Oh my gosh! I will never do this again. I did a burn Sunday night and I am in my 5th day. I used Compound W and could only stand the pain for 7 minutes. Call me a sissy if you want, but when I read the posts of others stating that it was painful, I thought, what the heck, a little pain. No, take my word, that stuff on your unit is very painful, and I mean PAINFUL. I jumped in the shower to wash it off and I actually had a hard time getting it all off. Once I dried off it looked as if I had a white sheen on my unit. I decided that I just wanted to jump in bed and sleep it off, because it still hurt in that area. I wake up in the middle of the night and my unit is swollen as if I had a clamp on. It was huge. I woke my wife so that she can see it. She had her doubts about me doing this before I started and when she saw my unit it cemented her doubt. The next morning it was very painful and 90% of the swelling went down, but I retained a lot of lymphatic fluid which I never have had throughout my PE career.
I went to work wearing boxers. Big mistake, I had to buy some ball hugger briefs. Day 3 I start to get open sores so I started incorporating neosporen ointment along with a baby sock cut of at the end for urination purpose. A little better, that night I carefully role off the sock and the sock has some black skin and blood. The sores are getting larger at the base of my penis and below the glands. Day 4 I wake up and dreading to take a shower since I started the burn, because water burns the hell out the open sores. I rub the ointment all over my penis and carefully roll a clean sock on it because it hurts to the touch and it is blacker than I have ever seen it. I put on my ball hugger briefs and over that I put on a tight jock strap, great idea. Everything is stabilized in the crotch area, but I still continue to get the open wounds. Is this normal? I thought new skin would be growing under the burnt skin and all I would have to do is peel the burnt skin off without any pain. It does not seem that this is going to be the case. Tomorrow is day 6 and I just want this to end.
For those of you who are planning on doing this you better go back and read this entire thread to refresh yourself and seriously think about what you are going to do, because once you start, there is no turning back. I personally will not do this again not even for touch ups. From the looks of the open wounds, it is probably going to take weeks before they heel.
I will keep everybody up to date on my progress, so to speak ,and it will give you an idea how long it takes me to heal. Remember, we are all different, maybe my skin can not handle that percentage of saline.