Heat Caused Shrinkage

Okay guys I’ve been doing some reading and came across a few studies that said heat causes collagen contraction before denaturing and reducing crosslinking.

So I came across an issue while trying heat for the first time these last 2 days. After the first 2 days of applying heat via a rice sock I seem to have lost all my beginner gains that I had these last 3 months and gone from 7.75 BPEL back to my starting size of 7.25 BPEL. Truly odd. Maybe it’s time for a deconditioning break? But still it seems that the heat caused this. After the first day of applying heat I shrank a quarter inch and after the second day this is where I am. Not really sure what to do about this and wondering if anyone else has experienced the same thing.

I think the heat may have helped with some minor scarring I have as the topology of my penis seems to look very healthy now. But I will say that it also feels firmer when erect as if maybe I denatured the collagen cross linking and they re-linked in the shorter original state.

Eager to hear thoughts on this.

In my experience, heat is my friend!

I would say, slowly get those gains back in the next few days. Not a time for decon, it’s emergency, get your gains back time! Don’t let it go back to the old size! Just my opinion though.

Sup bro thanks for replying. So I found that over the course of 3 days or so I got the size back to a semi consistent 7 NBPEL so I’m not complaining lol it’s always nice when something you thought you lost comes back.

But I did find it interesting that it happened at all obviously.

I think I have a very malleable dick atm because I feel like I have physically damaged it and abused it a lot but it seems like any thing I try and focus on be it scar tissue, shape or curve changes with effort, though sometimes with changes elsewhere. For example I have been grabbing at the base a lot to trap blood in and I seem to have shrunk the base of my dick and given it a slight twist in the process of gaining length and 1/8 girth in the middle.

With that said I think heat did help though not in its immediate benefits to size but rather I think it helped rearrange collagen that needed to be degraded by inducing heat shock releasing mmps.

Will likely continue some heat sessions, though sparingly, because I am concerned I will not be diligent enough in applying consistent heat with tension and causing collagen contraction instead of plasticity

My understanding from everything I’ve read indicates that a rice sock will not get hot enough for the collagen to rearrange.

Over working your penis can cause it to turtle for a period of time, but with rest it will recover. Is it possible that your PE session was more intense than usual? Or had more work days without rest days? Stress is cumulative.

Hey 32,

I’ve been trying to make my way through all the nir, fir, us threads and I’m having some trouble consolidating key information such as the data about why a rice sock won’t get to the right temperature internally. Would you know which thread I should look in for that data? To be fair I don’t actually have a good idea of what temperature the rice sock even is at any given time. I’m planning on buying a thermometer in the coming days. But I do feel like it should and does transmit at least some heat to the tunica. I am not necessarily going to go through the trouble of setting up a methodical exercise regiment with a hanger and US device measuring strain etc at the moment as I feel manual stretches are pulling me through my newbie gains just fine. Though I’ll know for sure if this is true or not next month. Until then I’m just aiming to introduce any heat I can to make collagen however less stable I can with minimal effort.

Would definitely appreciate direction on where to look for that info you mentioned though. Considering the skin is less than a mm thick and the tunica itself is less than 2mm thick I feel like a 130 degree F rice sock should be plenty capable of warming up my dick to 104F or so considering a starting temperature of within 10F body temperature.

Also, yes definitely possible that I was overworking it for a few days prior. Just strange to me that the day before or so I measured 7 1/8 NBPEL and around 8 BPEL then I apply heat and gains are gone (for a few days) and I lost that 1/8th, thankfully back to a stable 7 atleast.