I have quite a complex problem which is difficult to explain well but I will try to be as concise as possible. Basically I have been suffering with tight/stiff muscles/joints and with an overall lethargic feeling for the past 8 years which I am now sure is a sexually related problem. I saw my GP when I felt something was wrong back in 2006 and had various tests which found nothing wrong. They sent me to physio and that didn’t help so I just decided to leave it and hope it went away until about 2 years ago as nothing had changed. I went back to the doctor to have more blood tests and was sent to Rheumatology and Neurology both of which turned nothing up. I should point out I am not overweight and have never smoked or taken drugs. I am at the point now where the doctors have just said they don’t know what’s wrong so I will have to live with it. The stiffness is worst in my neck, shoulders, back, waist and legs although I would say it’s an all over feeling and get crunchy joints even in my jaw. It hasn’t changed much over the years and is with me 24 hours a day although I go through periods where it feels worse or slightly better. The only thing that affects it is when I ejaculate either after masturbation or a wet dream. This seems odd but I have always been convinced it is a chemical imbalance of some kind, that I have too much or too little of some sexual chemical perhaps. I have other symptoms which come and go including itching in small of back and around my anus and sometimes after masturbating I get an upset stomach and trapped wind for quite a while. I have tried not masturbating but after 3 or 4 weeks without I become unbearably tight and tense and my joints get really crunchy so I end up having to masturbate to alleviate it a bit. I don’t suffer from any of the usual sexual problems like premature ejaculation or not getting an erection but I wonder if I perhaps masturbated too much when I was younger or have done something else to unbalance things. I would really appreciate any ideas as I am at breaking point now because it has been going on so long and affecting the quality of my life so much especially as having tight muscles is now causing me to get other problems like achillies tendonitis as I walk a lot for my job.

Thank you.