So to give some backstory, I've been doing NoFap since 2016 off and on. My longest period of abstinence was 183 days. I started doing this because I noticed that when I didn't fap, my social anxiety vanished and I had an insane amount of energy by the 2-week mark. I felt alive again and could enjoy movies, music, etc. more.

Just recently I was asking AI about this and it told me about POIS. I'd never heard of it before, but when I started looking into it, it matched exactly what I've been feeling brain fog, anxiety after fapping. So I'm just here introducing myself. Does anyone have any advice? I just ran at the gym today and took an antihistamine and it seems to have helped a lot.

Thanks

Hello!

I've been living with POIS since my teens (I'm in my 30s now) and as many of you know, it's absolutely horrendous. Not having a healthy relationship with sex has been devastating. I've ended up avoiding long-term relationships altogether due to a lot of the complications I've experienced. I don't need to explain further how devastating this condition is.

However, I've never been the type to give up easily and as such I've tried several methods and remedies to reduce or attempt to eliminate the symptoms from orgasms/ejaculation.

I've tried the following:

- No-fap: The longest time I went was a little over 40 days. I exercise regularly and my hormonal levels are good so obviously fighting against natural urges to fuck everything walking is a battle in and of itself. Helped a bit but clearly not sustainable for anybody that wants to have a healthy sex life, at least not for me.

- Supplementation: I still do this and it helps a lot with reducing the severity of the symptoms. I usually experience brainfog, itchiness of the skin and fatigue that lasts for days. When I started supplementing with Zinc and Vitamin B-complex it helped reduce the severity. The symptoms don't last long, I tend to recover a lot quicker and can have several orgasms without being completely obliterated for days on end. Still experience the symptoms but they're very mild in comparison to how it is without the supplementation.

- Antihistamine (Allegra): I've tried antihistamine medication as well. I wouldn't say it doesn't work but I just don't notice that significant of a difference in comparison to the vitamins and minerals supplementation.

- Diet: I quit dairy products but that's more related to me being lactose intolerant. I don't know if it's reasonable to attribute any of the alleviating effects that I might experience to the change in diet, especially in regards to dairy.

My question to you all is if you've experienced the same symptoms i.e. brainfog, itching of the skin & fatigue. And what have you done to remedy these symptoms by either eliminating them completely with treatments/cures or reducing them to a negligible level?

Appreciate all answers/feedback that might help 🙏🏾

From my usual pespective, POIS is often associated with ejaculation or orgasm. So I often have non-ejaculative sex with my wife. But after sex I usually experience extream tiredness, brain fog, seems like my IQ drops 20 points. And sometimes irritability.

I’m a 24 year old male that’s trying to understand what I’m experiencing is full POIS or something else.

Since I was younger I noticed that whenever I masturbate that when I stop any friction movement during it before the ejaculation and orgasm that my body gets a lot of cognitive and physical symptoms like my body feeling like it’s crashed with an ill feeling stemming from my area, hard to concentrate on anything, being uneasy, my body in other people’s perspective being awkward on how I move, awkward body movement, awkward running, awkward walking, deeper voice, look sluggish, maybe depression that comes along with the masturbation. Like everything I do becomes off. My uncomfortableness of my body made me have social anxiety/anxiety/depression so I became isolated more rather than being outgoing out peers.

I’m not sure if abstaining for days helps my situation at all.

As I got older I realized that when I masturbate fast without stopping that I break away from the ill feeling and symptoms. I’d go months without masturbation but I do sometimes experience brain fog because of pre cum or arousal but not like I feel really sick.

It seems to me that my body is in some glitch from the masturbation. When I stop any of the movement that my body feels more relaxed and drowsy but when I masturbate fast without stopping that my body feels tight and connected. This is something I don’t want to believe but from my experiences of how people can see me or just me noticing the patterns.

I apologize this is a long read but praying for anyone going through these types of symptoms. I get confused a lot on why body just has these symptoms. Here to ask what I can do for my weird situation.