Is PIED can be cured with NoFap?

Great to hear about your improvement. Gives me hope. I have to do what you did.

 

I wish i could stop porn immediately. I need help. This is ruining my life

 

Thank you for sharing your story! You give hope to all of us regarding PIED cure progress. Good luck on hitting a perfect year!

 

how far are you in 317 days? no relapses? seen progress?

 

I have asked myself the same question. Can PIED be cured with NOFAP? Ok, I am trying this at the moment.

I have looked at the arguments of Gary Wilson and others, including those who oppose his views.
Here is my list of thoughts on this subject:

The people who start NoFap mostly have self-diagnosed that they have PIED. Have they been to da doctor? Are they sure it does not have other psychological (performance anxiety) or physical reasons for ED.
As for myself, I say that porn may be a contributing factor. I want to find out by getting rid of porn.

So what is unknown is whether porn has caused the ED? I don't know for myself and others. I have good reason to believe that my ED has started in times when I did not have that much access to porn. Before there was interntet porn. It just got really bad recently, which may have to do with my increasing age, it may have to do with artery blockage, it may have to do with PMOing too much. The doctor says it is performance anxiety, and I have strong reasons to believe that is the major factor and has been since the problem started. Performance anxiety forms a vicious circle that it hard to break.

Many of the success stories I have read so far are either not really success stories or they have a common element:

People started living healthier lives as they went on NoFap. The result of higher libido and better erections is hardly surprising then, especially when we are talking about young men. What they describe as superpowers appears to me to just having discovered what it is like to live a healthy life. The mind is strong, and if you want to believe in something, it becomes true in your mind.

The young men who succeeded had put a lot of effort into nofap, so they attribute all their rewards of being more healthy to nofap. Even though it could also be better diet, more excercise, etc. that helped them gain their "superpowers" including sexual performance.

So even if you improve your erection situation and sexual performance, you will never know whether it really had to do with porn.

However, on the other side, cutting porn cannot hurt you. At least, there will be secondary benefits. Less screen time, less time wasted, etc. Less sperm and energy wasted on PMO means more for the wife. There may be some truth the the dopamine argument of Wilson. So just do nofap, you will see how far you can get and it can't possibly hurt. Western medicine is only offering you blue pills.

 

We can all agree porn is bad. Especially on a consistent basis.

I have pied(or so I think)
Currently on day 48 hard mode no pmo. Erections are coming back stronger(wasn’t getting them before). After Christmas/new year il try sex with a woman. See how it goes.

A reboot period seems logical to me. Let the dopamine receptors go back to normal etc

I’m very active. Gym, active job etc. Never had problems attracting or talking to women etc just the pied.

 

I am not saying the PIED cannot exist.
Your case is quite interesting, let s see how that goes. However, after such a long wait you could develop performance anxiety and fail because of that, but blame it on the porn.

bottom line is, we will never know. The mind is a strange but powerful entity.

Btw. I just had penetrative sex after 6 days without fapping. It doubt the medication was still active when finally my wife agreed to let me enter her.

 

Coffee69,

Were you a virgin when you started having sex at 31?

Because I'm in my mid 30's now and a virgin (never had any intimacy with women and rarely talked to them) - so I'm really sick and worried about if I would ever be able to grow the real neural pathways of women/sexual experience.

Can you tell me more about this - do you have problems connecting to women or being immersed in sex? Or anything like that.

 

Coffee is right. He stopped pmo and focused on his job. Yesterday I got 8 books off amazon. Books by entrepreneurs, business people and even the art of war. It sounds corny but I’m surrounding myself with positivity and a can do attitude.

We can do this brothers

 

Glad to hear. It's so sickening waiting to find out your fate. (But I realise that everyone is different.)

 

It takes a long time to heal

 

Would you say your healing stable or unstable? I mean do you sometimes get 100% erections and sometimes it's not 100%?

Because I heard the younger ones, even though they recover, the healing is unstable.