- Serotonin Syndrome
- Withdrawal Syndrome
- Post-Acute-Withdrawal Syndrome
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
I apologize, the text is long, but I would like you to read it slowly and carefully.
FIRST, the most important. I want to congratulate you, from the depths of my heart, for leaving the drug addiction and being clean for 10 years. Congratulations, HFrecovering! Well done
SECOND, many people on this forum will tell you that your Hard Flaccid has a mental cause (stress) or a chemical cause (recreational drugs). I do not agree. The cause of your Hard Flaccid is
physical. You were/are a
big pelvic floor clencher. You used to make intense and constant kegels during all the sexual intercourse. And you probably also did them during day-to-day life. Regardless of what you might think, I'm pretty sure that you still have a
Chronic Trigger Point on your pelvic floor.
So, regardless of all the other variables,
you have to continue to solve this problem. Every day. I know... I know that you have already done all the physical therapies that exist on the planet and that you have already done what I am going to tell you next.
But I want you to keep doing it.
Every day. For the rest of your life. Because it is absolutely important, for you to resolve this once and for all.
In addition, it is
completely free, you can do it in the comfort of your home, it does not leave you physically exhausted (
they are all light exercises) and it is an absolutely essential routine. So, I want you to do it every day, for the rest of your life (hopefully not, I'm pretty sure not. But for now, it's for the rest of your life):
Workout Routine:
1 -
Reverse Kegels all day.
2 - Massage on the pelvic floor (
Trigger Point style). For 10 minutes, 3-4 times a day, lying on your bed.
3 -
Hindi Squats. For 5 minutes. 5-6 times a day. You can do them before the pelvic floor massages
4 - Stay in a
warm environment whenever you can.
(5 - Train flexibility. Only on days when you feel more energetic.)
THIRD. Okay, get ready, this is going to start heating up.
What was the cause of your
Delayed Ejaculation and progressive
numbness in the penis? It was a chemical cause -
Serotonin Syndrome.
MDMA,
Speed and
Cocaine exponentially increase the concentration of
Serotonin in the brain. The three drugs cause Delayed Ejaculation and loss of penile sensation. And it's an effect that can last for
weeks after you stop taking them.
Did you remember what we talked about, a few days ago, about SSRIs? So, yes, you were having a cocktail, with very high doses of "SSRIs" (MDMA, Speed and Cocaine), in your teenage years -
Serotonin Syndrome.
In addition, the Serotonin Syndrome is also characterized by
Neuromuscular Symptoms (Clonus, Muscle Tremor, Muscle Hypertonicity, Hyperreflexia and Muscle Rigidity - especially in the lower limbs),
Autonomic Hyperactivity (Sympathetic) and
Anxiety. All of them contributing to the creation of a
Hard Flaccid.
Consequently, one of the causes of your
Erectile Dysfunction was extreme muscle fatigue (
overtraining) of the
IC muscle - the erection muscle. If you were doing an intense and continuous Kegel during all the sexual intercourse, to reach orgasm, not only were you creating a gigantic Trigger Point on the pelvic floor, but you were leading to the exhaustion of the IC muscle, causing
Erectile Dysfunction.
In addition,
Cocaine creates
desensitization of dopaminergic receptors in the limbic system. Directly causing
Erectile Dysfunction. Exactly the same process that occurs when we look at
pornography. Exactly the same process occurs in
PIED. This has been measured and proved by Functional Neuroimaging, in several scientific studies.
Besides,
Cocaine,
MDMA and
Speed also directly
activate the Sympathetic Nervous System, through the release of
Noradrenaline, consequently creating
vasoconstriction of the arteries, directly worsening
Hard Flaccid, directly worsening
Erectile Dysfunction and increasing
psychological stress.
In addition,
Cannabis (the drug you used for the longest time)
decreases the relaxation of penile smooth muscle. Contributing to Hard Flaccid.
Furthermore,
all recreational drugs cause
Erectile Dysfunction by damaging all the arteries in the human body, and consequently
restricting the blood flow to the penis.
And finally, the
Withdrawal Syndrome. All the drugs you take cause
Depression,
Anxiety and
Psychological Stress, after you stop use them. They all cause these after you stop consuming them. And yes, the effects of the Withdrawal Syndrome, in some cases,
may still exist after 10 years -
Post-Acute-Withdrawal Syndrome. How does that happen? I'll explain later.
FOURTH, if those drugs were all you took during your life, then I can conclude that you
never took
Muscle Relaxants or
Alpha-Blockers, right? So, you are not following
ALL my advice, which is written in the first post of this thread. Therefore, you will ask your General Practitioner, your Urologist or any other doctor you trust, for a medical prescription.
