'Donut' effect won't go away - kinda scary

>>Avoid that much edema on a regular basis, especially if it hangs around that long. Even a day or two is a long time.>>

Jesus don’t I know. I’m panicked enough, but what am I supposed to do? I don’t want it but it won’t go away. It could be everything I’m trying is just aggravating it.
Its never stayed around that long, and I rarely get it. In fact I’m always careful not to.

Some sites are saying for blocked lymph, hot water and massage is the best thing and the sooner the better. Others say STAY AWAY FROM HOT WATER, it will cause more swelling. Its ridiculous.
I’m looking at Aspercreme, which I have here but debating whether that is a good idea or not. It is an anti-inflammatory. Or will that just make it worse? I can’t find anything online with anyone trying it.

>>Try pumping short duration and low vac pressure, which will increase penile blood circulation which should help edema absorption. Do it several times over the day, along with heat and or cold. Typically ypu add heat to improve circulation and cold to reduce fluid buildup/circulation.>>

This is like telling someone who has burn blisters “Just stick your hand back in the fire a few times to start circulation”. I mean at the moment I picture using the pump and things swelling up like a balloon. I think that remedy is too rough on my psyche right now lol

Pretty sure he meant for future pump use, not to make the edema go away. That wouldn’t make sense.

It’s nothing to panic over. From the pictures, it’s just edema. We’ve all had it. If you’re really super concerned, go see your doctor. The first and last time I had edema stick around for days, was the first I pumped. New or not. Let it rest. It doesn’t appear you have anything blocked, it would “all” be swelled “in entirety” if there was a blockage. Put your mind at ease, and wait it out.

-Stay safe

I did mean short pumps to help edema go away. In my experience when I’ve had a donut, the short pump sessions will help redistribute the edema across the shaft, which for me seem to assist in the re absorption. Of course, once you stop pumping gravity takes over and the edema will drain back to the donut.

Just an FYI but I occasionally pump to intentionally get girth increase from the edema buildup. I’ve posted in my progress log that I have hit 8” girth a couple of times. It just makes sex fun and a different experience. Did I say fun? But sex is always fun. The 8” edema assisted girth is ugly and not equivalent to a “real” 8” girth because the surface is spongy on top of a hard dick. And the donut afterwards is significant! But for me the edema it is gone in 24 hrs. And hearing the wife say “I cant take anymore” is quite a thrill.

Please do not ask questions on 8” edema girth here as I do not want to derail this thread. I only mentioned it as it is a part of my experience in having edema, and moderate amounts of it. (I was going to say large amounts, but compared to the newart fetishists, it’s only moderate, maybe even “slight”).

There is no need to panic. You are pumping and pumping does this, you want it off then you can jelq with a IR lamp or take a hot shower (not scorching, just hot) and then jelq for 20~30 minutes.

The heat is just to speed up circulation and the jelq for the same reason, plus the manual redirection of the lymph.

You can pump again later, there is no problem. If this happen to you once, it will happen again and again in you because it is the nature of your organism.

Its definitely going down.

I now look like the black guy in the video I was watching a couple days ago that was showing how to get rid of edema with a heat wrap (though it didn’t work for me then). He just had a little bit on the end. I was like “You call that swelling?” lol.

Its hard to believe there are so many Youtube videos about penis pumping I can’t even find it again.

Thanks guys. Yeah I’m glad I didn’t go in. I’ve just never seen it stay for so long. Must’ve been way overboard on pressure and not knowing it. If I do this again, I’m going to get a gauge for sure.

I can just see going to the receptionist at the clinic and explaining where the swelling is.

How did this happen? Says the doctor and nurse and trainee. EHhhh. Yeah. Go home and you’ll be fine in a week. We’ll all be talking about this at lunch. That’ll be $123456.99……

I’m happy to hear it’s going away. When I first starting reading this thread, I got the impression that it had been there for a long time, but it’s only been two days. If it were me, I would just wait too. Many minor medical problems will just go away by themselves, fortunately.

Your picture is pretty scary. If my dick looked like that and wasn’t getting better over time, I would definitely see a urologist. Just an office visit probably wouldn’t be exorbitantly expensive, maybe a few hundred at the most. It’s not like he would be running a bunch of tests or performing a procedure, he would most likely just be looking at it.

+1 for a silicone sleeve. I have some short sleeves about 1.25” long that stay on better above the glans (my dick pulls back into 3”+ pieces over time and the sleeve pops off). It’s about long enough to cover the inner foreskin that gets the longer lasting edema. Recently, I have doubled up on sleeves to increase pressure to improved edema relieving effect.

Also, I have had what looked like long lasting mild edema on my dick the last two weeks. It started with what looked like a pressure/friction injury where the extender grabs my dick (pink spots that would dry, get itchy, and even flake) and sort of inflammation in the rest of the inner foreskin. It made no sense that it was an extender injury because I never had such an injury in the many months of use over the years and I’ve been much less aggressive lately. It was not healing and it spread to my sack over the weekend. I ball pumped Friday so I had some sack edema that dissipated within a couple of hours. Then it was back Saturday evening but mostly along the center line. It felt more like a toughening of the sack than edema thickening. My sack had been sweaty all day. At that point, it reminded me of the time I had what seemed to be jock itch where my thigh and groin meet. I’ve been applying clotrimazole cream since and I’m about to try some tea tree lotion too.
Just a mention that what looks like enduring edema might be something else causing inflammation.

Jump in a hot bath, wrap with a wash cloth and squeeze intermittently for a few minutes. Do this a good few times. Basically apply the opposite pressure to that which you applied while pumping. This will reduce most of the edema.

Hi jlelend,
Glad to hear it was going down for you. I realize it has been a while since this happened and you are probably fully recovered, but for what its worth, I thought I’d share my experience also. I had a similar situation as yours but mine was due to over-pumping. I wanted to hold back the edema from doing long sessions (30-40 mins at 5-7inHg) with my air pump. I used to use a silicone sleeve to keep it at bay during pumping, but they started warping over time and I thought it was not going to be practical so I invested in a metal glans ring, then two and three, lol hoping that it would help increase the pressure for length instead of girth. I did this for a while without noticing the buildup as I kept the glans ring on most of the time.

One day when I removed the ring, I noticed a really hard ring all around the glans. I had a bit of edema as well - not quite as bad as yours, but the hardness of this ring was really worrying me. I went through all the same feelings and anxiety as you did, wondering if I should go to see a doctor but really didn’t want to unless it was absolutely necessary. I stopped pumping all together for a few days and didn’t notice any change.

After more researching online, I decided to try the low pressure pumping again and since I did that, the ring started to get gradually softer and softer and finally it feels almost like normal.
Letting it sit there on its own would have probably taken much longer to heal. At the very least, you need to give it a regular massage to try and break up the "clog". Now I stick to lower level pumping - 7inHg max! A 20 min session before bed is all I need to keep it pumped throughout the day.

Hope that helps.