Morning wood - A sign of healing ?

Yeah morning wood is a good sign of healing but I personally had loads of morning wood throughout 3-5 months of PAWs. Very weak erections though. When you start waking up with serious MW, hard enough for sex, that's when you're very close to healed – usually.

 

My opinion is that morning wood is an indicator of vitality but also a consequence of the thoughts and behaviors we entertain while we are not sleeping. So if your mind and body are decent during the day, and you are still not getting morning wood after 49 months, this circumstance would indicate a lack of sexual vitality. I would guess that many of the PAWS symptoms you are experiencing are also associated with issues like low sperm count, low testosterone, etc..

 

Vitality. That's the word. That's what you gradually lose with every PMO session. You are in a major deficit – the opposite of vitality is depression. And the morning wood starts building up slowly but surely.

 

I 100% agree with this Day 149 for me and have been flatlining hard since like week 2 or 3 and just like the past week or so I’m FINALLY starting to get solid morning wood and occasional horniness throughout the day I feel i might be really close to coming out of the flatline and on the way to normal sexual function

 

I don't believe it is.

3 days ago, I arrived at month 43 without PMO. Still in PAWS, though.

For about the last 1 & a half year into my PAWS, I've had consistent hard morning boners.

I still have the brain fog, the depression, the social anxiety, and the fatigue nonetheless.

Although I've been experiencing those symptoms with less intensity for the last 500 days, they are still manifesting themselves.

If you have the progressive recovery type, that is, witnessing the symptoms decrease their intensity both, exponentially & non-linearly, the brightness of the eyes & the sudden increase in energy levels are the signs you're looking for.

Just keep going. Persistence & patience all the way.

 

Good day,

her erection early in the morning has nothing to do with NoFap.

I don't know where this thinking comes from, that it will sort itself out at some point after the flatline.

One thing I have noticed is that there is a lot of false knowledge that persists in the NoFap area without any foundation and is simply wrong.

The cause of a lack of morning erections is worn out pelvic floor muscles.

Many people have not exercised for years or have sat for hours at a time.

This causes the muscles around the erectile tissue to wear out. If you train these muscles, especially the perineum, you will get up every morning with an erection.

Whether you're doing NoFap or watching porn, if you train and strengthen those muscles, you'll wake up with a morning boner.

Therefore it is not a sign of healing. And people wait in vain for it. No knowledge is better than false knowledge.

 

I can't agree with that. I always had morning wood no matter how bad was my addiction.
One difference maybe is that even at my worst I never PMOd once or more a day, it was more 1 in 3 days.

 

This is an important point. I was the same. I really didn't watch porn that much and I had one of the worst PIED cases and PAWS I've read about. So it made it hard for me to commit to nofap as it took me a long time to believe that porn was the problem.

 

When I read about people being sober for years here it kinda make me depressed. I haven't completed 90 days yet despite years in trying and to see that the addiction isn't cured after years of abstinence is discouraging.
I guess if it wasn't for religious reason, I would probably stay in my addiction simply because it's easier and I don't have the will to fight for an hypothetic improvement in 10 years.

 

Everyone's different and the second people heal, they tend to leave this forum as why would you stay in it? So you get a skewed viewpoint as only the people struggling the most tend to post here.

If people are taking years, there must be some big mistakes their making: they might be taking meds, might be severely burned out or anxious, I wouldn't read into it too much. Just focus on yourself and doing this the best you can. You will heal. I've seen major progress lately. Stay with it.

 

Of course it's a sign of healing, healthy men are supposed to have nocturnal/morning erections, if they're not then that is a sign that something is wrong. Upregulation of dopamine receptors leads to increased REM sleep, it's this phase of sleep in which erections occur. The return of morning wood doesn't necessarily signal that the end of PAWS is close but it's still a sign of healing. I do not believe in all the pelvic floor stuff, even old men who rarely exercise get morning wood if their brain is still healthy and they don't have other underlying conditions.