I reposted this from one of my threads. I find that a lot of guys get clogged lymph vessels and misdiagnos them as thrombosed veins. Like Hobby said, a thrombosed vein will be hard or at least very firm and many times painful. A clogged lymph vessel will be soft and usually not painful at first, although mine became quite sore after a few days.
Yesterday, I took about 5 minutes between pumping sets, and it did decrease the lymphatic problem greatly. I still did get some of the lymphatic vessels filling a bit, but no where near as much.
For those with similar problems (I suspect most of the so called “thrombosed veins” are in reality clogged lymph vessels) when you cause edema build up, its the lymphatic vessels that drain the edema. If you get a bunch of edema and then massage or stroke your penis, it flushes the edema quickly into the lymphatic vessels which then carry it away. I find in my case, they can get congested and seem to clog at some point, I don’t know why but they do.
Many times, just “stripping” them down toward the body, or running your finger along the length of them, pressing down so as to push the lymph down the vessel and push through the “clog” gets them to drain.
A few years ago when I was doing a lot of vacuum hanging, it would pull a lot of edema into the glans and then when I would massage it, it would send a flood of edema into the lymph vessels. I didn’t understand it and I developed a clogged vessel that stayed that way for weeks. It actually became quite sore.
I finally figured it out and found that by pumping at a low vacuum level, I was able to unclog it. Now when I see these lymphatic vessels appear “out of nowhere” I know its because they are filling with edema, and I let too much edema accumulate or I was massaging the area when it had too much edema.
So what I do with pumping, is first keep the time and vacuum under levels that produce a lot of it. For me 4 in hg is pretty good, 4.5 starts problems and 5 produces a lot of edema.
So if I keep it at 4 with brief 4.5 , THEN between sets just let my penis rest, no massaging, the edema gets drained at a more natural rate (the small amount that accumulates) and it greatly diminishes the lymph vessel problem.
Also when I finish, just let it rest ( with a heat lamp) before I do anything. The worst thing I can do to cause clogging is to pump hard and long ( or jelque,even clamp) then immediately put on a cock ring or any constriction device…then massage! That immediately fills the lymph vessels very full and almost guarantees clogging!
I hope some of you who have the tendency to “thrombosed veins” recognize this syndrome and it helps you to avoid it.