celestialbeast
New Fapstronaut
Hi there,
I came across this forum for a couple of times during the past couple of months and figured I'd tell my story, it might help others in the longer run.
First of all, a little bit of a background. I've been in longer relationship with a woman before, from my 16th till my 24th. We broke up because we grew apart. After that breakup I realized I wanted to discover who I was. So I started to live a pretty wild life, lots of going out to pubs, hooking up, dating, some one night stands. After two years of that I realized that wasn't what I wanted. I turned inwards and went to discover myself. I used P ever since my puberty, with PMO, the entire thing.
After the two wild years, P creeped into my life further and I was doing a lot of PMO, it became more and more. Life got difficult for various reasons, therefore my mind was not set to dating women at all, but I did want the PMO. Sometimes up to four/five times a day. Flash forward five years.
Last year in august I met this really nice woman, who might very well be 'the one'. When we started dating, at some point she slept over. She was horny, as was I, but my willie did not do anything at all. I thought it was just the tension for meeting someone new. Later on the same thing happened. I started to panic a little bit. Apparently I had ED!
Lucky for me, this woman has been supportive, eventhough she's also been skeptical of whether or not I'd be able to cure it. After a few months of having trouble, and only a few erections that were sustainable enough to have intercourse (but barely!), I figured I had a problem and needed to see a doctor. Without working on it I might easily lose the woman of my dreams. So I went to see the GP and discussed my problem. The GP suggested that I should take more rest in my busy life, because I lacked that. We didn't discuss any PMO-behaviour though.
The GP prescribed me medication (the yellow/brownish C). Even with the medication it was hard to get a good erection, except sometimes when using a double dose. Ofcourse sex became a stressful act...
Even after seeing the GP, I read up on a lot more information and I realised that I probably had PIED. Therefore I figured I needed to quit PMO altogether to achieve better results. I almost relapsed a few times over the past 4 months, even earlier this week, but before that moment last week I was two months along without any relapses at all. After that last streak of two months abstaining from PMO, and using medication to get an erection to have intercourse, I finally in the past month started to achieve better results with the medication for having intercourse, and to my surprise in the past week I got a full blown erection at a point where the medication must have been well out of my system..
So yeah, I'm not there yet, but there's progress being made in curing the PIED. I need to get rid of the medication, but it seemed to have been a good temporary solution for my problem, at least enough to keep my relationship healthy enough for survival.
Some things I did since admitting I have PIED:
-Eat healthier
-Exercise
-Sleep more (a minimum of 7,5 hours a night instead of my usual 4-5 hours a night)
-Take more time off during weekends
-Structure my days, less chaos
Some things that happened to me during the four months of (trying) to follow the nofap scenario:
-after some weeks I started to get morning wood again. First weak, lately it's pretty fierce. This after not having had morning wood for years.
-After months my erections were sustainable enough with the help of medication. In a short time I expect to be able to leave the medicationentirely
-After two months or so I started to dream more vividly. Before that I hardly remembered my dreams at all.
The woman of my dreams is still with me and she's probably a keeper for being patient with me. Sex is finally becoming less stressful for me, so I'll keep on abstaining from PMO. I'll report every now and then to discuss the progress. Thanks for reading.
I came across this forum for a couple of times during the past couple of months and figured I'd tell my story, it might help others in the longer run.
First of all, a little bit of a background. I've been in longer relationship with a woman before, from my 16th till my 24th. We broke up because we grew apart. After that breakup I realized I wanted to discover who I was. So I started to live a pretty wild life, lots of going out to pubs, hooking up, dating, some one night stands. After two years of that I realized that wasn't what I wanted. I turned inwards and went to discover myself. I used P ever since my puberty, with PMO, the entire thing.
After the two wild years, P creeped into my life further and I was doing a lot of PMO, it became more and more. Life got difficult for various reasons, therefore my mind was not set to dating women at all, but I did want the PMO. Sometimes up to four/five times a day. Flash forward five years.
Last year in august I met this really nice woman, who might very well be 'the one'. When we started dating, at some point she slept over. She was horny, as was I, but my willie did not do anything at all. I thought it was just the tension for meeting someone new. Later on the same thing happened. I started to panic a little bit. Apparently I had ED!
Lucky for me, this woman has been supportive, eventhough she's also been skeptical of whether or not I'd be able to cure it. After a few months of having trouble, and only a few erections that were sustainable enough to have intercourse (but barely!), I figured I had a problem and needed to see a doctor. Without working on it I might easily lose the woman of my dreams. So I went to see the GP and discussed my problem. The GP suggested that I should take more rest in my busy life, because I lacked that. We didn't discuss any PMO-behaviour though.
The GP prescribed me medication (the yellow/brownish C). Even with the medication it was hard to get a good erection, except sometimes when using a double dose. Ofcourse sex became a stressful act...
Even after seeing the GP, I read up on a lot more information and I realised that I probably had PIED. Therefore I figured I needed to quit PMO altogether to achieve better results. I almost relapsed a few times over the past 4 months, even earlier this week, but before that moment last week I was two months along without any relapses at all. After that last streak of two months abstaining from PMO, and using medication to get an erection to have intercourse, I finally in the past month started to achieve better results with the medication for having intercourse, and to my surprise in the past week I got a full blown erection at a point where the medication must have been well out of my system..
So yeah, I'm not there yet, but there's progress being made in curing the PIED. I need to get rid of the medication, but it seemed to have been a good temporary solution for my problem, at least enough to keep my relationship healthy enough for survival.
Some things I did since admitting I have PIED:
-Eat healthier
-Exercise
-Sleep more (a minimum of 7,5 hours a night instead of my usual 4-5 hours a night)
-Take more time off during weekends
-Structure my days, less chaos
Some things that happened to me during the four months of (trying) to follow the nofap scenario:
-after some weeks I started to get morning wood again. First weak, lately it's pretty fierce. This after not having had morning wood for years.
-After months my erections were sustainable enough with the help of medication. In a short time I expect to be able to leave the medicationentirely
-After two months or so I started to dream more vividly. Before that I hardly remembered my dreams at all.
The woman of my dreams is still with me and she's probably a keeper for being patient with me. Sex is finally becoming less stressful for me, so I'll keep on abstaining from PMO. I'll report every now and then to discuss the progress. Thanks for reading.
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