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Could pressure/straining within your neck during intercourse be enough to cause a brain bleed on eliquis?

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During my 3 month rotation on the neurology department we had 2 cases of young patients who developed intracranial bleeding during intercourse, but they had berry aneurysms that ruptured. I think you'd have to have some predisposing intracranial pathology to suffer an intracranial bleed during sexual intercourse even on anticoagulants.

Answered 2/23/2023

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Valsalva maneuvers can temporarily raise intracranial pressures and have been noted to causes aneurysmal ruptures, and even bleeding of arterial-venous malformations. But hemorrhage does not occur unless a susceptible blood vessel is already present. Eliquis makes this worse but does not cause the initiation of the bleeding.

Answered 2/24/2023

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