Got Headache? Try Sex Instead of A Pain Killer

If you’re suffering from a headache, retiring to bed may be the best solution.Sex can cure head pain, according to scientists – and venturing between the sheets may even be more effective than heading to the medicine cabinet.More than half of 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.

One theory is that 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.

‘Our 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.

Men were more likely to 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.

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30 Responses to Got Headache? Try Sex Instead of A Pain Killer

Mbuzi Reply

March 5, 2013 at 11:49 am

are they going to be offering free sex in hospitals now just like other medicines.
VEN Reply

March 5, 2013 at 12:00 pm

I HAVE A HEADACHE……PLEASE HELP.
- kalichee Reply
  
  March 5, 2013 at 4:23 pm
  
  come and **** me am ready and waiting for you my love.
  - VEN Reply
    
    March 6, 2013 at 11:37 am
    
    ya baby.give it to me!Hold me not,am about to release NALAPOWA!
bashi mizo Reply

March 5, 2013 at 12:30 pm

it good for us who are married not u who are still single ok
mwamba mutale Reply

March 5, 2013 at 12:58 pm

Doctors should be giving such prescriptions so that we show them to the beaches.
CALLED WISE Reply

March 5, 2013 at 1:33 pm

TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY.
JUST AS BASHI MIZO HAS SAID.
FOR SINGLE PEOPLE, PAIN KILLERS AND MUCH WATERS ARE BETTER FOR US.
Chizay Reply

March 5, 2013 at 1:40 pm

I thnk masturbtn cn oso do
- hibalombwana Reply
  
  March 5, 2013 at 4:05 pm
  
  CRAZY
- hibalombwana Reply
  
  March 5, 2013 at 4:05 pm
  
  CRAZY
BMR Reply

March 5, 2013 at 2:05 pm

ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE. PANADOL WILL LOSE MARKET
kalichee Reply

March 5, 2013 at 2:56 pm

clinical officers and doctors should start offering this with immediate effect to headache patients in hospital to reduce deaths. nice development.
CNP-4U Reply

March 5, 2013 at 3:11 pm

we need free sex in hospitals now..wow..there we go..so that our headaches will be treated ..
- hibalombwana Reply
  
  March 5, 2013 at 4:11 pm
  
  @CNP-4U,TODAY YOU HAVE SURPRISED AND SHOCKED ME YOU ARE NOT BEING POLITICAL,THATS HOW IT SHOULD BE ALWAYS.DIFFERENCES IN OPINION OR POLITICAL VIEW SHOULD NOT MAKE US BECOME ENEMIES OR INSULT EACH OTHER.KUDOS TO YOU AND ALL UPND CADRES SORRY SUPPORTERS.
ferns Reply

March 5, 2013 at 3:43 pm

that really sound good i will try it.
dibo Reply

March 5, 2013 at 7:10 pm

wow! thats cool,more sex no headaches.
Barotse diaspora Reply

March 5, 2013 at 7:25 pm

Not only sex can cure migraines .try this physiotharapy by lifting your left hand and passing it across your head twice ,hold it for two minutes touching your right side ear and drink plent y of liquid. You wil feel grace and grow.
Lazaro Reply

March 5, 2013 at 8:41 pm

Really? Am having a haedach already,but this is for the maried only ,imwe bafikala mwe bashaupa just continual with fima panado or try masturbating,who knows maybe it can work. Kyeekkekeke yah!
masicom Reply

March 6, 2013 at 7:44 am

Mo sexy imwe bantu,less headaches
ck Reply

March 6, 2013 at 9:33 am

i can’t enjoy it with a headache?
god sent Reply

March 6, 2013 at 9:36 am

more sex less headaches, we appreciate… but in my case just an orgasm gives me a terrible headache. this bane is not such a good deal for me mweee
nawaitwika Reply

March 6, 2013 at 11:35 am

@ Mbuzi Mwamba mutale,Mascom, Lazaro and others who are supporting this you are on the highway to the grave I can see you have that apetite for sex but sex is not everything even in marriages pipo do not do it every day you need to be delivered from that spirit of nyele. I love you all
Maake Palo Reply

March 7, 2013 at 2:10 pm

If docters started to give patients sex for free in placement of panadol what about HIV?
MWNINELUBEMBA1 Reply

March 8, 2013 at 3:47 pm

THE ADVISE IS TRICKY,I HAD SEX WITH A BIT OF HEADACHE BY THE TIME I FINISHED I WAS FAILLING TO OPEN MY EYES COS OF SEVERE PAIN.SO I WOULD ADVISE OTHERS TO APPLY THAT METHOD WITH CAUTION COS SOME HEADACHES WILL WORSEN AFTER SEX,I HOPE THERES SOME ONE OUT THERE WHO HAD THE EXPERIENCE LIKE ME
ndate mutongoki Reply

March 8, 2013 at 5:02 pm

tasting is believing. i will try it on my momma and see how it works. what i know is that good sex is a tringuiliser…gives you that feeling of great relaxation
January Johns Reply

March 9, 2013 at 5:41 am

Janet C, where are you my good friend? I have this terrible headache. Come and give me a quick one for a quick relief.
engineer Reply

March 14, 2013 at 8:59 pm

am openning a hospital to cure headaches. ladies the cure for you has been found.
abene bansamba Reply

March 23, 2013 at 12:01 pm

Do it live pakuti mukakwate bwino inda mumulopa.Mind you,scientists won’t be there when you will be taking ARV’s course.
ba more Reply

March 25, 2013 at 10:27 am

ka sex! that sounds good.
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii dnt kubeba Reply

April 16, 2013 at 6:34 pm

@ sent one gives you a headache,i can give you five ORGSMS In a role