Anyone beat PIED?

There's a thread full of success stories. Check that out, bruh.

 

like what j247 said, check out the thread of success stories.

as for your personal experience, you gotta just give it a little more time. if there are still problems at the end of 90 days, first embrace your success at being without PM, then assess if you have a physical problem. from reading what you wrote, it sounds like a performance anxiety issue if you're concerned about how hard you are. i'm obviously far from a licensed professional, but i know the thought patterns, and the ones you're describing sound like what i go through when i feel performance anxiety. and it's probably exacerbated by the ED.

just give your body and brain a chance to heal. even before you get intimate with a girl again, just go through your thought patterns. try to tell yourself you'll enjoy her presence no matter what happens, and take some of the pressure off yourself.

 

I'm on my way to curing pied. Still a while to go though. In terms of the gay thing. You will find that the longer you abstain from porn and mo your sexual tastes begin to normalise. It's a very confusing time for you during the reboot but you will soon discover you're not gay. Porn absolutely fucks with your brain chemistry.

 

Space K, your attraction to gay porn may just be a combination of envy and hope. You can remember when your erections looked and worked more like that, and you hope that they will again some day. The problem is that continual looking at them keeps that from happening. Until you reboot, the closest you will get to one of those erections is through the internet. You can quit looking and start developing your own erection that you can be proud of and enjoy. It takes time and effort, but the payoff is well worth it.


I am not the man I used to be,
and I probably never was.
But life was grand back then,
I think.
I really don't remember much

 

You know, I'm pretty far into this (over two years abstaining from PMO successfully), and I've figured something out. This isn't meant to be discouraging, quite the opposite in fact.

The answer to your question is yes, it's possible to beat PIED. But... it's going to take a long time and a lot of diligent effort. I have had period improvements, some pretty drastic, in the quality of my erections over the course of my reboot, starting noticeably probably after day 200 (not 90). The improvements after 90 days were primarily psychological, and general physical stuff like more energy and feeling masculine.

My methods from day 1 to about a week ago were perfect abstinence (I mean, this is my third attempt at a reboot, but "perfect" this time), coupled with a disciplined meditation practice. But let me tell you what I added in two weeks and one week ago.

EXERCISE.

This comes in two forms:

1. Normal Exercise- you know, jogging and lifting weights. Some yoga too, I used to go to a studio regularly for a while early in my reboot but then it got closed down. I'd like to do that again because it was quite beneficial but my mind and body were so fucked up when I started that I mostly removed negative things rather than adding positive. Anyway, I now exercise 30-60 minutes a day at minimum.

2. Kegels- kegels and reverse kegels. I do them every other day or sometimes 2 days on 1 day off, which is what is recommended. Look up how to do these, the explanations are everywhere. Anyway, I started these about a week ago, which is a week after I started the normal exercise routine. Be careful not to overdo them, I read this advice. And advice purely from my own experience is... treat the relaxation phase of the rep as just as important as the tension phase (I think the pelvis of a long time PMOer is already tense, so along with strengthening the muscles we need to teach them psychologically how to relax).

Anyway, with 1-2 weeks under my belt (haha) so far of this routine of basic exercise and fairly conservative beginner kegels... boy am I waking up with raging morning wood like from the teenage years. Today actually I was going to post a success story that after a wet dream I kept an erection (since the PMO days this has not been the case, but it was before).

So yeah, 700+ days in I think I've finally come around to a PIED cure. My point here is, be very diligent and patient. Best of luck man.

 

Relax your pelvic floor muscles. Excessive masturbation can tighten those muscle restricting blood flow to the genitals. I notice improvement in my erections after a month of simple stretching exercises.