with persistent headaches & take daily migraine medication for them. And hardest part is that my orgasms are now no way near as strong as they used to be. Sigh

Yes it would. Thunderclap headaches can be a sudden warning sign of life-threatening emergencies involving bleeding, tears, or blocked blood vessels inside the brain. They can also be a sign of imminent stroke or dangerously spiked blood pressure and can reach maximum intensity in less than 60 seconds and dissipate in a couple of minutes. You can’t tell the difference between a life threatening event and a harmless headache just by how the pain feels or that the pain only lasted a short time. The advice is always to treat it as a medical emergency, and either call 999 or go to A&E.

That’s so untrue it’s almost became true

i can never fathom why people confidently assert stuff they have no clue about when it could literally kill someone. What drives you?

That's absolutely not true and very dangerous advice.

A thunderclap headache due to a serious medical issue wouldn't go away on it's own, without medical treatment. You have showered, had breakfast and feel fine, don't worry.

Nothing embarrassing in talking about the orgasm - it’s a perfectly natural and normal bodily function. I would call 111 and mention everything for context. (Sorry just read to the end of the thread, glad all is well for you in the end).

This happened to my husband late one night contacted GP next morning they sent him straight to a&e he had blood tests, scans and they insisted on lumbar puncture because he waited past 6 hours to attend bleeds can be missed on CT scans the doctor said Thsbkfully all clear and he’s been ok since

What exactly is a thunderclap headache and why is it different to a normal one ?

Blimey that was a long day for you op, hope you're ok, were you in since early this afternoon?

Also I'm sure I read a post on here a few weeks ago of something similar and the cause was some kind of electric shock caused by a mains powered vibrator so perhaps you should get yours looked at or replaced