The Truth About Sex and Headaches

Sex should not be consider as a cure for headaches but as a treatment for headaches. I mean that sexual pleasure might reduce or eliminate the pain of a headache during the act; but, once it is over, the pain might come back. That is because the headache never really left; its pain was simply masked by the sexual pleasure.

Everyone is different. Headaches differ from person to person and headache to headache. Sex differs from partner to partner and occasion to occasion. If your headaches are always short and you always enjoy long sex, then your headaches might always be gone by the time the sex is over. For the rest of the people out there, you might consider taking some aspirin/ibuprofen/etc. before you start having sex so that the pain reliever will (hopefully) be working by the time you're done.

The pleasure from sex does not always help with headaches. Keep that in mind when your partner says, "No," to you. Sometimes people with headaches—especially migraines—just need to be left alone. (And sometimes your partner doesn't have a headache but is saying, "No," for a different reason. But that is the topic for a different post.)