I ended up here while searching for the cause of symptoms that have been bothering me for over 10 years. Since I am not good at English, I wrote this using a translator, so the grammar may be awkward. Before I explain, these are the symptoms I experienced after my situation.
I am not joking; I have confirmed for 10 years that it is indeed caused by circumstances.
- Body odors such as bachelor smell, bad breath, and gas smell worsen.
- All athletic performance decreases. For example, maximum push-up performance decreases, climbing stairs becomes more difficult, and overall performance—including explosive muscle strength and endurance—clearly declines.
- Orthostatic hypotension develops.
- You feel lethargic all day, your emotions become dulled, and you procrastinate more.
- Unexplained itching occurs behind the knees; touching it with your hands intensifies the itching, while scratching provides a refreshing sensation.
- Severe keratosis pilaris develops on the outer upper part of the forearms.
- Social phobia develops, you have difficulty making eye contact with people, and even when with close friends, you struggle to think of what to say and feel awkward.
- There is a very high probability of diarrhea immediately after the event.
- Concentration decreases, leading to a significant decline in efficiency in any task that requires brain power.
- Hair falls out more easily from all parts of the body.
- Beard stubble on the chin becomes darker and messier.
- Dry eyes develop.
- The voice becomes thin and weak, and shouting from the throat becomes much more difficult. Rest
- I feel a decrease in confidence and a weakening of energy.
- My face is falling apart. By "face falling apart," I mean that first, the glow in my eyes becomes faint and dull, and the areas around my eyes, nose, and cheeks swell noticeably. Consequently, my lower face widens, and the skin texture becomes uneven with rough, unsqueezable, millet-like blemishes appearing all over. My complexion also becomes dull and earthy. Additionally, when I dry my face with a towel after showering, clumps of white dead skin cells float all over my face.
- My head stings particularly when exposed to sunlight.
- Normally, my back muscles feel a slight pull, allowing my shoulders to naturally straighten. However, immediately after the incident or until about 30 days have passed since the incident, that feeling disappears, and my shoulders roll inward like rounded shoulders.
The following are my other features.
- Most symptoms are felt to occur a few hours after the event rather than immediately after, peaking the next day.
- Symptoms of feeling awkward and uncomfortable just having someone nearby improve on the fourth day after the event has ceased, regardless of the intensity of the event.
- Symptoms of weakened vital energy (feeling empty even in normal times, and feeling like being suppressed by energy when near people) occur after the event.
- Most symptoms disappear around day 30 to 40, provided no additional events occur.
- When all symptoms disappear around day 40, the muscles throughout the body feel firmer, vital energy feels stronger, and all facial symptoms disappear; the left and right sides of the face become symmetrical and smaller, the eyes become prettier, and the lips become redder and more vibrant.
While other symptoms feel like they improve gradually over time, facial-related symptoms feel like they improve to some extent, but once a certain threshold is crossed while the event is stopped, they feel like they improve explosively.
Taking Vitamin B Complex a few hours before or immediately after the event alleviates the symptoms of a shattered face the next day to some extent, but continuing to take this does not... The effects of the 40th day do not return quickly.
Even if all effects have returned and energy has strengthened by the 40th day, if you take Adpion, Ephraim tablets, Abilify tablets, or Inderal tablets in that state, one or a few of these will cause energy to temporarily weaken.
I tried taking Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Vitamin B, Magnesium Glycinate, TMG, Alpha GPC, Milk Thistle, Arginine, and Zinc, but they did not significantly shorten the time it takes for the effects to return. Even when I took magnesium glycinate and went to sleep, my face improved to some extent, but my energy actually weakened.
When all the effects returned on the 40th day, I no longer felt significantly pushed aside or burdened when around people; my self-love increased, my desire for self-development grew, and I actually wanted to meet people.
High-intensity and low-intensity exercise, aerobic exercise, alternating hot and cold showers, cold showers, and sufficient nutrition did not bring back the facial-related effects quickly.
