How many of you get cold sores from taking arginine or arginine-based supplements (such as creatine)? Of those of you who don't, have you ever had cold sores before?
I'm having trouble getting and maintaining erections (to the point where I can't sex. Yes ED in my early 20s.) and recently started taking a cocktail of various supplements (ginseng, zinc, gingko, horny goat weed, and pycnogenol). I have some arginine too, but fear taking it because it is known that the herpes virus (which I have) loves the stuff and it can cause a breakout. The majority of people have herpes though, and with the popularity of arginine and arginine-based supplements, I figure that maybe my fear is overblown and just wanted to get some thoughts here.
Problem is I only have a few days to fuck this girl before she's gone and I've already embarrassed myself 3 times by not getting hard enough to smash. No access to viagra / cialis.
>>37467329
Who that
>>37467329
Try yohimbine or horny goat weed extract, works for me. Arganine only really helps with making more sperm.
Don't take arginine, take leucine instead
Citrulline supplements also help with vascular health and erectile dysfunction symptoms
>>37467505
Your body uses citrulline to create arginine.
I am young and am having issues getting it up at all, but only when the girl is there, i can get morning wood and give myself one but only if i try to jack off limp for a minute or so
Any ideas? I take some of the stuff he does including arginine
>>37467601
How long have you been taking it?
>>37467519
as it should, rather than taking arginine directly
>>37467608
arginine i was on and off with but started really taking it when an opportunity for sex came up a couple weeks ago and couldnt get it up
I have been taking multi-vits with zinc every other day for a while now, just started taking something called WYLD because it has some of the stuff in it like horny goat weed a few days ago, havent had an opportunity for sex yet but kissing seems to get an actual reaction from my dick now, not a full on boner but more quarter-half chub
L lysine for the mitigation of the cold sores
Stop watching Porn for your broken dick
>>37467601
Sounds psychological more than medical, especially since you're able to get morning wood just fine.
stop watching porn
take maca
It's all in your head. You can stop taking all that shit for a month just to be sure. And stop jerking off and stop watching porn for a month or two.
The more you think about your dick going limp, the more chances it will. I reall dislike condoms, but bareback is not always available - so I get some anxiety. Then for example, I'll do foreplay, or go down on her to deal with the dick situation in the meantime.
>>37468133
It isn't all in my head. I can't maintain an erection even when watching porn. I get "hard" and then go to "semi" within a few seconds of not touching my dick.
>>37468163
If you're 100% sure you have a medical condition - go visit a doctor then. ED has like 85% treatment rates, and quite short term too, either it helps from the start or it does not.
>>37468163
Thats quite normal with psychological ED. That fact that you can get an erection indicates that your blood flow etc(the physical part) is allright. The needing to have x type of porn and x type of stimulation to maintain hard is purely mental. Try not jacking off and watching porn for a full month and youll see that you will be abled to stay hard as a rock when your honry.
>>37468212
>Try not jacking off and watching porn for a full month
All this did was kill my libido.
>>37467329
>majority of people have herpes
I totally believe you anon
>>37468212
This. I had the same. I got to a point where i had all these weird little tricks. If i went soft during fapping, i switched to a softer grip, which caused my to get hard again. If i got soft while fucking my gf, i switched to a different position in which for some reason i did always stay hard. I watched certain types of porn that could only keep me hard, etc etc.
Another example; i used to always be really hard when getting a bj. Untill 1 day when i felt really shitty i didnt. Ever since that day i wasnt abled to get fully hard when getting a bj, unless it was in a very specific position where my gf lies between my legs. Im pretyt fucking sure that its all in my head.
Now, the less i watch porn the easier i can stay hard. The easier i become hard. And sex actually feels better.
>>37468285
>Worldwide rates of either HSV-1 or HSV-2 are between 60% and 95% in adults.[9] HSV-1 is usually acquired during childhood.[1] Rates of both increase as people age.[9] Rates of HSV-1 are between 70% and 80% in populations of low socioeconomic status and 40% to 60% in populations of improved socioeconomic status
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex
>>37468274
Thats normal. If you have severe porn "addiction" your brain is basicly wired to only get off to sick shit (or atleast very specific shit). If you try to overcome this severe attraction numbness (which is basicly is) it makes sense that you will experience a period in which you arent suddenly instantly attracted to "normal/vanilla" stuff again. And thus you will experience a period in which your attraction/excitement is quite low.
