How to REDUCE/ELIMINATE symptoms WITHIN a POIS episode. Please add to the list!

[Laotzu1980]

Can we all provide a list of all the treatments and medication members use to control their symptoms if they are IN a POIS episode?

This thread is to manage symptoms only - other threads focus on prevention.

There are often NEs, or lack of efficacy of our prepacks that don't prevent POIS. Some members report certain things actually reduce or eliminate POIS while they are IN POIS. Can we list them below, stating in the order of:

1.) what you use
2.) the percentage reduction you get from it
3.) what symptoms it reduces noticeably
4.) any other useful information on how you take this (with or without food, pills, time of day, brands of foods/vitamins, etc).

Thank you!!! 🙂

[Laotzu1980]

I will begin by stating that absolutely nothing gives me a noticeable reduction in mental symptoms once they have set in. Extreme anxiety, total lack of concentration, inability to communicate, and so on. Nothing helps me so far. It's hell on earth for 2-3 full days. The first few times I took Valium (a few weeks apart, only 2 mg, once, per episode), it knocked out most of my mental symptoms for about 5 full hours each time. This has almost no effect on me these days and I have no idea why. I have taken about 8 pills in a year, never more than once a month, with no other medication, so I have no idea why that stopped working. Unless the heat has ruined the pills over time.

Some have reported things like Pepto Bismol, etc, but are they worth trying to reduce extreme mental symptoms?

Any help appreciated!

[berlin1984]

I think the good thread for that is https://poiscenter.com/forums/index.php?topic=3578 :-)