POIS Compass

Trigger factor

Symptoms after ejaculating

People say brain fog, fatigue, anxiety or headaches follow each ejaculation or orgasm, from masturbation or sex; some are fine as long as they don't come, some notice a delay of several hours.

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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.”
  • “every time when I had ejaculation (sex, masturbation or wet dreams).I get pretty bad cystic acne (after 2 days ).When I started healing from this (5-7 days after ejaculation) I usually get wet dreams and that is my vicious circle.”
  • “Few days post-orgasm, especially on 1st day I feel jumpy, nervous, irritable, for example, my monitor tends to flicker sometimes and if I'm on abstinence day4+ I get mild or light anoyyment but first few days post-orgasm it triggers me more.”
  • “Every time I masturbate, I feel a burning feeling... I began to notice unpleasant changes in my body. The first thing I notice is heartburn.... I started to notice my bad breath... I also have fatigue issue, lack of concentration, dry throat, bad taste in tongue, and anxiety.”
  • “I fapped and got a headache that lasted for a few days... Now if I fap. My headache will be there for at least a week. I’ll feel confused, brain fog, hot flushes, blood shot eyes and weak/tired”
  • “For the longest time after orgasm, I felt a significant cognitive drop and performance level decrease compared to my peak, as if what I was outputting was a mere fraction of what I was capable of.”
  • “I only suffer the symptoms after ejaculation. If I have an orgasm without ejaculating then I don’t get any symptoms. My symptoms seem to be more intense the more I ejaculate.”
  • “Has anyone ejaculated then like a few hours later you started to feel weak (expected) but also pounding heart beat? Sometimes even a little dizziness and tinnitus.”
  • “if you wake up at night or in the morning those are usual moments where you lose control... One orgasm or wet dream and it ruins 2 weeks straight.”
  • “last week I had 2 in a night and decided that now it doesn't matter anyways so I faped... needless to say that I canceled 2 meeting with friends that day”
  • “if I O I get some brainfog but it lessens after 12-16 hours and the lower voice volume/hard to hear speech is gone too which before would happen after any O.”
  • “After several years my testicle, usually the right, began rotating 180 degrees in the hours after an ejaculation... POIS attacks were frequently accompanied by painful cramping of my pelvic floor.”
  • “Yeah I get bad anxiety and a kinda of paranoia like state for the 3-5 days after ejaculation. Usually is the worst on the second day.”
  • “after ejaculation I get anxious suddenly, palpitations, sick feeling, like I tense all my muscles unconsciously and they get tired, etc.”
  • “After O, do you get angry at small things, too? When someone opposes or confronts me in some way, I can't stand it.... Only after O though.”
  • “Just orgasmed & this shit disease is getting worse - I'm now experiencing scary chest pain right in the middle of my lower sternum.”
  • “Last OG was 7 days ago. I immediately got a migraine and it has been off and on since then, only going away with Tylenol. I'm also having heart palpitations and EXTREME Fatigue and brain fog.”
  • “For some days post-orgasm my handwriting gets worse-likely due to overall clumsiness and worse motor/balance skills that POIS gives me.”
  • “I never knew I had it until I did NoFap and at 3week of no orgasm,no wetdream of any kind I got 100% mental clarity”
  • “Ejaculation literally puts me in a bedridden state for 3 days. Wet dreams ruin my days because the excessive sweat”
  • “Why is is that whenever I orgasm through masterbation I get brain fog/intellectual problems lasting up to 1 week”
  • “You ejaculate. You add a final stressor such as an intense gym work out. BAM you come down with 2 degree fever and full symptoms of the infection you were exposed to.”
  • “I do get it panic attacks from O but it doesn't happen right after.... At the moment I haven't had a single panic attack because I been abstaining.”
  • “my mind was fogged when it came to learning maths... on 2-3 week abstinence my mind works smoothly”