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Orgasm headache

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Parsley1234 · 03/08/2020 20:41

My sex life has taken a turn for the better but I’m getting an orgasm headache. It seems to be rare in women - I am using anti inflammatory pain relief before sex and am hoping it will go away on its own as read online suggests.
However can anyone give me other suggestions or if you’ve experienced it please help me !

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TrollTheRespawnJeremy · 03/08/2020 23:38

I have had this. It was horrible and lasted for days.

I found acupuncture really helped.

Parsley1234 · 04/08/2020 07:26

@TrollTheRespawnJeremy thank you !!!! It’s horrible how long did it last for you please ? Genius I’m booking acupuncture today if I can 🥴every time I orgasm for three weeks now with a new partner it’s so awful !

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TrollTheRespawnJeremy · 04/08/2020 13:42

I had a small warning one for a few days and then I never learned my lesson and had one that I couldn't shift for about two weeks. It was awful. Couldn't concentrate and the pain was constant.

Maybe see if you can tempt them into giving you a massage beforehand so that you're nice and relaxed before you get into it, I know i hold a lot of tension in my shoulders and neck so I am assuming they're linked in some way.

Parsley1234 · 04/08/2020 15:08

@TrollTheRespawnJeremy I just had acupuncture and I feel a lot better I’m hoping to have another session next week it’s properly intense

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TrollTheRespawnJeremy · 05/08/2020 01:19

Wild isn’t it? I haven’t had one for a while now so hopefully yours will be a short lived thing too. Takes a bit to adjust to a new partner!

Parsley1234 · 05/08/2020 05:47

@TrollTheRespawnJeremy fingers crossed it will never come back 🥴 so painful not helped by none of my friends ever experiencing it !

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Addler · 05/08/2020 16:50

I had them for a period of time but nothing to the same extent now, one time I couldn't even move my head to the side for about four hours afterwards without blinding pain.

I mentioned it it my neurologist and she said it's pretty common in people who suffer migraines and other types of headaches.

I started to really pay attention to how I was holding tension in my body during sex/masturbation and whether I was holding my breath etc. It's been much better since then

Shewithmagicears2018 · 05/08/2020 20:58

I'm also someone who has experience of these unbelievable coital migraines. I ended up in casualty having a brain scan and a lumbar puncture to check I wasn't having a bleed in the brain! The pain is severe and really distressing....I literally can't move when it hits me. Mine started about 7 years ago and after the tests showed no bleeds etc I paid to see a neurologist privately and he was brilliant. He acknowledged that my condition is rare but I now take on-going medication (this has been added to and altered over the years to try and find the right balance for me) but it means that I can usually enjoy an orgasm without feeling like I'm actually going to pass out and die. I guess I'm letting you know that if they persist please get help as it does exist! My poor husband was getting to the stage where he daren't make me orgasm in case it struck and I was really frustrated!!!Grin

Parsley1234 · 06/08/2020 19:41

@Shewithmagicears2018 jeez I’m hoping to god this doesn’t happen to me ! I’m going to try and orgasm and see what happens on my own it’s so bloody unfortunate great lover pain in my head 🤣

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Parsley1234 · 06/08/2020 19:42

And I never get headaches
@Addler what measures did you take to stop the pain like breathing techniques pls ?

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TrollTheRespawnJeremy · 07/08/2020 12:39

I also had to change my breathing, I think I was guilty of holding my breath in order to focus on sensations etc also tensing up muscles etc.

I’ve had to learn how to have a less ‘rigid’ orgasm if you know what I mean 🤷🏻‍♀️

Unfortunately it’s meant I’m a lot louder than I was previously which is a nightmare within itself.

Parsley1234 · 07/08/2020 15:15

@TrollTheRespawnJeremy @Addler so I need to stop holding my breath And breath 🤣

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dinosaurrisotto · 07/08/2020 15:52

I have had this before, although not to the degree described above! I am a migraine sufferer. What i have found to help is making sure i am properly hydrated beforehand and immediately afterwards. I put it down to, ahem, loss of fluid during the act (blush). It seems to have helped.

Parsley1234 · 07/08/2020 17:54

@dinosaurrisotto yes I’ll try that as well I’m determined to conquer this ! No sex for 18 mths and then this nonsense 🥴🤣

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OneEye1961 · 09/08/2020 09:38

OP, I've had this for over ten years. I'm not saying this to freak you out; there's no reason why your sexual headaches should follow the same course as mine. But you really should go to your GP with these symptoms, and get a referral to a hospital neurology dept for a scan of your head. This is because an orgasm headache can be a sign of something quite serious - like aneurysms or intra-cranial bleeds. It's very unlikely to be any of these things, but they're so serious you can't ignore them, so please, please go and get that scan. It's bad enough worrying you might have a headache when you come, without worrying it's going to kill you or disable you, right?

