do have throbbing head pain. It’s tempting to invent some other excuse so you don’t have to endure your partner’s eye roll (followed by mutual guilt about potential hurt feelings).
For people who are living with migraine, this isn’t some occasional or hypothetical issue—the chronic neurological condition’s symptoms pose a very real impediment to intimacy.
Not just the migraine symptoms that occur during an attack, like severe head pain, nausea, sensitivity to smells and bright lights and dizziness—all of which hardly put you in the mood.
Even migraine’s milder prodrome and postdrome (pre- and post-headache) symptoms, like irritability, fatigue, and muscle stiffness, can easily and understandably tamp down your feistiness.
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