Hardening due to improper hanging

Greetings! I’m not sure if this question should be in this category, but I’ll go ahead and ask it. I have been doing PE for awhile (started in September 2018) and have been hanging for a few months ( I believe since March 2021), and I may have increased the weight load a bit too fast. I feel like my dick is a bit tougher and the glans hurts even after ending the workout. So I tried reducing my load with a kilogram (from 4.5 to 3.5) and it certainly feels better than before. I am afraid, that I have probably toughened it up and now spending time hanging may be a waste.

What do you think? Is it possible to reverse penis toughening caused by improper hanging?

Take a decon break of a few weeks and try again.

You are using light weight, in hanging you have to increase weight periodically in order to maintain your suspensory ligs in a weak state and avail this state to decrease weight in the sequential sets of the day, if you indeed need to, strategically speaking.

Which hanger do you use?

I don’t use a hanger. I use dumbbell weights for load, a sock for wrapping and shoelaces to complete the setup. Otherwise, I completely agree with you.

That is the problem. You should have specified this first. You should stop altogether this operation of yours that you call hanging. Stop it.

Then when you get yourself a proper hanger, you’ll finally try to do hanging.

Give yourself a couple of months. Eat healthy. Then start to incrementally load with your hanging and add heat. Let’s say your "personal best" is 4.5 kg. You may start with 0.5 kg and slowly increase weight until you reach 60-70% of your PB, which in your case is around 3 kg. Then hold for an hour. Then add 0.5 kg, remove the heat and let it settle in your new, elongated state.

Kyrpa has a beautiful demonstration in The characteristics of the tunica albuginea revisited

You can use the load calclulator to see where your point of added heat (0.1 MPa) is, and work your way towards 0.17 MPa of pressure.

Not trying to be belligerent or anything similar but if I remember correctly there were other members, here at Thunder’s, that also had used makeshift hangers so why should that be a problem. I gained well so far using it (started around 6.1 x 5 in March and now I’m almost 7.1 x 5.5) and an actual good quality hanger isn’t really affordable for me. I will take the deconditioning break as you suggested.

@flowsky
An hour? But isn’t that dangerous when circulation is cut off? I usually have my sets down to 20 minutes for this purpose, as the gland gets quite discolored (as in dark blue, black and sometimes white) and cold, but it is fine once circulation is restored. Otherwise, I will try the weight increase method that you propose, once I’m back at it.

Thank you both for the feedback

Btw I do realise I don’t get my thoughts through text as well as I probably would want to, so if there is something unclear about my issue or you feel I’ve missed some important detail (as c3ifador pointed out) please do ask about it. I apologise for the inconvenience.