symptoms

I would start off by saying I am (or was) a normal, healthy 21 year old guy, with no past health or mental issues of any related sort. During the withdrawal, I have faced what is mostly faced anyways so I won't write much about it, but in addition I have faced weird things. One is a rather...

I relapsed hard after 6 months of being completely abstinent on what has been a free year battle. I had gotten to the point where anxiety was down and I was sleeping good finally. I relapsed a couple weeks and , I have 14 days clean now. I wake up most nights from a vivid dream gasping for air...

So it’s been around 10 days that I’ve started to abstain and before this I have tried to abstain multiple times but I failed miserably in that. But this time I’m feeling a lot better than my previous tries and my urges are very low this time. Now I don’t know what’s happening me to me, but I’m...

Guys I've been abstinent of Pornography for a very long time but I've been feeling horrible every time I MO. And I MO about between 1-3 weeks. Basically I feel horrible and I not only feel horrible for the coming days but I feel horrible until about two weeks. I don't know if its POIS or...

Eye floaters have long been associated with [excessive] p/m/o. Video above shares some insight as to how they may be dealt with.

Hi, For the first time in this year I bet my personal record of 12 days. Tbh, I haven't taken is srsly the past months, cuz I kinda functioned, even if not as well as I could have. I am clean for 19 days now. The first days were easy because I am with my gf in her home country. Away from my...

Is it just me, or the rebooting makes me less hungry then usual? I mean, I am in a bad state mentally right now, but it feels my lack of appetite is even more amplified when I am on a reboot, and this is just the beginning of it as I write it. Anyone experienced the same thing?

This morning I had crazy urges I was trying my best to ignore all last night kept having flashbacks of porn and sex with other women then A sudden light feeling came over me then after A sense of heaviness like A metal jacket was over me weighing down my body and some side pains and frequent...

Has anyone read Rock Steady? I'm currently about 80 pages in and I'm finding it interesting. I read Norman Doidge's The Brain That Changes Itself years ago and this book seems like a version of that but it somehow seems more tailored to people like me and those in similar situations. It presents...

I've dealt with vertigo and lightheadedness for years. Doctors have always told me it's anxiety related. My suspicion is that the symptoms came on as a result of excessive p/m/o starting in my mid teens. I've practiced edging for nearly two decades and these symptoms have remained. I notice that...

Below, I am quoting text from an article on GoodRx (GoodRx Health): What Is Porn Addiction Withdrawal? Symptoms and Guide to Recovery Feel free to share your opinions and discuss.

The flatline is and has been a commodity that not many of us truly understand. We dip in and out of it throughout our reboot, and it can last anything from a few days to months. It is essentially an emotional rollercoaster that we not only fear but struggle to understand. In this post I will...

This post is dedicated to serious addicts. Can you tell me how many years you have been addicted and what are the symptoms you experience as a result of being addicted to PMO? What happened to your life that you decided to try to stop? What did you suffer from?

Hi, I'm 28 years old and I've been tapping since I can remember (under 10 years old) I started the reboot process, I didn't fall even once and before that I did all the tests that show that Im completely healthy. Today I am on day 76 and I am still unstable. I have better days and less good...

[Masturbation causes] "young persons [to] assume the air and the diseases of the aged; they become pale, stupid, effeminate, idle, weak and even void of understanding. Their bodies bend forward, their legs are weak, they have a disgust for everything, become fit for nothing and many are affected...

Hi everyone! I hope I'm in the right area to post this. Now I know that not every ache and pain you experience during the withdrawal phase is a withdrawal symptom, but I'd like to share what I've experienced so far in my journey since starting in October. I have relapsed at least a dozen times...

One of the symptoms I have gotten ever since I started PMO a year ago when I was 16(now I'm 17) was Chronic fatigue and worse sleep and feeling tired no matter how much I sleep. I have also noticed another thing which happens to me sometimes, I would sometimes wake up after going to sleep and...

Hi, I am an addict of almost 2 decades. I am suffering from lots and lots of issue which can be read in my other thread. https://forum.nofap.com/index.php?threads/i-have-ruined-lost-almost-everything-but-enough-is-enough.325471/#post-3250830 My question is, is anyone able to reverse hyper...

