180 days of success and cured PIED

Yours is an inspiring journey mate! Thanks for sharing, cheers & keep going

 

Be strong Brother!
You're on a road to success and you will get better sooner than you think.

 

Basically I wanted to just encourage brother AlexWillDoIt ( ), but let me open up little bit my thinking behind my comment:

Over 1 year on NoFap? Yes I am. I've been on NoFap overall 1,5 years now and this current streak is my fourth or fifth. (I honestly don't remember anymore, so let's say fifth).
I'm thinking this as a new way of life than just some temporary challenge, after which I could return to my previous bad habits. I don't want to return my old bad habits and thanks to NoFap, I don't have to anymore.

What I mean is that when I first started, I noticed first improvements much sooner than I could ever dream of. We got to remember that most of us didn't get addicted in just one week period, but rather build it up little by little over years and years, escalating more and more twisted kind of porn. I stand behind my words that you are gonna get better sooner than you think, but if you've been indulging yourself into most twisted kind of porn for years (or friggin' two decades like me), you gotta be realistic here; you probably won't be fully cured in just few weeks. But you are gonna get much better in just few weeks, I guarantee you that.

But again, I'm not a doctor or any other kind of medical expert, so I can speak only from my own experience.

- Mike

 

Thank you Brother
9 months is a really great accomplishment. Keep going and stay strong!

 

Thank you Brother
It feels amazing to write this post especially knowing where I started my journey. There were times I almost gave up, but support from this forum kept me going. This forum is a helpful and powerful entity

 

At this point pretty much yes, and I'm also able to have an orgasm through regular PIV sex.
At times I was very skeptical whether I'll ever be able to enjoy normal sex or have I "burned" my brain beyond repair, but as it turns out, I wasn't. Having faith in this NoFap process is in my opinion the hardest part of all. In few weeks my newly required habits started to kick in and urges started to fade (not completely but for the most part), I felt many weeks like I'm not making any progress and that my penis is completely dead. Those moments were my toughest battles against urges to "test" my erections and see if my dick still works.

Luckily through this Forum I found the strength to continue so I'm able to write these words today. To me NoFap and this Forum really gave me my life back. And that's more than enough to be grateful for

 

I personally went on hard mode first 4 months of this current streak. Kind of. I was starting my current relationship at the same time and we were having sex, but I couldn't climax at all with her. I reached my first climax with her somewhere end of 4th month and after that I slowly started to have orgasms with her more and more often. I think I started to climax consistently every time at the start of this year, around 9. month of this streak.

 

Yes, I do feel horny now, but that hasn't always been the case. Not at all. In fact, I was in flatline for the first 4 months of this current streak. No boners, no urges, no nothing. Only fear. And believe me when I say that I know just how freakin' terrifying feeling it is to find your sex drive and boners taken away. It freaked me out several times and I feared countless times that I've burned my brain beyond repair and that I'm never gonna be able to have normal sex ever again.

I personally think that you don't need testosterone if you're talking about doping-type-things. I suggest to stay away from them as they could harm your natural testosterone production very badly. Only thing you probably need is to finish your reboot and you're as good as new. It may take longer than 90 days depending how long and bad you've been addicted, but most certainly you will get cured if you just continue your streak patiently.

Stop panicking and worrying about your libido. It will come back eventually. Concentrate on other things in life (yes, there are more in life than just sex ). Concentrate on becoming better man. Fitter man. Smarter and more spiritual man. That should keep you occupied long enough and directs your focus away from abstaining porn. If you just sit in a house (or even worse; in front of computer) concentrating on abstaining, you will most certainly give in to temptation sooner or later. But if you distract yourself and redirect your focus on something else, it will make abstaining much easier.

 

Thank you for your kind words Brother. It's always nice to hear when you've managed to give motivation and hope to someone
I can relate that search for an opportunity to look for anything sex related. I remember lusting for literally every single woman on the street and fantasizing about indulging my fetishes with them. But it was only my addiction talking and after doing NoFap, I've got rid of it.
All guys do masturbate, but as in everything else in life, there's a fine line between normal and excessive. Doing NoFap has got me to realize that us humans are not supposed to have sex every single day and that sex is so much more than just physical thing.

Words of wisdom Brother. Admitting a problem is always step number one. By doing this you've become further than many other will ever become.

Same principles can be applied here too. My weapon of choice is to distract my focus to something completely different. When I felt urges coming, I did some physical exercises outdoors as that drained my excessive energy and made masturbating virtually impossible.

You're welcome Brother! I'm glad to help