Trigger factor
Mind, body & sleep
People say stress and mood, sleep and daily routine, and exercise, exhaustion, long sitting, illness or hormone shifts set off or worsen their symptoms.
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What people said64
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- “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.”
- “My triggers are porn, excitement, social pressure, eating high histamine foods (leftovers, cheese, wine etc).”
- “I also get the same effect from just being excited about something (like going to a friends house or something) but not as severe as porn.”
- “Customer service is the worst for POIS imo”
- “I get derealization from eye contact that but usually only in POIS.”
- “Adrenaline is a trigger for me”
- “I did an intense workout yesterday even though I had 2 wet dreams and was rewarded with one this morning.”
- “You ejaculate. You add a final stressor such as an intense gym work out. BAM you come down with 2 degree fever and full symptoms of the infection you were exposed to.”
- “I did some intense exercise 4 months ago..walking around with 25kg weight vest... i didn't recover from it took about 3 weeks to recover and some symptoms came back.”
- “Exercise and anxiety /nervousness both cause me to have worsening cognitive issues now.”
- “I do get similar, but much milder, symptoms from anxiety/weight lifting though”
- “POIS got worse when a vaccine triggered ME initially and every sudden dramatic worsening of ME (overexertion etc).”
- “Whenever I exercise or get nervous my sinuses block up and I have thick mucus.”
- “I get the same symptoms when I excercise or get nervous or am stressed.”
- “After the O, it seems to make heart arrhythmia much easier to get when exercising for me.”
- “No heavy exercise though, and no hot showers, inflammatory foods like sugar or gluten”
- “I had some POIS symptoms that were appearing from... exercise”
- “I realized this POIS and its symptoms start and become worse since I started taken immunizations late 2018... I took vaccination on 23/8/19 and then 27/9/19.”
- “POIS got worse when a vaccine triggered ME initially and every sudden dramatic worsening of ME (overexertion etc).”
- “I had been sleeping roughly 4 hours a day for weeks... severe stress + sleep deprivation that started it all. I had one day off came 4 times... I knew something was wrong with my body.”
- “I got POIS after I had sleep deprivation for a month and my brain crashed.”
- “There are sleep fragmentation and deprivation, alcohol or drugs consumption, stress, previous surgery, etc.”
- “I think it was lack of sleep for a 5 day period that triggered it.”
- “or have bad sleep”