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Although orgasm is usually a pleasurable and happy experience for most people, it can be painful for others who find that it starts coital headaches. For these people, sexual activity can actually cause these coital headache attacks.

Technically, a headache, or cephalalgia, is a symptom of a number of different conditions of the head and sometimes the neck too. They can be classified into two main groups: primary or idiopathic, and symptomatic, although there are other ways of classifying them too; for example by severity.

Put simply, primary headaches have a known or unknown cause, whereas symptomatic headaches are often caused by injury. Primary headaches include: migraine, tension headaches, cluster headaches and coital headaches, amongst others.

Coital headaches, also named coital cephalalgia or sexual headaches, is a rare, but severe form of headache that starts in the nape of the neck during sexual intercourse, but before climax. It can happen in all conditions where climax is the expected result. The pain can move to behind the eyes and can then become even more severe. Typically the pain will last from a few minutes to an hour or so, but some cases have been known to continue for days in the worst cases.

Men are three times more prone to coital headaches than women and the age groups most at risk are those between 20 and 25 and 30 and 44. Nobody really knows why this should be. Coital headaches affect about one percent of the population, although this figure could be a lot higher because of people being embarrassed to talk about it.

Moreover, coital headaches are benign, which means that they cause no long-term adverse consequences, as far as we know. It appears that people taking sexual stimulants, like Cialis, are roughly 10% more at risk to a coital headache. In fact, besides the obvious, temporary pain, the worst issues of coital headaches are differing levels of dizziness, confusion and stiffness of neck.

However, it is still worth visiting a doctor though, especially in the beginning, just to rule out the more severe causes of headaches, such as brain tumours and blood clots. However, the doctor can do rather little to help by way of cure. He may suggest a complete abstention from any kind of sexual practice for a period ranging from days to weeks or he may suggest trying taking medication some time before sexual foreplay commences.

Some of the headache medications that can be taken are indomethacin, imitrex, zomig and propranolol, although if the headaches persist, your doctor could suggest daily preventive medication. People suffering from frequent coital headaches may experience a positive response to migraine preventive medications, such as beta blockers or verapamil. Non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) such as ibuprofen may similarly be helpful. Coital headaches and migraines are also more likely to occur if a person is in poor physical shape.

Nevertheless, the cure for coital headaches for a lot of sufferers can be as simple as bringing your weight up or down to the norm for your size. Coital headaches can also be cured in some sufferers by an increased level of exercise, although this may stimulate exertion headaches in some people.

Now the good news is that most headaches related to sexual activities are not at all serious in nature. In fact, research actually suggests that orgasm can stop headaches and even migraine in some instances. This implies that for some adults, refusing sex may actually be the cause of their headache in the first place.