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Long-term PMO: Sexual Exhaustion/Chronic Fatigue?

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by Dreww, Jul 23, 2019.

  1. Anonymous86

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    My dick is super small, no bruising though. Soft all over and numb. It's like a flatline, because I am not enjoying things in real life.
     
  2. Dat95

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    it is, relax and wait it out man
     
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  3. Dreww

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    Continuing the conversation -- has anyone had legitimate chronic fatigue as a result of PMO addiction? Like, never feel rested even after a long night of sleep, muscle weakness, heart rate/blood pressure abnormalities, etc.? It's my understanding that serotonin is more likely the source of that, not dopamine. And it's the latter that is effected by PMO.
     
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  4. Anonymous86

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    I've frequently felt tired a lot. i dunno if that counts? Never really rested from a long night of sleep. I thought that serotonin was also affected by PMO??
     
  5. Dreww

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    Everything I read intertwines dopamine and addiction, and that dopamine doesn't cause fatigue.

    Interestingly, a couple months ago I briefly took Wellbutrin, which is a dopamine regulator, and I quickly felt ~50% better. I quit because I couldn't sleep on it, but the more I consider the possibility of dopamine imbalance due to PMO, the more it makes sense.
     
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  6. Anonymous86

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    Probably my same issue. Question, how do endorphins tie into this? Do you know if dopamine desensitization from porn is most likely why I don't feel an 'endorphin rush' from working out hardcore?
     
  7. Mr. Kruger

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    I'm convinced that PMO caused my adrenal fatigue, which is basically just a colloquial term for HPA-axis dysregulation. I've been free of PMO for exactly 50 days now, and I can already feel that all my physiological problems are in the beginning phases of correcting themselves. There will be ups and downs in everybody's reboot, and no reboot is linear, but eventually you do reach a plateau where you can feel everything beginning to fall into place. It's a weird feeling at first because you feel like the person you were years before PMO enslaved you, and it's almost like you've gone back in time.
     
  8. Dreww

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    This is precisely what I was looking to hear.

    I was about 13 or 14 when I started looking at magazines and then got into internet porn, so I can't honestly say I know who I was beforehand, because I was at such a young, developing stage of life. That said, maybe I'm kidding myself, but I don't feel as though I was ever "enslaved" by porn. I would look at it for the hour I would MO, then I'd turn it off and not think about it again the rest of the day. I never rushed home to view porn, or turned down social events to stay home and look at porn. It always seemed relatively under-control, I just couldn't keep myself from wanting that hour-long fix the next day.
     
  9. Mr. Kruger

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    I'd still consider that an addiction. You might not be anywhere near as severe as some of the ex-PMOers here, but it's still a problem if you require it every day.
     
  10. Jay77

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    I have CFS been fapping since I was 12 for 22 years. I believe it is the sole cause of my CFS sexual exhaustion. I went on a streak of 77 days and I run for the first time ever. I believe it will take years based on every year you fap it takes 2 months to reverse the damage. It’s devastating but it’s worth a go to get rid of this debilitating fatigue.
     

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