But a common one, the footballers headache, owes it's name to being seen most often in soccer, rugby and league players. If you catch a sharp blow to the front or side of your head, or your face, you'll probably qualify for one. It's no secret that they're part of the job description for boxers. The pain starts quite suddenly and can be excruciating. Sometimes out of all proportion to the blow that caused it.
Sufferers often feel nauseous, and some even report temporary loss of sight.
But if football or boxing can give you a pain in the brain, it's conventional wisdom in some circles, that having sex can help take it away. But a word of warning. The headache literature says that a headache can actually be caused by sexual intercourse. So it's a muscle contraction headache. This can sometimes be followed by another form of headache, or this other form of headache may occur independently and that's an explosive onset of a throbbing headache that usually occurs at the time of orgasm.