Hey! I am 27 years old and come from Germany. Since some time, I got the strong suspicion that I suffer from POIS. Every time I masturbate, immediately after it I got kind of a restlessness: My heat starts to beat, often it is hard to get sleep and I get pain and tension in my neck and shoulder muscles. This state lasts at least the next day, where I get some headache too, have problems to concentrate, I am less motivated, sensitive to noise and kind of depressed. As this starts always after masturbating and lasts around 1 to 2 days, I assume this could be pois.
But now I have another problem related to this: When I abstain from masturbating, these symptoms vanish at first, but after some time I get quite uncomfortable, too. First of all, I think about masturbating and have a drive to it. Later, I got kind of restlessness, too. I am exited when going to sleep, and wake up earlier although not totally relaxed. I get bad mood and am kind of apathic. Although all of this is not that bad than having pois, it usually ends with, that I got masturbating again and having pois afterwards. Although I do not really want it, I always dive back to relief my sexual needs. Usually it is hard for me to abstain longer than a week. I made it once for 40 days as kind of a challenge. This was far before I heard about pois and I did I for religious reasons. During this time I felt really good, but I tried to repeat this afterwards, but never made it again.
I feel myself in a dilemma: If I do masturbate I feel bad afterwards but if I don?t, I feel unconfortable too after some time. So what to do? Do you experience something similar? How do you manage to deal with this?
