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Orgasm headache - A&E?!

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Lilyloolock · 19/09/2026 11:04

Sorry for the TMI but I'll get it over with quickly.

90 mins or so ago my Saturday morning lie in ended in the way it often does, with a masturbation induced orgasm.

TMI over 😀

immediately afterwards,.for the first time in my life, a thunderclap headache.

I have read about these before (including on here). I now feel fine, and have since got up, had some toast, had a shower etc. exactly as normal. But I have googled it and it said that if it's the first time I should go to A&E immediately! This seems to go against the advice on here, and I feel absolutely fine now as if nothing happened.

I really don't want to spend the day in a&e but I also really don't want to die! AIBU to ignore Dr Google (who also told me I had skin cancer when I was actually just wearing the wrong clothes in hot weather) or do I really need to have the world's most embarrassing trip to a&e?

OP posts:
Sereine · 21/09/2026 08:59

Saturdayisthebestday · 21/09/2026 08:06

Read her update. She's fine.

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.

Saturdayisthebestday · 21/09/2026 10:33

GreenFootstool · 21/09/2026 08:47

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

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

ForeverTheOptomist · 21/09/2026 12:35

Lilyloolock · 19/09/2026 11:24

It was at the base of my head. Yes intense pain. Maybe I am misusing the term thunderclap but I Googled orgasm headache and it mentioned urgent a&e if it hasn't happened before (which it's not).

Same. 111.

JazzyAmbs · 21/09/2026 19:58

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.

Lilyloolock · Yesterday 08:37

No repeat performance this morning, if anyone is following this thread. That's a relief!

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PinkEasterbunny · Yesterday 08:40

Good news!

poweredbyteaandtoast · Yesterday 08:42

Lilyloolock · Yesterday 08:37

No repeat performance this morning, if anyone is following this thread. That's a relief!

a relief in many ways! 😂

Jc2001 · Yesterday 08:45

Saturdayisthebestday · 19/09/2026 11:28

Is it an accident, no.
Is it an emergency, also no.

A&E for a brief headache after a wank?! I've heard it all now.

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

Lilyloolock · Yesterday 09:06

poweredbyteaandtoast · Yesterday 08:42

a relief in many ways! 😂

I almost made that exact comment myself!

OP posts:
poweredbyteaandtoast · Yesterday 09:09

Lilyloolock · Yesterday 09:06

I almost made that exact comment myself!

Great minds!

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