Its kinda like when someone stops taking drugs. His body will have a certain period in which he will feel like shit, before it learn to feel good without drugs again. Porn basicly is a dopamine addiction.
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>>37467329
>tfw I've only ever kissed/fucked three virgins
>tfw I have no herpes and don't get cold sores even on a tonne of arginine
>>37467884
>>37468046
>>37468133
>>37468212
>>37468306
Porn-induced ED is a myth, though.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jsm.12853/abstract
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sm2.58/full
>>37468369
No it isnt. Fucking common sense can tell that it isnt. I used to have a super high libido, and get it up from anything. Over the years i watched more and more porn, it became harder and harder. You start looking for a specific categorie (milfs, etc), a specific position. After a while you spend atleast 20 minutes searching for a video that gets your dick up. And it only becomes worse and worse. Eventually i got to a point where i only got an erection from either traps or beastiality. And the real thing (sex with a real person) didnt do the trick for me anymore.
I stopped watching porn and i am abled to get aroused with real girls again, and have no erection problems at all.
If your IQ is anywhere above 60 you should be abled to conclude that porn caused these perversions/problems.
Guy's I think I've broken my penis.
I started using amphetamine and modafinil to help me study about six months ago and it made my erections increasingly soft. I've since stopped taking stimulants and tried taking cialis and yohimbine but I can only reach a level 3 erection now, the only way that I can reach a level 4 erection is if I put a rubber band around my dick before fapping. I get the feeling that my problem is physiological as opposed to psychological since I haven't gotten morning wood in months. Currently a week into nofap so I'm hoping that if I complete a full "reboot" of three months my dick will improve, if it doesn't I'm going to a doctor.
Thankfully I'm >tfw no gf so I don't have to worry about performing, I hooked up with a sloot two months ago while on beer and amphetamine and my dick was as soft as a marshmallow which I blamed on whiskeydick
tl;dr stims+fapping can break your dick(maybe permanently
>>37468449
The body will recover it just takes time as you can see. Introduce vitamin D and B6 each day and it should speed it up.
Op, same for you. Drop all the supplements your on at the minute, take vitamin D and B6 a few times each day.
Vitamin D acts as a natural test booster (that actually works) and B6 contributed to normal hormone function. If you can get morning wood then there isn't an issue with your dick, it's the hormones as they alter throughout the day. Taking B6 will keep them under control. If you start getting vivid dreams on B6 either drop the dose or drink more water
>>37468405
This is 110% broscience.
Correlation =/= causation, fool.
>>37468449
Can get to unpeeled banana but can't maintain it.
>>37468342
>tfw I don't associate with dirty whores and don't have herpes
We made it anon
>>37468449
What dosage of Yohimbe did you start with? Did it work right away?
Thinking about going to get some Yohimbe at the drug store later. I take adderall for ADHD and it's at least part of my problem.
Lol tell yourself that. This js nature's qay of telling you you are a genetic failure and just end it already.
>>37468512
I kinda know that feel, even when I get to 3 it wilts almost immediately if I stop looking at porn.
This is depressing mang, back when I had a gf I used to be able to fuck her for hours without going soft, once I even came in her six times in one day
>>37468548
Yohimbine is a very weird drug, it made my mouth salivate like crazy and made sleep impossible even when I took it early in the morning, it also doesn't suppress appetite like normal stims.
At 15mg it definitely did something to my benis, I started taking it immediately after I quit modafinil so my erections went from being about a 1.5 to a 2.5, definitely made it a lot more veiny. Personally I'd recommend buying cialis or viagra from the darkweb or a Pajeet pharmacy, it's more effective and has far less side effects, that being said neither of them has been able to make me achieve a level 4 erection so far
>>37468405
>Fucking common sense can tell that it isnt.
I forgot that common sense trumps actual science.
Oh wait, it doesn't.
>>37467601
Sounds like youre nervous or a faggot
