A HEADACHE is often an excuse for a lack of interest in sex. But the reverse seems true for people who are plagued by migraine.
Timothy Houle from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and his colleagues, used questionnaires to assess the sexual desire of 68 young adults, half of whom regularly suffered from tension headaches while the other half had migraines. On average men scored 24 per cent higher on the sexual desire scale than women, but women with migraine had similar scores to the average man. Overall, migraine sufferers had 20 per cent higher…
