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Did your Erection quality increase?

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by IWillWin03, Sep 21, 2017.

  1. polish_bear_65

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    I don't quite understand. Is this "improvement" due to abstinence, or due to psychological healing because of porn avoidance? Oh my, this thread is old. Anyway, hope to receive an answer.
     
  2. MarinoBigFan1984

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    I’m not quite sure why NoFap but it does
     
  3. Psychological reaction as a result of abstinence, I think...
     
  4. Damnation

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    It is related to the dopemine response. Some people have the misconception that only testosterone controls erection, but that's not entirely true. Dopemine spurs the erection, to react to stimuli. When you use porn you overload the dopemine response system, and the signals get muffled. Your erection quality begins to decrease. After cleaning up my porn habit, the wife and I noticed an extra 1.5 inches, and a level of girth and firmness that she WAS NOT expecting after 8 years of dating and 6 years of marriage we found out I'm a little too much for the wife. Dont question it, just embrace it, it is beautiful.
     
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  5. WallStreetMillionaire

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    inflammatory power is increased, thus healing power is also increased.
     
  6. So... in other words, too much sex and/or masturbation reduces your erection quality?
     
  7. Binge PMOing destroys your erections and fucks your brain up in levels you dont want to know
     
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  8. Damnation

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    No, but yes, if you masturbate constantly, you'll never know what true need and desperation feels like (horny) so temporarily you will have a somewhat weak erection because you haven't let your sperm production reach the brim of the barrel, so to speak. I spent 35 years of my life never knowing what it feels like to actually be horny and NEED the touch of a woman to feel release, it's a beautiful thing . But I digress, the lack of firmness and poor erectile quality is do to the "numbing" of the dopamine receptors in your brain. Your brain stops talking to your penis, basically. When you stop PMO, the receptors spring back to life, along with your penis! But be careful guys, your ladies may not be accustomed to your new size and firmness. No bragging but the wife felt a bit if pain because of poor erectile quality over all these years. And when I hit my final level of super sayain, she found it painful to receive, so take it easy on her.
     
  9. That matches well with my experience. Over the years where I daily masturbated my erections got weaker and weaker and the whole procedure felt increasingly dull. Now it´s different, much better (except for when I´m having a relapse).
     
  10. Exactly this and it takes longer and longer if your dopamine has been down regulated so much that your fapping with a small little chub. I'm well on the way to two years and my erections are still not all that strong, I workout and all that jazz, but this process can leave you impotent for a good while if you are severe, the lack of libido is also dehumanizing.
     
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  11. Varg

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    Not really, maybe except that I need to sleep without pants and even without, I wake up at night because of hard wood :). Hugeeee improvement.
     
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  12. BigOne79

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    I feel I downregulated my dopamine a lot over two decades. It seems like a boiler starting to fire up and I get it to pop but then it goes out right away. I only started getting my morning wood back in the seventh month of nofap I believe. Still not working good begin with girls but I believe that will take more time as I am a sever case most likely.

    The one thing a lot of people are talking about constantly and maybe it might be younger guys going through this but I have not gotten any wet dreams at all through nine months or emissions. I guess the severity will make the recovery take longer. I also wonder if spontaneous erections are still a thing at 40 years old for some guys or not. I actually get stimulation being around people a lot more now. I have had looking at P subs slips ups but no leakage or MO at all. I do have Sleep Apnea which I am trying to get solution for so not only staying up late sometimes and lack of sleep could be hurting the sleep in my recovery as well.
     
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  13. I down regulated mine a hell of a lot because of binging initially and then once I hit withdrawal relapsing on and off with streaks for five years. Basically the kindling effect but with PMO. It would explain why my recovery is taking a long time in all areas.

    But when I have my good days come through they are an eye opener. I think I will recover, hopefully in another year. I would of done two years no porn by the 2nd of october this year and it has gone so so quick.

    Ive also recovered a significant amount too. A lot better than I was prior and its exciting to see what life will be like when I feel ever better.
     
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  14. BigOne79

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    That's great Lebowski! You are definitely on the right path and I am sure you are going to be seeing bigger strides in the coming months as well. Very excited for you. I am always curious to see what the next month is going to bring me. Morning woods have become way better this month but the edging slowed it down, have to work harder.

    Have you had any emissions or dreams for that matter up to this point or you think the body will do it naturally during the healing process... ?? Maybe I am worrying too much. Not like my body can recover faster like younger guys now.
     
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  15. Damnation

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    They are a very real thing for men in their 40s. I'm 36, was sitting in a training for work yesterday. Noticed one of the girls sneaking several glances and me, and attempting to make eye contact so she could flash me a smile. In the course of 6 hours I had 2 spontaneous erections. It felt amazing, simply because I've been PMOing since early teens. Spontaneous erections were something that never happened.
     
