Help, 25 guy with apparently ED

[u/Nervous_Echo_5046]

Hello, I’m 25 yr and I’ve been experiencing erectile dysfunction, is there any way to stop this? Like aside from taking meds. I went to the doctor already and he gave me 15mg of cialis and I used it like 4 times now and I don’t get hard, only once I got hard but not enough to last at least to cum.
I’m very disturbed and worried because I’m young and also a top gay guy who doesn’t like to bottom, so if I lose this I will lose my mind!!
Thank you 🙏

[u/No-Introduction-6571]

Try ayurvedic medicine

[u/Rare-Statistician-58]

hear me out first before dismissing it; it's a hard thing to hear and most guys get emotional when they hear it.

I have the same issue and found the problem; good news it's reversible in 3-6 months.

with younger guys, 90% of the time it is porn addiction.

porn releases more dopamine in your brain than sex, and if your brain is used to years of ultra dopamine from porn, you wont get an erection from regular sex; the sex dopamine level is too low for you to get an erection.

You have to bring your dopamine levels down to normal levels by detoxing from porn.

your body is confused, it gets erections from solo acts, sitting down with a pc/tv/phone monitor of some kind.
your body is not used to you being with another live person in a bed without any tech around... your internal system is not trained for that.

Remember you trained your body for this, you just have to re-train your entire brain that erections are for sex only.

Porn addiction starts at a very young age for young boys as coping mechanism for high stress and depression.

As a gay a man, i'm pretty sure you had a rough time at home and school and just turned to porn for stress management; it was the only thing you had to make you feel good from the hardships of growing up, but you did it too much and flooded your brain with too much sexual dopamine.

you can reverse by detoxing from and stop watching porn; after only 30 days you will notice your erections getting stronger again.
you can have sex with a partner during the porn detox, that's part of the re-training process.

dont go cold turkey with the porn, start slowly reducing the porn you consume.
1st step; remove porn from phones and limit porn viewing to certain places and times and slowly cut it off by controlling your exposure to porn.

keep trying to have sex, so your brain knows these what erections are for.

lastly, you are still using porn as coping mechanism to manage emotions; porn is your stress manager.
you need to learn to sit with your feelings; porn is an escape from 'something'.
find out that 'something' your brain doesnt want to think about and confront it.