Can't quit masturbation

Hey,

I'm a 25 year old guy with PIED. I've already introduced myself in one of my other posts, so I'll cut a long story short: I've been suffering from PIED for quite some time meaning that I usually don't get hard without explicit stimulation. I stopped watching porn and masturbating approx. six months ago and my last orgasm was in january 2019 (not counting one time I ejaculated during a wet dream).

The thing is I have a medical condition. Due to this condition I need to get frequent erections, several times a day (which is bad if you have PIED...). So I actually HAVE to masturbate twice or so a day and this, of course, severely interferes with NoFap. So, here's what I do.

When I want to get hard, I gently stroke my dick and balls until I get an erection. Then I use my hand to stay hard but only with minimal movements and pressure (in order to avoid death grip and stuff). I try to concentrate on the feeling alone and stop as soon as I'm fully erect to avoid coming too close to orgasm. All in all, I call this "minimal masturbation" for myself because all I do is to keep the erection with as little effort as possible. I don't do this for an orgasm, so I stop whenever I'm hard. Please believe me, this is not an excuse, it's necessary.

The reason why I'm telling you this is that I'm interested whether there are people who rebooted without quitting masturbation completely. I know most guys decide to go hardmode and I understand that this probably speeds up the process because I do notice something which might be the chaser effect once in a while.

So, since I have to get hard often I have to "minimally masturbate" quite frequently without orgasm. Any thoughts about this? Anybody who went through the process of rebooting in this kind of softmode?
 

Guts

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Man that really sucks. What medical condition do you have? Hard mode is the only way I can recover. It looks like this guy has seen some progress http://legacy.rebootnation.org/index.php?topic=15970.0
 
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