A headache? It is not an excuse study "serves women"

"Sorry dear, I have a headache." The most overused excuse women between the sheets, in fact, is not an excuse but a proven scientific fact: the headache is really a killer of love. In 90% of affected women is associated with objective fact, sexual problems, and in one case of 5 ditching desire. To fulfill generations of wives and partners, unjustly accused of "appetite" is a study by the University of Pavia, published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine . First name in the list of authors to Rossella Elena Nappi, known gynecologist and sexologist, lecturer to the University of Pavia and forces in the structure of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo. "At last we have freed women - he says - Now, in fact, no one can say that they use a headache as an excuse" to deny to the partner.

STUDY - Together with colleagues from National Neurological Institute IRCCS Mondino, home to a headache center between the main reference in the Peninsula, the scholars of the university and the Hospital recruited 100 women, mean age 40 years, all in cure for migraine with or without aura, or for both episodic and chronic tension-type headache (more than 15 days of headache per month). "All patients with a severe degree of disturbance, and this assisted in a level III center - says Nappi - who often also had a history of abuse of analgesic drugs." The women were subjected to neurological tests to assess levels of anxiety and depression, has been carefully analyzed their medical history and medication, and through specific questionnaires have been investigated on their sexual performance and the degree of stress "in bed". Score: 9 out of 10 patients reported sexual lives below the standard set of normality, almost 3 out of 10 (29%) confessed stressed for this discomfort, and 20% stated a decrease in libido

PAIN - "Together with friends of Mondino - Nappi says - we thought about this study on the assumption that the headache, it is a pain that occurs frequently, for various reasons may have a negative impact on the quality of sexual life of those who suffers. Thus we have verified that the mechanisms of vulnerability to pain are common, "and therefore that" the headache may also cause sexual pain, generally understood as the perception of pain at 360 degrees in the intimate relationship. " "Headache - says the gynecologist and sexologist - has its roots in issues vascular tone affects the mood, and many patients are taking medications with possible side effects. We observed that women are just more abuse of analgesics to report sexual problems - added Nappi - This may be because, like humans some of these medicines interfere with sexual function, even in the female the same could happen " .