I want you to take a Muscle Relaxant and an Alpha-Blocker daily, for the next 3 months. Along with the home workout routine that I told you above.
And no masturbation, no ejaculation and NO PORN! You can do
5 minutes of edging every other day. Always with
Reverse Kegels and only with your imagination.
The cause of your Hard Flaccid is
physical. But, it is being
highly influenced by your
stress and may have been
triggered by recreational
drugs. But your cause is physical (
just like me). You created a time bomb on your pelvic floor (
just like me). The difference is that my bomb exploded with an intense Kegel during intercourse and your bomb exploded slowly with recreational drugs. If we both have physical causes, why am I 95% healed and you are not? Do you think it's just because I'm an acute case and you're a chronic case?
No, it's not. There are two differences:
1 -
I applied everything that is written in my first post. ALL. At the same time and aggressively. And
you haven't applied it yet.
2 -
I completely annihilated my stress (reducing all harmful contractions in the pelvic floor).
What is essential for number 1 to work. And you haven't done it yet. But you will make it! Because this ability is not a gift. Living completely stress-free is a
LEARNING PROCESS that we
ALL can do.
No, I don't want to hear any excuses, HFrecovering... No, I don't want to hear that you've already tried
SOME of them... You
don't need to do all the physical therapies that exist in the world. Not only is that useless, it is expensive and it exhausts you.
Your muscles don't work that way! Muscles can only
hypertrophy (gain strength), gain
endurance and gain
flexibility. Period. They do not work differently with "different therapies"!
That is why the principle of
"muscle confusion" and the principle of
"exercise variability"(when at the same angle of gravitational force), in the gym, are completely
BroScience and completely
BullShit. Your bicep has no brain. Your quadriceps has no brain. Your pelvic floor has no brain. No muscle in your body has a brain to perceive variability.
Ohh, you guys don't believe me?... Four studies for you, then:
1 -
The effects of exercise variation in muscle thickness
2 -
Changes in exercises
3 -
Effects of linear and daily undulating periodized
4 -
A systematic review of periodized versus non-periodized approaches
And that is why programs like
DCT are
bullshit too. If you can train muscle
flexibility, aggressively, with dedication and commitment, in the comfort of your home, programs like
DCT are
completely useless.
“But, Romero, some people got healed with DCT...” --- Yes, I know... Because DCT allows you to gain a
little bit of strength and a
little bit of flexibility, during the months when it
empties your wallet. The reality is that the percentage of flexibility that people gain from
DCT during a
year,
I gain at home during a
month,
without spending a dollar.
Ok ok… Let me correct myself then:
DCT is ALMOST completely useless.
(In fact, it is a complete shame the money these companies are asking people for, to cure something so psychologically serious and debilitating. If any of these companies ever read this text, let me tell you something, you suckers... ARE YOU FUCKING NUTS?! There are teenager boys with SUICIDAL thoughts, for God's sake! SHAME ON YOU!)
*Romero breathing out stress*
Ok, alright. So… the physical therapy that will be the secret to your cure will
not be invented in the future, HFrecovering... Because that therapy is here.
Your cure is here. In front of you.
Physically, you just need to do what I, Hans, Pegasus and TeoDeles told you to do. Nothing more than that.
And bet aggressively on the stress part (as you will see later). Our advice hasn't worked for you in the past, simply because
you haven't extinguished your stress yet. As simple as that.
I know... I know you've been at this for 13 years. I know you are tired and many therapies have been physically exhausting. (And most of them were completely useless). Guess what.
All of our advice is soft stuff. They are neither intense nor exhausting.
And it is what really works, physically (!!). FOR EVERYONE (!!!).
Because your muscles have no brain! You can do all of this in the comfort of your home, on your bedroom floor, sitting in your chair or lying on your bed, listening to some very relaxing music. None of this is exhaustive and this is what will really heal you.
So, about physical therapies and medical drugs, we've already talked.
You don't need anything else. That's all you have to do.
Okay, yes, you can continue with
Somatic Pandiculation. It looks interesting, soft and, most importantly, it seems to me that
it is relaxing and making you happy.
FIFTH. This is the ugliest part -
your diagnosis:
Post-Acute-Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS). PAWS is a set of persistent symptoms, which are maintained after the withdrawal of a drug (drugs, in your case). Which can last for months or
several years (!!) after withdrawing the drug.
