I'm a french man of 28 years old experiencing POIS for about 5 years. I found out my symptoms was correlate to ejaculation about 2 years ago and discovered the Syndrome about 6 month ago.
My symptoms are basicly :
Intense fatigue with sensation that my legs cannot support my body
Intense brain frog ; I just cannot think clearly, i'm confuse and unable to fonction in work or social context.I feel like i am 10% of my metal faculties which is very very frustrating
After seeing 10 doctors saying me it was no corelation with ejaculation and psychic fatigue, i saw a shrink who gave me SSRI (DEROXAT, molecule is paroxetine).
I was depressed and it help me a lot with my depression and with the POIS. Fort six month, I had basicly no symptoms any more but they came back with the time.
I tried to quit several time but each time, I got POIS symptoms and depression symptoms back in a very hard version. Now it's been 2 years i take it and the effect is decreasing.
Recently, I was able to control my POIS having O the friday evening in order to be OK by tuesday.
Today it's been 12th days with POIS in a row and i had an O just one time last friday.I think my POIS is getting more severe.I had some sex relation with my girl friend avoiding O but I figured maybe the control was not perfect and my libido with so high and my orgasm are so intervaled that there is some losses inside my body causing POS without O??
Anyway, I dont know what to do anymore and I'm kinda desesperated ; If I continue avoiding, I'll lose my friend and my job.I need to function at least 3 days in a week or i'm lost.
I seriously thinking about doing the Animus protocol ; I don't care about the risk, if I dont do something, i'll get crazy or worse. I just would like Animus to confirm he has since operation no more symptoms wich should lead to the fact that semen is the cause.
I believe POIS has a complicated mechanism wich may have an allergic cause and an hormonal consequence (dopamine, serotonine, testosterone, progesterone).The vitamines has some kind of action in the hormonal balance. Anyways, we need some scientific research really fast to understand that mechanism scientifically .If we are 200 or 500 persons in that forum and in NSF, it will never work out. If there is 0,01% of the male population experiencing POIS, we should be 350 000 people trying to find together a solution. I believe there is a lot of persons that experiencing our condition but doesn't know they have POIS. I needed 4 years to find out because I had sex or masturbating every day ; Consequently it was very difficult to notice any correlation and go on internet to explore. We are 75% engineer or scientist in here, we represent just the portion fo POIS people that are trying to understand ; I believe there is so much others and maybe we should try to communicate to them.
If 100 000 persons in the world speak about POIS to their docs, maybe the will take it more seriously. Maybe we should communicate in more generalistic forum, medical forum, etc
I?m sorry if my message is confused; I?m in a very bad POIS, I?m sure you all can understand.