Trigger factor
Ejaculation & orgasm
Symptoms after ejaculating while awake, and how frequency, amount, orgasm strength or long abstinence change them.
143 remarks · 5 sub-categories
Sub-categories
What people said143
Community self-reports only — not medical advice. Do not use any medication without a prescription.
- “I haven't masturbated or ejaculated in over a week but I'm now getting really bad anxiety.”
- “When I finally made it to 40 days and ejaculated after, I got severely sick.”
- “I did 2 years of hardmode.. it didn't decrease at all.. matter in fact the following 2 years i even had worse POIS.... if i have one orgasm every month i have 2 weeks ( i turn into wheelchair material )”
- “I abstained for a week and got anxiety out of the blue.”
- “Has anyone experienced a lump on their penis and testicle pain after refraining from ejaculation for 2-3 weeks?”
- “When you avoid orgasms and masturbation for a few years POIS get worse”
- “Nofap seems to make my POIS much worse.”
- “Withdrawal period that is horrible... it took about 3-5 days for symptoms to subside.”
- “After quitting, all the symptoms came. It's like my body is punishing me for quitting. These are withdrawal symptoms of porn and dopamine addictions.”
- “I might recommend not overindulging in nofap, because I get really bad withdrawal-like symptoms similar to an opiate withdrawal...”
- “I also have had the experience of abstinence increasing my symptoms”
- “I might recommend not overindulging in nofap, because I get really bad withdrawal-like symptoms...”
- “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.”