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sexual headache?
Everything is pretty much perfect in yje bedroom with me and my hubby of 5 years except one thing. For some reason I get headaches in the middle of sex and they get worse when we stop. It makes it really hard to climax with a throbbing headache. It usually lasts about ten minutes afterwards but I'm wondering if anyone else has this issue.
Re: sexual headache?
Move down the bed a little! Ya know, so your head quits banging the headboards so much!
I got those starting on my honeymoon. They lasted for about a month, which was when I was able to go to the doctor. She put me on a lower estrogen dose BC pill (Ortho-Tri-Cyclen Lo) and gave me some migraine medication samples to take before having sex and also some Excedrin migraine. I actually managed to have a migraine that lasted more or less that whole month because the pain wouldn't stop and then we'd have sex and it'd start up again. (You're lucky that it goes away!) She also gave me a referral to a neurologist and I had an MRI done. The MRI was clean.
The neurologist said that they happen for unknown reasons but that the good thing is they usually go away within a few weeks or months. In the meanwhile, he told me to take some ibuprofen before things started. That definitely helped--I was usually left with just a lot of pressure in my head instead of a terrible, horrible headache. About a month later, I was able to stop taking the ibuprofen entirely.
About a year later, I started having the same problem. It went on for a couple of weeks, because the migraine really does just cycle for me. I can't have sex with a headache or my head just explodes. But it does stop. I actually went off my BC entirely a couple of months ago (it was interfering with my sex drive and new research is saying that hormonal BC often does long-term damage to a woman's sex drive, so we were very glad to be done with that--I was only on it for about a year and a-half, though), so maybe that will put an end to that problem entirely. I guess I'll see with time!
But yeah, it should clear up on its own in time. In the meanwhile, I'd take your favourite NSAID as a prophylactic before you start having sex. (It kinda killed the spontaneity, though, because I would try to take it about an hour beforehand to give it time to get into my system. Boo.)