Hello everybody, this isn't my first account on here, I made my first account years ago and spent a lot of time here, so I'm not new to this, but I had a question... Have any of you developed severe (or less severe) chronic pain or illness from PMO addiction? I have all kinds of really bad...

Reproduction is an energetically costly process that has profound effects on metabolism. The disposable soma theory of aging and expensive germline hypothesis state that organisms age due to an evolutionary trade-off between reproduction and DNA repair / maintenance. Formulated by the biologist...

I’ve been trying not to relapse so much lately. Starting streaks.. and relapsing because of giving in, thinking I had already messed it up. every time I start a new streak, my mind plays games with me. Either through thinking about arousing material or something similar. I cannot keep...

Over Masturbation Side Effects On Bones: https://manmatters.com/blog/over-masturbation-side-effects-on-bones/ I'm posting this because I've seen threads on here in which people have complained about relevant issues. An example is cracking joints.

From the time of Hippocrates to just before Freud's Sexual Revolution, physicians had much different opinions on PMO than those of clueless shills in medicine today. NEURASTHENIA is, according to Merriam-Webster, "a condition that is characterized especially by physical and mental exhaustion...

This past year and a half, I’ve been binging pretty heavy every time I’ve slipped. To the point of concerning symptoms… dissociating brainfog anxiety numbness and tingling etc. My question is for people that understand my situation.. Will I be ok if I stop? I need to quit so bad. no...

So yesterday, I relapsed vowing to stop. (I’m done) I relapsed because for the past few days before that, I was fantasizing and checking out girls, and looking at movie scenes, and it was giving me headaches and head pressure. so I figured a fresh start would be necessary if I’m going to beat...

I’ve had this happen before. But usually when starting a streak. I’ll avoid all sexual arousal so I don’t get these symptoms. It’s weird. but the other night I started my very needed streak to end this for all. We were all watching a movie at my friends house I went to after and I saw nudity...

At 2:05 in the above video clip, a patient is seen by an Asian doctor. He is told that if he doesn't quit masturbating and conquer his addiction, he will experience "tooth ache, loose teeth, back pain, weak knees, exhaustion, depression, psychological disorders, impotence and erectile...

Last night and during a nap today, I have no idea why because I haven’t been fantasizing or edging in anyway, and it’s literally only been 1 day. So I’m not aroused. I’ve been having these wild sexual dreams. Like the other night (the night I started the streak) I had a dream I gave in and...

Kind of a shitpost FYI Been feeling pretty shitty today. lots of brain fog very low motivation irritable lots of intrusive thoughts and urges Two things could be causing this: having a decently bad case of Covid for about the last week a wet dream last night that consisted of me cumming from...

So almost a few weeks ago, one week before Christmas, I edged like crazy, I felt intense blue balls. It went away after, but for about a week or so after I edged, I had a tenderness in my left nut. Thankfully, so greatful, it went away. But literally for a week I avoided running, jumping, etc...

I have an issue struggling to keep sexual thoughts out of my head for my reboot, and keeping my mind clean. It's like my mind plays tricks on me to attempt to make me struggle. It's so straining and its brought alot of suffering and pain to my life. But I know I have to remain strong. I...

so everytime before this streak. I would be having a streak going, and i would relapse 10 days later because i thought i already relapsed by looking at an image, or watching a tv show with girls in it for too long. Its stupid, but that was the problem. I realized that to get over this, i just...

I'm in my 30s now and I have been edging for something like a decade and a half. In my opinion, based on my overall health and how I feel, it's the single most destructive activity I could've ever engaged in. And I've really let myself down by not being able to conquer it. The worst part is...

A week ago, I fapped and Edged for about 5 hours, I did this to the point that I got blue balls. I could not keep going and did not finish so I slept the pain off. (so unhealthy in the first place that I did any of it to begin with). The next morning, All the pain was pretty much gone. I just...

I've been at this for 3 years and only in the last few months have I seen great improvement. Started an exercise routine every morning, got the medical help I needed. My new doc put me on Gabapentin. My eyes have almost completely recovered. Anyone with vision symptoms will understand...

Just curious. What are your thoughts.

I relapsed today. But I’m determined to quit until the end of the year atleast. (And then beyond). But I stopped fapping, like an hour and a half ago. I really got to be serious. I got to succeed. I think my attention is just focused on it but I can’t stop thinking about my thing down there...

