what led you to the gaba path. What are all your symptoms and what is your picamilon dosage.
In the beginning I assumed my brain/pituitary something...was misfiring/secreting too much or not enough of something and I was looking at serotonin/dopamine and others related to. Note, I have been involved in nootropics for years for enhanced learning, and have been taking 5-HTP for over 20 years to assist with sleep when I cannot so I had some history of understanding brain chemicals and their functions but still up to today on a very laymen term basis - to say I go by my instincts is not an understatement. After allot of research I finally happened upon GABA and was extremely surprised to learn that upon O you release a large amount of GABA and further there is allot of GABA in semen. I theorized...well if this is what I'm losing tons of at O...maybe if I try to replenish it ASAP that can't be a bad thing...and in general that has been my case. So I stuck with GABA for years due to it successfully allowing me to function through the hell phase...until bumping into Picamilon (now two years ag)o that had the same soothing effects of GABA but without the immediate need to sleep.
I typically take 100 to 200mg of Picamillon after O and will do that every 4 to 6 hours to keep everything calm until fully restored. I have little doubt that REM SLEEP which allows for solid GH pulses also helps. I have further started taking Picamillon for general anxiety overall through the day when I am feeling stressed ...but normal stress.....not O POIS which is something entirely different.
My POIS symptoms are nothing less than wretched...I HATE THEM:
1. EXTREME hard to describe "hate/close mindedness"....anger...is the only way to describe it....complete cynical negative thought patterns....I would call it no less than SCORCH THE EARTH....I can literally feel it in my brain...I do not like it......some close friends have liked it to me having Male PMS - it is for this reason I never go out after either a solo O session or an unwanted dream experience however so great - note I am an extremely horny bugger all my life;
2. Tense muscle clenching of both the hands and calfs...almost like a tourette tic..where I have to clench very hard and then release, further INTENSE immediate grinding of the teeth and a feeling of teeth foundational unsettling (like ur teeth are aching at the roots) that does not stop for at least 2 to 3 days usually - when the teeth symptoms have fully passed I know I have chemically "reset" and am good to go - the GABA usually quickly soothes all of these physical issues...both muscle clenching and teeth/jaw aching;
3. Extremely dense feeling around the eyes and COON eyes that come on within minutes of O...this is the most recognized visible signs...I can look completely fine ...then O and 5 minutes later I will have the darkest coon eyes ever...every once and a while that is not the case....but it still feels like it does...I feel it in and around the eyes regardless.
I think these are the key main symptoms. Number 1 makes me all but impossible to socialize with nor do I feel like socializing with anyone after a O.
This treatment is different however, although it does include niacin, but the "approach" is completely different. I think you should try niacin alone, just to feel it for what it is. It may give you even more insight into the combined treatment.
Agreed - will do over the winter and report back. I have not experimented with Picamilon to the extent everyone here has with niacin ....it probably makes good sense that I start taking Picamilon before O too.....I'll start doing that and see what happens. In general though now because of the POIS for years...I really try not to O at all...unless I'm having intercourse unprotected with a lovely lady - which as shared in my first post on Naked Scientist - does seem to have a positive effect on me with much reduced symptoms which I attribute to their chemistry doing something to me - though I cannot verify that with certainty.
When do you take the Picamalon? As you probably know, niacin needs to be taken and metabolized before the orgasm. So as you say, the function in niacin when taken as bonded into the Picamalon, is not at all the same, particularly if you take the Picamalon after orgasm as you do the straight GABA.
I have always taken Picamilon right after O with no rhyme or reason as to why....but I can see the rational now in taking it before O. I will try this and see if it allows me to get through the O without any POIS effects later. I keep theorizing it may just be my GABA levels are way to low...definitely something related to GABA - if I just had enough on storage all the time I would be ok - a 2 bit crack theory but some madness to it.
It will be interesting to see...>I will do some pure niacin regimes as suggested and compare with my current Picamilon regime. Note, however, I try my hardest not to O at all anymore unless having intercourse. I truly feel miserable afterwards like my entire system just wants to shut down and die.....the Hindus say it's your Prana (life force) leaving you and you have a limited amount in 1 lifetime.......at this point I am apt to believe them and POIS has complete changed my sexual lifestyle as if what they say is true....I don't have unlimited supplies!
End note...I miss being 18....