During that 40-day event-free period, regardless of how much stress I was under, how good my mood was, whether I slept well or poorly, or whether I received sufficient nutrition, the effects always returned around the 40-day mark without being shortened or significantly prolonged (especially the strength of the face and the whole body).
If an event occurs once after not occurring for 3 months, there are almost no symptoms; however, if it continues to occur at intervals of less than a month or if it occurs consecutively within a short period, symptoms appear or worsen.
The term "event" refers to "ejaculation." ...says that if you ejaculate without watching pornography, general weakness and symptoms of social phobia rarely occur,but peculiarly, your face gets shattered just like when you watch pornography and ejaculate.
The above symptoms appear just by watching pornography, but the peculiar point is that if you do not ejaculate, it recovers in 4 days instead of 40.
I have used numerous AI tools to track the cause of the symptoms for hundreds of hours based on those characteristics.
I tried so many methods, but I felt there were only two that were meaningful in alleviating the severity of my symptoms after ejaculation.
The first is ejaculating by relying solely on stimulation, without visually viewing pornography or having any erotic fantasies at the time of ejaculation.
The second is a 'method of ejaculation' that I discovered quite by chance.
- Inhale as deeply as possible and hold your breath.
- With your mouth closed, smile by slightly raising the corners of your mouth (you don't have to smile excessively; just feel the very slight sense of happiness you get from a light smile).
- Ejaculate in this state, and once ejaculation is finished, slowly and leisurely release the two states mentioned above.
The causes of symptoms I found after ejaculation are as follows.
Receptor adaptation and downregulation (receptors that accept dopamine or some other hormones are all broken down)
Ejaculation is triggered by powerful electrical signals generated in the spinal cord near L3 to L4; it is easiest to think of this area as roughly where the buttock crease ends and the back begins. If the impact of these strong electrical signals traveling up to the brain could be attenuated, theoretically, there is a possibility that side effects during ejaculation could be significantly reduced.
So, I felt that the 'method of ejaculation' I came up with significantly relieved this electrical shock traveling from the spinal cord to the brain.
I am aware that this method may seem a bit ridiculous and absurd, but I am posting it in the hopes that it might be helpful to those who are desperate. The Korean NOFAP community is too small, so it is difficult for my information to be of much help in resolving this symptom called POIS.
The supplements I tried to shorten the time it took for my symptoms to subside are as follows: Curcumin, TMG, Astaxanthin, Alpha-GPC, Vitamin D, Phosphatidylserine, Ginkgo Biloba Extract, Vitamin C, High-dose Vitamin B, Milk Thistle, L-Carnitine Tartrate, Forskoli, Zinc Picolinate, Magnesium Glycinate, and Theanine.
Among these, taking Magnesium Glycinate and Phosphatidylserine almost immediately relieved my persistent headache—one of my symptoms—and somewhat prevented the facial discoloration; however, this was not very effective in accelerating the full effects that typically return around day 40. Vitamin B was also effective in alleviating facial swelling, but that was about it. You can assume that the rest did not have a significant effect on my symptoms.
I also underwent a health checkup, but all my values were normal.
First of all, it is absolutely not the case that this is caused by nutritional deficiencies, at least not unique to me. Furthermore, if receptor downregulation were caused by dopamine overproduction, these symptoms should significantly occur even when watching pornography continuously and intensely without ejaculating. However, in my case, while symptoms did occur when watching only pornography without ejaculating, I fully returned to normal by the fourth day of abstinence without a single exception. Considering that it takes 40 days when ejaculating, it is safe to say that the impact was almost negligible. Therefore, I proposed a hypothesis that the cause of dopamine receptor downregulation is the sudden switching of the autonomic nervous system or the electrical shock from ejaculation signals originating in the spinal cord, which strikes specific parts of the brain and is judged to be an excessively severe stimulus.