Injury advice

Hello,

This is a follow up post to a previous one I made 3.5 months ago when I first experienced a pumping related injury. I’m still a new member and cannot post in the injuries thread, so if a more senior member feels it should be moved there please feel free to do so.

My injury was in early October, 3.5 months ago. After about 2 full weeks all visual symptoms were gone, and my penis had seemingly restored to full function with morning wood, and normal EQ etc. Towards the end of December, which was 2.5+ months after the injury I decided to test the waters with my all day stretcher. I used very light tension, and only for a short duration ~30 minutes. My penis did not respond well to any kind of progression with using the all day stretcher. Seemingly I experienced a loss in EQ and a slight persistent uncomfortable sensation in my penis that would persist for a couple days following trying to use the stretcher.

There were no visual changes or results from using the stretcher, only a persistent uncomfortable feeling in my penis, so my guess was that there was possibly some persistent nerve inflammation going back to my original pumping episode. Clearly I have stopped experimenting with returning to PE at this time. My thought is to abstain from masturbation in the near term as well to allow for maximum rest, and won’t even think about PE for at least the next 6 months, as clearly ~3 months out from the pumping injury was not enough time.

If you have any insights into the following questions, I would greatly appreciate it. Does the uncomfortable sensation that persists after a brief, very tame amount of stretching sound like unhealed nerve inflammation? Have you ever heard of an injury taking 6+ months to heal, and if so can you think of any instances suggesting a successful return to PE after an injury that took this long to heal? Besides abstaining from sexual activity and PE until feeling improvement, can you recommend anything one can actively do to assist the recovery process? I’ve recently started taking turmeric as I read on this website that that can be helpful.

Below is a link to my original injury post, as well as the text from said post. Thanks for reading and any thoughts!!

"I am quite experienced with using an all-day stretching device, and was pleased with my progress over the past 6 months.

As of 4 days prior to this posting, I used a bathmate featuring the hand pump to enhance my PE gains. Given my inexperience, I decided to do no more than ~5 minutes of pumping for my first time. I was able to get a good seal without use of the hand pump to start and kept the device on for about 2 minutes. After a short time resting just letting the shower water run, I wanted to try the pump again. This time I was unable to get a good seal, and decided to use the hand pump attachment to help improve the seal from a higher pressure. Using the hand pump, the pressure was definitely more, but I didn’t really feel any painful sensation. This time my penis was under pressure for no more than a minute and a half, but clearly the pressure was too much. Either that or maybe I released the pressure too quickly.

In any extent, after the second shorter pumping duration I was immediately concerned after removing the pump. This time instead of my penis looking reddish and slightly swollen, it now looked considerably different than its normal size and also felt squishy and puffy. This swollen appearance lasted all the way until I awoke the next morning, which if I am correct was the “donut effect” that resulted from lymphatic fluid. I also had the smaller purple dots on top of my penis shaft, which I believe were smaller hematomas. When I woke the next morning, the swelling/donut appearance was essentially gone, and within 24 hours of pumping any squishy feeling was gone as well. However, my glans, which had had the swollen “donut” appearance the night before had what appeared to be a purplish bruise, and then I had a purplish bruise on the right side of my shaft, while there also seemed to be some general discoloration. Additionally, I’ve had some light to moderate tenderness/soreness seemingly associated with the right side.

After the first morning, where I didn’t have any morning erection, I have experienced one every morning since then, although I would say the erection strength has been less than normal. The night I tried pumping I masturbated twice, and was able to successfully masturbate each the following two days with seemingly weaker erections. Given my concern I wanted to masturbate to test/ verify my penis was still working, although I realize masturbation is counter productive to healing, and will now refrain from masturbating until everything feels healed.

I am writing with some concern of what I am hoping is just a minor injury. Now 4 days later from the evening I tried pumping, the purplish bruising on the right side of my shaft and glans is noticeably reduced, which is encouraging. The purplish dots on the penis head are mostly faded as well. There is still some general tenderness occasionally as well. Can any experienced pumpers give me some feedback? How would you characterize my injury? Do you have any healing recommendations? Should I be concerned about any long time harm? How long would you suggest I rest? When would you suggest I might be able to get back to start using my stretching device again?

Apologies for my long post, I just wanted to make sure to be thorough.

Any feedback is appreciated and have a wonderful day!"

Just to quickly add, my plan when I tried light stretching wasn’t necessarily to immediately resume PE, but more so just as a way of verifying that I had recovered fully. Things felt as if all symptoms of injury had completely resolved, and even if I didn’t return to a PE routine, my penis showing that I could would have indicated that there was a full recovery and no long term damage. That was my, most likely faulty, logic.

Additionally, since EQ improvement was always the best part of PE to me, my plans going forward, besides complete rest, include a substantial increase to physical activity/exercise. This should help with recovery and also EQ, correct?

Kind regards.