This is a really personal issue I'm having but my doctor, as usual, has no suggestions.
I'm 33/male. For the past two months, I wake up in the middle of the night raging horny. It's always around 2-3am. I have a full erection and it's not just standard arousal, it is urgent and adrenaline filled. The urge almost feels "electric", if that makes sense. I am always semi-conscious when it happens which means I feel like I'm less in control of my response. I don't have a partner, otherwise I'd just have sex. Instead I just masturbate. If I don't ejaculate then I just lay there in a hyper-aroused state for hours.
It sounds fun and sexy but it's actually not because I end up exhausted the next morning because not only is my sleep disturbed but my body gets filled with prolactin. This happens at least 3 times a week. During the daytime my sex drive and libido are pretty normal. This night time issue is not because of dreams I'm having. I also don't watch porn in my life. It feels hormonal or something. Perhaps it's cortisol related? Although, my daily stress levels are not very high. I lift weights twice a week and my nutritional life is very complete these days.
Does anyone have any idea why this would be happening in the middle of the night? I have had this happen periodically throughout my life here and there, but never for months on end like this. It's disrupting my sleep to the point that my day to day function is being affected.
I'm 33/male. For the past two months, I wake up in the middle of the night raging horny. It's always around 2-3am. I have a full erection and it's not just standard arousal, it is urgent and adrenaline filled. The urge almost feels "electric", if that makes sense. I am always semi-conscious when it happens which means I feel like I'm less in control of my response. I don't have a partner, otherwise I'd just have sex. Instead I just masturbate. If I don't ejaculate then I just lay there in a hyper-aroused state for hours.
It sounds fun and sexy but it's actually not because I end up exhausted the next morning because not only is my sleep disturbed but my body gets filled with prolactin. This happens at least 3 times a week. During the daytime my sex drive and libido are pretty normal. This night time issue is not because of dreams I'm having. I also don't watch porn in my life. It feels hormonal or something. Perhaps it's cortisol related? Although, my daily stress levels are not very high. I lift weights twice a week and my nutritional life is very complete these days.
Does anyone have any idea why this would be happening in the middle of the night? I have had this happen periodically throughout my life here and there, but never for months on end like this. It's disrupting my sleep to the point that my day to day function is being affected.