I want to present my case. If anyone is similar to me or has some advice for me, please respond. I am a slim/skinny 26 year old. As I can recall, My POIS symptoms have developed over the past 4-5 years but it's only 2 months ago that it became so bad I became barely functional.
These current symptoms appear most often post orgasm:
- Fatigue
- Brain fog
- Declined cognitive ability
- Headaches
- Vivid dreams, usually nightmares
- Tinnitus (this used to be sporadic, now it seems permanent)
- Heart and Chest Pain that extends to left arm
- Loud bowel movements
- Random sneezing and coughing
- Throat Congestion
- Irritability
- Lower back muscle pain
- Anxiety, Depression, Low Motivation
- Sharp pain in glans and testicles
- Inflammation of glans, small, red, fleshy 'wound marks' appearing on it. And existing penile melanosis becoming darker and multiplying.
- Intense, revolting smell of semen
Less often:
- Joints pain
The following symptoms happened only once and lasted few days. 6 days post orgasm, in a POIS state which was further deteriorated by exercise and food poisoning:
- Sensitive, dry, burning fingertips
- Extreme Photosensitivity
- Nausea
- Lights flashing in eyes
POIS Duration:
2 - 3 weeks
POIS worsened by:
- Eating foods that I'm sensitive to (like eggs or baking powder)
- Over-exercising
- Sitting down for too long
- Stress
POIS unaffected by:
- Hot baths (no shower at my place)
- Hot weather
Experience relief with: Ibuprofen (45-65% relief), took it few days after orgasm and noticed an improvement
Some other facts about me:
- Random erections give me a momentary headache but that passes as soon as I go soft.
- I don't experience nocturnal emissions or premature ejaculations, so I can't say if they would affect me.
- I contracted HPV when I was 19. Had a genital wart on glans which was removed with cryotherapy. Then shortly after that, had a painful testicular infection which was treated with an antibiotic.
- Recent scan of testicles has not detected anything wrong in them
- I have penile melanosis (dark spots on the glans of penis)
- I used topical Erythromycin (antibiotic) to treat my acne on my back for 8 years. I quit using it in May.
- My diet has never been good. I used to consume a lot of milk, sugary cereals, sweets, chocolate, peanut butter, fast food. Since April, I've made radical changes to what I eat.
- My living environment was also bad. I've made improvements recently, but between ages 20-24 I lived in a mouldy environment. I used to have oral thrush. Wierd excess skin growth. But these are solved now.
- I developed chronic dry eyes over past few years, so dry that first immediate thing I do after waking up is putting eyedrops in. Otherwise I'd feel stabbing pain for the rest of day.
- Experience sharp pain in anus/prostate. This happens every few days, is always short and usually before I need to poop, but sometimes it just happens without reason.
- Recent blood test which was taken a week after orgasm, showed I have normal testosterone levels but very low level of white blood cells (Neutrophils)
- ECG test for heart detected no problems
