Why I stopped going over 10 Hg (well maybe 11.5?) water pumping basics

When I started water pumping, my EQ went through the roof and wifey started going crazy.

Going over 10Hg has no benefit, so why do it?

I wanted to post this because when I started I was always at 10 Hg and like everyone here, I started to push even though every vet said not to. Well here is my advice after pushing.

First! I never pushed passed 14 Hg and anyone who has is possibly on the injury forum so talk to them there.

So I was for the first 2 months pushing to 12-14 Hg and I thought, this is great, it is nice and thick but then Edema started creeping in and at first, when you get Edema, you are like, WOW! Free dick girth, but you need to be smarter than this and me. What’s funny is the first time I got Edema, I posted here, NEVER GO ABOVE 10 Hg, it freaked me out. Then I started getting used to it, but now I’m over it.

I’m now wiser. So for the last few weeks, I have been on the 5 x 5 x 3 and I won’t explain what that is, go to MOS matters of size blog for that DLD routine.

Anyway, I have learned that less is more! I do push a little over 10 Hg but I mean no more than 11.5 Hg and now I get very little if any Edema and I can get through my routine better. I find that it is better to pump more days with less time than to pump less frequently with more time per session. I still believe no one should ever pump more than 20 min a day, there is no benefit to going over.

Good luck and I hope this helps.

how long are your pumping sessions?

For the first 4 months, I did 20 min straight 4 to 5 times a week. Now I am on the 5 x 5 x 3, so in total 15 min.

I’ve been doing 10 minutes per day, 2 days on, 1 day off .. I have no idea what pressure I’m using, but I think the pressure could be high

My stealthformen vac hanger tells me pressure & 10 hg feels like very little pressure to me (I attempted to retrofit a pressure gauage onto my bathmate pump but failed), I suspect my pressure with bathmate is a lot more than that… (it feels a lot stronger than 10hg).. At least I start low pressure & slowly ramp up during my 10 minutes. No injury issues for me or ededma (I’ve only been pumping 3 months).

If you already have the pressure gauge then just buy the cylinders from LA Pump or similar and use that with water. That is what I use.

If you need an all-in-one solution, just go with the Mittyvac.

Here is a Hink video on that bathmate you have:

What happened?