I hate re-writing posts when the browser jumps somewhere and loses what I’ve typed.
But this one feels like it’s worthwhile doing over.
All right – forgetting about overdose, which is when you apply too much pheros for OTHERS to handle, what about a “challenge level” of pheros: you apply x amount of some phero, and you are okay, although it is a challenge “living up to the pherosignature”.
Perhaps if you apply more than x amount, beyond the appropriate “challenge level”, you get into a place where you have real difficulty being congruent with the pherosignature. In other words, you might have a performance expectation, and yet there is also a “congruency gap.”
So … such a gap would be a stressor. You could surface your stress with an ache here and a discomfort there, physically. Saying “psychosomatic” can be dismissive or stigmatizing, so I’ll say “somatopsychic” instead. Or, we can just let it go that such a response is native to “sort-of intelligent mammals.”
Steveo, you’ve said you lost a lot of weight, so eating and food has perhaps been a platform/stage for working out (non-verbal) issues, in which case a stomach ache might be a natural for you – whereas someone else might have a headache, or their eyes get tired or watery, another person might sneeze, etc. etc.
Although I can’t be sure, it does seem that I’ve gotten diarrhea a couple of times as a result of “nervous stomach” from an excess of pheros. More often, I’ve experienced some notable perceptual distortions, visual and auditory.
I say: maybe your stomach ache is a coincidence, maybe not. The “goes away with shower” part is particularly interesting to me.