Get me rewrite. Please replace “Not tonight, dear, I have a headache” with “Definitely tonight, dear, I have a migraine headache.” That’s essentially what researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have done. Science Daily reports that scientists at the med school questioned 68 adults who suffered at least 10
headaches a year about the type of headache they had (tension or migraine) and about their level of sexual desire. They found that men reported levels of sexual desire that were 24 percent higher
than women, and that migraine sufferers reported desire that
was 20 percent higher than those suffering from tension headaches. Women with migraines had levels of sexual desire similar to men who
had tension headaches. What’s up with that? The researchers suspect that abnormally low levels of serotonin may help bring on the pain, and the desire. More research is definitely needed.
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I have had tension headaches since I was a young boy. In my teens these turned into migraines. They were always on the left side of the back of my neck and around to my left eye. A queasy stomach the night before would tell me that I was going to have one. I am in my late 70’s and my migraines have almost stopped. My sexual desires were very strong during the migraine years but sex was out of the question while a migraine was in full bloom! My doctor prescribe a valuim tablet the morning that I woke up before an attack occurred. Then one midrin tablet every thirty minutes until the migraine subsided, up to six. This greatly lessoned the duration and pain level. I never connected sex with migraines but if this is the case, it was worth it!