night erections but no morning wood

[Jack1909]

Is there anyone out here experiencing something like this..this night a I had a powerful erection (no meds taken) whilst I was sleeping, actually I woke up due to it, but I have not experienced nothing even close to a morning wood. It happened to me countless times, erections by night but in best case scenario a slight half erection by morning. I don't see the reason behind this.  

[RichardWilson99]

Hey Jack,

Yeah this was happening to me. I would feel an erection at night, but wake up wiht like a filled penis with blood, but not an erection. I went from not having any night erections at all, to this. So I would say continue down the path of following the survival guide and see if one day you wake up with morning wood.   As for a scientific reason behind this--I am not sure.  Might be something interesting to bring up with a urologist.  

[Jack1909]

Yeah same goes if I'm on cialis, multiple strong erections at night can occur but never never had a single strong morning wood..I don't think urologists themselves know...but there's must be a reason.  

[Alex83]

I am like you, I always have an erection at night and even have wet dreams
But i never have morning wood

[Hawk]

Are you saying no orning erections specifically or not able to get ANY good daytime erections?

[Jack1909]

I'm referring to the morning wood, not to erections during morning or daytime in general.

[Kobegianna]

Night time erections happen during REM sleep. You usually get maybe 3-5 erections throughout the night with varying degrees of strength. "Morning wood" is just that you are waking up during rem sleep when you have the erection. So if you are getting nighttime erections I think it's a good sign. It's just now the timing of it, you are just waking up when you don't have the erection  

[GaussRifle]

Yeah morning wood isn't necessary as long as you get nocturnal erections.

[samsam]

Same for me. Nightly erections but no morning wood (oh boy I miss those).
Especially with Cialis its better during the night.

[Hawk]

We throw these terms around like they have universal definitions when they don't.

There are two types of erections. NTE's occur while sleeping to perpetuate penile health.  It has been pretty clearly established that they do not depend on mental or physical stimulation. They use different nerve pathways than daytime erections evoked by physical and/or mental stimulation.

"Morning wood" usually means a NTE present upon awakening and subsiding within a couple of minutes of waking up and trodding off to the bathroom.  That is an NTE, pure and simple.  There is no distinction.

Some people undoubtedly use it to mean a mentally stimulated waking erection that happens when lying around in the morning.

[porterrobinson]

ive recently read a study on men on andeogen deprivation therapy who were able to get erections with sexual stimuli however noctural erections, the duration and frequency could be predicted by measuring their free testosterone levels. so it appears that healty erections at nifht do use some similar pathways that are androgen mediated. androgens seem to be not only importsnt for sexual arousal but also they are required in maintenance of penile tissue and production of nictric oxide themselves.

my doctor said morning wood has no meaning and that 1/3 of men under 30 do not even experience them. if you do not have dysfunction and even get them in the middle of the night then it is all healthy

[Hawk]

I had trouble following that last post.  It could be me. I was discussing different nerve pathways, not whether T is involved.  It applies mostly to men who have had nerve damage from surgery and cannot get waking erections but can get strong NTE's, that totally vanish within seconds of waking up with almost TOTAL day-time ED.

[porterrobinson]

thats interesting. but do those nerves after prostatectome not recover in manx men after years? and the problem seems to be lack of erections until recovery which lewds to atrophy of penile tissue due to hypoxia. i always thought the problem with these men is that they cannot get noctural erections amd thus their penile health deteriorates. if they wake up with an erection shoudlnt the hemodynamic properties and the venocclusive function keep it upright? getting an erection is one thing but why cant they maintain it(for example after getting it with a pump) if they have no venous leakage? because there is no arousal anymore?  

[porterrobinson]

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16697842/

non nerve sparring rsdical prostatectomy leaves most men without noctural erections

[Hawk]

It unadvertised truth is that "nerve-sparing" prostatectomy leaves the majority of men with significant ED.