Hi Everyone,
I’m a 28 year old guy and I would seriously appreciate any advise on some serious issues I’m dealing with at the moment mainly very low libido and lack of morning wood / nocturnal erections.
I’ve never taken any 5ar inhibitors or antidepressants like Fin or SSRIs but feeling the similar symptoms of complete libido loss causing a constant coldness feeling in the glans of the penis.
I weight train and do cardio 4 -5 days a week and my diet is pretty clean. I avoid PUFAs, eat a lot of fruits and raw honey, beef, chicken, eggs, kefir and potatoes. I don’t smoke and very rarely drink alcohol.
This seemed to begin in late October 2023 just under 6 months ago and followed a big binge of porn watching which feels like it caused this crash. Prior to this I had no serious issues with sex (just some mild PE at times), and a very high libido and was watching porn and masturbating maybe 2 or 3 days a week when my girlfriend was not around. Day after this crash I got an erection with gf no problem but went soft after a couple mins so I immediately panicked and went full nofap and quit watching porn and masturbating altogether, just focusing on sex only.
Following this my libido dropped to nearly zero. I could still get erect for sex but with a much weaker erection and catastrophic full blow premature ejaculation like uncontrollable after one thrust. I know about the “nofap flatline” but to be still in this state after nearly 6 months is frustrating and I never had any serious porn induced erectile dysfunction issues like you see with guys who escalate to extreme content. For me it was mostly vanilla and not that frequent but I did edge a good bit.
Along with this I’ve also developed middle insomnia, a sleep pattern of waking prematurely usually after 4 – 5 hours sleep and not being able to fall back asleep after. It’s like my brain pulls me awake just before that transition to REM sleep in the later hours of the night where nocturnal erections usually occur.
This is causing me considerable stress / anxiety / depression which is definitely not helping the issue.
Got some basic blood tests done and GP and Urologist both said were normal and issue was all psychological.
I believe it may be a factor but not the direct cause of my issue. I’ve a great relationship with my girlfriend and performance anxiety with her is not the reason.
It feels like a dopamine / hormonal issue that I badly need to fix and I’m especially concerned about penile health due to lack of nocturnal erections, I try to get an erection at least once a day and try sex maybe twice a week to keep it healthy but some days I’m too stressed and miss out on it.
Any advise on what I should get checked in bloodwork would be greatly appreciated or anybody with info on successes from a similar situation would mean the world.
Appreciate it everyone!
I’m a 28 year old guy and I would seriously appreciate any advise on some serious issues I’m dealing with at the moment mainly very low libido and lack of morning wood / nocturnal erections.
I’ve never taken any 5ar inhibitors or antidepressants like Fin or SSRIs but feeling the similar symptoms of complete libido loss causing a constant coldness feeling in the glans of the penis.
I weight train and do cardio 4 -5 days a week and my diet is pretty clean. I avoid PUFAs, eat a lot of fruits and raw honey, beef, chicken, eggs, kefir and potatoes. I don’t smoke and very rarely drink alcohol.
This seemed to begin in late October 2023 just under 6 months ago and followed a big binge of porn watching which feels like it caused this crash. Prior to this I had no serious issues with sex (just some mild PE at times), and a very high libido and was watching porn and masturbating maybe 2 or 3 days a week when my girlfriend was not around. Day after this crash I got an erection with gf no problem but went soft after a couple mins so I immediately panicked and went full nofap and quit watching porn and masturbating altogether, just focusing on sex only.
Following this my libido dropped to nearly zero. I could still get erect for sex but with a much weaker erection and catastrophic full blow premature ejaculation like uncontrollable after one thrust. I know about the “nofap flatline” but to be still in this state after nearly 6 months is frustrating and I never had any serious porn induced erectile dysfunction issues like you see with guys who escalate to extreme content. For me it was mostly vanilla and not that frequent but I did edge a good bit.
Along with this I’ve also developed middle insomnia, a sleep pattern of waking prematurely usually after 4 – 5 hours sleep and not being able to fall back asleep after. It’s like my brain pulls me awake just before that transition to REM sleep in the later hours of the night where nocturnal erections usually occur.
This is causing me considerable stress / anxiety / depression which is definitely not helping the issue.
Got some basic blood tests done and GP and Urologist both said were normal and issue was all psychological.
I believe it may be a factor but not the direct cause of my issue. I’ve a great relationship with my girlfriend and performance anxiety with her is not the reason.
It feels like a dopamine / hormonal issue that I badly need to fix and I’m especially concerned about penile health due to lack of nocturnal erections, I try to get an erection at least once a day and try sex maybe twice a week to keep it healthy but some days I’m too stressed and miss out on it.
Any advise on what I should get checked in bloodwork would be greatly appreciated or anybody with info on successes from a similar situation would mean the world.
Appreciate it everyone!