What are the causes of sexual headaches?

Although a headache is not a disease, it can make you dizzy and lose your concentration. There are often some women who suffer from headaches. Headaches in women are related to many factors. Generally, menstruation, weather, colds, and hunger can cause headaches. When you have a headache, don’t panic. First, you must find the cause so that you can better prescribe the right medicine. So how can you prevent it?

1. Menstrual cycle

Mainly due to changes in serum estradiol concentrations. Before menstruation, estradiol concentration is low, the sensitivity of intracranial, extracranial and uterine blood vessels increases, and vascular tension changes, leading to headaches. After menstruation, estradiol levels returned to normal and headaches subsided.

Another possibility is that it is affected by prostaglandins. Estrogen (including estradiol) stimulates the secretion of prolactin, which in turn stimulates the secretion of prostaglandins, which act on blood vessels, causing vascular contraction and dilation, thereby causing headaches.

2. Weather

Changes in meteorological conditions such as air pressure, temperature, and humidity can cause changes in chemicals and electrical currents in the brain, which can stimulate the nerves and cause headaches.

3. Earrings, headscarves and ponytails

A ponytail that is tied too tightly, a hat or headscarf that is too tight, or earrings that are too heavy can all pull on the muscles of the head and neck and cause headaches.

4. Perfume

Pungent smells can irritate the nervous system and cause headaches.

5. Hunger

Low blood sugar can stimulate neural pathways, which can lead to headaches.

What are the types of headaches?

Headaches can be divided into acute onset headaches, subacute onset headaches and chronic onset headaches according to their onset. The first type includes meningitis or encephalitis, the second type includes intracranial tumors, etc., which have been mentioned in the previous article, and the third type mainly includes the following types.

1. Migraine

Migraine is a chronic neurological disease that is common in young and middle-aged people. This type of headache is caused by neurovascular dysfunction in the brain and is characterized by recurrent attacks of moderate to severe headaches and severe throbbing headaches.

2. Cluster headaches

Cluster headaches are severe, paroxysmal pain that often occur in young adults. The cause of this headache is unknown, and its characteristic is that it is limited to the temporal, frontal and other areas on one side.

Attack time : During the cluster period, the attacks usually occur at a fixed time every day. This is followed by a period of remission, usually ranging from a few months to two years.

3. Tension headache

About 40% of headache sufferers suffer from tension headaches. The causes of this type of headache are psychosocial stress, mental factors, abuse of analgesics, etc. It is characterized by persistent dull pain, distending pain, and non-pulsating headache in the bilateral occipital, cervical, frontal and temporal regions, or the entire head.