I got diagnosed through skin prick test my symptoms are also anger, irritability, mood changes disturbances. Right now I'm getting gaslighted by a psychiatrist who forced medication on me i never needed because POIS obviously changed mood. I still get mood swings regardless of psych drugs
Do you also experience anger and mood disturbances ?
Emotional instability, like mood swings and anger, along with extreme fatigue, are my main POIS symptoms.
I remember, when I first arrived on the forum, most were regrouping these emotional symptoms, with brain fog and concentration difficulties, and speech problems, under the terms "cognitive symptoms" or "mental symptoms". Since I have no brain fog, no memory issues, no attention deficit or else, but a ton of emotional symptoms when in POIS attack, I insisted on distinguishing between cognitive symptoms and emotional symptoms, which are very different, obviously.
By the way, the skin prick tests have now been proven non-specific - a study has shown that even non-poisers can show a "positive" result with this prick test, so it should no more be used for POIS diagnostic. Hopefully, the upcoming study could find a reliable POIS indicator, at least for some types of POIS. For now, diagnostic of POIS is based on the clinical criterias established by Waldinger (see details at
https://poiscenter.com/forums/index.php?topic=3650.0)
