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New Theories / Re: Post Orgasmic Illness Syndrome (POIS)
« on: 05/04/2010 23:27:16 »
Hi everyone. I wrote a few posts a long time ago, but I became so busy with work that I just didn't have the time to write anything. Just to summarize, I have pretty much the same symptoms as most people on here, and I've had them for a very long time now, starting around the age of 21 (though I can't tell the exact year... as they say, 'it's been a long time coming'). I'm 28 now. I also have an auto-immune disease called ITP (idiopathic thrombocytopenia), which affects the time it takes blood to clot after an injury. But since nobody else on here seems to have that kind of disease, I take it that it is a separate phenomenon.
It seems to me that things have become much worse POIS-wise over the last couple of months. It all started around February last year. I was graduating from university, and I was experiencing a very hard time. I was going through a bad break-up, didn't get much help from my friends, and I guess the final examinations did the rest. I had a pretty good grip on myself when it came to controlling my libido and keeping my hands off myself, but after what I was going through, I kind of broke down. I masturbated four times to drown out the sorrow (I never was much of a drinker) over a bit more than one day, and I came to regret that very soon afterwards. This time around it wasn't just flu-like symptoms, it was a full-blown 'flu', and it kept me in bed for almost two weeks, which I take is a bit longer than the time it usually takes to recover.
Symptoms didn't wear off properly, and I had a running nose, bad cough and a shot voice for around four weeks, after which I took to bed with something that felt a great deal like the flu once more. After that I was on three or four different kinds of antibiotics. They all killed the symptoms for a week or two, but all hell would break loose again after that. Things gradually became a little better, but I was suffering from a chronically sore throat up until September that the doctors couldn't quite explain. They said my throat looked like that of a chain smoker, only that I've never even touched a cigarette in my whole life. I got a bit unlucky after that - I got hit by swine flu and spent a whole week in hospital trying to get rid of that - the first two days were worst, things picked up againg quickly after that. But I think that over the last year I only masturbated around seven or eight times, just because I was so afraid of being hit by the flu again. I had only just started a new job, so not being able to concentrate and being off sick felt like a deadly mix to me.
The main point is that now it seems that I'm really going into a state of the 'flu' or pseudo-flu whenever I'm sexually active. Has anybody else experienced aggravated symptoms? It feels like by doing it too often early last year, I made the whole situation even worse.
It seems to me that things have become much worse POIS-wise over the last couple of months. It all started around February last year. I was graduating from university, and I was experiencing a very hard time. I was going through a bad break-up, didn't get much help from my friends, and I guess the final examinations did the rest. I had a pretty good grip on myself when it came to controlling my libido and keeping my hands off myself, but after what I was going through, I kind of broke down. I masturbated four times to drown out the sorrow (I never was much of a drinker) over a bit more than one day, and I came to regret that very soon afterwards. This time around it wasn't just flu-like symptoms, it was a full-blown 'flu', and it kept me in bed for almost two weeks, which I take is a bit longer than the time it usually takes to recover.
Symptoms didn't wear off properly, and I had a running nose, bad cough and a shot voice for around four weeks, after which I took to bed with something that felt a great deal like the flu once more. After that I was on three or four different kinds of antibiotics. They all killed the symptoms for a week or two, but all hell would break loose again after that. Things gradually became a little better, but I was suffering from a chronically sore throat up until September that the doctors couldn't quite explain. They said my throat looked like that of a chain smoker, only that I've never even touched a cigarette in my whole life. I got a bit unlucky after that - I got hit by swine flu and spent a whole week in hospital trying to get rid of that - the first two days were worst, things picked up againg quickly after that. But I think that over the last year I only masturbated around seven or eight times, just because I was so afraid of being hit by the flu again. I had only just started a new job, so not being able to concentrate and being off sick felt like a deadly mix to me.
The main point is that now it seems that I'm really going into a state of the 'flu' or pseudo-flu whenever I'm sexually active. Has anybody else experienced aggravated symptoms? It feels like by doing it too often early last year, I made the whole situation even worse.