Like if an elderly lady sees a man on tv that just from left field reignites her spark and she decides to spend some "alone time" with herself what are the chances of this causing a heart attack? Is a heart attack the only risk?The ONLY reason I ask is because I see all these viagra commercials saying "ask your doctor if you are healthy enough for sexual intercourse." What are the conditions for this?Would this trigger a heart attack or is it likely to happen anyway?or another question is why does sex trigger this
jimmymae2000 - Physical exertion sometimes precipitates angina which is a precursor to heart attack.
ReplyDeleteJennay - It's Exercise.
ReplyDeleteWhen I think of risks for heart attack I first think: CO=HRxSV (Cardiac Output= Heart Rate x Stroke Volume)
1. Anything that will make your heart rate increase is more work for your heart
2. Stroke volume is the amount of blood pumped out for each beat of the heart.
If you have blocked arteries or malfunctioning valves this could effect stroke volume. If you have an abnormal rhythm and your heart rate increases you may not pump efficiently if it gets too fast. All these things put you at risk for a heart attack which is basically less or lack of oxygen to the heart. Blood carries oxygen so if you aren't pumping well you aren't getting oxygen.
Excitement and Exercise of sex increases you Heart Rate and if you have heart issues already you are adding work or stress to your heart. This is why they say check with your doctor.
If you are concerned, go get a treadmill stress test.
Elderly ladies do not need viagra.
Viagra was initally used to treat Pulmonary Hypertension or high blood pressure in the vessels of the lungs and respiratory system. The side effect of Viagra was erection and therefore the ED pill was born. The pill changes the pressures in your pulmonary blood flow and therefore provides more blood flow in *other areas*. You are changing pressures in your heart if you take it. Check with your doctor.
Luke Skywalker - With the very greatest respect for Jennay, I'd submit that in addition to CO = SV x HR it is wise also to bear in mind that SV = C x PP where C is arterial compliance and PP is pulse pressure. So if HR rises adequately along with SV to produce the higher CO, SV (and therefore PP) need not pose great problems, because it is PP that determines the value of systolic pressure in dynamic stress, unlike the case of static, or resting state stress.
ReplyDeleteI'll more than happily discuss this in a forum more appropriate than Answers, but briefly what it means is that provided the lady's heart rate is capable of keeping the heart rate UP (despite what the doctors say) while stress exists, pulse pressure (and by extension systolic pressure) will remain safely low. A high pulse rate while the heart is working harder (which it must do, as she correctly observes) is perfectly safe.
Why does sex trigger this? Easy.
Sexual excitement and activity involves greater cardiac output, and this means (a) higher heart rates and (b) higher stroke volumes. There's absolutely no reason why the heart of a healthy 'mature' lady should not be able to cope with this. After all, many (if not most) ladies do, exactly the same as gentlemen do, and while it's true that 'ecstatic demise' occasionally does occur in extremis, it's really not statistically the norm.
And, as a kind of compensation, a mere male might observe, - were it to befall him, " What a way to go!"
-Sorry, I hope this explanation isn't too explicit..