Might headaches help increase libido?
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Might headaches help increase libido?
By SUSAN BRINK
Los Angeles Times
Sex and headache are inextricably linked by the age-old excuse: Not tonight, dear. I have a headache.
But brain science is finding that it's more complicated than that. For many people, sex can turn a dull throbbing pain into a raging headache. For a few who jump into bed feeling fine, orgasm can trigger a sudden, explosive headache. And for a minority of people, headaches are cured by a roll in the hay.
Now a small pilot study exploring the link between migraines and libido suggests there might be a reward for headache pain. In the June edition of the journal Headache, researchers found that young adults with migraines reported higher levels of sexual desire.
Dr. Timothy Houle, professor of anesthesiology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina and lead author of the study, wanted to see if migraine sufferers thought about sex more than tension headache sufferers did.
Researchers looked at 68 college students, about half of whom were migraine sufferers; the other half suffered the more typical tension headaches. He gave the two groups of headache sufferers questionnaires, asking about their perceived level of sexual desire and probing into how much they think about having sex.
''Migraine sufferers reported higher levels of sexual desire by about 20 percent,'' Houle says.
What surprised him is that in an age group understood to delight in sexual awakening, they know they have even more carnal thoughts than their peers.
''Not only did migrainers rate their levels of desire higher, they were aware of the fact that their levels were higher,'' Houle says.
He wanted to study the possible link between libido and migraines because he knew that migraine sufferers have lower levels of the brain chemical serotonin than the general population. The chemical, associated with sexual desire, also responds to certain antidepressants. Those drugs, called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, increase the amount of serotonin available in the brain -- and often have sexual side effects including reduced libido.
Knowing from antidepressant research that sexual desire can be manipulated by serotonin levels, researchers reasoned that if heightened levels of serotonin can decrease libido, maybe low levels increase it.
The study has its skeptics."
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Might headaches help increase libido?
By SUSAN BRINK
Los Angeles Times
Sex and headache are inextricably linked by the age-old excuse: Not tonight, dear. I have a headache.
But brain science is finding that it's more complicated than that. For many people, sex can turn a dull throbbing pain into a raging headache. For a few who jump into bed feeling fine, orgasm can trigger a sudden, explosive headache. And for a minority of people, headaches are cured by a roll in the hay.
Now a small pilot study exploring the link between migraines and libido suggests there might be a reward for headache pain. In the June edition of the journal Headache, researchers found that young adults with migraines reported higher levels of sexual desire.
Dr. Timothy Houle, professor of anesthesiology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina and lead author of the study, wanted to see if migraine sufferers thought about sex more than tension headache sufferers did.
Researchers looked at 68 college students, about half of whom were migraine sufferers; the other half suffered the more typical tension headaches. He gave the two groups of headache sufferers questionnaires, asking about their perceived level of sexual desire and probing into how much they think about having sex.
''Migraine sufferers reported higher levels of sexual desire by about 20 percent,'' Houle says.
What surprised him is that in an age group understood to delight in sexual awakening, they know they have even more carnal thoughts than their peers.
''Not only did migrainers rate their levels of desire higher, they were aware of the fact that their levels were higher,'' Houle says.
He wanted to study the possible link between libido and migraines because he knew that migraine sufferers have lower levels of the brain chemical serotonin than the general population. The chemical, associated with sexual desire, also responds to certain antidepressants. Those drugs, called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, increase the amount of serotonin available in the brain -- and often have sexual side effects including reduced libido.
Knowing from antidepressant research that sexual desire can be manipulated by serotonin levels, researchers reasoned that if heightened levels of serotonin can decrease libido, maybe low levels increase it.
The study has its skeptics."
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