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Sex After a Heart Attack --- Why and Why Not Related Links Is Sex a Good Exercise? Why Young Guys Have Heart Attacks -Top 10 Reasons How Extreme Exercise Can Hurt Your Heart Bulking Up Too Fast -Top 5 Health Dangers Is Your Heart Rate Too Slow?-Causes and Cures Men with High Blood Pressure -Top 7 Signs Mad Men -How Anger Can Ruin Your Health Improve Recovery Time Between Erections 10 Superfoods for Men's Health Herbs and Foods to Boost Testosterone Naturally Does Coca-Cola Cause Impotence? Does Beer Affect Erections? Foods That Increase Erectile Performance Exercises to Improve ED Yoga to Strengthen Erectile Performance Yoga At Your Desk to Release Tension Foods That Help You Maintain Your Erection Use Your Lunch Hour to Lower Blood Pressure High Blood Pressure and Viagra-Is It Safe? Normal Penis Size Get Lean Diet for Men 5 Common Beliefs About Penis Size -True or False? June 5, 2012 By L. Carr, Contributing Columnist You´ve had a heart attack. Suddenly your life is turned upside-down. Your outlook on life – and death – has changed. The things that mattered before seem less important now. You used to enjoy a great sex life but now the idea of making love fills you with fear. Will sex cause another heart attack? Many famous people are believed to have died during sex, from Errol Flynn, to Governor Nelson Rockeller and even former French President Felix Faure. But none of these cases has been proved. But can sex really kill you? Will you ever feel comfortable being intimate again? Can sex help you recover from a heart attack? Every 34 seconds someone in America suffers a heart attack, according to the American Heart Association. And around half of all heart attack victims survive, so says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most of these survivors will have been sexually active before their nightmare experience. Is sex still safe after you´ve had a heart attack? Doctors generally advise patients to avoid sexual intercourse for four to six weeks after a heart attack to give one of your most important organs time to heal. But after a month or two, why should you have sex -- or why shouldn´t you? We have complied the existing medical studies pro and con about sex after a heart attack. Here is the Top 10 list: 1. Sex Doesn´t Dramatically Raise Your Risk of a Second Heart Attack Despite when we´ve seen in the movies and series like Mad Men, sexual activity is not strongly linked with heart problems. Only around 0.6 percent of sudden cardiac deaths are related to sexual activity, according to a review of medical trials by the University of Southern California, The Heart Institute, in 2006. Think of sex like exercise – if your doctor has cleared you for gentle physical activity then you´re cleared for sexual activity too. You´re unlikely to have a heart attack and die while having sex, so don´t worry about giving your partner psychological problems. 2. Sex Can Cut the Risk of a Second Heart Attack Even better news is that sex could cut your risk of a second heart attack. This is according to a 2002 study from the Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, UK. The researchers found that the more sex you have is not linked to an increased risk of stroke or heart attack. In fact, the men surveyed who had sex at least twice a week were 50 percent less likely to have a fatal heart attack. 3. Sex Improves Intimacy After a Heart Attack When as a couple you’ve gone through a traumatic event like a heart attack you may find you need to re-establish loving bonds and a sense of intimacy after all the medical tests and treatment. A diagnosis of heart problems or a heart attack can cause you to feel old, less attractive and less sexy than you did before. Scars may embarrass you and the memory of the heart attack can cause lingering anxiety. Depression is very common after a heart attack. Don´t be rushed into resuming your sex life. But sex can help you bond with your partner at a time when you most need to be intimate. Having sex increases your levels of the hormone oxytocin, which helps us build trust, intimacy and generosity. According to a 2005 study from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of North Carolina that looked at 59 premenopausal women, the more intimate contact they had with their partners the higher their oxytocin levels. 4. Sex Reduces Pain Following a Heart Attack And at the same time your body is flooded with oxytocin, so too do your endorphins rocket and levels of pain can subside. You may be still suffering the aftereffects of operations and medication, so sex may help ease your pain symptoms. Forty-eight people in a 1996 study by JM Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy inhaled oxytocin vapor then had their fingers pricked. Their pain threshold increased by over 50 percent. 5. Sex Lowers Stress and Blood Pressure After a Heart Attack? One great health benefit of sex is its ability to help lower lower blood pressure and reduce stress. According to a 2004 study from the University of Paisley, Scotland, those participants who had recently had sex had a better response to stressful situations like speaking in public than those you had been intimate without sex or had abstained. Stress is linked with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, according to studies such as the 2012 paper from University College London, UK. Short term stress can trigger cardiac events such as heart attack in people who have advanced atherosclerosis – if you have already had a heart attack you are likely to suffer from this condition so lowering emotional stress levels is beneficial. 6. Sex is a Beneficial Form of Exercise After Your Heart Attack Your doctors will tell you that as well as following a healthy diet you need to get physically active in order to make sure you don´t suffer a second heart attack. And the American Heart Association says you should get enough moderate exercise so you expend at least 200 kcal a day. Who says you can´t get your exercise through sex? According to a 2006 study by the University of Southern California Heart Institute “sexual intercourse can be regarded as physical activity resulting in increased blood pressure and heart rate, which is not decisively different from other physical exercise in daily life.” Sex is active and it burns calories as part of an overall physical activity program. And it helps. According to a 2000 study from the University of Texas people who increased their activity levels following a heart attack had a 78 percent lower chance of repeating the experience and an 89 percent lower risk of dying from it. (Read more about whether sex is a good exercise.) 7. Be Careful Using Viagra After a Heart Attack If you used to take erectile dysfunction drugs such as Viagra before your heart attack, don´t automatically continue taking them after your heart attack. These types of drugs interact badly with nitroglycerin, a drug that many of you will be taking to relieve angina or chest pains. According to the FDA a cocktail of the two drugs can cause your blood pressure to plummet and you will feel dizzy, faint and sick. The mix could even cause death. Check with your doctor before you take any new medication. 8. Be Careful When Having Sex After a Heart Attack There´s a fine line between being careful and worrying when you have sex after a heart attack. You don´t want to be anxious as this can ruin the moment. So try and relax, take things slowly for the first few times and don´t panic if you get hot and sweaty. But just like with any other form of exercise you should watch out for symptoms of chest pain, unexplained fatigue, dizziness, shortness of breath (outside of the regular when you´re having sex) or palpitations. If you feel sick, stop. But otherwise, continue to enjoy sex and intimacy with your partner and reap many health benefits in the process. Related Links: Is Sex a Good Exercise? How Extreme Exercise Can Hurt Your Heart How to Prevent a Second Heart Attack Bulking Up Too Fast -Top 5 Health Dangers How to Clean Your Penis Foods That Strengthen Erectile Performance Normal Penis Size Penis Discharge Color Chart Bad Bed Habits That Turn Her Off Eating Soy Reduces Sperm Count Whey Versus Creatine -Which One Is Better? Why Asian Men Don't Get As Much Prostate Cancer 10 Superfoods for Mens Health Herbs and Foods That Boost Testosterone How Many Push-ups Can an Average Man Do? 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