Can dopamine receptors truly recover?

Important fact: Your dopamine receptors do not die, get fried or dissolve into nothing.

Parkinson's disease is the result of low or severely decreased dopamine levels. At the onset of Parkinson’s disease, the cells that produce dopamine receptors have decreased by around 70%.

In other words unless you are; experiencing shaking in your hands, your movement is slow or you have experienced loss of bodily functions, you are fine and should recover with time. How much time I do not know.

If you are saying that after having sex you have slipped back into what feels like flatline, your best bet is to abstain from any PMO (for now), continue to count the days and wait until you recover. It might be that you still need to recover after orgasm in which case you’re not at 100% yet.

 

Don’t overdo sex. It will get tasteless if u do it too often. Take a break for a week. Get sleep and plenty of rest. Do other things like reading books, vacations, gardening, meditation etc. Otherwise this will happen again.

 

Than it will be back when she comes back.

 

Neurotransmitters are more like letters of the alphabet, not just things that control 1 or 2 things but unfortunately that's been the internets understanding. They can be used for and impacted by several different things so this might have nothing to do with dopamine. Keep in mind dopamine is related to wanting, not enjoying. That's an important distinction. This is a pure assumption, but if you felt that bad after your girlfriend left, and didn't feel like that when she was around, it sounds like maybe the relationship/sex is one of your few sources of enjoyment and that might be a problem. I guess its up to you if that's a problem though.

 

What is your back story? How long have you been recovering? When did you last PMO? Further back story might help.

 

Yeah I mean, that does seem like a potential problem for sure, especially if when she gets back you're back to normal. Like I said its kind of an assumption I will admit cause idk a lot about you or your backstory, but yeah that seems like a bad thing if she left and all of a sudden you're like completely drained and you can't find any other explanation.

 

1. How many years was your addiction?
2. What does ‘barely watched P’ actually mean. When was the last time you watched P?

 

I think in this case you just have to accept that you can’t be sure what has caused the symptoms to reappear and that you have no choice but to move back into recovery mode.

One thing I would say is that you may want to focus on curbing your P use for good. Who knows whether it is still affecting you negatively now. The only way to be sure is to cut it all for good, otherwise you risk scenarios like this happening in future.

Count the days and journal how you feel each day so that you can gauge how bad the knock has been for your recovery.

If after a week you feel better, I’d say you haven’t much to worry about, however if it’s a month+ I think you need to reevaluate how you are looking at your recovery.

 

I get the idea you are sort of addicted to her. Now she is out of your side the real you pops up. And it's not fun but it seems you have some work to do on yourself.
Do some study on codependency.
That will help you imo.