5 months long streak, but brain fog alive and kicking

Seems like every day of my life lol Try do some sport, fresh air, change diet.

 

Do you think going back to pmo will help solve this problem?

 

How's your eating habits, are you staying hydrated? Maybe it's flatline, make sure you get enough sleep, stay strong!

 

Yes. Same here. Doing everything. Diet, working out, meditating, jogging, socializing, cold showers.

9 months in I have no memory, no concentration and a still a ton of other withdrawal symptoms: Fatigue, burning muscles, burning skin, eye floaters, blurry vision, visual snow, dizziness, sensitive teeth, insomnia, clogged ears, tight jaw/back/neck etc.

You are definetly not alone.

 

I have been adhering to the same precepts, however I believe I have seen some major improvements, for example my reading skills. This is paramount for me as I love to read and it is part of my studies.

Have you ever you thought of quitting? It has passed my mind a few times these last few days, I think because I have been impatient and too eager to see fast results. Years and years of slavery cannot be wiped out in a few months. Maybe, a year?

 

Eat a healthy diet, drink lots of water, exercise, stay away from too much sugar and get out of the house.

 

These may be unrelated to nofap.

 

These are all symptoms of protracted drug withdrawal. Plus the sudden dreams which I never had for years. Now I dream almost every day.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_neuroscience_of_dreams (look under "Dopaminergic activation")

Damage to dopaminergic areas leads to loss of dreams and motivation. Which is exactly what I experience during my PMO years.

In addition I have wet dreams.

And I have been checked by doctors who found nothing wrong. This is also very typical for drug withdrawal e.g with benzos. Clueless doctors deny withdrawals which can last for years yet people keep reporting them.

Protracted withdrawal can last many months. In average it is between 6 and 18 months.

 

I posted this on another forum but I will post it here too:

I seem to have gotten every withdrawal symptom which you also can have with benzos:

Visual snow: http://www.benzobuddies.org/forum/index.php?topic=68421.0

Dizziness / fatigue / lightheadedness / feeling like on a boat / flying:

• http://www.benzobuddies.org/forum/index.php?topic=67496.0
• http://www.benzobuddies.org/forum/index.php?topic=128947.0

Afterimages and other visual effects: http://www.benzobuddies.org/forum/index.php?topic=148535.10

Bloating: http://www.benzobuddies.org/forum/index.php?topic=107652.0

Gum pain and bad taste in mouth: http://www.benzobuddies.org/forum/index.php?topic=129902.0

Sensitive teeth: http://www.benzobuddies.org/forum/index.php?topic=61596.0

Frequent uriniation: http://www.benzobuddies.org/forum/index.php?topic=166028.0

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The occurrence of all those different symptoms at the same time, which is also reported by long year drug (benzo) users, plus the wet/sex/porn dreams and sudden dreaming every day, they all point towards towards the drug withdrawal and not something else.

 

Wow. This sucks. I remember someone mentioning it could up to an year or even more perhaps before you leave the pmo addiction behind.

 

Yes. It is pure hell on earth (btw. "Hell on earth" is the most frequent phrase how people describe benzo withdrawal).

I tried to abstain a few times in the past. After every intense period of fapping I had withdrawals for 2-3 weeks like irritability, inability to concentrate, I even had the aching muscles/body. It always set in after about 3 days after the last fap. But it was nothing compared to what is going on now.

I started having some physical symptoms even during pmo. Which is due to tolerance withdrawal I think. I got to a point where I even found the genre I watched for years boring to watch. Then all of these symptoms crushed down on me.

So everyone reading this: This addiction can bring you to a place you dont even know it exists. I didn't. I thought I could quit at any time, go through 3 weeks of withdrawal and be fine. One day your body will break down and you will find yourself in hell. For some it may be sooner, for some later, but if you continue escalating with your PMO, chances are you will end up like this. During the last months i talked to a few people who experienced this. They all had to quit their job or university because of this for many months or even more than a year. This is why I don't like the words "challenge" in this forum. It's not a competition, it's a health issue.

 

Hi bro! Im the same as you but just 3 month in, Intense brain Fog and all the symptoms It carries, i still have no improvement, makes me feel so sad, I know how It feels the symptoms youve described above, The deepest hell. Id like to know if your brain fog has started to lift up? Let me see the light in tge tunnel, so I can stay sticked with the nofap therapy. A big hug mate!!! God bless us all

 

Hi bro! Im the same as you but just 3 month in, Intense brain Fog and all the symptoms It carries, i still have no improvement, makes me feel so sad, I know how It feels the symptoms youve described above, The deepest hell. Id like to know if your brain fog has started to lift up? Let me see the light in tge tunnel, so I can stay sticked with the nofap therapy. A big hug mate!!! God bless us all

 

I want to know too

 

Some things have improved but it is still pretty bad. I MO for some time 1-2 times/week though. It's better to not do it. No porn ofc.

 

I definitly dont recommend you to MO. Just advice. Masturbation releases dopamine. everywhere. Try hardmode mate. Thats the only way out. Hug

 

I had a hard mode streak of 4 and 5 months with just one MO in between. Symptoms only improved slightly.