Trigger factor
Food, drink & substances
People say eating too much or too little, not drinking enough water, certain foods such as carbs, processed food, meat, eggs, dairy or high-histamine foods, and caffeine, alcohol, nicotine or weed set off or worsen symptoms.
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What people said28
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- “I smoked weed not to long ago, before I smoked I was decently normal but the next day...my pois symptoms were very bad like worse than usual”
- “if anything it made everything much more worse. Long term use gave me chronic fatigue”
- “There are sleep fragmentation and deprivation, alcohol or drugs consumption, stress, previous surgery, etc.”
- “Alcohol makes my symptoms worse.”
- “My health decreased (long term use) from cannabis use this i'm sure off... daily use made everything worse”
- “avoid anything with caffeine, alcohol or nicotine, these three things induce wet dreams”
- “even small amounts of alcohol induce wet dreams”
- “Same with cannabis or other natural immunospressants.”
- “And after cutting out caffeine, they completely disappeared.”
- “I control it with ginger pills these days though and avoiding caffeine, spicy foods, sugar, etc.”
- “When in POIS, I don’t get those positive effects and sometimes feel even more tired after a couple cups of coffee.”
- “I've noticed that any kind of stimulation of my nervous system such as drinking coffee, getting jumpscared, or laughing really hard triggers shakiness and panic.”
- “avoid anything with caffeine, alcohol or nicotine, these three things induce wet dreams”
- “Avoid caffeine and sweets”
- “caffeine actually induces wet dreams”
- “Avoiding large amounts of carbohydrates and eating more but smaller portions is key in my opinion, pois worsen my idiopathic hyperinsulinemia because they release of food in the stomach in affected there is a misfire between insulin release and uptake of carbs.”
- “Avoid caffeine and sweets”
- “for some reason all those mono-amines make me high AF and usually cause itch and insomnia. This is of course because of leaky gut and vasculair permeability. Eating them later in the day is the worst thing i can do because histamine metabolism got a 24 hour cycles so at the end of the day the system get overloaded with histamine again.”
- “ACV also was taken throughout history... it contains ridicilious amounts of histamine ( of fermentation ) which causes histamine overload... Eating them later in the day is the worst thing i can do because histamine metabolism got a 24 hour cycles so at the end of the day the system get overloaded with histamine again.”
- “Ya the histamine is high and it caused me bad insomnia”
- “Yea, same happens here.. I also have to beware of certain foods.. like fries, milk, cheese..”
- “the symptoms were less harsh when I stopped eating meat compared to when I started eating it again.”
- “Yea, same happens here.. I also have to beware of certain foods.. like fries, milk, cheese..”
- “I control it with ginger pills these days though and avoiding caffeine, spicy foods, sugar, etc.”