I had severe brain fog, joint pain in my fingers, neck, knees, and back, also OCD like symptoms, couldn’t sit still, had to be on my feet and moving 24-7, at least it felt like 24-7, severe fatigue on days 4 and 5, speech problems, couldn’t find the right words to say.
I have no zero side effects from the Zyrtec. The Benadryl is no side-effects except the tiredness the next day. The doctors I have seen; urologist, GP, and Psych. Doc all said the Benadryl would not hurt me at all. The urologist said it wouldn’t do anything to my liver either.
did it cured your pois right away? when did you started to feel the difference?
That's a great question, nobody has asked it since my original postings over the last few years. Well, here's the thing, it took me from the time I discovered I had it, until finally getting the right concoction of anti-histamines to knock the rest of the symptoms out. I went to my urologist 5 years ago (2012). He told me he had never heard of it, but he also couldn't deny it's existence because my symptoms lined up with the Routers study I brought into him, where the 33 men were given the skin-prick test and 28 of them tested positive to an allergy of their own semen. He told me to get on an anti-histamine. He said it's all right there, the red-face, watering of the eyes, as he compared my symptoms to the description in the Routers study. The fatigue, etc. So, I got on Claritin immediately, and popped two Benadryls next orgasm after being on Claritin for 1 month. It knocked out the symptoms 90-95%. So, I was happy. However, I went into him again, four years later for the follow up he requested, to tell him my success. He told me to get on Zyrtec because it was more powerful of a medicine than Claritin. And he had allergies so he knew it by personal experience. So, after four years of taking Claritin every day, I orgasmed and happened to have some Zyrtec on hand. Just for the hell of it, I decided day 1 of POIS, mind you I still had to deal with the days of POIS even with the Claritin/Benadryl combination, it was just reduced to 95 percent of the symptoms and also exactly 3 days and 8 hours of brain fog, then the brain fog would lift within that 3 days and 8 hours on the dot within 5 minitues.....So, on day 1, 2, and 3 of the POIS session, I popped one Zyrtec, on each day (1, 2, and 3), and for the first time I had no fatigue on days 4 and 5. I knew it was the Zyrtec that prevented those fatigue symptoms.
I started taking Zyrtec every day for 2 months straight. At that point, I orgasmed and popped the usual 2 Benadryls after orgasm. I knew I had been taking Zyrtec, and usually the brain fog would have crept in within the usual time frame of 20-30 seconds. This time, though there was no brain fog whatsoever. So, right then, I knew I had been cured. I tried another orgasm that same night with the same 2 Benadryl following orgasm and same thing, NO brain fog.
That being said, draw your own conclusions, the anti-histamines may need time to build up in your system, maybe even 1 or I would say at maximum 2 months. Try it out, and hang in there.
Both my urologist, GP, and Psych doc, all said it WAS 100% an allergy. They all said if it wasn't an allergy the anti-histamines would not work. If the histamine reaction is stopped below the belt, it will not traverse the pipeline to the brain to cause the neurological symptoms.
