is what a new study is claiming. When
you have a headache, leave all dem pain relief medicine alone and just turn to your
partner for some good loving. Choi!
I dey miss!!!…:-)
best solution.
pain, according to scientists – and venturing between the sheets may even be
more effective than heading to the medicine cabinet.
migraine sufferers who had sex during an attack experienced an improvement in
symptoms, the researchers found, and one in five was left without any pain at
all.
sex works by triggering the release of endorphins, the body’s natural
painkillers, which act on the central nervous system to reduce or eliminate the
headache.
results show that sexual activity during a migraine attack might relieve or
even stop an attack in some cases, and that sexual activity in the presence of
headache is not an unusual behaviour,’ the researchers said.
‘Sex can abort migraine and cluster headache attacks, and sexual activity is
used by some patients as acute headache treatment.’
It
has long been thought that sex can trigger headaches.
But in the new study, reported in Cephalalgia, the journal of the International
Headache Society, a team of neurologists investigated whether there was any
substance to anecdotal accounts that it could actually ease symptoms of
migraine and cluster, or one-sided, headaches.
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. Of those, 60 per cent
of migraine patients and 36 per cent of men and women with cluster headaches
had an improvement in symptoms.
benefit than women, with 36 per cent using sexual activity as a therapy for
dealing with their headache.
Meanwhile, 13 per cent of women used sex to combat a 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,’ said the researchers.
Consultant neurologist
Dr Nick Silver, of the NHS Walton Centre for Neuroscience and Neurosurgery in
Liverpool, said: ‘This is a preliminary study, limiting conclusions that can 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.’
Researchers say there
are a number of possible explanations for the findings, including the release
of painkilling endorphins during sex and changes in blood pressure that
occur.
Scans have also shown
that the hypothalamus region of the brain is active during a cluster headache,
and the same area shows activity during orgasm.
