Masturbation leads to constipation, share your experience?

[techpump]

There is a lot that goes into keeping everything running smoothly. Proper hydration is one of them. I lost 40 pounds over the past year, and it has changed a lot of things for me. I struggle a lot with dehydration because I have a poor sense of thirst. I'll have coffee in the morning and then might go the whole day without anything to drink and not remember until that night when I have supper. When I'm dried out, my cum is thick, and the quantity is low. Sometimes, it's almost gelatinous. When I'm well hydrated, the consistency is normal. At my heaviest, I had constant issues with what we thought was IBS-D. There had been a bacterial infection in my stomach and small intestines in 2011, and it took forever to identify and treat. The high levels of antibiotics threw everything off. From one day to the next, I had no idea what my digestion would be like. Normal, or a complete nightmare. The digestive issues never went away. My sex drive was a mess. Rabidly horny one day and then dead the next. Dry ejaculations, then a geyser. Even food tasted different from one meal to the next. Then, I was diagnosed as a type 2 diabetic. We never put the two together, but a lot of those medications have side effects that look like various forms of IBS. What we thought was lingering damage from the infection turned out to be medication-based. Once we found the right one, all of those digestive issues disappeared. Within 4 or 5 weeks, things were regular again. I no longer have stomach issues as long as I stay hydrated (as best as I can) and listen to what my body tells me. So what I'm saying is that maybe there is something else going on that's not related to masturbation at all; it just coincides with it. Take a look at everything. Diet, medication, food allergies, etc. Maybe there is something else going on that's setting your digestion off. Our bodies are like well-designed machines. Everything needs to work together; sometimes, it takes just one small thing to throw everything out of balance. It may have nothing to do with masturbation but events that happen around it. If you are sexually active, does it occur after sex with someone else? As mentioned above, keep a log of events and see if you can connect things that might be causing it. It might be something you've never considered and one small change can make a big difference.

I just did an at-home food sensitivity test through Everlywell. Pretty good company. Blood test. Now, while the biomarkers for foods that can cause you issues come from their presence in your body BECAUSE you ate them within the last 6 or so months, that means that if you never ever eat certain foods (like scallops, which it tests for), then the test won't detect that never-ate food as an issue. So it samples your more real diet, what you consume on a regular basis, and have been for at least 4 solid months.

There are foods that I really didn't ever think I have problems with. 28 foods came up, only a couple for medium sensitivity and all the rest for mild or light sensitivity. However, of those foods, several I know bother me because I eat them and they just don't sit right or they make me feel a little bad. Like apples. I love them! But after I eat one its like the next day I feel like I'm still digesting the fucking thing. When I eat bread and when I eat it when I'm really hungry, it barely goes down. Like my esophagus doesn't let it go down, I have to take a sip of something and it hurts like a bitch when it finally starts moving. I looked this problem up, and it can be gluten intolerance. I don't have gluten intolerance that's ridiculous!! Well, yah, my food sensitivity test shows I have at least mild to medium intolerance to gluten, and specific grain types. Certain meats I eat all the time, mild intolerance.

I'm going to start a light elimination diet to try to hone in on the things that cause me issues, bloating, and indigestion. I've gained weight I can't explain and I've tried to lose it for a year solid and not one pound is coming off: dieting, no sugars, almost no caffeine, lean meats only, portion control, working out at the gym 5 days a week, more cardio, you name it, I've tried it, the weight isn't coming off. My doctor is finally concerned enough to run me through the ringer with bloodwork to see what might be off: thyroid, testosterone, lipid panel, insulin, the whole 9 yards. I'll find out next week I can't wait to know where I'm at in my late 40s.

But you are right man, one unrelated thing--be it even a random food--can lead to sometimes serious problems that effect parts of the body and certain bodily functions that appear 100% unrelated to the person suffering the ailment. Thanks for telling your story it makes me put more of my daily life into perspective

 

[techpump]

In all actuality.. sperm -/ seman .. doesn’t have as much water as you think.. watery sperm actually could be signs of bad problems.. low sperm count.. infection.. too much alcoholic intake

Google it.. there is not any water in sperm.. it’s made of fluids recreated from the body ..

Of course there isn't water in semen. Of course there isn't water in blood, either. But guess what is responsible for the creation and maintenance of both of those bodily fluids?? I'll give you hint: its the primary component that makes up our human body, the majority of our body is this substance.

 

[Infernal]

I'm going to start a light elimination diet to try to hone in on the things that cause me issues, bloating, and indigestion. I've gained weight I can't explain and I've tried to lose it for a year solid and not one pound is coming off: dieting, no sugars, almost no caffeine, lean meats only, portion control, working out at the gym 5 days a week, more cardio, you name it, I've tried it, the weight isn't coming off. My doctor is finally concerned enough to run me through the ringer with bloodwork to see what might be off: thyroid, testosterone, lipid panel, insulin, the whole 9 yards. I'll find out next week I can't wait to know where I'm at in my late 40s.

But you are right man, one unrelated thing--be it even a random food--can lead to sometimes serious problems that effect parts of the body and certain bodily functions that appear 100% unrelated to the person suffering the ailment. Thanks for telling your story it makes me put more of my daily life into perspective

Our bodies can do some weird shit, can't they? One little thing throws everything off. During the middle of the bacterial infection, a friend offered me a sour patch kid, and the fucking thing tasted like tequila. It was fucking gross. I get it when you say sometimes it's hard to eat certain things, and there is no apparent reason. Hopefully, the testing will point you in the right direction, and you will start to feel better, then you can get back to enjoying the thing that started this conversation

 

[isle]

Never .......

 

[Acratopotes]

In all actuality.. sperm -/ seman .. doesn’t have as much water as you think.. watery sperm actually could be signs of bad problems.. low sperm count.. infection.. too much alcoholic intake

Google it.. there is not any water in sperm.. it’s made of fluids recreated from the body ..

Just as with other liquids produced by glands in the body, there is water content which must clearly come from the blood plasma. Blood plasma is water, with a set of dissolved chemicals. The water content of blood plasma comes from absorbing water via the digestive system. The set of chemicals in the blood plasma will be slightly different from those in tap water but it still has water, in the sense of the chemical compound H2O, as its base.

I wonder if the point you're making is that the viscosity of semen is not solely about how dilute or concentrated it is. There are a pair of enzymes that control the viscosity: one that causes it to thicken immediately upon ejaculation and another that, after a period of some minutes, causes it to become thin again. Anything that interferes with the operation of these enzymes could affect the viscosity we see independent of the water content.

On the other hand, if we allow ourselves to become dehydrated, thicker, i.e. more concentrated, semen seems to be a consequence. The glands that make the liquid part: the seminal vesicles and prostate gland, will be less able to draw up water from the blood plasma as that will be more concentrated.

I think you would have to be doing something extreme for masturbation to be a cause of dehydration, though. The amount of water lost to the body because of ejaculation is small. Was that your point in the first place? So if you got dehydrated from masturbation it would have to be from having got hot and sweated for an extended period of time. If that's what is going on then the answer is to drink more.

 

[ykwti27]

Maybe you're tightening/flexing your muscles in those specific areas (abdomen, back, etc.) too much while you're masturbating.

 

[bravesoldier]

I stay so horny even at age 60 that I literally have to masturbate and edge every day of my life, in between physical sexual encounters. I have never been constipated because of it.