What happens after a flatline?

I'm trying to research a little more into the flatline myself as it's a very real phenomenon. It hits me pretty much as soon as I've denied the 'chaser' for 3 or 4 days. Then I'll find it very difficult to achieve and maintain an erection - even if I do go back to porn and masturbating. No libido, no morning wood, just a dead, numb dick. Not sure about the other mental symptoms but not having your manhood working is naturally going to put you on a downer.

Eventually I went with the flow and allowed the flatline to run its course. I kinda came out of it on day 7 when I woke up with MW and urges to PMO again. That's pretty much where I'm at right now, day 8.

People say that flatlines come and go. One day you'll have MW and boners and lots of energy and drive then it'll be gone again for a few days.

I'm not sure about the most popular theory that your dopamine receptors are re-wiring. I'm thinking it could be more physical, such as a build up of prostatic fluid that kind of blocks your a ability to get a full, strong and long lasting erection like before.

 

Then there’s some people like me who didn’t know any better and fapped and fapped in the flatline and subsequently have a much longer flatline.

Started flatlining in 2012, been out of it under half a dozen times and pmoed back in one. 18 months and still flatlining.

CAUTIONARY TALE: Don’t relapse when you get flatline symptoms or you’ll end up like a fucking zombie for months and years on end if you don’t have your shit together.

 

My experiences haven't been that dramatic but the first few times it happened to me, I did "fap my way out of it", spooked by the ED and wanting to prove to myself that I could get things working again. For me it usually takes about a week of daily fapping to restore the status quo of having a dick that gets fully hard to visual/physical stimulation once again.

 

Did you penis get smaller like like shrunk and recedes into your pelvis like a 'turtle head'?

 

Funnily enough when I got into the cold shower today it was the most shrunken I can recall but didnt stay like that once I'd dried off.