Trigger factor
Food, pills & surroundings
People say food and drink, caffeine, alcohol and other substances, supplements and medicines, and heat, cold, screens, pollen or pollution set off or worsen their symptoms.
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- “Yesterday I took a hot shower and I felt like shit the whole day.”
- “What I have noticed is an aggravation of symptoms after hot shower. Brain fog and head pressure becomes more intense.”
- “With higher temperatures everything is much more worse.. the anxiety, inflammation, restlessness”
- “Yeah hot showers trigger mild symptoms for me for the rest of the day.”
- “No heavy exercise though, and no hot showers, inflammatory foods like sugar or gluten”
- “In summer i have higher % of NE and get dopamine spiral / chaser effect due to the immune effects on nerves and neurotransmitters this is due to temperature mostly.”
- “usually triggered in warm climates”
- “when I get into a warm environment I get sinus swelling”
- “My POIS was triggered by antibiotics after surgery.”
- “I am pretty sure antibiotics fucked up my gut flora and started POIS for me in the past.”
- “I think mold exposure is my likely trigger.”
- “scrolling through social media or being on my phone in general causes triggers to relapse”
- “Whenever I had negative experiences with high dose vitamin d that worsened my insomnia I had worsened POIS”
- “I tried high doses of vitamin d but i got messed up from pois, -depression for 3 days straight, could not socialize, mentally messed up.”
- “Im also wondering if high doses vitamin D might cause insomnia for me.”
- “Both. I have much more energy, but think less clearly and have a big tense in my head.”
- “It gives me brainfog”
- “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”