A new study by experts has stated that sex can cure headache.Experts
in a new study reported in Cephalalgia, the journal of the International
Headache Society, that more than half of those who suffered migraine
and had sex during an attack experienced improvement in symptoms.
At least, one in five of the people left without any pain at all after sex.
“Our results show that sèxual activity during a migraine attack might
relieve or even stop an attack in some cases, and that sèxual activity
in the presence of headache is not an unusual behaviour.
“sex can abort migraine and cluster headache attacks, while sexual
activity is used by some patients as acute headache treatment,” the
researchers said.
Consultant neurologist, Dr Nick Silver, of the NHS Walton Centre for
Neuroscience and Neurosurgery in Liverpool, United Kingdom, said this
was a preliminary study, limiting conclusions that could be reached.
“We can now say, however, that the excuse of ‘not tonight, I have a
headache’ may not be taken seriously by all sexual partners,” the
researchers said.
In the study at the University of Munster in Germany, neurologists
collected data on 400 patients with the two types of headache who had
been treated over a two-year period.
They found that 33 per cent had made love during a headache and of
the number, 60 per cent of migraine patients and 36 per cent of men and
women with cluster headaches had an improvement in symptoms.
Men were more likely to benefit than women, according to the study,
with 36 per cent of men using sexual activity as a therapy for dealing
with their headache.
Meanwhile, 13 per cent of women used sex to combat headache.
Of the migraine patients who saw an improvement in their pain, 19 per
cent had complete relief of headache symptoms, 51 per cent experienced
moderate relief and 29 per cent reported mild relief.
“In total, 42.7 per cent of all migraine patients experienced, at
least, 50 per cent relief, a response rate as high as in studies on
acute medication,”
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