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Does Anyone Suffer From Post-coital Migraines? And If You Do, How Do You Manage?
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My chronic migraines (that I've only had over a year) are continuing to get new symptoms and triggers, and the newest one is that after sex (orgasm or not) one of my ears will start ringing warning me a major migraine is getting ready to hit
This last time my husband felt so bad for me that he volunteered that we stop for a couple months to see if that would help anything. To me, this is not a solution, but I've been enduring this last migraine for several days because of it.

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posted July 23, 2018
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A MyMigraineTeam Member

I found that taking a Now Foods Tri-Amino supplement (which help me a lot in general) before the act seemed to help a bit. Also husband and I found that positions where I'm not on my back seem to help as well.

posted August 1, 2018
A MyMigraineTeam Member

I have suffered from this, sometimes just praying for it to be over. My dr tells me that we tense during sex in our shoulders/neck & head do to anticipating what's to come. I normally take some excedrin migraine but use Walgreens brand & icemy shoulders & neck. I use a migraine hat from Amazon that is my best frienf

posted July 24, 2018
A MyMigraineTeam Member

mostly the blood pumping thru head seems to be why. which means more mello coitis because didn't want to give it up. good luck some times just can't. if migraine already started.

posted July 25, 2018
A MyMigraineTeam Member

Love the migraine hat! I got mine 2 weeks ago. Magic.

posted July 24, 2018

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