text: question for hemmoragic stroke victums? hemmoragic stroke victums, any sexual problems, is recovery hopeful? everytime sexual contact is made, when the excitement raises, so does the blood pressure, unfortunately, this causes some strange stuff to happen in the upper head of the person, causeing anxiety and decreased blood flow to the "lower" head..any words of wisdom? no good and reasonable answer.  sex whether the act or just the sexual fantasy elevates the blood pressure, heart rate due to the catecholamine discharge, causing vasodilation in some parts like the brain, and the lower head, and constriction in some other parts like the stomach and the heart and lungs.  in fact there is such a thing as ruptured aneurysm , stroke , subarachnoid hemorrhage and heart attack during sex.  may be do it infrequently but add more the emotional support like whispering sweet nothings before , during and after and long after the event.  as one gets older, emotional comofrt becomes more significant than the sexual act itself.