Some symptoms include:
- Generalized Anxiety Syndrome
- Neuromuscular Abnormalities (muscle spasms and cramping)
- Autonomic dysfunction (Sympathetic Hyperactivity)
- Extreme fatigue
- Psychosocial dysfunction
- Depression
- Pessimistic thoughts
- Emotional overreactions
- Stress sensitivity
- ...
(Does that ring a bell?)
Symptoms which can
get worse, can
be triggered or can
be maintained for an indefinite period of time (
several years), due to
STRESS. And which can take several years to disappear if our mental state is weakened (=
STRESS).
And, taking into account your story and testimonials, you never got to completely restart your brain.
The Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome never left. He was always by your side.
I think this (PAWS) is what "you feel in your PreFrontal Cortex”. That area of your brain that you feel is “constantly activating your pelvic floor”. Recreational drugs may have been the trigger for this Syndrome. But it is your
stress that is making this a
vicious, constant and endless cycle.
I do
not think you have a pure
Autonomic Dysfunction. Your symptom chart does
not fit that diagnosis. I think what you have is a
chronic perpetuation of a
PAWS, due to your
Chronic Stress. It is not your “dysfunctional nervous system that is stuck in a low level fight or flight 24/7” that is creating your stress. It is your stress that is causing your “dysfunctional nervous system that is stuck in a low level fight or flight 24/7” to be
endless.
"Digestive issues + Constipation on and off + normal colonoscopy"
Most likely your diagnosis, for these symptoms, is:
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Main cause:
Stress
P.S: HFrecovering, I know I backed you up a few days ago to do it, but you should think twice before taking SSRIs in the future... Due to the Serotonin Syndrome of the past, to prevent a possible Antidepressant Discontinuation Syndrome and to prevent your Post-Acute-Withdrawal Syndrome from getting worse. If you ever decide to bet on taking an antidepressant, you have to tell your psychiatrist all of this. Your whole story. For him to choose an antidepressant that acts as little as possible on your serotonergic system.
SIXTH. So, I left the most interesting and happy part of this story for last.
You have to heal your brain to be able to heal your
physical cause. And it is not by trying all the physical therapies that exist in the world that you will be able to do that.
You have to bet on “Psychological Therapies”. You can practice all the physical therapies that exist in the world, and all those that have not even been discovered yet, but none of them will improve the problem, if you are not able to
exterminate your stress first.
So, you have to completely restart your brain. You have to find the deepest and most lasting peace that is hidden in your mind. I will repeat:
This is not a gift. This is a
learning process. Is it something that requires work? Yes!… But it is far from impossible.
Ohhh, are you asking me if I think you have to enter a monastery of Buddhist monks? Hmm... Maybe not... But maybe you should...
For a year or so
Okay, I'm kidding a little, yes...
But, let's think about it for a moment:
*In the middle of the mountains, away from all the stress that we all live in today's world. Only in contact with nature and with the most peaceful people on the planet. Training the splits on the riverside, listening only to birds and running water*
Your prefrontal cortex would have no option but to reformat and find the state of
purest peace. You would find true peace and
restart your brain. So, am I saying that your only healing option is to enter a monastery of Buddhist monks?
NO. But, if you want it, you have my full support...
Or you can try to find
something similar, of the same style, that gives you the
same mental stimulation and that allows you to
find the peace that you need.
I think that, instead of spending your days looking for new physical therapies,
you should spend your time looking for all anti-stress therapies.
It can be:
- A good psychologist;
- Support groups and meetings with other people;
- One or two soft outdoor sports (that cheer you up, instead of leaving you exhausted);
- Going out and socializing with old friends;
- Hiking in the mountains and walks by the sea.
Or it could be all of this, all together! These are all things that will
make you relax. And none of them are stressful.
HFrecovering, I will tell you again:
your case is not untreatable. This is not cancer. This is a damn muscle. And our body is a healing machine. You are 30 years old! The uncle of one of my best friends is 70 years old and was in the hospital for 2 months dying with COVID-19. He managed to get around, he survived, but he got very extensive fibrosis in both lungs. Very extensive. He came home with an oxygen cylinder. Both lungs were covered with fibrotic tissue. Guess what. After almost
4 months of respiratory therapy, today
he no longer needs oxygen. He is
annihilating all fibrotic lung tissue at the age of
70!
Hard Flaccid is not irreversible. You didn't even have any physical damage on your penis. Hard Flaccid is just a damn muscle contracture, which is highly influenced by daily stress.
Hard Flaccid is not untreatable! We just need to give it the right stimulus to terminate it.
I hope I was able to help, HFrecovering.
I think I ran out of arguments… I don't know what else I can advise you, my friend… Please read this again.
And please heal yourself, so I can be happy
