Clamping Injury

Thanks all in advance for all the people that will be able to help me or even give me a suggestion or a stress relief cause i’m decently worried right now and anxious about the injury. I apologies for the long post.

I injured myself with clamping about 3 weeks ago. Keep in mind that i’m close to my 4th year of clamping so i’m quite experienced with it. I had plenty of positive effects from it and gained a ton of girth. I didn’t do anything particularly different than what i usually do since i started, i do one single set of clamping for a max of 10 minutes at moderate pressure with my cable clamp. By moderate i mean 3 ticks tight. This for about 3 years and a half, minimal changes.

In the last month i started experimenting with a bit of a more tight grip with my cable clamp cause my penis was kinda “feeling it”, i mean i felt like he wanted a different pressure, a bit of more work. Keep in mind i started VERY light with this new grip and barely for few seconds to when i got injured which it was 20 seconds max. In the beginning i had crazy good response from doing this which resulted in very good EQ and really quick gains so i was stoked on it. I did this for maybe 2-3 times then had to stop due to vacation break.

When i came back home it’s when i got injured and tryed this technique with a 20seconds tight grip. My dick never went dark purple or brown or anything like that and i never experienced severe pain, popping feeling and i didn’t lose my erection or noticed that i injured myself immediately. All i got was a slight pain and maybe few seconds max of tingling when doing it, which happened before the vacation too.

So after that, the following day i woke up slightly hard flaccid and sore but i had a very good morning wood which happened the day after too. But i definetly couldn’t have erections, i masturbated 2 times cause i was panicking (yeah i know dumb) and it was barely hard, so i tryed to stay calm and let a week or 2 pass.

Dumbest decision was also the fact that i clamped 2 times during the past 3 weeks and everything seemed fine, i also jacked off and had very good EQ but seems to me that this stuff that i did and also the sex i had made my dick even more exhausted so to speak.

At the moment its the 3rd week and i had sex 3 times past weekend with my girlfriend, the first night i was very anxious and couldn’t keep it up. The next day i talked to her about what happened (unfortunately i had to explain her the situation, she had no idea about my PE) and seems like i relaxed and we had great sex, my erection quality was i would say 90% of what i’m used to before the injury, it was a great relief but my penis is still injured and painful.

As of now my symtoms are the following:
- Penis sore when flaccid at the base and basically if i push with my fingers on my bulbospongiosus muscle (the back of the shaft of the penis) i can feel a weird pain which is there always when i don’t push but if i do its like sharper. Like my whole urethra or the muscle there is completly inflamed, irritated or extremely tired.
- My erections are sometimes painful in the same spot i explained before and of course they are weaker than usual especially if i’m laying in the bed or standing up
- Hard flaccid is gone after week 1.
- I’m not noticing morning wood lately and seemed to me that doing clamping and sex these past weeks made my erection quality worse but i think my mind is playing the biggest role here.
- I want to also point out that i’m at the moment in a huge work/family stress situation which dramatically descreased my libido since i came back from the vacation 3 weeks ago, during the vacation i was an absolute horny beast 24/7 now i feel more like a koala sleeping on a tree for the most part of the day.

Thanks to all the PE veterans that will be able to help me with this one, i had many injuries during my PE career and some bad but maybe this one is the worst i’m experiencing or maybe i’m just not remembering my past ones.

Accro

Currently, you have no baseline of comparison. You say that you clamped 2x post-injury and had sex as recently as 2 to 3 days ago, so that can only cloud your data-gathering. This is one situation where I would curtail all dick-related activity except peeing for 2 to 3 weeks. Then you’ll have a better read on what’s really going on.

That itself may lead to healing. Or, at the least, you’ll be able to have a clearer picture of what’s going on.

Thanks Don Logan for taking a quick look at my post.

Do you think the injury is really bad or it can heal by itself by what i described?

I reckon a month or so of complete rest, wait till there’s no pain then wait another few weeks before starting back very lightly.

Your body nearly always heals if you let it !

Doesn’t sound like anything too serious but as always if you’re concerned see a doctor.

Thanks capernicus, it’s great to see good old members like you still around.

Thanks for you opinion, i believe as well i should be fine with good rest but i for sure heavily overtrained my unit this time i think.

I feel like i have a combination between a overworked PC/bulbospongiosus muscle, maybe a slight nerve inflammation and just overall really tired penis.

I remember i coming back from vacation i could feel i was exhausted down there and coming back to daily work routine made situation worse.

I can achieve strong erections during sex except while laying or standing, which should be because of the above reasons, i really hope good amount of rest will solve this in case not oh well i guess it was a good run, but worth it.

I think you’re in good shape. You should have no problem healing yourself if you just leave it and don’t use it. Best wishes.

Thanks for the support, I guess I’ll just try to forget about it for a while and let it heal.

