I read this articles and them make me sure about the allergy theory. I had two big doubts about that but this articles gives me good answers.
My first doubt is because my POIS change my sexual behavior. For me, this must be a hormonal problem ,but all my exams are normal. This text explain that when a person have a allergy for some food, this person become comupulsive about it. I think this is the reason about my sex compulsive. It?s curious because I have a big problem with coffee because of POIS and I'm compulsive too about it, but, before POIS, I didn't like coffee.
The other doubt is that, different of the most of yours, my POIS never ends. Although when I have one O I get worse, it?s not certain that, if I?m in abstinence my symptoms will improve. They improve at the begining (3-4-5 days) but after, sometimes, they get worse. I though that this must be a contradiction with the allergy theory, but this articles explain that, when in abstinence of the allergic foods, some of them show the same alergic symptoms.
Now I?m sure about the allergy theory.
PS: I?m in bad POIS today so I?m sorry for my bad english...
POIS is insidious. Until I started niacin, I hadn’t realized how strong my cognitive symptoms were. I thought I had primarily physical symptoms. Yes, you know you have brain fog, and you feel like hell, the cognitive symptoms seem to amplify your physical ones… But with niacin, most of the cognitive lifted and NOW I was able to “see”.
In POIS it’s difficult to objectively evaluate how you feel, and difficult to express it. When you are out of POIS you can’t remember enough detail to really do the description justice.
With niacin, I realize that I still have near the same physical effects that I had before, just that they don’t feel anywhere near as bad. Around the peak of POIS, the cognitive symptoms amplify the other symptoms, so that when the cognitive symptoms recede, things don’t seem so bad, but you still have symptoms.
I’m almost constantly with physical symptoms, but they die down significantly after about 7 days.
Part of what I’m saying is that our judgment pertaining to what POIS is and what it isn’t is altered. We “feel” that it can’t be allergy, or we “feel” that it has to be allergy or we “feel” that it’s hormonal….. But we can’t know by what we feel. It’s distorted.
We are all going to question it here, because we think we can. But we can’t. Believe me I know how you feel. So far I’ve been sure about 3 or 4 theories, absolutely sure!
Research, is our only hope.Even being as close as we are, there’s just so much to do.