I was doing something for school work, they wanted me to take a test where I try to identify peoples emotions based on their facial expressions. being on nofap I get aroused easily. I saw pictures of girls faces. I got aroused and got a boner. But I had to because of school work, I kept...

I Lowkey feel guilty honestly, but I wasn’t doing it for sexual arousal intent. There is this girl that I like, she made a new snap and I wanted to add her so I can keep in touch bc she made a new snap. I was thinking to myself, should I add her while I’m on a streak, because I know how...

i wasnt really focusing on the images, but i thought i had to relapse to clean the streak because i looked at pics (i didnt mean to, i sorta just stopped avoiding them, but not focused on them or searched for them) i didnt get aroused, but would you guys consider this a relapse? i never touched...

I know what they say… if your questioning it and all that. It must be a relapse. But I really don’t know. I am 95% sure it isn’t. But what do you guys think. An hour ago I stumbled across a triggering image and i almost went back to it but I quickly scrolled past and got out, I got urges after...

is waking up cold a sign of withdrawal and recovery? ive been waking up cold the last two days and feeling more tired than normal. im getting through this just curious.

So yesterday for a lil back story, I fapped pretty much all day, felt like shit, I feel like shit now. I woke up and said damn I already looked at stuff so I need to fap, but I don’t want to fap. (I fapped so much I just don’t want to anymore now). my question is , if I start my streak now, (I...

I fapped for a few days, after a decent 12 almost 13 day streak. Today, I told myself that this was it, I was going to abstain for good. But before that, early this morning I fapped 3 consecutive times. Of course I felt bad because of the fapping, but I didn’t feel these head symptoms I have...

So I suffer from a lot of certain sexual ocd’s hocd, etc. sometimes I arousal test out of anxiety to make sure that I am not aroused to something. is this a relapse? I don’t want to get horny, I just feel the need to make sure I’m not aroused to something that I don’t want to be.

I was looking through my Snapchat, I couldn’t tell if it was a girls face faintly or a guys face and still can’t now bc it was blurry and dark but I kept looking, (I try not to look at girls faces bc they arouse me) and I stopped before it was too long but if it was a girls face (because of the...

Last time I fapped was just now, I made a vow to myself I wouldn’t fap again. My thoughts tend to spiral out of control. I had a terrible thought last relapse during o. I don’t want to get into it, not to sound dramatic, but not goods I was going to fap again to reverse the thoughts, but I...

I just started a new streak today. I’ve been fapping alot less and getting through hard urges more. today, since I woke up, I was fine, I’ve lasted down a couple of times today and it’s like I have a vertigo/dizziness and it feels like I just stopped spinning. Has anyone ever experienced this...

I just experienced one of the strongest urges I’ve ever experienced. I was just sitting here, I’ve been having alot of urges lately, but just now, my heart was pounding out of my chest. My finger was just hovering one click away from looking at arousing content, and I was just holding on with...

I went 8 days without pmo. I relapsed and I fapped for a day, I got right back on the horse and today (day 2) I feel a lot better but I have a really giddy (I don’t know how to describe it) feeling. And my thing is really senstive. I’ve been having a lot more urges than usual as well, but really...

Is it a relapse if you choose to watch p in a lucid dream? for those who may not know, a lucid dream is where you are aware of what is going on and can control the dream. at first, I was dreaming, I was choosing not to get aroused but then in the dream in which I was aware I ended up saying f...

I just got off a bad pmo binge. I’ve been having irrational ocd/anxiety. that same anxiety is the reason why the binge went on for so long in the first place. like I’ll relapse at first, then I do it again, and then after a few times the anxiety gets worse and worse so I feel worse, therefore...

I will not talk here about the benefits of recovery only, but I will also try to tackle the fundamental issues of self-perception and the distorted sense of reality which I suffered before and after I came across this challenge, I can tell that some of my views here may offend some brothers and...

I quit pmo for 11 days and I relapsed one week ago exactly. My head was in the right place and I started to really feel the benefits again. From there, I binged for a few more days, until Sunday April 25th. I happened to get really sick (maybe just a seasonal cough) and that helped force me out...

Anxiety, brain fog literally to the point where I have trouble reading sentences, head pressure, slight malaise. I have a trip coming up, I’m going to be gone for a week. I just don’t want to feel anxious while I’m down there on my trip. What do you guys think about this?

