Originally Posted by MustBeDreaming
Well this is disappointing, back in January I had reached 6.1 in erect girth and was 6.25 after workouts. Well I had to quit PE after overdoing it and hurting myself. Every once in a while I would do my PE excersizes but more lightly. Back in may I went down to 5.75G, that sucked but I wasn’t doing much PE. Now here it is in August and I am now 5.5G! That’s over half an inch of loss and was doing light maintenance. So really how permenant are these girth gains?
When I was 6-6.1 girth, I held that for about 3 months, before the 3 months I was 5.75, 6 months before that I was 5.5. So all that time and hard work put into those amazing gains are gone. It’s really disapointing. I had more than enough time to heal and hold the gains. So what happened? I also lost .25 in length, leaving me at 7.
MustBeDreaming,
If PE was easy everybody would have a “ten incher”. I think you probably started PE too aggressively and as a result you gave up too soon.
Here’s my logic/opinion of what may be happening:
Non-abusive PE/FR creates better penile/genital vascularization. With this increased blood flow the penis experiences better nocturnal erections (nighttime PE) which helps to maintain or create more size from the efforts of daytime PE. However, should the blood flow return to it’s previous state (after stopping daytime PE for a long period), everything works in reverse causing the penis to shrink back down. In my opinion, over eager PE’ers sometimes confuse cellular growth from improved blood flow. I believe increased blood flow and lig stretch can create fantastic temporary gains (maybe one to two inches), but actual cellular growth is something that takes a lot of time and dedication to achieve.
I’m no PE expert, but I can honestly say that I’ve gained a solid .5” length x .5” circumference in cellular growth since the start of my very spotty and irregular PE/FR career in the fall of 1999. I believe this is a permanent size increase because of having an extended break of several years consecutive without a loss in size of more than this much compared to my original starting size. This is why it’s probably a bad idea to stop PE’ing for extended periods like I did. I can only imagine what size I would be right now had I continued regularly with the sensible and practical routine that I used back then.
I tend to reason that for most men there are at least three intertwined variables that contribute to PE gains probably in this order - improved blood flow, lig stretch, and finally cell growth. I’m of the opinion that blood flow and lig stretch can revert back or diminish, but cellular growth is most likely permanent. This is probably why some PE’ers lose fifty percent of their gains as Beenthere mentioned above. The increased blood flow and lig stretch gains may diminish, but the cellular growth gains remain.
Who knows? I’m sure there are a lot of other factors to consider. The above is just my ramblings of which may or may not be correct, but it’s what I currently believe.
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