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New Theories / Re: Post Orgasmic Illness Syndrome (POIS)
« on: 20/01/2011 22:26:45 »Version #1: In ejaculation, the semen passes across the 'gap' and produces the allergic reaction. However, perhaps even after ejaculation, some semen remains in the various tubes, and so is just sitting there remaining in contact with the gap, and so the allergic reaction persists. Only after the remaining semen finally breaks down or is fully absorbed does the allergic reaction cease. (Until the next ejaculation.)
This could also explain why a subsequent ejaculation has helped some of us. And why the intensity of symptoms seems to vary from one ejaculation to another.
However, I think the 'gap' hypothesis is unlikely. If there was an abscess of this sort I think it would cause physical symptoms outside of POIS. Also it would show up on medical imaging...
Yes, I agree that the 'gap' idea itself could be somewhat unlikely--but, it's possible that there could be something pretty small, no? Or, that we just haven't been looking for it? Or, that it's a matter of some membrane having become permeable, rather than a physical 'hole'?
In any case, though, my hypothesis was more a matter of trying to account for the POIS mechanism might work if there were such a 'gap.'
Now that I think of it, though, there wouldn't necessarily need to be a physical rupture at all. All we need is to assume that there is some point in the 'tube network' that is allergically-sensitive to the semen, for whatever reason. And so then the 'stagnant fluid' or the 'dynamic fluid' explanations could still be valid.