If you think that sex is all about pleasure and satisfaction, then here’s a new flashing news: a atypical and rare combination reasons or cause can cause a person to suffer a stroke after the hot and steamy session of intercourse. A 35-year-old woman suffered the stroke just minutes after having sex. She felt her left arm go weak. Her speech became slurred and she lost feeling on the left side of her face.

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. Normally in such cases, the clot siphon or impel out of the right atrium and travel to the lungs, where it may harmlessly dissolve.

There was a hole in a wall of the heart separating the right atrium from the left atrium. Pressure changes in the heart, triggered by sexual intercourse, enabled the clot to travel through the hole from the right atrium to the left atrium. From there, the clot treks up to the brain.

The woman save by doctors but ask her to stop taking birth control pills in future and schedule 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 manage remains controversial!