To say I “recovered” is not accurate. Ive never recovered from PFS, I have severe penile atrophy, depression, and hormonal issues.
What I have recovered from though is the side effects of, insomnia, feeling jumpy, constant adrenaline overload, fight or flight response being constantly activated and Tinnitus.
Picture your nervous system as a car alarm. When your body is being damaged or in danger its its job to warn you. Right now it senses that there something wrong so it blaring the alarm to warn us somethings wrong. The problem is were unable to stop the root cause of whats wrong with us so the alarm keeps going off 24/7 with no reprieve. The more that the alarm is activated the more heightened its responses are the more jumpy we get. Its about getting the message to the alarm system that were not in danger. It not a cure for PFS. Alll this is is a tool to quit the alarm system in our bodies that has been activated by having PFS. Does that make sense?
I think the best way to explain it would be to show you some excerpts from the book, it can explain it better then I could in my own words, so Ive copied and pasted and few paragraphs from different places in the book.
"Pain is one of the protective mechanisms of your body.
∙ The pain alarm system is complex, adaptable and always changing.
∙ Typically, the system responds when there is damage to the body and when something
potentially dangerous is happening to the body.
The purpose of pain, just like muscle spasms, sneezing
or vomiting, is to protect you. The pain alarm system is able to
adapt and learn. It is a complex and sophisticated system
that responds when your brain decides something is really
dangerous and that you need to respond.
You have three main parts of your nervous system as well as an autonomic nervous system. Each part of the system
works with the others. All of these parts working together allow your body to react automatically. They also allow you
to decide how to act and react, to feel things happening inside and outside your body, and to think.
Many of the automatic responses of the nervous system are involved when pain persists. The spinal cord can change
the messages heading to the brain, and the brain can decide all by itself what you will feel and how your body will react.
The more you understand how this relates to you, the better you will know how to recover.
When you feel pain your brain and body are changing in many ways. The changes are all part of your automatic
protective mechanisms. When pain persists, these automatic reactions can become more reactive, and by
themselves they can start to make your pain worsen. With practice, you can learn to gain some control over these
automatic reactions, such as fight/flight reactions. This will help break the vicious cycle of pain and lead to less
pain, and better quality of life.
When pain persists, you now have two problems: the original one that caused the initial pain and a hypersensitive
nervous system. This can lead to more intense pain, pain that spreads to new areas and even a distorted
image of the painful body area. A hypersensitive nervous system can make it so that normal movements and even
normal touch on your skin – things that are not at all dangerous to your body – are experienced as extremely
painful/dangerous. Anything your nervous system has learned can be changed.
Finding the right things to do, and practicing them over and over, is the key to making your nervous system less
sensitive and turning down the protective reactions. Even if we can not change your original tissue problem, we can
most definitely decrease the hypersensitivity of your nervous system.