Blister

What is a good plan to heal a blister on the end of my glans from pumping?

Mix equal parts vaseline, desitin with zinc, and A&D ointment and keep it applied. I used to use this on patients with skin tears and pressure ulcers and it really speeds up the healing process. I see no reason it wouldn’t work on the tissue of the glans. You can usually find the ingredients in the baby care section of a store.

Thanks for the advice. Can you still pump with this lister or wait for it to heal?

No! Let it heal all the way and then wait another week! It’ll burst if you pump and then you risk infection!

And it will cause more tissue damage, and if that goes deep enough, you start getting into nerves and blood vessels. Let it heal all the way and wait some more. If you pull a muscle weightlifting, you wouldn’t continue to weight lift until you healed, right?

Is this blister like the blisters you get on your feet from walking in tight shoes or on your hands from shoveling too much?

I have not studied this type of tissue in depth. Actually, I don’t ever recall a patho course I’ve taken that extensively taught about the glans or clitoral tissue other than they have lots of nerves. Thanks, you’ve just given me a new subject to obsess and research about. :)

My thinking is that it’s like a blister you might get on your lips from drinking or eating something or even hot sauce that’s way too hot. The tissue has to be more delicate than skin, so that’s why I say to wait an extra week beyond when you think it’s healed to resume pumping. Two weeks might be even better.

Use that skin repair cream mix I mentioned above. Try to avoid abrading it (rubbing the blister against your clothes or whatever). If you have to use a bandage or dressing to protect it, make it as loose as possible. A tight dressing will build up too much moisture and make a breeding ground for bacteria. And you definitely don’t want a dressing that will stick to it, like gauze - it’d be bad to take it off and you rip tissue off as well. At the same time, you don’t want it to be too dry, so thus the cream.

It has been 8 days since I got a blister from pumping. I was using a 1.75” tube which I was completely packed in and used too much pressure which put too much strain on my glans and thus I got a blister. You read about this all the time but somehow think it will never happen to you until it does. So be careful. It looks as though things have healed so i will take another 10 to 14 days off to let things get back to normal. Really miss pumping. When I start again I am going to use my 2” cylinder and be careful with the pressure so I don’t put so much strain on my glans. It’s not worth the time off and there are no shortcuts so be careful and safe.