An unhappy ending: When sex leads to a brain bleed

Doctors report the coital headache was a rare, idiopathic haemorrhage
Unhappy ending: Sex session ends in brain bleed

A sexual encounter proved memorable for the wrong reasons for a 61-year-old woman whose resulting headache turned out to be due to a rare, idiopathic intracranial haemorrhage.

The overweight woman suddenly developed a severe headache during sexual intercourse, her doctors report in BMJ Case Reports.