Regular followers of my blog know that I enjoy sharing weird and crazy stuff, usually from the realm of animals.
Today I have something weird again, but not what you would normally expect. It's short of a disease.. One that I am glad I don't have!
Allow me to introduce you to...
The Post-Orgasmic Illness Syndrome
The name is pretty self explanatory.
This is a rare condition that affects guys. Tldr, males affected by it get flu-like symptoms everytime they ejaculate. 💦 🤒
Post-orgasmic illness syndrome (POIS) is a rare but debilitating cluster of postejaculatory symptoms affecting men. It is a chronic disorder manifesting as a constellation of flulike and allergic symptoms within seconds, minutes, or hours after ejaculation.
The condition was first described in 2002 and since then there have been more then 50 cases reported, although the exact prevalence is anyone's guess. Oh well, I know I don't have it 😂
First described in 2002, the prevalence and incidence of POIS are still unknown owing to a paucity of studies but is likely under-reported. There are approximately 50 cases of POIS in the literature.
Since this is a very rare syndrome (and possibly largely underreported for obvious reasons) not much is really known about it and the causes behind it. As for treatment it's mainly symptomatic:
Patients have been symptomatically treated with antihistamines, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and benzodiazepines. A trial of hyposensitization therapy with autologous semen was successful.
However, since the exact pathophysiology is a mystery there is no effective treatment yet.
Here's a link to the paper the quoted text is from if you fancy reading more about it. And here's another one from Wikipedia.
Fun stuff....Short of 😅