Trigger factor

Ejaculation frequency & spacing

People say several ejaculations close together (twice a day, a few in a few days) or years of frequent masturbation stack symptoms and slow recovery; some say only a long enough gap, like a month, keeps a full flare away.

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“If I ejeaculate more than once in one session then it takes longer than 1 week to recover from brain fog. And my brain fog becomes more extreme the more I ejaculate in short period. It might even result in me being hospitalized due to extreme brain fog due to excessive orgasms/ejaculation in just one session or continuous ejaculations in few days/short time.”
“Ive noticed if i masterbait around 6/7 times in a week symptoms start to occur for example servere brain fog/anxiety, my balls and legs go tingly and weak and i get flu like symptoms sometimes for example my ears hurt go greasy”
“the really pleasurable orgasms cause the worst symptoms. I've always noticed that if I have a second orgasm in the same day, it is VERY pleasurable but I'm hit by a truck of terrible symptoms that last much longer.”
“I found that the recover time became longer and if I had 2 orgasms in two week, I needed 1 month to recover, and if I had 3 orgasms, in a month, I needed 2-3 month to recover.”
“i tried desensitizing by having a orgasm daily for one year straight. MY symptoms intensity stacked and everything became much worse and i also developed new symptoms.”
“If I don't do the O for a few months, and then do the O, then I would get mild or no symptoms. But if the O was much more frequent, then I'm living in hell for a long time”
“My symptoms severity increase with numbers of ejaculation. After first time its mild but if i ejaculate next day or in twice same day its more sever”
“If i will have 2 orgasms a day, I will feel myself very bad, and this condition will go away only if I would wait at least a week and than have another orgasm.”
“I can't get into a cycle of multiple orgasms less than ten days apart because my body seems to build up an inflammation and it gets worse each time.”
“The first time I masturbated, I had no symptoms. In fact, I felt energetic.... But after I did it a few more times, it hit. And it hit hard.”
“Personally i have the same, the more sperm i loose the worse i feel myself. But i feel myself tremendously worse after second ejaculation. Also i have symptoms with orgasm but without ejaculation.”
“i did 1 orgasm a day for a year straight to build tolerance to the immune reaction, at the end i thought i was going to die...it literally took me one full year to recover from that”
“I used to get sleep paralysis from POIS, but usually if I was pushing things and orgasmed multiple times close together.”
“Even now I have the problem of headaches and severe neck pain after orgasm (multiple) times.”
“I had 3 Os in total in last 3 days and this amount would give me bad brainfog, but I feel ok today.”
“If I have masturbated regularly for approx. 15 years—almost every day, never less than five days—how long would it take until the symptoms disappear if I stop?”
“I have a very high sex drive and pois. My sex drive is so high I can orgasm about 6 times a day, and it leads to hell every time.”
“your prolactin levels are off the charts when you masturbate so much. Your fight or flight response is going ham thus the anxiety.”
“the weirdest part, when I used to masturbate 4 times A DAY in the past, I had ZERO symptoms, but now if I do 6-7 times a WEEK, I have symptoms”
“knowing how sick I felt physically, mentally, and emotionally after 2.”
“4) Ejaculation to exhaustion, second or third in a day, or within a few days.”
“Perhaps it feels longer other times because of consecutive orgasms or because there are other variables, like sleep.”
“I was using porn and fapping everyday for hours each day! Sometimes like 5-6 hours a day. Even before it happened.”
“if you will have 2 orgasms on one day you will struggle very very much.”