Posted on 09/17/2008 11:20:31 AM PDT by wac3rd
Sex triggered a life-threatening stroke in a healthy 35-year-old Illinois woman, her doctors report.
Sex-and-orgasm-triggered strokes in relatively young women and men are rare, but not unheard of. They require a combination of factors and events not unusual in themselves, but which are highly unlikely to occur at the same time.
The 35-year-old woman's symptoms were typical of this unusual kind of "cryptogenic" stroke, says Jose Biller, MD, professor and chair of the neurology department at Loyola University, Chicago.
"This young woman ... while having intercourse had numbness on the left side of her face, slurred speech, and weakness in her left arm," Biller tells WebMD. "When she was transferred to our care six hours after onset, she was completely unable to move her left arm, her face was paralyzed, her speech was garbled, and she was in a state of panic."
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It was a risky decision. "We did this with a lot of sweat," Biller says.
The woman's symptoms began to improve almost immediately; within an hour she was out of the woods and within 12 hours the symptoms were almost gone. Today she is well, with only an almost imperceptible fold in the skin under her nose and slight loss of dexterity in her left hand.
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I swear, I didn’t do it this time. I don’t even know her...probably.
All kidding aside;strokes(the medical kind)are serious, my grandmother had a massive one and was never the same. It was sad to see her debilitate into a shell of her former self, and the heartache it caused to my family.
I just couldn't help making a play on words...I'm an a$$ like that.
I don’t recall being in Illinois at that time.
I did not read the last line carefully, thanks!
I said I was sorry.
Sheesh.
It wasn't you. This woman's numbness and slurred speech started after she had sex.
;-)
The Big Bang Theory.
Didja hear about the woman on the plane? The man sitting next to her was noticing that every now and then she would sneeze followed by a strong “shudder”. He asked if she was ok. She said, “Oh I am so sorry. I have this condition where every time I sneeze I have an orgasm.”
He said, “Are you taking anything for it?”
“Yes.”, She said. “Black pepper.”
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