Health officials have sought to raise awareness of a rare condition that causes genital ‘tingling’ and triggers spontaneous orgasm without sexual contact throughout the day.

In a new case report, a team of Turkish neurologists warned that patients often face delays in diagnosis because they are referred to the wrong specialists.

The condition, called restless genital syndrome (RSG) or persistent genital arousal disorder (PGAD), is thought to result from a misfiring in brain signals that control nerves in the genital area.

It is a rare condition and is thought to affect only one percent of people worldwide, mostly women.

Patients report that they constantly feel like they are on the verge of an orgasm that they cannot complete without sexual desire or arousal.

Some say they feel tingling, burning or pain, according to the report published in the journal Cureus.

It is thought to be similar to restless legs syndrome (RLS), and some doctors classify it as an ‘atypical’ form of the condition.

Doctors Buse Çağla Ari and Elifnaz Şahin from Istanbul Bahçeşehir University describe the experience of a 35-year-old woman who sought medical help after experiencing constant numbness and tingling in her genitals for six months.

One of the patients who suffered from this condition was Scarlet Wallen, who had felt like she had been prevented from playing outside with her friends since she was six years old.

At first he felt that the tingling sensation affected only his groin, but gradually it spread to his right and left extremities.

He described these sensations as a sharp, unpleasant pain that could be relieved by moving his legs.

At first, his symptoms worsened at bedtime and occurred repeatedly after periods of rest. However, they started occurring later in the day.

She reported experiencing spontaneous sexual arousal and orgasm throughout the day; This caused difficulties in his professional life.

neurologists reported He said several tests, including ultrasound and blood tests, came back ‘normal’ and did not explain his symptoms.

After further examination, doctors concluded that she had irritable genital syndrome and prescribed a drug called pramipexole, which affects the brain hormone dopamine, which is responsible for movement.

After some dose adjustment, the patient’s symptoms improved.

One of the women who previously spoke about her experience with the condition was Scarlet Kaitlin Wallen, a 21-year-old student from Rhode Island, USA.

In an interview earlier this year, she said she admitted that she had ‘always’ experienced a ‘pins and needles’ sensation in her vulva and that the feeling was constantly burning: ‘It was like I was naturally aroused but I didn’t want it. .’

The Rhode Island native has had only a few pain-free days in the last 15 years.

He has only had a few pain-free days in 15 years and cannot work or study full time.

Ms Wallen, a part-time courier and art student, described the pain as ‘burning bugs under my skin’ and as if her genitals were on fire.

He said: ‘In my brain it was like I didn’t want to feel this. ‘I wanted to play outside.’

She had surgery to remove some nerves in her vagina to relieve the constant burning sensation.

Other women with the condition have described the orgasms they experience as ‘intense pleasure’ that ‘could end up causing me pain’.

In a recent post shared on Reddit, a person in pain in question This feeling is ‘strongest in my cervix area’.

She said: ‘For me it’s not sudden but it’s a slow build up and it doesn’t always end in orgasm so I never quite know if I’ll have one.

‘But that alone has me ordering groceries to my front door.

‘It’s intense pleasure when it makes me feel sick if it hurts me, and when the nausea scares or upsets me more than the pain because I hate vomiting.’

On a ‘good day’ she has around three to five orgasms. But on a bad day, this number can go up to 25. The highest number he has experienced in a day is 50.

Sitting down suddenly makes her more prone to orgasm, probably due to the pressure on her genitals. The woman added that she avoids masturbating to prevent emotions from intensifying.

Some experts suggest that varicose veins in the pelvis, cysts at the base of the spine, and abscesses near the clitoris may be partly responsible.

A 2020 study by Harvard Medical School examined 10 patients with the condition and found that nine of them had lesions or problems in the lower spinal cord or nerves that control sexual arousal and orgasm.

The dorsal nerve, whose roots extend into the spinal cord and lead to the genitals, largely controls sensation from the clitoris or penis, the study authors explained.

He explained that anything that puts pressure on the nerve or interrupts the flow of electrical signals can trigger uncontrollable signals to and from the brain, causing unwanted effects.

Tarlov cysts, which are most commonly found at the base of the spine and around nerve roots, were the most common problem in the study.

Fluid-filled lumps can press on nerves and damage them, affecting sexual, bladder and bowel functions.