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New Theories / Re: Post Orgasmic Illness Syndrome (POIS)
« on: 29/10/2013 16:55:27 »
Hi, I just discovered this forum and was wondering if I was suffering from POIS. I started smoking marijuana when I was nearly 16 and found it had a more major effect on me than other people and the days after I got major headaches. These headaches have really never gone away for me my whole life up to now, I'm 28. I had been blaming it on marijuana for a long time, even though I stopped smoking it about 4 or 5 years ago. About a year ago I found the nofap reddit, and then later yourbrainrebalanced.com, which both advocate abstaining from masturbation. I duly tried to give up but found it very difficult, I have been addicted to pornography for a long time, when I was younger I'd masturbate up to 7 or more times a day. I found though that not masturbating for a period of time made my headaches improve and I felt calmer, less angry and less anxious. However I'm wondering if I have this POIS or whether I just need to abstain for longer from masturbating in order to clear my headaches up. I notice a lot of people stay that they feel better within a few days or a week at the most, personally I feel better but the problem is still there, fuzzy head, headaches, depression etc. I feel glad that abstaining has helped as my life has improved but I'm wondering whether tackiling POIS might be a solution. Maybe I just masturbated too much when I was younger, causing my chronic headaches, and I now need a long period of abstinence in order to recover. I don't think it could be marijuana causing the continuing headaches as the last time I smoked it was years ago. I think what might have happened is I got bad marijuana withdrawal symptoms, a headache which dragged on, but I then made things worse by excessive masturbation. I basically didn't masturbate before feeling bad after smoking marijuana, it triggered a compulsive habit. If anyone could offer any advice that would be great, thanks