Mum suffers up to 90 ORGASMS every hour because of rare sexual disorder
Cara Anaya said: "To outsiders it might sound wonderful but it is unfulfilling and shameful. Even doing the school run is a worry"
Cara Anaya said: "To outsiders it might sound wonderful but it is unfulfilling and shameful. Even doing the school run is a worry"
A mum who suffers from up to 90 ORGASMS every hour has revealed how the raresexual disorder is making her life hell.
Cara Anaya suffers from Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder meaning picking her child up from school or going shopping can be a hugely embarrassing experience.
The 30-year-old, from Arizona, US, was diagnosed with the incurable condition three years ago and experiences up to SIX HOURS of spontaneous sexual arousal each day.
But what might sound a pleasurable experience couldn't be any further from the truth.
Cara, who lives with her husband Tony Carlisi, 34, and young son Merrick, 10, said: "It is embarrassing and confusing and humiliating.
"When you are around children you feel like a pervert because you have all these really strong feelings rushing through your body at the same time.
"So if imagine you can't help out in class or go on school trips because the kids don't understand, the parents don't understand.
"Even doing the school run is a worry because the arousal will build and build and I just have to stay in the car until it is over or try and mask it.
"It has devastated my involvement in my son's life because I feel too dirty to be a part of it. We want him to be a normal kid but at the same time he can't have friends around because mom has this condition.
"The worst thing is I explain it to him because he's too young."
Living with the condition has proven tough for Cara and in the beginning she became reclusive, giving up work and being unable to leave her home.
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Cara - who married Tony 11 years ago - now avoids being in public or remaining in open spaces, such as parks, where no one can be made aware of her continuous arousal.
"I have had to learn to control showing my arousal, remaining straight-faced, learning to breathe through it," she said.
"It will build and build and build inside me and it's overwhelming.
"It makes me giggle because of the momentary high and outwardly I look okay but inwardly it's a torture.
"It is ruining my life, because it messes with your head. You body is running on a high, on an up and down, so it really affects your moods.
"Some days when it's really bad I just want to shut the curtains and never get up.
"Other days I have little control over my body, and I will only have suffered 10 orgasms that day and I feel I could go back to work, get my life back.
"On a good day life goes on, a bad day it's disabling but I still have to pick up Merrick from school, be a wife to Tony and make the dinner.
"On a bad day it's like the cookie monster on cookies."
Bizarrely pretty Cara developed the condition suddenly whilst grocery shopping three years ago.
Walking through the store she suddenly found herself aroused by everything in sight, smells in the air and everything she touched.
Confused, the mum-of-one began to panic, the arousal continued until she fell to the floor and orgasmed unassisted multiple times.
Horrified Cara bundled herself into her car and called her friend Jenny when she got home unable to explain what was happening and continued to orgasm into the evening.
She said: "It was one of the most intense orgasms I had ever had and it was with no assistance.
"I was frightened and confused, I just ran out of the store and as I drove home I kept orgasming.
"This was the first time and it was six hours of constant build up and orgasm with just seconds in between. I was terrified."
Due to expensive medical costs American Cara suffered with her condition for months before it became too unbearable to handle.
After suffering an attack of 160 orgasms - not including multiple orgasms - in just two hours, crippled Cara decided enough was enough.
In 2012 she sought the advice of her GP who was left baffled. Later, medical experts would identify the condition as Persistent Sexual Arousal Disorder.
With no trigger and the cause unexplained, Cara has spent the last six months desperate to find a cure.
Visiting four doctors, a neurologist and vulva specialist as well as undergoing numerous blood tests, MRI, EEG, and EKG scans.
She has even sought the advice of a psychiatrist.
Before developing the crippling condition Cara worked as a waitress, now a stay-at-home mum, she is unable to return to work, as she is too embarrassed to explain her medical condition to employees.
Physical effects for the condition include dehydration, injured knees and ankles and ultimately exhaustion from lack of sleep.
Cara has been unable to wear high-heels since developing the condition as she never knows when she will suffer an attack.
"You can't say to your future boss, 'I may not be able to come in today because I suffer from orgasms', he would think you were making it up," laughed Cara.
"But it isn't just the embarrassment it's needing a change of clothes, it's that moment if you have a bad one and your knees give way and you hurt yourself.
"You can't be a risk or a burden."
And the condition also has an affect on the intimacy of her marriage. Cara continuously craves affection, intimacy and cuddles because of the number of hormones in her body.
This puts a lot of pressure on their relationship. Before her condition she had only orgasmed with her husband and the couple only had sex four times a month.
She added: "Before we would have sex a normal amount, at least once a week.
"We still have sex but it can become incredibly frustrating for both of us because I am forever aroused."
Cara has tried everything to cure her PGAD including ice, masturbation and cold showers.
She has even tried changing her diet and increasing her exercise regime but nothing helps.
She said: "I have had remarks made to me by men when out for drinks with my friends who have become too excited about my condition.
"They have watched on and found it amusing, I have had to leave because I feel uncomfortable.
"I have lost friends who have claimed I'm faking it and my parents found it hard to come to terms with but they have been there for me.
"To outsiders it might sound wonderful but it is unfulfilling and shameful. I'd do anything to find a cure.
"As an illness it leaves me feeling incredibly lonely because nobody understands, and there is so little awareness of the condition.
"Right now I seek solace and advice in the online community but there just isn't enough awareness out there. Even doctors don't know a cure.
"I just want it to stop."