Orgasm headache - A&E?!

Glad it's all ok, don't let it put you off on future though!

I did think I might say something like that too if it ever happened to me, but then what would it say about him (or you!) that he didn’t think enough of you to accompany to A&E? I think I’d rather just say I was alone!😂

• Masturbation

Nothing wrong with Masterbation at all, but I would have been tempted to say I had been shagging some handsome Italian man all night…

When I had a brain haemorrhage it was a milisecond of intense pain, i was sick and then felt completely back to normal. After a few hours, i felt a bit fluey and had to lie down in a darkened room. I would never in a million years have thought that I had had a brain haemorrhage. I just felt a bit off.

Actually, thunderclap headaches are very extreme but do not last more than a few minutes (3-5). I have also had ice pick headaches but luckily, never a thunderclap one. I also hope I never have one. Ice pick headaches are bad enough, they make me feel as if Edward Scissorhands has been stabbing my skull.

God, people are weird

Weekly is “pushing it” 2x per week he says is ‘safe’ but I think he just enjoys the excuse - I’m not complaining. 🤣

Hope all is clear and you got to read your book x

Friends who were A and E nurses said that what they could never understand when embarrassed men arrived with the hose of a vacuum cleaner stuck on their penis (a fairly regular occurrence apparently) having "slipped while hoovering naked" was why they always brought the whole hoover, instead of detaching the hose and just bringing the stuck bit . ...

For the most part she's on, though not fully without an ongoing impact. Could have been a lot worse.

I thought it was basically a textbook example of a thunderclap though, which is why I mentioned it.

See this is what makes me nervous because the initial bit you described sounds just like a icepick headache which I ignore as I get them all the time. Often multiple times a day

I had a subarachnoid haemorrhage when pregnant. OP - you have 100% made the right decision. The headache feels like someone puts a knitting needle in your head for a split second. Huge agonising pain but for a split second. I was sick straight afterwards but then felt pretty much back to normal. After a few hours I felt fluey and had to lie in a darkened room (couldn't look at bright lights). My GP always says that you need to get an unusual headache checked out.

Thankyou i hope your daughter is ok now. I've never experienced a thunderclap headache I do however have icepick headaches regularly and they only last seconds so I assumed a thunderclap one would be more intense and last longer so that people can differentiate. Ive had a subdural hematoma before but didn't have a headache just passed out I have no memory of the whole thing.

😂

Then you are winning at life 😂

If it lasts a long time/doesn’t go away then it’s an emergency. It’s VERY common to have a migraine/headache after orgasm.
I had a thunderclap headache for 3.5 weeks and it turned out to have been caused by a mini brain bleed but the specialist said they are very common and happen every day and the only problem is when they don’t stop. People have them every day and never know. You have to have a lumbar puncture and mri to confirm

If you feel embarrassed telling the medics, you only have to say you were happy, excited and having a good time, then the headache hit.

I was in minor injuries last weekend and had to tell Public Health while in a very public corridor that I apply steroid cream to my vulva once a week while they decided whether I needed a rabies vaccine (contact with a bat) and whether the steroid treatment would effect it, I feel it's better to ignore embarrassment and just be honest.

This happened to DH. He waited until Monday then contacted his GP. Gp said go straight to emergency.
He had a lumbar puncture to look for bleeding.
It's good you didn't listen to all the idiots on here minimising something that could be serious.
Good luck and it's most likely nothing but well done for taking your health seriously.

My (then) 2.5yo had one. She was playing, then screamed, held her head, fell to the floor in pain grabbing her head, sobbing inconsolably for a couple of minutes. Then it passed, and she went back to playing.

GP wasn't phased by it and suggested Calpol if it happened again 🙄.
111 didn't care (even in the context of increasing more regular daily headaches).

Within 48hrs she was being blue lighted for emergency removal of a huge tumour. She's pretty much ok now.

That headache though was a huge red flag and I think shows exactly what a thunderclap headache is like.

I'm glad the OP is getting her headache checked out, though even with my daughter's background I probably wouldn't have myself.

They won’t care - about the masturbation - my friend is a nurse and says no one bats an eyelid when a man attends with something up his bum 🤷🏼‍♀️.

They need a thorough history and a neurological examination. Some may need a scan after that.

Telling people “they need a scan” just makes them more anxious that something might be missed if they don’t get one.

A thunderclap headache tends to be more of a smashed over the head by a bat or brick type affair. So one moment you were fine, and the next you feel like you've been smashed over the back of your head. Whereas an icepick headache tends to be like a sharp stabbing pain in one particular area of the head. Generally, with a thunderclap headache, if you were asked "where is the headache" you'd motion to a region of your head. With an icepick headache you'd be more likely to point to a spot on your head where the pain is most intense. Icepick headaches tend to be very intense then go more quickly than thunderclap headaches, because thunderclap headaches are generally caused by bleeding in the brain and the headache is the irritation of the blood where it shouldn't be.

Nobody can tell someone on the internet that they do or don't have a life threatening condition and I do wish they wouldn't think they could. Plenty of people can sit and type while critically ill.