is it possible that flatlining for the uninformed, can be mistaken as erectile disfunction? im trying to better understand a flatline.... a flatline is a stage that comes within a nofap? I started suspecting if I was coming down with 'traditional' ED... then I temporarily cut out my minor blood pressure medication 2 months to see if that was it.... nope that wasn't it. Then i was on to trying a diff sex partner, which worked for a bit but once it did not, i was back to suspecting ED. took ed meds and they didnt work, wow. what i noticed was brief hardons, so vaginal penetration was brief and having to use hands to finish became commom. occasionally even hands didnt work and had to call it a night. in the midst of this, though i would M perhaps a couple nights a week (not to porn, nor watch anyway) i would abstain from m though leading up to a known sexual encounter, about seven to a dozen days, but i recall i would sometimes edge a bit a day or half a day before, to check blood flow... it would seem okay and thought the rest was beneficial. then when i noticed i still needed my hand to finish in a delayed ejaculation, semi hard i thought i had a performance induced anxiety ED. then i started researching ED, it led me to consider death grip.f then i learned of nofap.... and the 90 day reboot. and a bit about flatlines. with this kind of info i wondered if those cases where i abstained for 7-12 days, without knowing it at the time, i was beginning a nofap numerous times.... could i well have also been in a flatline state and trying to have sex that was bound to fail. hence i thought it was ED. performance ED or traditional ED, and was neither.
recently i had 3 sexual encounters in about a 5 day span. this panned out after about 14 days of nofap, and about once in the past 28 days. the first encounter, I took 5mg of C heading in. i hadn't seen her in about 4 months, where everything about her was visually great but i couldnt get a erection to penetrate. she went oral and I had an erection but i think once she started using her hand work, i went limp and couldnt recover. this time, the oral I was able to maintain an erection, but I realized something about her hand grip still caused me to lose an erection, and i told her about it. we took a break and i got it back somewhat to penetrate vaginally, but her having a odor down there made me limp as it was a turn off and i couldnt recover for the evening at all even with foreplay the next 30min. 48 hours later i had my second encounter (through these hours I felt like i was in a flatline, no interest). but I met a girl i wasn't that physically attracted to, had dinner... she came out in something more comfy after, but her smoke breathe turned me off. i couldnt get it up the entire evening. after this one, about 36 hours later i met w/ a acquiantance of about December, where I did have full erection and vaginal sex successfully. I took 5mg of c heading in. she went oral and i was solid the most out of the 5 day span. we had more foreplay and we noticed i lost the erection, she was able to bring it back... she put a condom on and we had vaginal sex, but I was surprisingly, premature.... and it did not come out as I usually have it,as in waves and with propulsion. feeling wise, it was decent/good. A week has past from these experiences, and I've been waking up at my usual time for work and weekend, (not suddenly in the middle of the night) with a solid solid boner lasting through getting up to pee and back to bed. I had to step further away from the toilet in order to pee. so i dunno 'where' i am with this, but i think i'm going to continue resuming, if i can say that, with the reboot/NoFap for at least 60 days.
giving it some thought in recent weeks, flatlining i think includes the lack of anticipatory hard on. I'm starting to get that back.
