sodium-ethylxanthate and Migraine-Disorders

Topics: Altitude Sickness; Brain; Cerebrovascular Disorders; Cold Temperature; Craniocerebral Trauma; Endarterectomy; Food; Giant Cell Arteritis; Headache; Humans; Hypertension; Hypertension, Renal; Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic; Migraine Disorders; Physical Exertion; Sex; Vascular Diseases; Vascular Headaches

Chronic illness and chronic pain can have profound negative effects on relationship and sexual satisfaction, yet the influence of migraine on sexuality has not been previously evaluated. To assess sexual functions in subjects with migraine compared to those with no migraine. We evaluated female university students using the Israeli sexual behavior inventory (ISBI). Migraine was diagnosed according to self-reported symptoms according to the IHS criteria. Several dimensions of female sexuality--desire, orgasm, sexual avoidance, interpersonal sexual relationship, health influence, satisfaction and pain were evaluated using a structured questionnaire. Thirty-three (23.9%) of the participants met the IHS criteria for episodic migraine with and without aura. Sexual activity, desire, orgasm and satisfaction from sexual life did not differ significantly between migraine sufferers and non-sufferers. Migraine patients reported lower ISBI scores, higher health influence on sexual life, higher levels of sexual pain and lower sexual satisfaction. Migraine negatively affected the sexual life of sufferers. Sexual pain disorder is more common among migraine sufferers compared to non-migraineurs.

Topics: Adult; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Humans; Migraine Disorders; Motor Activity; Sex; Sexual Behavior; Sexuality

Headache associated with sexual activity is an idiopathic headache disorder and regarded to be a vascular headache but no pathophysiological studies have been performed to date to elucidate the underlying mechanisms. We investigated 12 patients with the explosive type of sexual headache according to the criteria of the International Headache Society during a headache-free state by means of acetazolamide test and of stress Doppler sonography. Twelve age-matched migraine patients and 14 healthy subjects served as control groups. Changes of blood pressure, cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFV), and pulsatility index (PI) were evaluated. Patients with sexual headache showed a significantly higher increase of blood pressure during standardized physical exercise as compared to healthy subjects and migraine patients. Changes of CBFV by physical exercise were not different between the three examination groups. After 1g acetazolamide, CBFV showed a significantly higher increase in patients with sexual headache (plus 66%+/-16%) than in healthy subjects (plus 46%+/-18%), and PI showed a significantly lower decrease as compared to healthy subjects and migraine patients. These data suggest that in patients with sexual headache the metabolic rather than the myogenic component of the cerebral vasoneuronal coupling is impaired.

Topics: Acetazolamide; Adult; Anticonvulsants; Case-Control Studies; Cerebral Cortex; Female; Headache Disorders; Hemodynamics; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Migraine Disorders; Sex; Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological; Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial

Topics: Conflict, Psychological; Dreams; Ego; Family Characteristics; Fantasy; Frustration; Humans; Id; Jews; Literature, Modern; Love; Marriage; Migraine Disorders; Oedipus Complex; Parent-Child Relations; Psychoanalytic Interpretation; Schizophrenia; Sex; Sex Work; Spain

Topics: Adult; Estrogens; Female; Hand; Humans; Male; Migraine Disorders; Progesterone; Regional Blood Flow; Sex; Vasomotor System

Topics: Genetics, Medical; Heredity; Humans; Migraine Disorders; Sex; Statistics as Topic

Topics: Aging; Barbiturates; Biomedical Research; Brain Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases; Electroencephalography; Epilepsy; Humans; Hypertension; Migraine Disorders; Neurosurgery; Sex; Trigeminal Neuralgia

Topics: Blindness; Diagnosis, Differential; Eye Manifestations; Humans; Migraine Disorders; Sex; Terminology as Topic