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Subscribe to RSSBack when you were doing it solitary-style, your mama told you that your little habit would make you go blind. But did you listen? No.
Hey, it could happen -- at least when it comes to intercourse. Last year, physicians in Denmark reported the case of a 66-year-old man who literally went blind in one eye every time he had an orgasm, Discover Magazine's Discoblog recently noted. It turned he was having intercourse two or three times every week – not bad for 66 – and every time he did, he’d lose sight in one eye for a couple of minutes which, as you might imagine, could wreck the afterglow.
In 2008, a doctor in Texas reported the similar symptoms in a 48-year-old woman. Thirty minutes after sex, she’d get a headache and go blind in one eye.
Sure, we like to talk about having blindingly good sex, but these people actually had it. It’s probably not a good thing, though. “Transient monocular vision loss” might not be a sign of eye-ball-socket blowing lovemaking skill. It could result from a vascular disturbance like amaurosis fugax. With the right trigger -- climax, say -- a piece of fatty plaque from the carotid artery breaks off, travels to an eye’s retinal artery, and dams up the eye’s blood supply. That could be a sign of atherosclerosis and heart disease.
Treatment with a vasodilator to ease blood flow helped the Danish man, but others, like the 25-year-old female Hungarian scuba diver who experienced the same symptoms after dives, can have severe artery blockages, high cholesterol, and “sticky platelet syndrome.” Usually such cases are treated with some combination of blood thinners, statins, and possibly surgery.
Now, never doubt your mother again.
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Oh, this is just too precious.
Quick, all you parents out there, print this out and post it in your kids' rooms and in your bathrooms!
That won't scare them. They will just do it until they need glasses.
Perhaps it's because people forget to take their beer goggles off after sex.
Happens to me a lot. I never think anything of it.
I thought the same thing was happening to me, turns out I was just falling asleep afterward. ^_^
Captainthursday, you just made my day!! lol, that was effing hilarious
Seeing your parents having sex, now that will make you wishyou would go blind.
Well, you know, the eye socket is not the hole you're supposed to use when having intercourse.
Care to trade issues?
Mother to daughter: "when you see his eyes go crossed, pull out so you wont get pregnant".
Girl gets knocked up anyway and Mom questions why girl didnt heed her advice.
Girl: "when he went cross eyed, I went blind".
Back when? pfft yea right.
Never had that problem my boyfriend or me, we enjoy making love several times during the evening.
Wait for it! It's been so good for me that I now have to wear a powerful pair of glasses. I hope to be totally blind by the time I'm 99.
Can you come to visit me ? ? ?
This could be a god send to those that are less than selective while out drinking. Imagine waking up and being unable to see if the seemingly beautiful lover from the previous evening, is infact no more than a misguided fantasy or a figment of your distorted imagination !
Hey Doc, you're right. I remember going home at 2 with a 10, and waking up at 10 with a 2!
Been there, done that ! ! ! Thanx to Budweiser, I have NEVER gone to bed with an ugly woman; I have, however, woke up with many.
T
Hell, with the women I have had sex recently, I go blind
in BOTH eyes BEFORE sex!
Hahahahah this is so good. Honey I want to go blind! Come over here!
xD
This is really a sight for sore thighs!
Well it's better than the man who the morning after kept having to shave his palms ;-)
It wasn't a blind date until we went to bed.
I should get so lucky.....
Happens to me every time!!!!!!!
it happened to me otherway. always i have sex my sight becoming more strong and sharp.
Sorry...Icannolongerseetotype...
Drat ! ! ! My wife has been having a "dry spell" for the past 8 years. Now, she has one more excuse, that's she's trying to protect my vision.
Shoulda listened to my parents.
Now Viagra does it too.
Didn't know weather to sh*t or go blind so he closed one eye and farted