I'm a guy, and for many years now, I've been getting a headache after having sex. I happens just minutes after I climax.

It doesn't always happen. Maybe 1 out of 4 times or so.

The headache is always in the same place. Left side towards the front. Sort of a broad and pounding.

Could this be related to Lyme and gang?

I can imagine that the organs involved in producing hormones and sperm may have something to do with this. Any insight anyone?

Don't have an answer to your question, but am wondering if you've consulted your doc?

On one of my favorite TV shows "House", I learned that having an orgasm is a very violent thing inside the body - as far as muscle contractions, chemicals, hormones, etc...

On the bright side, though, at least you're not a woman like me and get the headache BEFORE sex...which of course keeps you from having any sex at all!

I'm wondering if I could be considered a virgin again.

There is an actual classification of migraine that some people get after sex though. I found it on accident one day looking up various types of migraines

I'm glad you asked this question -- now I don't have to feel so alone!

I've had this problem for several years and usually the headaches are just dull and throbbing.

The last "sex headache" I had was extremely severe and painful. Really had me worried.

I am a 55 year old woman, so sperm production is not a factor.

I have chronic Lyme and Ehrlichia (at least 25 years but just recently diagnosed), also had sudden onset of migraine headaches at age 49 and had an abnormal MRI in 1999, so there may be the migraine connection that Crime of Lyme mentioned.

(Of course, my migraines were most likely Lyme induced.)

This information I found online suggests the migraine theory:

"It is important to avoid a quick increase in sexual activity and, thus, in blood pressure", says neurologist Stefan Evers, from the Neurological Clinic of the niversity of Munster.

He says the syndrome, which causes an explosion-like pain during orgasm, may be linked to migraine.

Most sufferers are between 25 and 50-years-old, and men are up to four times
more likely to be affected than women."

Hope this helps (at least you know you're not alone).

As for being a lyme thing, I have read that many people get a severe headache afterwards, but maybe lyme makes the headache worse.

Being a long time migraneur myself I have researched migraine and all of its manifestations and in fact the type of migraine you have, as TheCrimeofLYME mentioned, is documented.

I am sorry you get these - What a drag that is.

I am curious - Have you gotten these for a long time or just after your lyme diagnosis?

It is interesting to me that my migraines are breaking up and changing now just as someone else here on the boards had mentioned his migraines had done after abx treatment for tick borne illness.

I had a couple really bad ones - one was two weeks into my first month of lyme and babesia treatment - which was when I was taking Mepron and Zithro. The second one was on my second round of flagyl - that migraine put me in the ER - my eyesight was all screwed up and I could barely talk...it was horrible - then got the shakes for an hour...weird stuff!

With both of those migraines the visual aura preceeding the migraine was the same - like a t.v. without reception - wavy lines everywhere - then numbness in my hands, then my face, then my throat and mouth...then the vomiting and pain...the flagyl one though it kept cycling for almost the entire day back to the visual aura even with the pain meds the ER gave me. That was my first and third months of treatment...

I am just hoping that mine go away forever after treatment. If they do I will tend to think that the six generations in my family before me, that all had the same kind of migraine, may have acutally had lyme disease...just one of my many yet to be proven theories

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"If I can stop one/Heart from breaking/I shall not live in vain/If I can ease one Life the Aching/Or cool one Pain/Or help one fainting Robin/Unto his Nest again/I Shall not live in Vain." Emily Dickinson

can not since i am a female....i do it headache or not...my only problem is constant drying out

i'm only 32 so i would hope this would not be happening yet

anyone else with that???

amyb

Drying out: Yes, unfortunately. I'm 48 but I'm convinced it has nothing to do with age. It started with abx treatment and sometimes, just overnight, it stops, is okay for some weeks and then starts again.

Two days agao, 10 days after finishing a course of Clindamycin with Quinine the dryness stopped again after 5 months of DESERT.

As to headaches: both hubby and me get this sometimes, he more often than me.

just a thought..

maybe you're right, but how do you know that all your symptoms are now perimenopause and not Lyme? I don't want to take hormons to find out.

Squeegee -

you wrote:
"It is important to avoid a quick increase in sexual activity and, thus, in blood pressure"

This is so interesting. In retrospect, when I do get these headaches it seems that it could be correlated to how aroused I am and how quickly I climax. I will start paying more attention to this from now on.

Lymied -

The headaches have been happening to me for the last ~4 years or so.

I have had Lyme symptoms for about 25 years. But about one year ago it got a lot worse which is when I was diagnosed with Lyme.

Btw, I'm 43.

Yes, the intensity of the headache does seem to be in direct proportion to the intensity of the orgasm.

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Originally posted by Kara Tyson:
This is just a thought, but sex raises the blood pressure.

and I would love to be having some sex!!

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I also get the headaches after orgasm. Sometimes they are terrible and other times I can ignore it...