As a result of nerve damage in her leg, the 55-year-old Dutch woman experienced several orgasms a day. Pleasant stimuli flowed to her from… her left foot. These unusual ailments only resolved thanks to special injections into the spinal cord, LiveScience reports.
Dr Marcel Waldinger of the University of Utrecht performed an MRI of a woman’s brain as well as an MRI of the foot, but he said in an interview with LiveScience the examination showed no abnormality. However, further tests confirmed that there were differences between the nerves in her left and right feet.
When we stimulated her left foot with an electric current, she experienced an immediate orgasm, described Dr. Waldinger.
His colleagues on this case also published their findings in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. They write that the orgasms that begin in the foot are the result of a woman’s brain misinterpreting nerve signals.
Dr. Waldinger pointed out that a year and a half before the onset of the unusual symptoms, the woman had sepsis and was in intensive care for three weeks. She was even in a coma for a short time and, as she recalled, she started having problems with her left foot after waking up.
According to the researchers, a nerve fiber in her foot was damaged. And the nerve damage made her brain unable to distinguish the foot from the pubic area.
The condition developed because the nerve that supplies information from the foot attaches to the spinal cord in the same place as the nerve that supplies information from the genitals, which is why a short circuit in the nerves resulted in such an unexpected result.
When a damaged nerve in the leg starts transmitting unusual signals, the brain cannot distinguish which part of the body it is receiving information from. The only salvation for the woman was seen in injections into the spinal cord. The Dutch woman underwent a procedure that completely stopped her orgasms.
Dr. Waldinger is convinced that there are more people with such problems, but these people are ashamed to admit the disease and do not start therapy. The scientist himself found a similar case in the medical literature. It concerned a man with an amputated leg who had had similar orgasms. (PAP)
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