Once you've had that, the most likely thing that will happen is that your sex headaches will go away. Mine did, but they came back, and I got a diagnosis of Benign Sexual Headache. Which I knew weren't going to kill me, but seriously messed with my sex life. The best advice I got was from a female neurologist, who told me to keep an orgasm diary. Not just when I orgasmed and whether a headache occurred, but HOW I orgasmed - sex, masturbation, on top, underneath, standing up, lying down, heavy breathing, anything that seemed relevant. I quickly realised that masturbating standing up was a trigger, so that had to stop!

Another neurologist made me give up coffee, which at the time I was scornful about, but has helped a lot - I was drinking maybe a dozen cups a day. Still another neurologist (male) told me it was 'nothing to worry about' and I was furious. What he meant was, I suppose, you don't have a brain tumour, you're not going to die. But it fuckin well IS a worry if your head feels like a bomb's gone off inside right at the moment you come; I literally feel your pain, OP.

Self-care is the key: I've had to realise that quality over quantity is super-important - ie being properly aroused meant orgasms came naturally (sorry) and with less danger of a headache, whereas trying to come too often meant I was straining for orgasm and this was associated with the worst headaches. I'm 58 now, so one every week, or even 10 days, feels about right. One of the things that stemmed from the orgasm diary was writing my own pornography. I know that sounds weird but it's really helped. I've never really liked 'regular' porn but sexy scenes in books really turn me on so I wrote scenes of my own, bespoke porn if you like, and that helps massively with being properly aroused if I'm doing my own thing. I never realised I was having so many 'low quality' orgasms - typical bloke, I thought all orgasms were equal, despite lots of evidence to the contrary. And I've learned that arousal without orgasm is both enjoyable and necessary, and directly improves the sex that does continue as far as orgasm. The minute I feel I'm having to try too hard to approach orgasm, I stop, and save it for another day, and I don't feel frustrated, I feel like I'm looking after myself. I hope yours go away by themselves and don't come back. But if they do, don't despair. I feel I've been through the mill with this, but I have 9 out of 10 orgasms without headaches now.

Parsley1234 · 10/08/2020 07:16

@OneEye1961 thank you ! I am with a new partner and before I went into menopause I would masturbate every day but now I come via oral and that’s when it started

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OneEye1961 · 14/08/2020 00:25

Experiment. Does it still happen when you masturbate now? If not, yay! - but why not? I've done a lot of reading about headache, migraine & cerebral arteries. I don't really recommend it; it's a very complex field, and theories are advanced and countered all the time in the medical literature. For example, there's no agreement on whether vasodilation or vasoconstriction (arteries expanding or contracting) causes the pain of a headache. It's known that too much CO2 in the blood causes marked dilation of cerebral arteries, which has led some sufferers to recommend deep breathing, or at least avoidance of breath-holding or tensing up during the 'climb' to orgasm. Others recommend hydration as the key to controlling orgasm headaches. I can only say, you have to make your own connections, hence the orgasm diary (the writing of which used to turn me on a bit, but maybe I'm a bit weird!). There's a long thread on the nakedscientists.com website, at www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=2734.220
The contributions by Oneeyedguy are mine, so you can see the various twists & turns I went through, trying to nail down how to control this embuggerance. Again, I don't hugely recommend it; you'll find people on there relating sexual headaches to anything from cow's milk to environmental pollution. All it really tells you is, we're very individual when it comes to headache triggers. What worked for me might not work for you, and the whole thing is confused by the headaches deciding to go away of their own accord, apparently quite randomly. This means you get convinced that something you've tried has worked, only to be proved wrong a few months later. For me, it's all revolved around 'proper' arousal. No more 'forced' orgasms, achieved more through physical stimulation than mental. If I'm not feeling really turned on to begin with, I don't embark on a physical process of trying to get myself into that state, iyswim. And even if I am turned on, if I get warning signals, little spikes of pain or sensation, I accept I'm not ready, it'll have to be another time for me - though not for my partner. It used to get in the way but there's no good reason why you shouldn't carry on having a good time. OK, one of you isn't going to reach orgasm tonight, that's hardly a new thing - though I'll admit, I guess like most men, it was a new thing for me. I hope they clear up for you, OP. Stay healthy, don't tense up, focus on arousal, and don't give up. Above all, and before all, get the head scan - worrying about an aneurysm or stroke isn't exactly going to make for great sex!

Parsley1234 · 15/08/2020 21:22

To all of you lovely people I had acupuncture then trigger point massage and no orgasm headache for 4 days now please let this never happen again 🙏

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OneEye1961 · 22/08/2020 22:45

I'm so pleased, OP. Relax, and carry on cumming!

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