German neurologists have now confirmed what men have been telling women for centuries: the best cure for a headache is sex.
In the study at the University of Munster in Germany, neurologists collected data on 400 patients with the two types of headache who had been treated over a two-year period. They found that 33 per cent had made love during a headache. Of those, 60 per cent of migraine patients and 36 per cent of men and women with cluster headaches had an improvement in symptoms…
Of the migraine patients who saw an improvement in their pain, 19 per cent had complete relief of headache symptoms, 51 per cent experienced moderate relief and 29 per cent reported mild relief.
"In total, 42.7 per cent of all migraine patients experienced at least 50 per cent relief, a response rate as high as in studies on acute medication," said the researcher.
And those who didn’t experience relief of their headache itself were at least able to mask it with a different kind of relief.
[Hat tip Russell W.]
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