Trigger factor
Arousal or erection, no release
People say just being horny, thinking about sex, a long or hard erection, or morning wood is enough to bring symptoms on, with no touching or ejaculation.
28 remarks
What people said28
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- “Severe illness following ejaculation is where you get shivers, low temps and high temps for a week long minimum every ejaculation or in some cases erection. You get severe muscle fatigue where you are unable to sit in a chair and brainfog so bad you are unable to travel with public transport.”
- “I've also been hypersensitized a week into a long meditation retreat, had a moment of arousal, literally felt my seminal ducts open and a small amount of precum travel through to the tip of my penis, and started feeling the breakdown immediately.”
- “Sometimes having severe erections long enough whether in sleep or awake can give me symptoms.”
- “If I have e.g. arousal without orgasm, I get symptoms little same day but stronger next day.”
- “I get symptoms that last for one day if I think about something sexsual.”
- “Yeah I think I got some mental symptoms from being aroused from watching or (dry-)dreaming stuff. Like increased anxiety.”
- “I had been abstaining from orgasm for about 3 weeks. I had some POIS symptoms that were appearing from general horniness, unrelated anxiety and exercise.”
- “Every time I think about sex or my penis gets erect I start to experience poi’s symptoms, I don’t know if it’s anxiety or what but the shit is annoying”
- “the fever and rise in temp after orgasm or erection is much worse.”
- “symptoms aggrevate after night falls..or hard erections”
- “For me the issue is being aroused in general. Even if no ejaculation occurs, the arousal alone causes POIS. I think it's the stress from the pursuit of a female (hunting) that stresses the body.”
- “You know you can pre-cum to a small degree by just thinking about it.... even a tiny bit of pre-cum causes symptoms.”
- “I also feel that being around attractive women or even just thinking about sex (but not to the point of 'craving sex') can trigger it. I think it's the anticipatory dopamine rush.”
- “alot of people with POIS get it from just having an erection for a certain amount of time.”
- “I've gotten POIS from just having morning wood. So annoying”
- “But whenever I get a really strong sexual urge or a wet dream, everything starts to go downhill.”
- “triggered by arousal and / or orgasm”
- “Just getting a slight erection just from thinking about sex will cause some to flare up.”
- “the strong and prolong erections from when I'm awake give me some but little symptoms.”
- “I also relate alot during times leading up to orgasm I think the build-up and mental energy can also trigger it”
- “You don't even have to reach sexual orgasm when sexual arousal itself can lead to your nervous system overreacting.”
- “horniness causes some symptoms mostly just muscle tension and heavy feelings in legs and arms”
- “Flares can also happen from arousal without orgasm, and that includes wet dreams and being aroused without ejaculating.”
- “But sometimes I get erection and I think it gives a little bit of symptoms.”