Gained some girth lost some length.

So in my progress thread I said I was going to be taking a measurement with the ruler soon and that I thought I would most certainly be at about 8.25” Well it appears I have actually lost a little bit of my length gains. I have been pumping and not stretching as much as I used to. I still do but sometimes I go for 3 or 4 days without stretching where when I was making gains I wouldn’t go for more than a few hours or a day at most with out stretching. Anyway I’m thinking maybe I didn’t “cement” my gains. My best measurement with a rocking boner today was 7.8” back under the 8” mark. If I cheat myself and pull my dick a little bit while measuring I was able to reach 8” again however, I was getting to 8” before easily with no problems and even touching 8.1 to 8.2 with effort.

Now my girth the first time I measured was about 5.1 to to 5.25 probably closer to 5.25 but lately with pumping I’ve been at 5.5 to 5.75 pretty consistently usually about 5.5 after 2 days with no pumping. I’m wondering if the extra girth has caused some of the loss or if maybe because I haven’t been stretching I lost the length. I don’t like stretching after pumping because I feel its to fat and firm to real stretch it out. I don’t know what gives. I thought pumping would help me out in both directions. I might have made a mistake but I do like the extra girth more than I like the extra length so it seems like I’m at a crossroads.

What are your opinions on what caused the loss the pumping or the discontinuation of stretching. Also what would most prefer and 8.5 inch pecker with 5.25” girth or 7.7” with a 5.75” girth?

Did you mean ‘lost some length’?

Yes, damn it hope I can still edit it.

Only changes in the post not the title. Marinera, if you can help me with changing the title I’ll send you some positive energy to get your penis bigger. :)

Ahaha. Penis Karma yummm!!!

It’s headed your way as I type this.

To the topic: I had this happening too. There is some trade off between girth and length, dependind on the shape of the penis. Mines is somewhat oval, an increase of half inch in girth gives roughly 1” less in length.

That’s very sad news.

I think I can live with it considering how different and meaty my penis looks and feels. A true 8x6 will take a lot more work than I thought and anticipated. This goes against my previous assumption where I thought that if you gained length girth would kind of follow. I thought it would work the other way around too but it might have been a bad assumption to make.

If this is the case then you should focus on reaching 8.5”BPEL first, then if this phenomenon occurs and you lose length again during your girth gaining phase you should still be above 8” BPEL. I have heard of this happening to others too, not sure about the scientific reasoning behind it though.

Extra girth expands the tunica’s structure laterally so it cant create as much pressure longitudinally?

Pretty much. But I think if one measure from the sides, makes the sum and divide by 2, will find the loss is significatively lower.

The answer is in my sig line. :)

-venom-

I know I should and I know I’m going to remind myself of what a fool I was but girth is were its at.

HAHAHA. That’s awesome firegoat. How did you come to that conclusion? I would say that it is definitely about right when talking about the idea of “ideal”.

It’s the distillation of years of experience and research. :)

Quick answers: I feel it’s due to your lack of stretching, but also due to natural variations in measuring. See below. And I would much rather take a 7.7” w a 5.75” girth. If I couldn’t go balls deep in most girls I would cry. Good thing my dick is nowhere near having that problem lol. 8.5” just seems a little much unless you wanna go into porn or if you don’t like straight pounding it - that’s gonna hurt some bishes.

Measuring your dick can be a very tricky thing. I hope you’re doing it consistently each time (ruler in same exact place on fat pad every single time, etc). This is something I worry about often with members of these forums. Many people who report gains in length, etc, measure inconsistently, some want to see gains so bad that they pull the ruler further and further up the fat pad when they measure. Not in any way trying to insinuate that this is what you are doing - rather I’m just bringing it up because I feel measuring is an extremely important thing to master, harder to do properly than we all think and really I’d just like some members to read this post in the future and maybe they’ll focus on better measuring.

That being said, judging from your progress report and reading your posts, you seem like an intelligent guy, and I fully believe that you have ‘lost’ length. Maybe my story can shed some light for you. I’m currently injured from jelqing, and masterbation inflames the injury. So I’ve literally gone since September of last year masterbating as little as possible (also stopped all PE since then). Slowly but surely my libido died down (I’m in my young 20’s) and I stopped getting frequent erections, morning wood, etc (because I was not touching my unit and splooging 2 times a day like I’ve done my whole life prior to this). Last month, I got out the ruler to measure and to my utter shock (and soonafter depression) I measured a FULL .25” less in erect length, and this was with a RAGER. My dick was so hard lol. I couldn’t believe it. I measured for the rest of the week and got the same results. One of these times I decided to measure base girth and found that although I was .25” shorter, I was also .25” thicker at the base than I ever have been (5” BEG, when I have NEVER in my whole entire life measured over 4.75”, and I’m not doing PE or naturally growing anymore).

I even made a few posts on these forums, like you have now. I thought that perhaps my dick was atrophying because I was never touching it and never ejaculating, which is not natural or healthy to abstain from. So I jacked off once a day for a few days, let myself watch some porn and stay erect for a while, etc. Sure enough, thankfully, within a few days I was back up to my original length (but unfortunately also went back down to my original base girth, lol). My point is, the penis is a tricky thing and it varies a LOT. If you don’t use it, you lose it, and I experienced that personally. Not touching my dick for months at a time made it retract (although temporarily). My guess is that you are just experiencing natural measuring variation. Sometimes you’ll have a 10/10 erection and measure less than your 10/10 erection a week ago. It just happens. Don’t overanalyze it, but it’s good that you’ve noticed it. Keep an eye out. Maybe you need more (aka, stretching), but also maybe you need less (overworking can = retraction). Or maybe it’s neither, and just a natural measuring variation. Keep these possibilities in mind, experiment and with time you should be able to enlighten yourself as to the culprit.

Good luck man, wish you all the best with pumping! Looking forward to your stories providing me inspiriation for my own future pumping quest.