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So far I've noticed increased fatigue, but not much else.
Quote from: Counterpoints on 08/10/2008 23:05:55So far I've noticed increased fatigue, but not much else.Anyway if your medication allows you to get out of your chair. This means an improvement in fitness. Even if, when you do some excercise, the pills need some time to adjust your heart rate and subsequently feel tiresome at first.
Some good comments on the forum, really feels like we're getting somewhere in the fight against POIS. Some very interesting ideas about the link between Levitra and Nitric Oxide (NO). Apparently L-Arganine is supposed to be the precursor for NO, as its just an amino acid that you can buy from heath food shops I am tempted to give it a try!
Dried up/numb fingertips mostly gone (for some strange reason, the feeling in the fingertips was never that bad, but for some reason makes me extremely annoyed. Maybe it's because the fingertips are a barometer, as I mentioned previously, of my entire POIS state).
Demografx--I spoke with a friend who is a nutritional researcher and he said arginine (an amino acid) has the same basic effect as Levitra, which is to raise the nitric oxide levels in the blood, with no risk of heart attack or potential blindness. Just to let you know.
Quote from: demografx on 12/10/2008 17:58:13 Dried up/numb fingertips mostly gone (for some strange reason, the feeling in the fingertips was never that bad, but for some reason makes me extremely annoyed. Maybe it's because the fingertips are a barometer, as I mentioned previously, of my entire POIS state). I know what you mean about a POIS barometer ..... for me, the skin on my forehead feels very dry and taut, and my hair feels very dry and straw-like.I always assumed that this happened because nutrients were being stolen by other parts of my body somehow, but perhaps there's a more scientific explaination involving hormone balance etc ....
Demografx--I spoke with a friend who is a nutritional researcher and he said arginine (an amino acid) has the same basic effect asLevitra, which is to raise the nitric oxide levels in the blood, with no risk of heart attack or potential blindness. Just to let you know.
Okay, I know you probably will hate to hear this, but dry skin and straw-like hair is a sign of guess what: hypothyroidism.
...you can for example dance for 6 hours no stop without getting tired, out of breath (an other one of those "I thought i would never do this again", and a trilion times more fun then sex).
Outside my POIS episodes my skin is not dry at all..
Thanks for the info Girlwind, I don't mind finding out what might be wrong with me, I'm already suffering so information can only help lead me to a cure I've looked at wikipedia's symptom list for Hypothyroidism, but I don't really match that many of them, and in some cases I am the exact opposite (strong fingernails, very tolerant of cold, no digestive problems etc). Fatigue and depression are the only 2 that might fit me of the "early symptoms" list, but they could apply to hundreds of other illnesses, and I would say I only suffered from the above 2 mildly anyway.Outside my POIS episodes my skin is not dry at all, and my hair is a bit on the greasy side if anything. It's the contrast between my normal "good hair and skin" and how they feel when I have POIS that reminds me that I have it.So hopefully I have been lucky enough to avoid Hypothyroidism ... but now I know the symptoms I am warned in advance It honestly wouldn't surprise me if orgasm somehow "confused" my hypothalamus and/or pituitary gland (which apparently control the thyroid gland), and cause it to function less efficiently than usual.It also wouldn't surprise me if many of the posters here have hormone imbalances of one kind or another - whether that would be the cause of POIS or one of its symptoms I don't know .....
girlwind, would you recommend 2 tests? ("in-POIS" and "not in-POIS")
One thing I have tried that has helped with my CFS and also to a partial degree with POIS, that is supposed to stimulate the circulatory system, is cayenne pepper. I read about a guy who had CFS who claimed cayenne pepper was a big factor in him regaining his health. Its health benefits were originally promoted by a Dr.Schultz. I have taken it all of this year in the morning and I think it has been a factor in my improving health. I have to admit I have only taken regular 'very hot' cayenne pepper powder. The advocates of this spice highly recommend taking super hot pepper with 100,000+HU rating, which I haven’t as yet, as it’s just not in shops.
Where do you get super hot cayenne?