Abstract Background Migraine is believed to affect over EZEKIEL BREAD WHOLE GRAIN 20% of people at some point in their lives.The presence of sexual dysfunction in migraine sufferers can cause lack of self-confidence and divorces.The aim of this work is to study sexual dysfunction in migraine headache patients.Methods The study was carried out at Tanta University Hospital.
The study included married patients who visited our hospital clinic and have had episodic or chronic migraine headaches and another group of age and sex matched healthy subjects will be recurited as a control group.Our interview includes questions for disease duration, severity and frequency of headache attacks and attack duration.questionnaire.the Arabic Version of the Migraine Disability Assessment Scale and Beck depression inventory.
Sexual function will be evaluated by an Arabic version of Arizona sexual experience scale.Results The ASEX score showed high significant changes between migraine patients and healthy subjects.These changes were reconfirmed when comparing male patients to healthy subjects Hair or female patients to healthy subjects.Despite there was no significant difference regarding total ASEX score between bot male and female patients with migraine there was significant differences in the items of derive, erection/lubrication and satisfaction between them.
In patients with migraine the total ASEX score was correlated with the MIDAS, Beck depression inventory, Beck anxiety inventory; but not with the age of patients or headache duration.Conclusions Sexual dysfunction is a common finding in migrine patients which is poorly evaluted in the clinical sitting.