Trigger factor
Sex-related
People say ejaculation, orgasm, wet dreams and arousal without release (edging, erections, porn) set off or worsen their symptoms.
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What people said314
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- “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.”
- “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.”