Dude, (AS WELL AS EVERYONE ELSE ON THIS GOD FORSAKEN THREAD!!!!) here's some research I did on POIS. I imagine a lot of us are suffering from this. And it looks like they're actually developing effective treatments for this. Turns out they may have discovered why men feel brain fog, shitty anxiety, depression, fatigue, low motivation, low libido, "flatline" after sex, inability to concentrate, stress, etc, etc + a host of other more physical symptoms. Whereas other men do not. Such that it lasts days or weeks or months post ejaculation.
The scientific hypothesis? (Drumroll please ................)
Some men have/developed an autoimmune disorder/allergen against
their own semen... Yeah... Read the article. It's trippy. Anyway, they treated it with autologous subcutaneous micro injections of the men's own semen over a period of 15-31 months. After two years, the men reported a 90% reduction in symptoms. One of the test subjects had severe premature ejaculation where he came in 30 seconds to a minute on the dot. But after this experiment, he reported averaging 10 minutes in bed from baseline, meaning these are second rounds that he's able to last longer on, his initial timeline is 10 minutes! It's unknown what the relationship is there, but it's incredible that these guys were able to finally treat their autoimmune disorder and get rid of a lifetimes worth of shit hole symptoms. I'm willing to bet that this plays a critical role in people going years clean and feeling set back after one relapse.
Obviously PMO is the king killer, and it's ass, and it's poison to our brains. And I do think it can take 2 years+ to get out of paws from that, but people having wet dreams or going back to sex and having symptoms re-emerge, might suggest that they have this underlying autoimmune disorder and that porn is only half the picture. But this would also explain why despite our due diligence and dedication to being fucking monks for years on end, we STILL don't feel "fully" recovered. I mean, think about it. Even when on nofap, your body is still producing semen, and there's going to be leakage, wet dreams, and even if you hold it in against a nocturnal emission, all that semen is going to invert back into your bladder. So, it makes sense that long streaks show slow general improvement, but it's vague and unclear. Am I improving or am I not? How often has this thought been bemoaned on this thread! Well, if you're allergic to your own semen, the answer is neither! You're quite literally flatlined by an endogenous allergen that your body is reacting to. Add on top of that a depletion of your dopamine/hypofrontality from excessive porn use, and post acute withdrawal from removing the hyper stimulant. Guys
like us go 2 years on nofap, and sort of feel better, but as soon as they go back to sex or jerking off, it seems to reset everything, quickly. And we waited so long, hoping against hope that we'd be like those guys that hit 18-24 months and just reawaken from their pmo slumber feeling like Goku from Dragon Ball Z! Why couldn't
we be like that? Instead of stuck in this eternal hellfire loop of kind of getting "better" and kind of destroying our brains. They recover from the damage of pmo, but they still have the disorder, which depresses them and pushes them to give up and relapse thinking they could never "heal" given how hopeless the situation appears. It's a vicious circle, if true. autoimmune disorders/allergic reactions are capable of lasting prolonged periods of time. Might this be the explanation? A piece to the puzzle of our human suffering? Who knows? It might not be the true answer for all of us. But I'm excited to look into this and do more research!
Please read the article below for yourself! THINK for yourself!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1743609515334561