Orgasm headache - A&E?!

“I actually think it’s negligent for other posters to be discouraging contacting 111 on the basis that it’s untrained people following a script in favour of what could be entirely misguided groupthink on Mumsnet.”

Yes this was exactly my point. I’m not saying these sorts of threads should be banned or anything, but the irony of someone posting a warning about 111 not being a reliable source of information on a thread where people was suggesting anything from “FGS what a load of nonsense!” To “OMG it could be a stroke!” - all without taking any medical history from the OP was both funny and terrifying.

Yes 111 are only following a script - but it’s a carefully thought-out script designed to separate out the obvious emergencies and (mostly) set a level of priorities for the rest. Not perfect but it can have some value (I don’t work for the NHS, btw!)

And @Lilyloolock might get lucky and find an A&E nurse reading on here - but OTOH I saw a poster the other day saying she was a trained medic to justify her comments - and someone else then posted a quote from a different thread where she’d said she was a cleaner. So, you know. Not sure the trained script is really so silly myself.

My OH gets these - he has medication for them (we always have them handy when we are ahem! having a good time). The medicine is very effective, it’s a wee inhaler then a tablet afterwards.

They are very scary. Start at the base of his head, very intense headache. He suffers from
migraines too but these are different.

He had to go to the Dr and have a hugely embarrassing conversation then was sent to neurology for scans to rule out anything more sinister.

They are worse if he doesn’t regularly orgasm (he sees this a huge positive and excuse to have lots of fun 🤣)

please get checked.

Did you have all the symptoms or just a headache?

I had to tell a really hot GP about mine 😅

I'm sure you're fine op. Post-orgasmic headaches are not unusual, I've had them (and yes, I was embarrassed about seeking help).

Most likely cause is buildup of muscular tension in the jaw, head and neck during arousal. Feel the muscles at the back of your head, right at the top of your spine - are they stiff and sore?

Anyway it's good that you're getting it checked out, hope everything is ok.

well done would have been to call 111 immediately for a medically trained advice, instead of going to a forum where you are always advise to "run to A&E" as quickly as you are advise to claim your "free" half hour legal consultation every time you have a question😂

@Lilyloolock hope you'll be fine. And you don't have too long a wait. You've done the right thing.

Well done OP and hope it goes ok. To anyone else reading this, please never be embarrassed to tell the truth to a healthcare professional. They will have heard it all, and worse, before. Providing most accurate info possible about what happened helps them do their job.

I probably spend too much time on the legal forums on here to put any faith in the crowd wisdom, as there’s invariably 20 wrong posts parroting the same advice and one correct person that invariably gets lost in the noise.

It’s bad enough when it’s bad legal advice, but bad medical advice can be dangerous and I actually think it’s negligent for other posters to be discouraging contacting 111 on the basis that it’s untrained people following a script in favour of what could be entirely misguided groupthink on Mumsnet. Having both sources of info can only be helpful to OP.

As it happens, having read this thread and the group wisdom I’d be non the wiser as to whether this is an emergency that requires immediate attention or it’s a massive overreaction to a head ache. And given the tendency for humans to seek out confirmation bias, the OP will likely just listen to the ones that say what she wanted to hear (hospital not required) vs those which could be the “right” answer of seek help. Given the clear split, I’d think 111 might be a helpful tie breaker not something to be ridiculed.

Roll your eyes as you like, but it's not my data for a start, they even give the number of ambulances queuing waiting to be seen, they don't report how many people are just dumped on a bed in the corridor because there's literally not enough staff

I know about triage and emergency, thanks.

Your comments about "should have gone straight to A&E" are completely made up but well done you.

Subarachnoid hemorrhage rather.

I had one of these, the GP sent me straight to A & E to check it wasn't a Subdural Haematoma, get it checked to be on the safe side x

Yeah extractions of some strange things at times too 🙈

I get this. I’ve got csvd.

Of course. But it’s crowd wisdom. It’s not gospel truth but it gives a good big picture of what other people think, and occasionally some specialist knowledge that resonates, from someone who’s been in your position.

Individuals have to weigh up what they hear against what they know and what they feel and what options are open to them. This is just one extra source of data.

Yeah, I had a partner who got this during/after an orgasm. He went to his GP who took it very seriously. I think he had a lumbar puncture too.
Everything was fine, though.

I don’t think anyone should be embarrassed and I think it’s important to be as factually accurate as possible.

Working out is strenuous exercise - depending on OP was doing/using then female masturbation can be relatively low impact.

Even if you’re embarrassed saying it, which we all would be, it’s not something we should be embarrassed to actually say.

These are the people who help men who ‘fall on objects’ (but happen to have their trousers down, lubed up and sometimes with a condom on.
They’ve heard and seen it all before.

You know that this could indicate a bleed on the brain or a haemorrhage or a stroke?

The OP should have gone straight to A&E.

As for the poster saying her local A&E waiting time is 23 hours if whatever, not for someone with this symptom it’s not 🙄

111 for this.

Given the description of thunderclap headaches online (sudden, worst of your life, etc.) it’s very difficult to know whether you’ve had one or not.

Something like this happened to me. In my case I contacted 111 who made a GP appointment for me the next day - but I had left it over a week (still had a headache) by that point. I would not leave it next time.

I get ice pick headache a lot, I’m also prone to migraines - it might be that?

It’s like a short, sharp shooting pain in my head.

And some people are lying.

I’m a neurologist and think she get emergency treatment. Except I’m not.

Or they’re just confidently wrong. It’s definitely a sign you’re going to have a stroke in the next month, make sure you don’t orgasm again in that period of time.

And as a medical professional, I’m sure you’d confidently say Google is not a reliable diagnostic tool.

The OP has no way of discerning the credibility of any post. At least with 111 you know they are following an approved, reviewed and authorised script and have been at least trained to do that job.

I went through a period of about 4 months where I had a sudden excruciating headache almost every time I orgasmed. It stopped just as suddenly and a few months later I was telling the story on a girls weekend as a funny anecdote blaming Brigerton-induced wanking.
One of my friends is a GP and said if I'd come to her as a patient she would have had me straight in for a brain scan and made me promise to see my GP if it started again.
Probably best not to risk it really. Chance is small but the possibility catastrophic consequences are real.

Going onto Mumsnet to ask if they are being unreasonable. I rest my case. And of course I know what a medical emergency is, how ignorant to presume I can't based on an opinion written online.