If you think that sex is all about pleasure, then here’s a new flash: a rare combination of factors can cause a person to suffer a stroke after the hot and steamy session.It happened with a 35 year old woman who suffered the stroke just minutes after having sex with her beau.he felt her left arm go weak. Her speech became slurred and she lost feeling on the left side of her face.
Doctors at Loyola University Medical Center later concluded that the stroke probably was due to several related factors, including birth control pills, a venous blood clot, sexual intercourse and a heart defect.
Birth control pills slightly increase the risk of blood clots. Doctors believe a small clot formed in one of the veins in her thigh, broke loose and traveled to the right atrium (the heart’s upper right pumping chamber).
The woman was saved but doctors advised her to stop taking birth control pills and scheduled a follow-up procedure to repair the hole in her heart.
The defect, called a patent foramen ovale (PFO), occurs in about 1 in 4 adults.
While in many people a PFO will never cause problems, the defect might be associated with an increased risk of stroke. How these patients should be managed remains controversial.