This gets a little personal...(but not graphic)
So don't read it if you're not comfortable reading words like "sex" and "orgasm", or are not comfortable reading them in a context that refers to me.I assure you this is not graphic or explicit. This is mostly just a way for me to vent anyway, so don't feel bad about not reading it.
My dry sockets are just about all healed up, which is nice. But... you know that phrase "If it's not one thing, it's another"?
Yeah, well, very much applicable.
It seems that I have a condition known as "orgasmic cephalgia" or "benign coital cephalalgia". At least, I hope that's what it is - otherwise it's probably an aneurism.
In practical terms it means that the last 5 times that I've approached orgasm I've been overcome with a sharp, throbbing, horrible pain on the right side of my head. The pain quickly (within about 5 seconds) spreads to cover the entire right side and I get a faint pain on the left side. All this is accompanied by moderate pain in the top two or three vertebrae and the muscle surrounding them. This pain feels very much like a migraine, it just doesn't act like one (migraines usually happen from temple to temple over my forehead with no neck pain. Also, my migraines usually have a gradual onset.)
There isn't any sort of handy cure - the best thing to do about it is treat it like a migraine and take migraine medication for it (the medication I have just happens to not be working for any of my migraines) or get on some medication that will thin my blood.
Also, no one knows how long they will last. The best answer I can get is that they'll disappear just as mysteriously as the appeared. Lovely.
I'm talking to someone with a lot of experience treating migraines on Friday and hoping that I can get this resolved. I'm baffled because this (reportedly) effects only about 250,000 Americans, two-thirds of which are male and it has something to do with blood pressure problems (but my blood pressure has always been perfect!)
So now I get to either make the choice to be with my husband but risk getting one of the worst headaches I've ever had (I say risk because, well, apparently they go away for no real reason and I would have no way of knowing that they're gone until I discover it from experience) or I can just shut off that aspect of my life for who knows how long, either until I can't take it anymore or until it's been so long that there's no way I could still be suffering from the headaches. Neither of those options is pleasant for me or my husband.
On the upside, they usually only last 1-3 hours...?
My dry sockets are just about all healed up, which is nice. But... you know that phrase "If it's not one thing, it's another"?
Yeah, well, very much applicable.
It seems that I have a condition known as "orgasmic cephalgia" or "benign coital cephalalgia". At least, I hope that's what it is - otherwise it's probably an aneurism.
In practical terms it means that the last 5 times that I've approached orgasm I've been overcome with a sharp, throbbing, horrible pain on the right side of my head. The pain quickly (within about 5 seconds) spreads to cover the entire right side and I get a faint pain on the left side. All this is accompanied by moderate pain in the top two or three vertebrae and the muscle surrounding them. This pain feels very much like a migraine, it just doesn't act like one (migraines usually happen from temple to temple over my forehead with no neck pain. Also, my migraines usually have a gradual onset.)
There isn't any sort of handy cure - the best thing to do about it is treat it like a migraine and take migraine medication for it (the medication I have just happens to not be working for any of my migraines) or get on some medication that will thin my blood.
Also, no one knows how long they will last. The best answer I can get is that they'll disappear just as mysteriously as the appeared. Lovely.
I'm talking to someone with a lot of experience treating migraines on Friday and hoping that I can get this resolved. I'm baffled because this (reportedly) effects only about 250,000 Americans, two-thirds of which are male and it has something to do with blood pressure problems (but my blood pressure has always been perfect!)
So now I get to either make the choice to be with my husband but risk getting one of the worst headaches I've ever had (I say risk because, well, apparently they go away for no real reason and I would have no way of knowing that they're gone until I discover it from experience) or I can just shut off that aspect of my life for who knows how long, either until I can't take it anymore or until it's been so long that there's no way I could still be suffering from the headaches. Neither of those options is pleasant for me or my husband.
On the upside, they usually only last 1-3 hours...?