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Poor sleeping quality due to frequent erections at night

By healthypan90210 | 695 posts, last post
Dr Artem Agafonov answered this What To Do About Painful Nighttime Erections
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Guest

The only true was to cure yourself of this illness is to simply cut the main nerve in that causes the erections, this is the only way to get a decent night sleep. So choose penis or sleep, it is very simple.
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freshman noise

Cutting a nerve will not stop erections, do you know nothing about human anatomy. It's the brain that triggers erections by diverting more blood to the penis to make it swell and erect!
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Guest

are you sure?
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Guest

There are many reason for this. Health defect like prostate trouble. You must see doctor. If you are healthy in all respect and not having frequent intercourse, once a while your buddy reminds you. In this case discuss with your girl partner. For your age, one intercourse a week will stop this. Be healthy
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catchy freedom

That’s simply not true. I’m 49 yrs. old and have been suffering from this issue for about 8 months. I’m otherwise pretty healthy, including regular sex with my wife. There is something else going in here and I’m mostly convinced it has to do with nerves in my back—that part of my body that has been problematic for many years.

I’ve read every post on this thread (many of them multiple times) and have tried just about everything imaginable. I’m currently taking a combo of Baclofen (20-30mg/night) and Simethicone (125-250mg/night) and that does help me to get 5+ solid hours, but no more. I’m always gassy upon waking, thus the Simethicone, but I’m not sure how much that is truly helping. I’m on my second doctor and he too has never heard of this condition. Off to see a pulmonologist today and may do another sleep study—last one was 5 years ago, but that was pre-SRPE. I’m now exploring the cause & effect relationship between SRPE and already restless sleep with increasing snoring. Thus, the doctor visit today.

I will certainly report back as/when I learn anything new. I’d ask others to keep doing the same. With so little research & data out there on SRPE, keeping this thread alive is important.

Thanks,
JP
(Philadelphia area)
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Guest

STEP 1: What were your masturbation habits before the onset of SRPE? I read in an article that when you masturbate testosterone converts into dihydrotestosterone (an androgen more powerful), so stop masturbating, stop having sex while you are on this condition; especially at bedtime. It is the main cause of this illness. STEP 2: Try out antidepressants like Paroxetine or Venlafaxine (very carefully) to low the libido or if that doesn't work then use Serenoa Repens. STEP 3: try and see if PDE5 inhibitors like Tadalafil (only in the morning - when there are not erections) can help you out. The condition is called Stuttering Priapism or Sleep Related Painful Erections It can be cured! I look forward to your reply.
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Guest

Only step 3 makes a bit of sense.
This condition is SRPEs: sleep related painful erections.
It has nothing to do with masturbation.
For scientific papers, search for key words sleep related painful erections meta analysis.
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Guest

Hi JP, for scientific papers, Google key words sleep related painful erections meta analysis. Papers are from dutch researchers. It contains latest data on the matter until 2018. Good luck.

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Guest

Man, I have read all the available articles on the internet, as well as all the forums on the matter. Step 1 makes a lot of sense. I used to masturbate a lot before the onset of this hellish condition (sometimes up to 4 times a day, very sick I know...). Step 2, make sens too because this conditions doesn't comes out all of a sudeen, there are lots of cause and the main for me at least is haevy masturbation or watching porn, it totally changes the chemistry in your brain; so you becaome somehow addicted and high libido.

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Guest

Agree on that. That's why I think this conditions doesn't come out all of a sudden without a cause. The main factor, at least for me, is the bad habit of heavy masturbation and watching porn. It changes all the dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonine; and also it dysregulates enzymes like PDE5 in the cavernosal tissue.

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Guest

Thanks for the responses. In my case (for better or for worse) It would be next to impossible to make a link between this (SRPE) condition and masturbation. I’ve never been ‘heavy’ in the masturbation dept. Sure, maybe up to ~3 times / week in my younger years, but for the last ~10 or so years, that’s been more like ~1x / week + intercourse w/my wife also 1x / week. Point being, not that frequent and certainly, no change in habits that would explain the onset of this condition.

For my part, I had a new sleep study done this past Tuesday and will have results from that by early part of next week. In the meantime, continuing ~20mg of Baclofen + 5-10 mg of Ambien, which now get me ~6hrs / night consistently.

I will only dip into antidepressants and the like, if everything else is ruled out, completely. The case will have to be VERY compelling for me to go that route.

Thanks, again, for all the tips.

Be well,
JP
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Guest

I've been suffering from this problem for a long time, but for some reason it left me alone for the last 3 years or so. I used to post regularly on here and other forums, but after it left me alone I tried to put the thought of it out of my mind entirely. Now it's back all of a sudden, and I don't know what to do. I wish I knew what I did to get rid of it before. It truly does suck to be kept awake every night and never have a solid night sleep regardless of how physically exhausted you feel. I've never gone the route of baclofen or other meds, but I did try a load of over the counter supplements, breathing exercises, kegels, reverse kegelds, back stretches and yoga in my first few years of suffering. Here's hoping for a natural cure someday soon. Stay strong those of you also suffering from this.

Rezz

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Guest

Hi Rezz, I invite you to join our FB group "SRPE: Sleep-Related Painful Erections" to tell us more details about your case.
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Guest

Rezz, I understand what you are saying, I had similar situation. Consulted doctor, nothing issue with my health or anything. Doctor said, since we are not having intercourse very often, that could be reason, he also prescribed plant based medicine. For over 6 years my wife and I had intercourse only couple of times. After I started taking medicine, my penis erect stronger and it stays for hours. Few weeks ago Friday evening my wife said, we are alone at home, let's enjoy our night. After long kiss etc, we had very long intercourse, more I bang, my penis get more stronger, after 30+ minutes of banging, pumped heavy load of cumm. We both couldn't control, we had 3 long intercourse with heavy load of cumm pumped inside, she sucked very long time for couple of time, both time pumped heavy cumm inside her mouth she drank and licked. After that night onwards, we are having long intercourse couple of nights a week, that helps me lot. No more erection in sleep, erection happen only during our enjoyments. This might help you.
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Guest

Hello, I have had SRPE for the past 5 years or so - started at 48 yo. I have posted here many times. People claiming that not having intercourse, masturbating too much, are completely unhelpful. There is no known cause for this condition. Nobody did anything wrong that caused this.

Yes, this does interrupt sleep, is highly variable in the number of times it happens during the night. The best thing is to deal with it as fast as possible (the routine) by getting up and urinating as quickly as possible. It is difficult to urinate through an erect penis, but for me gently squeezing the sides of the penis seems to help start the flow (every man can see what helps him). Return to bed quickly and try to fall back to sleep as fast as possible. Make changes to your lifestyle so that you go to bed (sleep) earlier, try not to obsess about the condition, anxiety regarding it will make it harder to fall back to sleep. As I stopped obsessing about cures and “what is wrong with me” I have learned to live with it. Although this is a little different perspective, there is a certain pleasure in the relief from the persistent erection (that is highly uncomfortable) that you feel as it slowly subsides after urinating and when you are already back in your bed, that can help you fall back to sleep.

Anxiety and obsession is your enemy with SRPE. Acceptance will help you. There could be so many things worse than having the issue we have.
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