I’ll keep the post updated.

I have a small update, I noticed today that hot water relaxes my penis but seems it increases the irritation of the muscle underneath, maybe could be like he wants to turtle to heal. After hot water I become sore again.

Also sitting in a chair increaseso my pain compared to standing which makes the penis disappear for some reason.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Quick update on my injury.

I fully healed few days ago, my functionality is back at 100%. Looks like i just overtrained my PC and BC muscle heavily with the new clamping routine i started. I’m already back on my old routine today with an easy 10 minutes set at 3 ticks of cable clamp pressure. I’m going to stick to this and take it easy with less training at least the first month to let my penis re-adapt to the training.

I had an insane erection quality last week during sex which was a pleasent surprise to my healing process, mainly because i was incredibly anxious and stressed about job situation and my injury of course.

To my big surprise the size and the EQ gained with months and months of work with clamping didn’t reduce after i fully healed.

I will keep clamping for the rest of my life but this time i will not try to increase the tightness of the clamp too much and will cap at max 4 ticks for a few seconds. I learned with experience that with clamping it’s a marathon as well, and requires dedication and patience at slower pressures for the best results. Shock routines can sometimes work too and they did for me but its a 50/50 chance of overtraining or unnecessary injury, not recommended in general since you can reach those gains with just few more weeks of training.

In short, it is heavily recommended to never clamp tight enough to notice pain or severe pain (a light discomfort can be ok since it’s a sign your penis is working out correctly, same gym concept for muscle growth) or a dark purple, or black colour. Never clamp more than 10 minutes per set, it’s most likely unnecessary. And of course if you notice any heavy tingling (a little bit it’s normal from what i noticed) remove the cable clamp immediately unless you want to risk nerve damages.

Good news.

Glad you are all healed up. So one thing I’ve noticed with tight clamping is at least for me it’s gotta be done in increments.

Basically in your case with the way you have it set up is start out with the 3 clicks. Let your penis expand a bit then introduce another click. Try not to click to the max right away. I will say that i also pump generally which makes my clamp sessions less intense since things tend to be just a bit less rigid. If you own a pump a quick 10 minutes with heat before you clamp could work wonders.

Now that your girl knows about PE at least you won’t have to worry about hiding it lol. Best wishes man and happy gaining.

Hey Jumbo thanks for checking the thread out.

I have to be honest with you i thought many times during these years to try pumping out but it scares me a ton so i always ended up discarding the idea. Who knows in the future, but i always read not good stuff around or extremely rarely if ever about permanent gains, also because of this i decided to avoid it.

I’m also quite happy with the size i reached with 10 years of PE, that also gave me a reason not to try. I think i can still gain some more with clamping, even though i’m probably close to my plateau point with it, we will see.

Hiding it from my girl was never an issue since we don’t live together but she was suspecting something already because i had to mention about kegels one day. But i feel like girls might see an insecurity in us when they see we want to increase our dick size. I’m a bit of a person that tryes really hard to hide my weaknesses or insecurities so i really wanted to avoid telling her, but hey i had to and i knew the times was going to come eventually. I started PE because i was paranoid about my dick size and now 10 years later even after the insane (i’m very lucky but i also was very dedicated) gains and EQ improvement that i had i still struggle with my partners if they had like a huge or bigger partner than me in the past, regardless or bed skills.

Actually I recently started going to therapy to learn to love myself better and accept my insecurities, including this one and my therapist knows already, i’ll keep you guys posted probably opening a different thread to not end up out of discussion with this one. This subject can probably help some other guys in my situation.

Ah, and of course Jumbo if you really think i should give pumping a try feel free to leave me some suggestions or convince me to not be paranoid about it ahah.

There are several people that have gained with pumping, myself included. You could argue that pumping alone only gives temporary gains but i honestly don’t believe that either. Same with all other forms of pe consistency is key.

As far as being paranoid about it i highly suggest you read the pumping 101 thread. Pumping in my opinion is way less intense than clamping. The worst things I’ve ever experienced with pumping is a lot of fluid build up from over doing it and red spots which ive figured out seems to be from too much heat.

As long as you get a pump with guage, select the right cylinder for your size and start out with 5 minutes at maybe 3 hg you will be fine. Basically the hard part is to resist the urge to over pump. With that being said i pump for an hour a day or more at various pressures plus clamping when i feel it. Keep in mind I’ve been at it quite a long time.

One last thing is if you do decide to pump buy a good heating pad and start out at the lowest heat setting. That’s just something you’ll have to mess with. I prefer to enter the tube hard since i feel it allows me the vacuum to equilize faster and reduces fluid build up. I’m also lazy sometimes so i don’t always try to get rock hard. Sometimes just engorged.

Another thing to consider is doctors prescribe pumping for people with ed so there has to be some benefits right?