Masturbation induced ED! Desperately need help

Look up Gainswave, I'm actually undergoing the therapy for it atm, going to my 4th treatment tomorrow, 6 in total. Seen great progress so far. My penis looks different, lots of new veins have grown, morning erections have come back, getting fairly hard spontaneous erections again, 1-2 a day. I'm still staying away from porn and masterbation, simply because I do believe its damaging longterm. However, I think because of bad diet, and just age related decline my erections got worse.

Gainswave seems to be correcting that, though they say the long term effects of the treatment are what the goal is, and patients that see results during treatments are typically younger guys. It literally causes your body to stimulate the growth of new blood vessels in the penis(I have a bunch of new ones only after a few treatments on the surface level, the deep tissue ones I can only guess), opens up old ones that have been clogged due to plaque build up etc.

 

I hadn't had sex in a few months, hooked up with a girl from my younger days who has always been down with me in that area, and I just couldn't get all the way hard. I tried again twice with her, and she being a really close friend was cool about it, and thought I must be having a lot going on mentally, stressed out with work, and stuff. First time I ever had problems, so of course I started researching everything, all possible causes of ED, which is a dark rode to go down, because your mind jumps to the extremes right away. I have to say stopping porn, and masterbating helped a lot, was able to have sex with my friend at like, 90ish%, but I had to keep it under constant stimulation or it would go down within a minute or so.

Not saying I'm cured of PIED, I still think I have it, and my body is healing it slowly, but I know Gainswave really is helping as well, as I think from working at a desk job for years really screwed up my circulation.

 

What medicines did he give you? And for what purpose? Hormones? Just curious.

And yep, sure do, I find I don't get depressed anymore as well, wonder if the greater blood flow has something to do with that? I imagine sitting down 24/7 would have the effect on a species designed for movement.

Edit: I think Urologist just look at blood flow, veins and hormones, and if everything is good, they think everything is good to go. Though some will consider deeper issues like neurological, and brain disorders. The long-term effects of porn of on the brain-penis/arousal systems is just being researched seriously. I doubt Urologist, or doctors in general, will take it seriously until some solid research comes out.

 

You didn't say anything about the most important question: HOW do you masturbate?

You might have learned a rather limited mechanical arousal mode which is dependent on a certain manual stimulation scheme (often exerted with a lot of pressure and rapidly) that may not be applicable with another person and may be somewhat unsuitable for intercourse.

 

If you need TRT don't be ashamed man, it's fairly cheap if you go with the generic injections, and from what I hear guys feel like gods on it in the upper levels. However, if your estradiol/estrogen is high that might be your main problem, and might not need TRT, just an estrogen blocker, and your Test might come back up. However, it's a good idea to spend maybe 6 months or so attempting to optimize your levels through others means before that big of a commitment.

 

The bigger question would be - did you even enjoy real sex? Did you feel sexual arousal AND pleasure during real sex? Was masturbation more pleasurable than sex?

That used to be my case for over 10 years and i didn't even realize it.

 

TRT is very bad, in the long run it DOWNregulates the body's capacity to naturally produce testosterone.

 

My man, if your body is incapable of producing sufficient testosterone, or testosterone at all due to hypogonadism, whether that be primary, or secondary, to be blunt with you, thats a mute point. Sure, it switches off natural testosterone production, but if you're only producing 300 ng/dL worth, and you've exhausted all means of optimizing, whats the point in just living with low-T because it's going to shut down the little bit your body is still capable of producing, and thats going to lower with age as well? Also, there are ways to keep your natural production that is left, while on TRT, I'll provide a link to a doctor which covers the topic, his videos are solid content for those wanting to learn about it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGtJF4OkGQicOGmj72y6kug/videos

 

There are multiple reasons for low T. Usually it's just a problem of stress/anxiety that is not quantifiable. There are also many other deficiencies that cause low T, such as vit D deficiency, zinc deficiency etc

The doctor that "treated" @themaverik is an absolute moron for giving him a T shot and pills after a SIMPLE, one time test. Hormonal injections should be carried out after very extensive and long term tests. Not to mention he wasn't even LOWER than the threshold, which is 240. He was just in the lower range.

 

I agree he needs more test, to my knowledge legally at least 2 need to be given spaced out over 2 weeks. Yeah, there are lots of reasons for low-T, but proper diagnosing of hypogonadism will rule any of those out other than secondary, or primary hypogonadism. Like I said, after he's exhausted all means of optimizing, with no results, then TRT is logical.

The "range" thing is bullshit to begin with, the threshold of 240 is simply the area in which you start to see negative effects with regards to structural health such as osteoporosis, and other things. Optimal levels are whats important to sexual health/function. It's different for every guy, one guy may feel like a god at 500, another needs to be at least 800, both of these guys likely would feel like shit at 300.

Not attempting to encourage him to just jump on it just cuss, but that he shouldn't be ashamed if in the end he truly does need it, it's a marvel of modern medicine. Shit works, my friend is on it, was 410, they jacked him up into the 900 range, all his symptoms cleared up, deep depression went away, he's doing great, and they preserved his natural production. A good doctor treats symptoms, not just numbers.

 

He is not doing great, he is doing great momentarily. TRT just masks the symptoms/problems, like an antidepressant masks depression or an opioid/painkiller masks pain.

In the long run he will crash.

 

He's been on it for almost 20 years now, so.........You don't "crash" from TRT, idk where you're getting that from, you can stay on it the rest of your natural life. Your body doesn't give a damn where the Testosterone is coming from, just that it's in the body, it will use it all the same.

You don't seem to understand what actual hypogonadism is. There is no way to jump start production again because the feed back loop system which triggers it in the body is broken, or faulty. There are two main ways this takes place, there is a third, but its more rare. The two main ways are secondary, and primary. Primary is where the testicles themselves simply are no longer able to produce Test, or are no longer able to produce a sufficient amount for optimal levels, or in the range levels. Secondary is where your brain can't trigger your testicles to produce sufficient levels, or any at all. As we get older, we all become primary at some point, though the FDA doesn't recommend TRT simply for age related decline, lots of disagreement over that.

If he doesn't have hypogonadism he should be able to optimize his levels just fine with changes to lifestyle factors, which is likely the case, we're sedentary af compared to our grandfathers

 

Yeah, HCG is what should be used on guys whose balls are still capable of producing testosterone, but for some reason the body just isn't triggering it for whatever reason. It basically skips the feed back loop system of the body, and triggers the balls on it's own. Sounds like the right course of action for a young guy, glad you appear to have a competent doctor. If that doesn't work they'd move to straight TRT, injections hopefully, from my understanding the injections are just second to no other form of TRT. I doubt you have HIV, or an STD( maybe just a minor one ), they're just likely checking for all possible causes of suppressed T-production.

The estrogen blocker tends to be necessary because when your T gets too high, the body basically decides it has enough, and begins to convert to estrogen, from my understanding. This tends not to be a problem with guys with fine natural T production, because it fluctuates so much, high in the morning, low at night, body doesn't get to convert much. When you get injections, its more, steady, stays higher much more than natural guys. One of the perks are if you're a bodybuilder, and you do a cut, you don't get the lower T that comes with a calorie deficit, because your body is not the one producing it.