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bastianb, i played hockey for 8 years growing up and was never very good. In hindsight, I think some of that may have been POIS related. Welcome to the forum, you've got a lot of reading/ catching up to do. Finding relief from the campfire smoke is quite bizarre, but anything's possible with this crazy condition. The relief you found with chocolate may be bc of chocolate's caffeine content. Does coffee help you? How about ADHD meds like adderol and ritalin. As long as I don't take ritalin too often, it affords me a few good hours. All in all, your symptoms are very similar to that of most of us here: the only minor difference I'd say is that many of us have symptoms which last from 5-12 days. I'm glad you found us.I feel like finding our forum is akin to that scene in the movie The Beach, when Leonardo DiCaprio jumps into the water from the cliff and finds the secret village.Suppertime, welcome as well. When you go see your Urologist, bring with a copy of Dr. Waldinger's POIS study and give it to the doc to read over. Besides that, I don't really know. If the doctor doesn't take Waldinger's work seriously, I'd stop going to him.
I went to see Dr. Bewtra and was diagnosed positive. Both the skin ***** and intradermal tests showed positive. He prescribed Allegra. Has anyone here had luck with that? So far it doesn't seem all that impressive. I have found quick release Clariton right after an episode to help with symptoms. I wonder if taking it an hour before helps. I do want to try to get desensitization therapy done but haven't found anyone closeby.
What we have is Anaphylaxis...
over-the-counter meds will be as unhelpful for us as it is for people with severe allergies to specific foods or bee stings.
Quote from: Pharaoh on 12/11/2011 01:46:27over-the-counter meds will be as unhelpful for us as it is for people with severe allergies to specific foods or bee stings. i don't wanna be rude or anything but i just wanna point out that normal over the counter Claritin has been very effective in treating mine and some others' POIS symptoms. I plan on trying benadryl next.
Quote from: Vincent Marcus on 12/11/2011 07:47:12Quote from: Pharaoh on 12/11/2011 01:46:27over-the-counter meds will be as unhelpful for us as it is for people with severe allergies to specific foods or bee stings. i don't wanna be rude or anything but i just wanna point out that normal over the counter Claritin has been very effective in treating mine and some others' POIS symptoms. I plan on trying benadryl next.How has it been effective? Has it eliminated the brain fog and fatigue? Do you function normally? If so, then what's the big deal - it's just a simple allergy and all we needed was over the counter anti-histamines. I have regular allergies and the effect Allegra or Claritin have on them is no way similar to how it effects POIS. Nonetheless, the fact that anti-histamines do help supports the theory that this is an auto-immune response.
Benadryl is great for me to force sleep/naps. The more I sleep, the more I shake off POIS .
The problem with the ADD theory is that POIS symptoms are only triggered following ejaculation and persist for a definite period of time. The ADD meds work because they initiate dopamine release, thereby counteracting the cognitive symptoms. This does not address the underlying pathology.
So I feel like a big idiot today, Every night before i go to bed i have anxiety of a nocturnal emission happens and gives me POIS. So i went to sleep eventually and woke up pretty early, I used the bathroom and was worried on wheter to fall back asleep or not, So i figured only for a little while, I went to sleep, And I woke up to find out i had a nocturnal emission in that short period of time. I really cant figure out how this is possibly happening, so All i can do is take my multivitamins and niacin pills and eat yogurt all day trying to revitalize myself.