The other night, I ended a 3 day fapping binge. During the binge, I got extreme brain fog so bad I couldn’t think straight. now, day 2 I feel anxiety and brain fog come in waves still. I’m not sure why but could this be my brain adjusting? I can barely think straight and I don’t feel much...

A lot of people on this forum talk about how you should be getting a gf and someone real to spend time with and have a healthy sexual life with. ive been thinking of asking for numbers my question is, how do you do so without getting aroused? like, I will likely get a boner if I ask a girl...

So yesterday, I was in a pmo binge. I need to get out of it so I could continue and get on with abstaining and improving. I binged for 3 days and it causes a lot of anxiety. Last night, my last relapse was around 5 pm. I was going to do it again later after that, so I wasn’t really careful...

Let’s feel free to talk about this. Because there are many claims, it’s about a 2 minute read, but feel free to express thoughts on this awesome benefit. Today is day 10 for me, tomorrow will be day 11. Today is the day I started noticing my voice getting deeper and I started to notice the...

Last night, I was looking at pictures of something (not trying to get aroused) and I stumbled across images that got me aroused, I tried to ignore them multiple times, but I got so aroused I almost fapped right then and there. Now I have urges still and also I feel a little bit of pressure in my...

I think I’m going through flatline, I’ve been having symptoms that are really weird Today, I woke up with brain fog and trouble concentrating, I feel very dull, a slight pressure in my head, too. I’ve never gotten a completely loss of libido personally from a flatline, maybe it just depends on...

I’m going to keep this as short as possible. And get straight to the point. I started doing nofap 2 years ago, I’ve had long streaks and short streaks, I gave in and I tapped after quitting for about 4-5 days in March 11th, unlike a usual relapse for me , (just p and mo) I ran in to something...

I recently got back on track after a devastatingly long binge. 5 months and 25 days. It’s insane. I hate fapping. but I noticed that once I started my streak to recover again, I immediately went into flatline maybe day 5 ish. when I went into flatline mode/withdrawal, I really took mental...

I wanted to share an article about the possible side effects from meditation, so anyone who is recovering from PMO addiction can decide , if it is good idea to start meditation, or not! I think this is the fair play, just as people should be warned before they take medication with possible...

Hello Guys, how do i know wether i exactly have PIED or not? I kind of still do not exactly understand this Topic. So with Porn and my Weird Fetishes, obviously i get arroused easily and hard when watching that shit. But since i never had real Sex with a Girl i can´t really tell if i actually...

I am at the end of day 12. I felt my symptoms slowly getting more and more intense within the past 5 days. Basically, as I write this, I cannot even think straight almost one bit. I feel very dull and fogged out. I know it’s a symptom of flatline and/or withdrawal, but this is really intense. I...

Hello guys! Im on day 9 nofap streak, and im experiencing something weird today so i wanted to know if any of you have experienced something similar. Well it feels like im not willing to stand for my values and myself. So be specific kind of emotional numbness for example if i got a shitty porn...

Hello everyone, Currently I have urges and feel some withdrawal so I thought I won´t relapse and open this thread. I wanna collect your ways of overcoming urges and your tools to cope with withdrawal. So I guess I will start here and then we will build a long list. Hopefully you will post some...

Hi fellow fapstrouants, I'd like to ask forum members who have been seriously addicted to PMO for a decade or more and have achieved +200 days of abstinence in hard or monk mode how did it influence your: a) anxiety levels b) depression c) fatigue/energy levels If you've not experienced...

I'm not trying to only allow Muslims on this thread, ALL RELIGIONS are allowed, I was wondering if there were any Muslims on this forum, because I know an Islamic remedy that makes any addiction easier for you. Why is this specifically for muslims? Because it involves praying how Muslims do...

During my recent recovery, I often find myself randomly staring off into space. It's as if my mind goes completely blank for a few seconds. Has anyone else experienced something like this? If so, does it go away?

Hello guys. I'm on my third week in Reboot (No PMO). I've been having a lot of trouble falling asleep at nights. When I don't need to show up for work or school, this has been causing me to sleep until noon. I really hate that. Is it common in the early stages? Best regards!

Well, how’s it going guys, definitely think it’s about time I started this, I’m not a huge porn user but I averagely watch it about every 2 or 3 days depending on the reboot that I always want to keep restarting. I just want to know that there’s light at the end of the tunnel. I’ve had sexual...

