Experts reveal surprising reasons some people get the 'hangover horn' after a night of drinking (even if they feel like death) as sufferers complain of having libido like 'a wild animal'

For many, nan thought of activity nan time aft a dense drinking convention is repulsive. Your activity is hot, your caput is thumping and you stink.

But for a important chunk of america - mostly men -  their libido goes done nan tile erstwhile they are hungover.

'Why do I get SO horny erstwhile I'm hungover?' sounds 1 Reddit post, 'There must beryllium a subject to it. I ever consciousness for illustration a chaotic animal aft a nighttime retired drinking.'

Another reads: 'Why americium I truthful horny erstwhile I'm hungover, sloppy of really overmuch activity I had nan nighttime before? Anyone other acquisition this and cognize why?'

There are hundreds of akin posts connected online forums, and nan 'hangover horn phenomenon' has confused doctors because of really unexpected it is. 

Dr Sanam Hafeez, a New York City-based neuropsychologist, told DailyMail.com having activity erstwhile hungover 'might sound counterintuitive,' but nan effects of alcohol from nan nighttime earlier trickle into nan adjacent day, making you consciousness much sexually adventurous. 

It's a wide accepted truth that being drunk makes group frisky, arsenic it loosens them up and lowers their inhibitions, and it temporarily increases dopamine - known arsenic nan happy hormone - levels successful nan brain.  

And Dr Hafeez said those physiological changes provender nan hangover activity thrust surge. 

She said: 'Chronic intoxicant depletion disrupts nan equilibrium of neurotransmitters successful nan brain, including dopamine, serotonin, and endorphins. 

'As nan assemblage attempts to reconstruct these levels to normal during withdrawal, fluctuations successful temper and arousal tin occur, perchance starring to heightened intersexual desire.'

About 12 hours aft you extremity drinking, and a hangover originates to group in, levels of dopamine statesman to drop.

While depressed dopamine levels tin lead to little libido and intersexual dysfunction, group who are hungover hunt for activity successful an effort to summation this hormone level and make themselves consciousness better.

Sex triggers nan merchandise of dopamine, on pinch different mood-boosting chemicals for illustration endorphins and oxytocin.

Endorphins are chemicals successful nan encephalon activated by activity that person earthy opiate-like properties. 

They thief trim symptom and amended temper - which tin beryllium useful erstwhile suffering from a hangover that results successful caput and assemblage aches and anxiety.

Studies person besides shown pain tin beryllium importantly alleviated by having activity aliases experiencing an orgasm. 

And it doesn't person to beryllium pinch a partner. Additional investigation has shown self-pleasure tin besides thief pinch pain.  

Sex tin besides little levels of cortisol, nan superior accent hormone - helping to easiness day-after-drinking unease and worry. 

Research connected libido erstwhile hungover is very limited. One of nan first detailed studies came from the University of Washington and nan Kinsey Institute and recovered a operation of things were astatine play. 

Scientists tested men's abilities to travel instructions for controlling erections erstwhile watching porn while intoxicated and recovered men who had been drinking had a much difficult clip controlling their arousal. 

They recovered men who were drunk were worse than those who were sober astatine pursuing instructions to get an erection aliases stay flaccid while viewing nan X-rated content. 

Intoxicated men who were told to stay flaccid really knowledgeable much aggravated erections than those who were specifically instructed to 'rise to nan occasion.' 

Dr William George, lead writer of nan study, told Men'sHealth this effect could spill complete into nan adjacent morning. 

If a man was drinking excessively nan nighttime before, intoxicant whitethorn not person wholly near his strategy by nan clip he's woken up, contempt emotion sober. 

So, nan deficiency of erectile power arsenic seen successful nan study whitethorn beryllium responsible for nan unexpected desire nan greeting after. 

Whether man aliases woman, intersexual desire whitethorn summation nan greeting aft dense partying because of a arena known arsenic intoxicant myopia. 

This is technological speak for passageway imagination - erstwhile a personification will hone successful connected 1 thought and disregard peripheral information. 

So, if nan thought of activity pops into your mind, it whitethorn beryllium nan only point you're capable to ore connected until you've scratched that itch. 

A Reddit personification posted: 'Sex is nan only point I tin deliberation astir and is nan number 1 privilege for nan time nary matter what is going connected that day.' 

'Nothing amended than hangover orgasms,' 1 Reddit personification posted - to which different replied: 'Can confirm, conscionable had one.'

Another poster wrote: 'I'm nan aforesaid and I'm not a young man anymore but if I'm really hungover I tin naughty disconnected for illustration 10 aliases 12 times successful little than a six-hour period. Hell, I've moreover vanished and was going astatine it again successful little than a minute.'

Emily Morse, a sexologist, said: 'For a fewer minutes, you get to consciousness thing different than a pounding headache and a sour stomach. 

'You’re temporarily released from your beingness hangover purgatory, making nan regular sensations of activity consciousness for illustration a godsend.'

Similar to dopamine seeking, Dr Hafeez said group who are hungover whitethorn move to activity for comfortableness aliases distraction, which could supply impermanent alleviation from hangover symptoms.  

Lastly, Dr Hafeez said societal expectations could beryllium an influence.

She told this website: 'Cultural attitudes and societal norms surrounding intoxicant depletion and activity tin power individual behaviors. 

'In immoderate cultures aliases societal circles, drinking intoxicant and engaging successful intersexual activity whitethorn beryllium intimately linked aliases viewed arsenic acceptable forms of recreation, starring immoderate individuals to subordinate nan 2 activities, moreover erstwhile experiencing a hangover.'

No matter nan reason, Dr Hafeez said having activity is 'unlikely to reside nan underlying physiological causes of a hangover,' which see dehydration, electrolyte imbalances, mediocre slumber and toxic byproducts of alcohol. 

She recommends hydrating, eating nutritious foods and getting capable rest.