masturbation problem?
Posted on | July 5, 2010 |
Question:
I am an 18 year-old male and I have been masturbating at least 18 times a week since I was 13 and recently I have been having to urinate frequently with off and on fatigue and mild flank pain and headaches that come for about 2 minutes then leave. I just don’t know what to do and I would really appreciate it if you think these problems could have been caused by over-masturbation. Thanks for your time.
Answer:
Yes, your symptoms are due to over-masturbation. And if you continue your current over-masturbation practices, you can expect many more symptoms of sexual exhaustion in the future. The first thing you need to do is come to terms with why you masturbate so much. You are obviously using masturbation like a drug in an effort to avoid dealing with life’s problems. And just like drugs, over-masturbation can result in serious damage to your mind and body.
To understand what causes sexual dysfunction, you need to understand how the body operates during normal sexual activity. The adrenal glands and sex organs produce androgen hormones which stimulate sexual function in men and are the precursor to the female hormone estrogen. The hypothalamus releases the neurohormone dopamine which results in sexual arousal. When you feel sexually aroused, the brain releases the neurotransmitter acetylcholine into the bloodstream in the sex organs. Then acetylcholine causes the endothelium in the blood vessels and in the spongy penis chambers to produce an enzyme called nitric oxide synthase that helps to produce the gas nitric oxide. This is derived most commonly from the amino acid arginine or, alternatively, from nitrogen compounds in foods. Nitric oxide then triggers the release of yet another enzyme-induced neurotransmitter, cGMP. At the command of cGMP, the blood vessels relax, permitting increased blood inflow to the penis. As the chambers of the penis engorge, the sudden surge of blood into those chambers exerts pressure on the veins. Now inflow is greater than outflow, and the penis remains erect so long as there is a continuous production of cGMP mediated by nitric oxide. A very similar sequence is involved in lubrication and vaginal and clitoral engorgement in women. As sexual activity intensifies, the neurotransmitter GABA is released, increasing dopamine levels and ultimately igniting a euphoric feeling and increasing sensations during orgasm.
At the end of sexual activity, cGMP is disabled by the enzyme PDE5, and nitric oxide production decreases, causing the penis to return to its flaccid state or female sex organs to return to normal. The anti-inflammatory hormone prostaglandin E-1 is released to relax tissue and muscle fiber and calm the body after sex. The pituitary gland releases the hormone and neurotransmitter oxytocin to induce a sense of sexual satisfaction after sex or orgasm. The pituitary gland also releases the hormone prolactin to repress the effect of dopamine, thus reducing sexual arousal by decreasing the levels of estrogen in women and testosterone in men. The brain also releases the neurotransmitter serotonin to modulate sexual desire.
All of these processes, however, break down when you engage in excessive masturbation. Excessive masturbation leads to overproduction of androgen hormones, causing adrenal and sex organ fatigue, and excess release of dopamine to maintain prolonged sexual arousal. Since dopamine is the precursor to the stress hormone epinephrine (adrenaline), excess dopamine results in the adrenal glands overproducing epinephrine and putting the body in a prolonged state of fight-or-flight stress. At the same time, norepinephrine is synthesized from dopamine and released from the adrenal medulla into the blood as a hormone, along with the stress hormone cortisol. Epinephrine, norepinephrine and cortisol fuel the fight-or-flight response, directly increasing heart rate, triggering the release of glucose from energy stores, and increasing blood flow to skeletal muscle. All of this has a severely taxing effect on the body.
The hormone prostaglandin E-2, which serves an important function in sexual arousal, is also overproduced and has an inflammatory effect on the body, damaging tissues, nerves and joints, weakening immunity, causing muscular and nervous pain, and promoting infection, inflammation, and even cancer. Chronic elevation of epinephrine and prostaglandin E2 results in severe damage to brain cells and parasympathetic nerves in the liver, lungs, adrenal glands, heart, blood vessels, digestive system, pancreas, gallbladder, ovaries, uterus, cervix, testicles and prostate. As a result, you can experience a variety of symptoms, including depression, anxiety, bodily pains, persistent sexual arousal and sexual dysfunction such as impotence and premature ejaculation in men and a lack of sexual stimulation in women.
All of this over-activity and stress causes the pituitary gland and testicles (ovaries in women) to become disabled for a fe
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July 5th, 2010 @ 5:33 pm
"Sex is not in the Body, it is in the mind." what u think when U are lonely comes out in the form of Masturbation .It seems U have no good friends , no hobbies, U also are not open with your parents, if u have had an open relationship where U could have shared your mental state U would not have got engaged in excessive masturbation. Masturbation for some extent is Ok whereby u can avoid from getting infection of any STDs/AIDS.But excess of anything is bad for health just like over eating causes indigestion, excessive masturbation will go on increasing your mental agonies as for doing IT U will keep yourself isolated, it also will make U guilt conscious . So go for IT for the correct use (to prevent from STD/AIDS) and do not remain indulging in IT only.