Burning Sensation That Isn’t Skin Based
At first I thought it was skin based, maybe IR heater, but over the past week I’ve deduced that it’s definitely felt deeper at the tunica septum level. The past few days in my pre-ultrasound warmup of about 45mins, I’ve been using a space heater, to certainly rule out IR lamp as a culprit.
And yeah, especially in the morning I’m getting a burning sensation, without US, about 20-30mins in to the session. It’s not terrible pain, feels similar to having eaten a pepper maybe, felt along the shaft, and it goes away immediately after ending the hanging session. But it also seems to have progressed to being a bit more intense in the past few days, and I want to be cautious.
Anyone else get this burning sensation in your septum/tunica? Is this normal for stretching the tissues? I read a bit here that some people feel a similar thing, but those are very old posts.
I’ve been going 18 days now, 2 sessions per day, each about 1.5-2 hours long, each session with 15mins ultrasound. I’ve gained 8mm of morning-measured BPFSL; 7mm of morning-measured BPEL, and 1cm of maximum, post-session BPFSL. So that’s pretty cool, and I think that’s pretty rapid progress, particularly for someone like me who has never gained any length at all in the past.
But I’m going to take a couple days off from the US for sure, I think I’ll probably still do a couple hanging sessions per day, maybe 30mins each, to keep the tissues slightly elongated. My suspicion is that there may be slight injury from the ultrasound, which can be felt at maximum strain.
I’m also thinking that the 1MHz US, phantom or not, is going to have reflections at the boundary of the skin and phantom, and this can produce micro-locations of higher temps and/or cavitation. Because the 1MHz energy is only 50% reduced at 5cm, even less at 2.5cm, leaving a significant amount of energy, which we intend to pass to the phantom, but will definitely still have some amount of reflection. My phantom is a ziploc filled with warm water, about 5cm thick.
So I’m going to give the US a break for a few days until my 3Mhz device arrives, where the reflection issues should be significantly lower. Hoping that the burning sensation subsides; as I’d like to continue with this progress, and pick up with US heating soon.