Scientists have found that men are more probable than women to be telling the truth if they say not tonight darling I've got a headache. A team of German researchers have begun to investigate the occurrence of sexual headaches - a condition known as Orgasmic Cephalgia. They have revealed that it is three times more likely to strike men. The headaches usually come on unexpectedly around the point of orgasm, and can be very severe.
The researchers consider the condition affects around one in a 100 people at least once during a lifetime, but some people are afflicted on a regular basis. Although the precise causes are not yet understood, it is thought that the state may be linked to the increased blood flow and dilation of blood vessels that occur during sex. The German team is carrying out research intending to solve the mystery.
They stress that people do not develop the condition as a result of particular partners or certain sexual habits. Neither is it linked to any form of brain injury or disease. It is most common among the young people, and is most likely to strike for the first time between the ages of 20 and 25. Researchers Dr Achim Frese and Dr Stefan Evers who are from the University of Munster actually examined patients who had complained of sexual headaches.
Dr Frese, who presented preliminary results from the study during a meeting of the European Federation of Neurological Societies in Vienna discussed that they found that the vast majority of patients suffered from an explosive and very severe headache starting suddenly around the orgasm. The others suffered from a dreary headache with the pain increasing more gradually before the orgasm.
In most cases the headaches appeared during intercourse with a regular partner, or perhaps during masturbating. Dr Frese feels that about half of the patients had realised that they could avoid some of the headache attacks by increasing the sexual excitement more gradually. Some patients were prescribed with preventative treatment such as beta-blockers - drugs given to migraine sufferers - or the pain killer known as indomethacin.
Typically, sexual headaches appeared in bouts of a few weeks duration and resolved themselves quite spontaneously. Most patients had only one bout while others had almost two or three. For men and boys with a tight foreskin that can not draw in off the head, a condition which is known as phimosis, the skin can usually be stretched to comfortably slide on and off the head. Stretching the foreskin works in about 9 out of 10 cases, making circumcision hardly ever necessary.
When trying to stretch your foreskin, the most important thing to realize is to do it extremely slowly. It will take months to acheive good results. You will want to gently place a finger or two into the opening of your foreskin and gently apply nonstop pressure. Make sure you do not feel any kind of pain. Pain indicates you are causing damage to the foreskin as well. For 15 or 30 minutes every day, gently stretch the opening of the foreskin and apply a topical steroid cream twice a day if necessary. It is important to do it every day or even a few times of the day. Just make sure you are not causing any sort of pain, tearing or bleeding. You may enjoy pulling and stretching the foreskin while you are masturbating. The most important thing is to do it constantly every day.