Buenas noches a todos!. Me dirijo a ustedes con el motivo de solicitar información sobre cuales son los criterios que usan o conocen para el diagnostico de una adicción a la pornografía. Esto con motivo de poder caracterizar y evaluar clínicamente esta patología. Muchas gracias de antemano por...

There are dark circles under my eyes. My neck and shoulders are so tense they feel like they're going to snap. My thoughts are racing. People say I look depressed. This Reboot is hell. I just hope these things end. Are these symptoms normal? Does anybody else feel anything relatable?

Hi fellow fapstronauts, I've come across this addiction recovery website stating that porn addiction is just a symptom not the cause of our troubles. I couldn't agree more. I've been trying to fight it nearly 2 decades without success. I had relatively long abstinence periods, thinking I was...

So I had an appointment with a specialist I see for headaches yesterday. As I've been healing from the years of PMO addiction old symptoms have been popping up as the chronic ones alleviate. She told me this is a phenomena well documented by a Dr by the name of Herr. Has anyone else had...

Hi guys, Everytime i think of the girl i like sexually or non sexual & get hard on her i get some of the withdrawal symptoms back , why is that? Isn't suppose to be a healthy thing to get hard & wet on real girls!

Hi guys, After stopping porn every time i masturbate it triggers withdrawal symptoms, why is that? I'm currently stopping both porn & masturbation, i decided to stop masturbation after i got hit by withdrawal. Did it few times only since i stopped porn in 2015.

Hey everyone, so I never was too big into viewing porn. When I did, I just viewed it without Ming. However, now I get major problems with muscle numbness (face and chest), mouth watering, brain fog, and social anxiety when I see images of scantily clad women anywhere (for example: when...

Some people just start masturbating without any symptoms, but after a few years of masturbation, which will hurt the internal essence of body, slowly some of the following symptoms appear: 1. The hair get dirty, oily, dull, sparse and less. Some one will lose a lot of hair, or easy to suffer...

For me, one of the biggest things that made me stop watching porn was how much anxiety and guilt I started to feel in society. I have become very antisocial and it is becoming very hard to deal with. I can't even go to the store without feeling anxious. What are some other symptoms y'all have had?

It was probably full of such topics... what do you know about withdrawal symptoms? I would like to hear something from the scientific point of view on this topic. Why withdrawal symptoms appear? Why withdrawal symptoms may appear even half a year after discontinuation of addiction? What is...

Hello Fapstronauts! (English isn't my first linguage, i'm sorry for my bad grammar) I'm here because a "problem" is kind of disturbing my daily convivence. So let's go to the question: Is it normal to become more aggressive during reboot? I've noticed this a couple days ago; That i become...

Hi. I watched porn with masturbation for 5 years with the frequency of four/five times a week. I've finished to watch porn and masturbation for about one month. Now I have: lack of concentration, hot flashes "in the brain", social anxiety and depression. My questions are: are this symptoms...

hello to all. my name is Joe, 31 years old, from Delaware and I’m new to this site. I found it on google while looking up the withdrawal symptoms from masturbation. I recently stopped as of last Friday and I’m really going through some pretty wild mental and physical withdrawals. Any advice to...

I lost another battle again today. Spent money on porn and masturbated. Afterwards, my body went in this sense of stress that caused body parts to twitch or move on their own. I am not an expert of what happens in the brain due to YEARS of unhealthy sexual habits, but has anyone else...

So, I successfully completed 30 days last year, and relapsed. It took me a while to get back on track, but i'm back and on day 9. I'm feeling run down, achey, feeling sick. This didn't happen last time. I'm noticing people more and immediately when I'm attracted to someone, I am flashing...

For the first time I had a wet dream, I have stomach ache Every time I go to pee, and I have this erotic dreams everyday. How can I stop all of these symptoms? I have been around a week and a half in NoFap.

Day 28 guys! 2 more days till 30. I've been having serious anxiety issues this past few days. Making things bigger that they're suppose to be. I thought it was manageable then but somehow it went over the roof again. So many triggers, but the funny thing is they're all small things, like the...

Early on in my NoFap journey I never thought I would be posting in the section on loneliness. I thought I was the sort of person that was confident and introverted enough that this would not be a problem - I've lived alone almost all of my adult life, including now, and I thought it was great...