Scary symptoms

This is all typical porn withdrawal symptoms I had them and they do diminish as you go further in recovery you must stop watching porn though.

 

-sweating - NO
-visual snow - YES
-after images and palinopsia - YES (didn't even know that it's called palinopsia, so learned that from you)
-shimmering vision, especially when closing eyes and reading text on screen - KINDA
-migraine - NO REALLY (sporadically in acute withdrawal phase)
-light sensitivity - SOMETIMES
-internal anxiety - YES (what do you mean by this? anxiety is a broad definition.. what do you feel?)
-myoclonus and fasciculation - YES (hypnic jerks/adrenaline rushes, but also myoclonus while lying awake since last relapse..)
-gerd and reflux - NO
-tinnitus, especially at night - MINOR (it's like once or twice a day I get this beepsound and it disappears after few minutes)
-nightmares - SOMETIMES (but do get lot of dreams about porn/sex/my ex/fetishes)
-fatigue - YES
-irritability - SOMETIMES
-orthostatic hypotension - YES

Couple of questions:
- Did these symptoms show up while still PMO'ing?

- Since when did you experience these symptoms and the anxiety?

- You say that the symptoms got worse since February.. Is this the moment you started trying NoFap?

 

I have kind of same symptoms as you. Try to eliminate things from your life and add other, specifically foods,drinks,environment. Because for me I know that if I just drink one cup of coffee I get severe headache. If you are VIT D defficient, you definitely need to buy and drink, it's one of the important Vitamin, after couple of weeks you will start feeling better.

 

I have a few of these rn and im only on day 7. Headache and gerd is intense. Gonna get blazed tonight with my mates so hopefully weed is the cure.

 

Man...

I have visual snow and after images... and I had SEVERE derealisation around 30-40 days in. I felt trapped in a fake world and everything/everyone was too loud. It was really scary. I had a little spell of it a few days ago too. Just hang in there. Keep going!

 

Oh and major twitchy eye! Been going on for weeks now!

 

Hello,

You should try radhiola rosea. Its a great plant. You anxiety less and your sevrage ll be more confortable. I mad a post about it. Google radhiola rosea you ll see all his benefits.

 

I'll check it out

 

Hey your symptoms is 90% as same as me .. gerd, anxiety, and panic attack .. i have been like this for 2 years now .. last year i had 100 days of pmo free .. but then i relapse, as the urge is heavy .. now i am on 20 days PMO free again .. as i know .. the theory about this is a adrenal fatigue .. the adrenal fatigue because of excessive PMO .. so the hormon is imbalance .. i assume you also have heavy insomnia, heart beating heavily, losing balance while walking along time, and restless tought .. you might wanna check Dr Berg channel on youtube about adrenal fatigue, and digestive problem(is also a symptoms of adrenal fatigue)

 

I don't know about the anxiety being caused by nofap but I have cured myself of agoraphobia with a weird method.
https://journals.lww.com/neuroreport/Abstract/2009/08050/Swearing_as_a_response_to_pain.4.aspx

www.web.archive.org/web/20190805030837/https://journals.lww.com/neuroreport/Abstract/2009/08050/Swearing_as_a_response_to_pain.4.aspx

"The observed pain-lessening (hypoalgesic) effect may occur because swearing induces a fight-or-flight response and nullifies the link between fear of pain and pain perception."

I use the voice in my head to shout at myself in an aggressive macho voice calling myself a "pussy, faggot, bitch" with "motherfucker" between every word. I think it's better to do it in sentences rather than individual words as weird as that sounds. Watch "scared straight" episodes and emulate it to sound like the prisoners shouting at you (I think scared straight 99 is the best one). If you feel it stresses you / makes you more alert !keep doing it! and do it when inside and not concentrating on something. I often do it for hours while lying down and have been doing it everyday for months now. (It's very tedious).
When I say voice in the head I mean the voice that you "hear" when thinking about something. There's no need to say it out loud.

 

These two symptoms are the same as mine...
How are you now? any update? are myoclonus and fasciculation reduced?

 

I been having most of these symptoms for about 16 months hardmode. Even before or after the harmode.

 

experiencing most of these symptoms too.. we can be each other's AP.. msg me directly, we can talk through whatsapp

 

I had most of these symptoms too.

 

@SLeepisLost, remaining now is flatulence, tolerable/negligible and moving ache around my abdomen are and sometimes, noisy stomach.