My total ED is still here

Guys, unless you’ve gone 9 months with no PMO I would not worry.

Judging by the amount of time you have spent PMO’in you likely need more time until you start to see the effects of your reboot. A shrivelled penis in my eyes is a good thing. As much as I hated it in my reboot, it usually means your brain is doing what it is supposed to be doing which is healing.

A small note; if you are still masturbating regularly, I would do everything you can to cut it out or at least keep it to an extreme minimum. Especially if you are suffering from PIED, it will only slow you down and delay your progress.

 

The problem is that you masturbated 27 times in those 10 months. Even though that is not that much it’s still like 3 times a month. I was fucked up, I did a whole year of NoFap which basically gave me everything I was looking for from it. I had many ups and downs and it was taxing as fuck on myself because I completely changed as a person. You just need one last orgasm bro and after this you can quit and you won’t ever want to do it again

trigger warning

 

I will have been rebooting for 27 months at the end of this week and I still cannot gain a full blown erection when faced with a woman. It all comes down to severity.

There is a notion being thrown around that if you abstain for 90 days, 3 months, 6 months or even a year you ‘should’ be healed, but the point that is being missed is that we each have lead (and currently lead) different lives.

Most of us have PMO’d for 5+ years (at the minimum). Why would would it take a tenth of the time you spent under the addiction to be cured? Why should you be cured after 138 days?

It definitely sucks when you read about all these other people who have beat PIED after just 90 days, but the reality is that it’s unrealistic to compare our own journey to theres. Do not get me wrong, you may wake up tomorrow morning and find that there is life down there. But your best bet is to strap yourself in and prepare for another 3-6-9 months.

If you are abstaining from porn, avoiding masturbation and declining all opportunities to orgasm, then you are on the right track and need not worry. Despite being in this hell for 27 months I am ready to go another 27 months within a heartbeat if it means getting my life back. Start resigning yourself to the fact that it could take longer than you originally expected.

 

Lmao you expect 138 days of nofap to cure you from 15 years of masturbation???
You need at least 2 years nofap harmode to see where you stand. Ain't gonna be easy but it will worth it.

 

Have you noticed any positive improvements that are physical/mental?

 

Everyone's different, some will recover quickly, others won't.

 

Are you healed yet? lol

 

No, but then I keep relapsing.

On my longest streak however, my libido came roaring back at around the two month mark and it was more of an issue getting it down than up so in that department I was healed, or at least close to being healed. My overall energy was also up by that point but mentally I still didn't feel good so I expect that to take longer. I've been on a cycle of streaks and relapses since that point though so I've likely prolonged how long it'll take to heal this time should I make it. I was also a chronic every day edger for over a decade so not at all a minor case, the only thing I can think of in my favour is that I didn't really start on porn until I was about 17 or 18.

My view is that around 50% of rebooters will see a big improvement in 90 days, 90% by 180 days and 99% by a year. I don't at all doubt those taking upwards of two years to recover and they have my total respect for being strong enough to get through that but they are a very small minority. I don't think it's right to scare people into thinking it's going to take that long as it's likely just going to discourage them from even getting started. Some may even see improvements in a matter of weeks, it's just the luck of the draw, you can't apply one rule to everyone.

 

I've started around this age as well but never developped the habit until my early 20's after I got full access to internet.

My experience so far by starting nofap lets say for the first time from a long time pmoer perspective that you made it to 500 days. The first 500 days, you 99.9% will experience euphoria, feeling super good.... Then bam one day you fell into paws which could take months or years depending on the damages you've done to your brain over the years. That's why some people say nofap is placebo because of the depression coming from paws or sexual exhaustion.
Many rebooters on YouTube report those kind of issues.
It is clearly that relapses do set you back in reboot.
At the same time I try to be realistic as possible because I thought 90 days hardmode was going to cure me.

Brief, I've never seen a long time pmoer(5years+) on this site not reported paws of 2 years+ before the get better.

There was a rebooter on this site called DARKSETUR he used to pmo heavily for 6 or 9 months. His reboot took 18 months harmode.

 

The problem is you're projecting your experience and the experiences of those in the PAWS thread onto the rest of the nofap community. There's about 20 posters in the PAWS thread, there's thousands outside of it and tens/hundreds of thousands if you expand that to the reddit nofap and beyond. Most rebooters don't get to the point of PAWS. I experienced horrible withdrawals from about day 10 to day 30 and then that was it, I still generally feel shitty but that's purely built up through years of excessive masturbation/porn and will no doubt take a while to subside. In the context of this thread though it's very, very rare for ED cases to take two years(a clean two years I mean) to fix assuming that porn really is the cause of their issue.

I'm really sorry that this process is taking you so long but there's no logic to how long someone will take to recover. I do however agree that relapses set you back and depending on how far into a streak and how severe the relapse is it could well set you all the way back to zero.

 

You most likely will go through paws because that's the last stage of the reboot. Years of pmo shift our brain reward pathways. So, to get it back to normal, PAWS come to the equation as last resort.