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  16. Depressed&Out

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    My last PMO was on 7th of August 2017 - so that's few days away from two years. During that spell I had 2-3 three months' hardmode and one 6 month hardmode. My MO binge happened 2-4 times during those years (together with the odd MO here and there).

    My symptoms are similar to yours (but I'm a virgin at nearly 36 - never an intimate moment with a women)

    I keep good habit - healthy food, gym, studying, sometimes meditating (but up until recently, i was extremely stressed).

    Sadly, I can't report much progress having stayed two years PMO free. I've only noticed the odd small sign:

    wet dreams (didn't have them for years)
    MW (being experiencing them quite often lately actually)

    Lately (starting about a month or so ago), I started experiencing something that I hope is not from my imagination and something that is hopefully a sign. That thing that I've been experiencing lately, is that, sometimes, when a woman is infront of me, my primitive brain starts to 'notice' them (ie, my brain is controlled by, what I believe, the primitive part in guiding my gaze/interest to the woman infront of me). This happens, for example, when a woman is playing with her hair, or stretching or whatever. It's just something there in my brain that guides my interest there - it feels different than the deliberate gazing at women that I was doing previously (I started minimizing ogling at women as much as possible - maybe that has something to do with it)

    Anyway.... I'm kinda waiting with anticipation (but not expectation) about what any improvements that I might experience in the next couple of months (especially that I'm currently on HardMode). I believe, for severe cases like me, two years no PMO is the 'conventional' 3 months hardmode for not so severe cases.
     
  17. Sadly I think for extreme cases you are 100% right. And I can absolutely relate to them primitive experiences too. I have had very brief signs of libido and even that primitive gaze like you mentioned when a girl was playing with her hair and also the way she ate (lol). Its a very different feeling from ogling more like a natural innate feeling about a women. But yeah I totally get what you're saying mate.

    I think sadly for us we blew our brains out so much even when our body and brain couldnt handle it no more. Like I said before I had symptoms from 2011/12 if I can remember correctly when I was 18/19. I didn't know anything at that age and there wasnt a lot of info of PAWS back then when I was on yourbrainrebalanced. So I was relapsing even with symptoms, no libido and hardly any erection on and off until I was 24.

    I met a bird last year and nobbed her like 8 or 9 times over two occasions with maybe 60% erections. After the second time I met her the week following I was getting spontaneous erections and even thinking about nobbing her again gave me a semi. But I MOed about a month after to sensation and lost that feeling.

    Still no consistent libido as of yet, still sluggish erections. MW come and go. BUT... Mentally I know somethings up as a lot of my symptoms are gradually going away/gone like twitches, spasms, knee jerks, anehdonia on and off, palpitations gone and many more. I'm having a lot more good days now, feels like my brain is waking up some days like a switch is gradually being turnt on.

    I think people like me and you are in the 1% of Nofap in terms of recovery. But we'll get there in the end eventually mate I truly believe that, don't give in.
     
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  18. BigOne79

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    So, how long on average take you to get that back. I mean we are different in age so there will be time difference. I am slowly making progress. Getting stronger morning wood for the last month or two now. Seems like it is a path to everything and nature will help it all return to normal...
     
  19. Depressed&Out

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    Good to know. For how long have you had those primitive experiences? Did they improve gradually, or are they too none-linear?

    What do you do when you have those primitive experiences? Do you carry on looking (lol) or do you try and just calmly switch your attention to somewhere else? I'm not too sure myself what's the best option to take, considering we're in recovery.

    I had symptoms from around 2011 but only experienced weak erections in 2014. I was 27-28 or so in 2011. I also kept on PMOing when I didn't have libido and with weaker erections.

    I went out on a date with a girl last year, the only 'sign' that I noticed was semen leakage. It just show's have bad MO is for severe cases.


    Yeah, no libido for me apart from the 'strange' flow of feelings during the primitive experiences. My MW come and go too.

    My other symptoms are going away too. Anhedonia is sometimes present and sometimes not present. (but I'm still not enjoying stuff to the full). One thing that I'm feeling more, is the feel good hormone when I'm laughing. For a number of years, I lost the feeling of enjoying pretty much everything, even the good feeling of laughter.

    Yeah, my brain two feels more responsive to 'life'.

    If we're still only at 1% after two years no PMO, then this is going to be one hell long and tough journey (it already is)! However, I expect (hopefully not in delusion) that improvements should 'accelerate' once we get regular intimate contact with a female (HA!).

    Yeah, keep the faith, keep strong!
     
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  20. Varg

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    Guys have you tried session with Tribulus and Maca root ? I had a hard morning wood, libido and random erections with these pills even when I had a flatline. Maybe it can help you to unblock ?
     

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