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Every time my erection came back, it lasted only a month

At 28 my erections failed. Treating my porn habit brought them back in three months, but a month later they were gone again. It has happened four times.

A thin wave pulling back from wet sand at dawn

I’d like to describe my strange situation. It’s similar to that of many other people: a little over a year ago, at 28, a healthy, strong guy with a beautiful wife at my side, I started having erection problems. I went to a urologist, who said straight away that I was healthy. But I soon realised that the cause of the problem was an addiction to hardcore porn. I started treatment right away.

Three months later I had recovered! My erection came back, and it was full! I was overjoyed. I immediately went back to making love with my wife, swearing off porn for the rest of my life. The problem is that a month later everything came back… totally limp again. I repeated the treatment, and after another two or three months everything was fine again! Unfortunately, only for one month. The same thing happened again. This cycle has now happened four times.

I want to stress that when I’m healthy, I don’t go back to fapping and porn, only sex with my wife. I’ll add that through all of this I’ve had a strange tingling feeling in my testicles. The last time everything was fine was two months ago, and I’m still walking around like a zombie. In the meantime I tried an erection pill, but I quickly gave up on that stopgap.

What should I do? Where does the problem lie? Can an illness like this keep coming back in cycles?

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