Hey everyone, First of all I'd like to start off by thanking everyone on here for all the help and hope they've given people until they eventually overcame these devastating obstacles. Okay so let's gets started. I'm 16, started masterbation at around the age of 12. I actually can't remember not masterbating multiple times everyday since then. It's been 4 years since then now and it posed to be problematic. I've done my research on nofap and the benefits etc. I've actually started before, just about 2 weeks ago but it only lasted 8 days, the thing is that those 8 days alone fixed everything, I had rock hard erections. Can make myself erect by thought sometimes, the slightest touch would put me on the verge if getting rock hard. Not to mention a burning sexual desure. After those 8 days I fell back into it and literally the 9 days after the 8th day of stopping I masterbate 3 - 4 times a day each day. I procrastinated starting back nofap but when I did. What happened freaked me out. I'm on my 5th day right now. Since I started, I had low libido, my dick is legit dead and is numb, I tried to make myself erect I can only get 75% max then it goes down immediately if I don't touch. I seem to have almost no sensitivity what soever at the head. My dick honestly feels dead. It FREAKS me out because when I stopped before my sensitivity and every other good thing skyrocketed for the better. But now everything is worse and it causes me to have anxiety about it. I thought it was a flatline but when I realised that there was also desensitization I thought differently, specially since its been 5 days, normally sensitivity recovers in less time. It scares me almond I don't know what to think. Because to me, and well I think most men, I honestly can't see myself living without a fully functional dick. Please help, thanks.
Welcome to NoFap where you are amongst friends who are here to encourage you and sometimes challenge you but not judge you. The enemy is here to steal, kill and destroy. What are your current strategies for combating the enemy called PMO?
@D . J . thanks for replying to all newbies here. I try to reply those on rebooting forum who do not receive any replies. Do you think we can create a bot that would respond automatically to all "new to nofap" posts with all the resources that are available? This would make life easier for all of us.
You would have to talk to the moderators about that one. I do think it means more for an actual person to respond. The key would be to get more people like us to choose to do what we are doing. Thank you for choosing to give back.
In time that may change. There are guys on NoFap who have had the same or similar situation as yourself and over a period of time, sensitivity returned. If your concern impedes your progress, visiting your general practitioner may help calm your nerves.
An average of how long? It worries me because for me, it took an average of just 3 days of nofap before for it to return
Can you recommend someone who I can talk to about it, that went throughost this or well a similar situation?
It's best to post your question about sensitivity on the rebooting forum: https://www.nofap.com/forum/index.php?forums/rebooting.2/
i wouldn't worry about it too much. there's no reason at all that being pmo-free would cause your d to malfunction. part of it *might* be your body re-adjusting. your sensitivity before was possible your dick trained to get off as soon as your brain thought it was time to get off. maybe it knows your not actually aroused? what do you mean low libido? what do you do to try to get erect? like if your not aroused or pleasuring yourself, why you expect to get erect? that's basically a lot of masturbation. sooo actually now I think maybe your body readjusted to *that.* I wouldn't expect to be aroused by your PMO (or that mental porn your conjuring, or whatever porn you're used to) after that much PMO, unless you start getting into more stimulating (more hardcore, etc) porn. bottom line is your dick doesn't need porn to function. it's adding something to mix, not removing it, that's gonna break your dick.
Low libido, as in lowered sex drive basically. Also, I did it like 3-4 times a day almost everyday for 4 years, and when I stopped for 8 days, everything was amazing. Sensitivity was high as hell, rock hard erections etc. But then I started back and procrastinated on starting back NoFap. But when I did. Immediate low libido, no sensitivity, dick head feels numb, no morning wood. I'm on my 5th day right now almost and nothing really changed, its scary
Right now, if I tried to force an erection, it would just get like 70%, weak l, numb head and would go down in a few seconds after I let go
When I stopped for the 8 days at first. Senativity was athe the point where after about 3 or 4 slow strokes, felt like cumming. And that was actually to no porn, only afterwards I started back the porn and started back full on masterbating and it fucked up
okay, so it sounds like 3-4/day for years, then 8 days pmo-free, and then 4/day for 9 days, and then 5 days pmo-free. correct? that's A LOT of change for your body the past few weeks. you're also in a totally different mindset. nobody knows what your body really expects right now. this could be similar to a flatline kind of thing. it will be different from other ppl's flatlines, so if you have a different experience, don't let that scare you. just let it be what it is. no one is gonna know for sure how to diagnosis or explain. not you, not a doctor, not anyone here. but the bottom line I mentioned before still stands. your dick isn't breaking by being pmo-free. but it *is* readjusting and won't behave exactly as you'd expect it to behave. also it never will behave exactly how you expect it too. and your own post is the important right now: you're trying something new and challenging and you've found the benefits. my main point is don't be scared, because things will be weird but that doesn't mean your dick is breaking. it's more likely that your dick was already "broken" by being used to that much PMO. 4 times a day is a lot. that definitely would've affected a natural sex life (i.e. sex with a girl, e.g. what girl would have sex four times a day for four year straight? I don't think that's normal for natural intercourse at all.) maybe i'm getting off topic. but i'm wary of your vision of your libido. a libido is gonna get malformed with 4/day of pmo for that long. you're probably not used to a normal libido at all. you're also really young. your body doesn't have any sense of "normal" for your body because you're only a few years into puberty. read more of the documentation and scour the forums if you're really worried about your dick breaking from *stopping* porn. try to really narrow down your fear too and ask about that. otherwise what your describing is basically a flatline and completely reasonable to experience for the short-term.
this may come off as extremely heteronormative in an offensive way and I apologize for that. if you have a problem with this, please message me. i'm a little uneducated here.
What about the numbness? Thats is one of the things that scares me alot. VERY LOW sensitivity on the head. Will it go back to a great sensitive head in time? I hope it does. See the reason why it freaks me out more is cause the first time I tried it, nothing like this happened. But nown it did and yeah. Caused anxiety and stuff. But also, I know it might take alot of time to get better and fully "heal". The only bad part about that is my mind is gonna fuck with me and I'll think shit like it's never gonna end and get anxious etc. That fucks me up. And I have been one known to overthink things so that adds onto it
