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Physical symptoms in hard mode (beginning)

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by budvap, Oct 5, 2019.

  1. budvap

    budvap Fapstronaut

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    Hi

    I am on PMO-mode for twelve days now and I have been experiencing some physical feelings that bother me since approx. day 5 and its growing in its intensity:

    Does anybody else have same/similar experience?
    Will it occasionally subside?
    Do you have any advices how to deal with this?
    Do I have better to visit a doctor?

    I have checked this discussion ten pages back and this and this posts are closest to my topic (yet not quite the same).

    So the symptoms I can list:
    • Instant little pressure on/in my glans
    • Increased urge to urinate and even evacuate [my dictionary tells me this is the correct word for s**t ;)]
    • Some pain in right groin (not that serious) and in my balls up to my loin (like somebody gave me a kick – but by far not that serious) - guess that's "Blue Balls"?
    • My prostate start pulsing now and then no matter what place and daytime (should I consider this “sexual-like” activity better to supress consciously? )
    • My penis feels like it both want to get erected soo badly but it physically does not (he is like screaming on me “touch me you bastard or I'll never get alive again!” :D ) – is that the flat line? (I thought one has no libido in that period, which I feel the opposite…)
    Many thanks for any support since I am a bit obsessed by these symptoms afraid of pushing me close to relapsing (I feel like may rather jump out of my skin than bear these symptoms!, huf! Determined to resist, tho! :))


    ps I believe this all is normal symptoms but I just feel like I need some assurance and the list may be handy to some fellows, too, I hope.
     
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  2. Hey! Your symptoms are perfectly fine lol.

    When I was in my earlier days of the streak I always had that pain like I got kicked in the nuts too. It was dreadful.

    Even the urge to urinate more happened for me, I checked with a doctor and I have no issues. It's not abnormal. A little bit of pressure isn't too bad, could be a effect of death grip.

    If you really feel worried you should check with a doctor, but honestly for the most part I've had similar pains and it all went away after awhile. Keep at it :)
     
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  3. Fallensoldier1

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    Your symptoms on hard mode are right on point imo. Don’t try to check yourself and MO and see if you can get hard or if you can release symptoms by MO. If anything if you have a partner leave it up to them. Don’t touch yourself. Best of luck
     
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  4. budvap

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    Thank guys! Have just been watching a movie to kill some time waiting for answers somehat desperately. Got helped! Definitely (as far as I can tell) managed myself to go to day 13, lol.
     
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  6. budvap

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    Thanks for driving my attention there! (I left a comment) Anyway, what I am talking about in this thread may be related but not the same thing. I am talking about symptoms of getting rid of PMO (rather than sexual exhaustion because of PMO).

    As I think about it now, I am just feeling horny. That’s actually funny how pornography made us unaware of how feeling horny feels like!! (that mode of “my wife is not in the mood, wtf, will do it myself!” is too familiar to me :( )
     
  7. Fenix Rising

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    I've experienced:
    2) Increased urge to urinate - Don't worry things go to normal after few months. Probably after 2 or 3 months maybe 4 I can't remember exactly
    3) Pain in groin area - DO NEVER EDGE if you're in monk mode. This pain was partly the reason I stopped my previous monk streak. You can get something called vas deferens obstruction. It's easily solvable by MO in most cases, but you obviously don't want that if you're practing monk mode, so edging in monk mode is strictly forbidden. I got the same symptoms during my current streak. I didn't even edge, but had few very sexual dreams and this could be the cause. Pain disappered by itsellf after a couple of days thankfully.
    5) No, flat-line is what it sounds like flat line. You lose all interest in sex, zero libido... you don't think about sex, don't get erections.

    I can't answer 1 and 3 because I have not experienced these symptoms myself. Just one general suggestion. Don't focus on details too much. Abstention is nothing terrible, nothing to freak about. Flatlines come and go, so does libido. Just accept whatever comes down the road. Everything will be OK. My friend urologist when asked said to me it's OK if one masturbates or if he doesn't. If one has sex or practices celibacy. Body is a wounderful system, it takes care of everything. Just relax, let it be and go with a flow, you might even start to enjoy it over time. Try focusing on self growth instead. Set yourself not to difficult short, medium and longer term goals YOU'd like to achieve and focus your mind towards them. You'll be surprised how much easier it will be to stay away from PMO when your mind is not preoccupied with sex.
     
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  8. budvap

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    Yea, got it. (though aware of having to learn it on the way...) Would'n guess how sharing this little fears can already help (tried to quit many times without the community support)
    Thanks
     
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  9. budvap

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    OK, I am continuing this thread just to give some more info on the physical symptoms but – to be honest – mostly to help myself to release my inner stress (so it’s gonna be a bit more reporting than factual).

    I could barely fall asleep last night so was a bit staying up late (1am) watching some (innocent) movie and reading/browsing on this forum. Well, late-staying is a habit I have to definitely get rid of, too, yet one step after another (I know that pushing too much may easily slip to fail the achievement, the human will - or at least mine - has its own limits… ;))

    Then I woke up at 5am (just after 4 hours) with the hardest erection I can experience. It was the biggest temptation I have overcome in all my attempts to quit so far so I am celebrating a small victory here! :)

    But after the erection went out the things came. My mind was blowing up with fantasies. I found a way to fight them – a “secret corner” in my brain where I can “hide against them”. And to the physical symptoms, felt like temperature misbalanced. So cold inside, trembling like in a fever…

    I thought the whole thing of quitting PMO was most about mental, moral and spiritual fight. I am seriously surprised how physical the P addiction is! Like real withdraw symptoms? Right?! (not a question, just exclamation...)

    It is personally threatening to me. Seems like my body (or devil using my body, should you be on the spiritual side with me) is playing games with me. As the mind became somewhat resistant to “slip-down” temptations, my body is threatening me that I should really “do something” (and, well, you know what…) about it!

    I am wondering whether this whole NoFap “experiment” is gonna be any helpful or I am actually heading for some future sexual problems. What if you all here are just a bunch of crazy crackpots! as also found on interned. (sorry no insulting just ventilating my thoughts as they are) Well, my experience with P is so frustrating that I am even willing to take the risk!! I (sadly) know that MO now is the big trap right to the hardest P-time…. No no ever!

    So that’s how my day 13 starts. 4 hours of sleep. But luckily it is not a working day. And I can leave on 4 hours sleep for several consecutive nights, anyway. I sadly bloody know I can… :(

    ps Well, I did not mean to turn this thread into Journaling. Perhaps I will set up one, not sure. I think I understand what I am going through. Writing it all out here just helps me to relax. So no need to answer if you just want to continue the real discussion on physical symptoms ;)
     
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  10. Sounds pretty much normal to me.
     
  11. budvap

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    So you know that's what I needed to hear. Thnaks! ;)
     
  12. budvap

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    I wonder if anybody will come across this post but just in case I am on day 16 now and all symptoms listed above have disappeared or got to a level that I would pretty much consider as normal. So no need to worry as I did :)
     

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