[lauracostis]

demo, that post about removing your testicles to lessen the effect of pois, that was pretty radical.  i guess you could just replace them with plastic nuts and knowone would know the difference.

[lauracostis]

i dont know if anyone else has this problem, but after O, big patches of tastbuds die off, my tounge looks splotchy, and it takes about a week or more to heal again. its hard to say if my imune system crashed and bacteria killed my tastebuds, or if the imune system ramped up and attacked and killed them.

[demografx]

demo, that post about removing your testicles to lessen the effect of pois, that was pretty radical.  i guess you could just replace them with plastic nuts and knowone would know the difference.

Laurac, "pretty radical"? The understatement of the year! Words that come closer to it for me: "ultimate severity", "utter devastation", "most unearthly", "beyond belief", etc.

The main effect of his radical approach in my mind is how utterly desperate someone can become over POIS.

I lasted 30+ years with POIS. I think the way my brain coped with it was through massive denial. In between POIS episodes, I would think "nothing is really wrong with me, after all that's what the doctors say. And it won't happen again, I'll just..........er...............tie my shoelaces differently or something!!!"

And when that stopped working, I would push as hard and as fast "at the universe" to find a cure: spiritual, urological, telephoning Dr Waldinger, tracking down worldwide "experts" on CNN Larry King Live, pushing this POIS forum, proposing research to scholarly friends and Universities, and the most useful - finally - was to find, through the advice of this forum and research friends outside the forum, to visit a top endocrinologist who could do some solid endocrine testing on me.
I had no clue before this forum what the heck an endocrinologist even does for a living!!

[CertainlyPOIS]

Rare Illness Appears in US for First Time

Did that get your attention?

It did mine.

It was "front page" AOL News.

No, it wasn't about POIS, but...just wondering...it tells me that POIS does have a nice potential publicity basis to it. And if we can somehow get out there and DO IT, maybe we can get the world's help a little more easily than we are now?

Hellooooooo? Any advertising or publicity experts here??? []
 

if you talking about that tuberculosis it needs to go back.

[CertainlyPOIS]

I was going to say i dont get runner's high during pois, is this true for every one.   

I took test for cognition and all that exxtra stuff, without really debauching the test. And psychlogist said i was missing questions normal people wouldn't, and diagnosed add with learning disability.  i believe is more proof pois is real.

[THISFORUMROCKS!]

I know for sure I have done very poorly on ADD and cognitive related tests while under pois influence. I don't recall the test names, but I took a bunch many years ago. It is hard to quantify without comparison tests, but my experience tells me that my cognitive speed is remarkably altered downward as a result of pois.

In any case, ADD characteristics/cognitive abnormalities that can be tested for in a written test seem to me like they could easily be a common thread for pois sufferers. This would certainly be a clear validation of pois existence for non-believers if more people can be tested. I will try to find out some names of such tests for a future post.

CCC: I was also diagnosed add with learning disability, basically slow thinking. I did well on the IQ test but very poorly on the cognitive speed/memorization speed tests- a very odd combination I think. Anyone ever hear of that before?
And, I think I do get a sort of runners high before pois burns me out usually.   

[martin88]

I was going to say i dont get runner's high during pois, is this true for every one.  

CC, I can't run for a very long time in POIS, so there's no high...

I agree with B_Jim for catecholamines test, maybe it's not reflecting what's happening elsewhere in the body. Has it been done in POIS?

For magnesium, even when my blood tests came normal I could feel a good effect from taking a supplement.

[demografx]

if you talking about that tuberculosis it needs to go back.

??

[CertainlyPOIS]

Welcome Alexia.
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CCC,I have missed your test. Your catecholimines seems ok dispite it's not really representative of levels in brain. At least mg seems good

I suppose you made cognition test during Pois episode. But do you ask him to remake the test out of Pois ? I would like to know the name of the test (add, cognitive test).
Thanks, good job.

I was thinking catechlomine and crp which bot came out normal will explain the intense fatigue and maybe lead to adrenal fatigue, but now am confused.  It definately dosent represent the brains chemical compostion, and there is also way more chemicals to test for the brain.

Would anybody ever decide to do spinal tap, that is the closest thing brain chemical in all test.

[CertainlyPOIS]

On test.  I dont know name but i believe it is a general test for add discovering learning disabilities, because i asked is there any other test and she told me the other ones are for dementia. When i got in her office i told i want test for memory, cognition, concentration,. 
Like thisforumrocks i was also slow at some questions that normal people would have zoomed through.  My iq for word was high normal but iq for math was below normal but the two evened out to be average. But i have alwasys done better in math and science than english. Personal disgust for essays. I think iq would go up out pois, because some of the questions require extra processing that dosent happen during pois and also speed calculated into results.
I think because of Iq she thinks that the results are normal for me even if i dont have orgasm, I seriously beg to differ.
I am not going to test outside of pois, they cost to much and the test was four hours long.

