So unfortunately last week I had a relapse after being porn free for an entire month. I was really afraid of losing a lot of the progress i made over a month of abstaining, especially in terms of PIED. Before i quit at the end of September, I had really bad porn induced ED, I could barely get it up from blowjobs from my girl and if that did happen I’d go limp during sex. After starting to abstain from porn, I went through a flatline and had zero sex drive and it was like my dick shrank for a period of three weeks. Fortunately, on day 23ish I started to actually feel naturally horny again and my dick started to get morning wood again and it just felt so much better overall.
But then I relapsed for 4 days straight due to some stressful life things and a lack of self control in those moments…. Since and while I was relapsing I was afraid that I had ruined all of the progress i made by jerking off for 12+ hours over three days (Yeah, I went on a real binge). I even gave my dick rug burn from masturbating too hard.
Fortunately, i am pleased to report that I am still not experiencing PIED symptoms after this relapse. I am now sober a few days again and I feel like Im back to where my performance was right before my relapse when I try to be intimate with my lady.
A good analogy is this: Using porn is like going for a hike – you take one path again and again and again to get to the top of the mountain (orgasm) and it becomes easier and more obvious route the more you take it. But when you take another route (no porn and real connection and sex for orgasm), it is hard at first because of all the brush, but eventually that becomes the road more travelled, leaving the old route to become overgrown and not as feasible. Going back down that original road once or twice isn’t going to completely smash down the overgrowth immediately, but the longer you stay relapsing and going down that road again, the more likely the new road you’ve carved out will become overgrown itself.
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