Muscular ticks and other withdrawal symptoms

Are you eating well and getting enough sleep? It may be a stress/anxiety thing as well.

 

What does your workout routine look like? Have you considered starting one? You're not doubt going to have a lot of excess energy and time now that you're taking PMO out of your life, why not replace it with some sort of workout? It might help with some of these symptoms.

 

These are PAWS symptoms. They'll get worse until you quit PMO. There are several long threads about this - search for "PAWS" or "physical symptoms" on this forum.

 

My muscle twitching (it progressed from nerve twitching) is getting worse as time passes, and the doctor diagnosed it as benign-something-or-other. Seeing this thread makes me think it's MO-related. Two pieces of olden-day literature confirm this. Hint: It gets progressively worse the more you MO, and it doesn't seem to me that stopping MO is guaranteed to clear it up. If that doesn't give you kick up the backside to stop PMO right now, I don't know what will.

 

I have that normally because I have anxiety and bad nerves, but it is definitely worse after acting out as is my general mood. It is something I've learned to live with and accept in my normal life, but making it worse is not good at all.

 

Muscular tics are caused by any disturbance of the nervous system. Depleting one's nervous energy via excess stimulation (masturbation) may certainly be a causative factor. There are other potential causes, however. The one that comes first to my mind is mercury. Mercury toxicity can cause so many different problems that doctors have a hard time nailing down the etiology. But mercury is especially destructive of nerves. A University of Calgary video on mercury, available on YouTube, shows actual nerve cells being damaged by low levels of mercury.

Nowadays, mercury comes in many forms: CFL/fluorescent bulbs (don't break one!), silver amalgam tooth fillings, certain vaccines (thimerosal, a preservative), eating fish or seafoods, etc. Once in the body, mercury does not easily come back out. It is fat-loving, not water soluble, so it sticks to the fatty and nerve tissue. Sometimes the muscle contractions from mercury-damaged nerves can even cause dystonia.