Talk about sexual healing.
Severe headaches can be agony, but there’s an X-rated DIY cure sitting in your nightstand drawer.
About 82% of American women own a vibrator, which is now being used in an unorthodox way by many migraine sufferers.
While orgasms may be able to satisfy a headache, people are applying sex toys directly to their head to relieve pressure and pain from migraines.
“I have to get by any way I can,” wrote one desperate user on Reddit, where they admitted to using their Hitachi wand vibrator – “cleaned, obviously” – to relieve migraine pain by pressing it on face between them. the eyes.
Other Redditors vowed to try the unorthodox method at home, while some said they “do it all the time,” with men often asking for their partners’ vibrators on occasion.
“If this is the secret to me, I’m going to be so upset because it was on my nightstand the whole time,” one person wrote in one post.
“Brb I’m uploading my toys,” said someone else.
“I’m buying a vibrator right now,” commented another headache sufferer.
A Wired contributor reported that her friend, Jack, “suffers from the worst migraines” but “has an unusual solution.”
“When he gets a migraine, he lies down and gently places a vibrator on the top of his forehead,” wrote journalist Helen Thomson. “It swears it provides immediate pain relief.”
While strange, the DIY method is not so far-fetched. Past research suggests that vibration may be a suitable therapy for migraines, which affect one billion people worldwide.
Dr. Adriana LaGier, an associate professor of biology at Iowa’s Grand View University, told Wired that her research team investigated vibration and migraine relief after hearing friends’ stories about placing vibrators on their foreheads.
“Some of the people using vibration as therapy for migraines are experiencing great benefits, it’s very exciting to see,” Tie-Quang Li, who studies migraine and vibration at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, told Wired.
But migraine sufferers may no longer need to touch their bedside table for at-home pain relief. Science-backed hacking has resulted in a slew of vibration tools marketed specifically for migraines, such as eye massagers and vibrating headbands.
But sex toys aren’t the only buzz treatment for headaches.
On the Reddit forums, users have shared their latest attempts to make their migraines go away that didn’t work, such as snorting cayenne pepper, drinking tart cherry juice, or eating raw lemons. Others, of course, still swear by the big “O.”
“People with migraines aren’t always looking for a cure — they just want a better quality of life,” LaGier said.
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