What i remeber she asked me to do.

Math in head- couldn’t do the percents and some fractions in my head.

Meaning of words - easy

Memory of popular historical facts – easy old memory.

Math on paper – I let pois take over didn’t try to go over my answers and my mistakes were there.

Naming name of color and the color of letters – I was slow on this I kept wanting to say color.

Picking topic and then asking reasons for them.  Sometimes didn’t have answers. or only gave one answer when looking for two. example what is good about parole,( i mistaked it for bail at first)i could only come up with one answer.

Using tiles to draw pictures – couldn’t draw some.

Using story tiles to create  intended story. - easy
Chosee if something is missing withing group of symbols – let pois take over and made two mistakes, she said that does not happen

Call out numbers and tells me to repeat. Let pois take over and did the constantly thinking of things over over and and not really paying atterntion, she really saw there was something wrong.

Connecting numbers and alphalbets in order of numbers letter numbers in ascending order
But I kept doing letters to letters and numbers to numbers she said that does not usually happen.

She told me Spatial is bad.

Gives two words and tells me to say similarity. One I remember I couldn’t do was hibernation and immigration.
when she ask similar question right after i got it and then realized the answer for hibernation and immigration


I did pictures, like in Iq test.

Told me to her  give meaning of adages she gave me. 

Looked at pictures and told me to tell her what was missing.


there were more but that is all i remember

[CertainlyPOIS]

I was going to say i dont get runner's high during pois, is this true for every one.  

CC, I can't run for a very long time in POIS, so there's no high...

I agree with B_Jim for catecholamines test, maybe it's not reflecting what's happening elsewhere in the body. Has it been done in POIS?

For magnesium, even when my blood tests came normal I could feel a good effect from taking a supplement.

I pushed myself because am trying to loose weight to get accurate reading on testosterone. And i do my exercise at night. During pois i go to bed nicely but out of pois i basically couldnt sleep the night.  But i am thinking i should experiment again.

[CertainlyPOIS]

if you talking about that tuberculosis it needs to go back.

??

The tuberculosis  that only one case in america, a form of tuberculosis that is resistant to almost all drugs. It was on aol and i thought that is what you are talking about.

[Dean93]

With Demo's permission, I'm planning on setting up a separate forum for our topic. Please pm me with suggestions. Thank you.

mod edit - I've asked Dean to elaborate more with a new post on the why and how of this new proposed effort - Demo

[CertainlyPOIS]

With Demo's permission, I'm planning on setting up a separate for for our topic. Please pm me with suggestions. Thank you.

sperparte what?

what topic

[CertainlyPOIS]

Thisforumrocks, i am going back and looking through forum for things used for reducing NE and there are couple i will post on what i find.
I think on pois website, we should have solutions for nocturnal Emissions.

[CertainlyPOIS]

I was going to say i dont get runner's high during pois, is this true for every one.  

CC, I can't run for a very long time in POIS, so there's no high...

I agree with B_Jim for catecholamines test, maybe it's not reflecting what's happening elsewhere in the body. Has it been done in POIS?

For magnesium, even when my blood tests came normal I could feel a good effect from taking a supplement.
Catechlomine test was two days into pois, definately had all the symptoms.

I slep better but didnt really feel better, but i also only used for two days.
According to what i have read there is another test to accurately determing if magnesium is low but that will require a doctor.
all test was done two days into pois

[demografx]

if you talking about that tuberculosis it needs to go back.

??

CC, please expain your comment above. Thanks!

[demografx]

                   

      Happy New Year! Wishing For All Of Us To Have A
                  POIS Breakthrough Year in 2010!

[THISFORUMROCKS!]

Happy New Year All! HAHA NICE one DEMO!

I feel like I found a potential breakthrough just recently!

I found an article on "Natural GABA (Gamma-aminobutyric acid" and GABA deficiency.

"The importance of GABA is underscored by the frequency in which it is a pharmaceutical target and how many commonly used drugs affect its function e.g. Xanax, Klonapin, Valium, Neurontin."
http://www.integrativepsychiatry.net/natural_gaba.html [nofollow]

I'm in the process of trying a GABA supplement now. I tried it a few nights ago and slept really well, then felt great the next day. It seems to have done something good but too soon to say if it will help pois.

[CertainlyPOIS]

if you talking about that tuberculosis it needs to go back.

??

CC, please expain your comment above. Thanks!

The tuberculosis  that only one case in america, a form of tuberculosis that is resistant to almost all drugs. It was on aol and i thought that is what you are talking about.