Bathmate Users -- how do you manage pressure?

Just to clarify, when you say “pumping high” does this mean you continue to increase the vacuum pressure until your penis reaches a designated length?

It does not appear to me that you are using a vacuum pressure gauge in your pump system.

If this is accurate, then I have several safety concerns with your process.

From a procedure perspective, we strongly recommend that everyone pumping has a gauge in their system. The gauge is the only way to be consistent in your pumping program. We commonly describe pump programs as time and vacuum pressure, often -3inHg or -5inHg.

From a safety perspective monitoring your PI’s is critical for risk reduction and preventing injuries. One PI is how your penis is responding to your PE activities. A common response to over work or over stressing the penis is for it to “turtle up”, or reduce in size. If your pump program is to increase vac pressure until you reach a designated penis length when your penis is turtling, then more vac pressure is required to do so.

Too high vac pressure can result in edema and ‘red spots’ and if those are ignored and you continue under pressure can result in fluid blisters and bleeding. These last two can take weeks to recover from. Other injuries can also result from this poor practice. Can you say “ruptured blood vessels”?

Sounds like you’re saying the bathmate is an unsafe product then because there is no gauge. I do use the length marks on the bathmate as my gauge however I have not experienced any issues besides some minor discoloration so I believe the pressure levels are fine. I wish bathmate had a gauge but it doesn’t. If I noticed something alarming I would definitely stop to heal. Having a bigger penis isn’t worth breaking it in the process. As stated before this is my only form of PE so it’s unlikely I could be overworking or overtraining it from only 15 mins of pumping per day. Also I’ve built up to the pressure levels that I’m currently using. I didn’t just get the product the first day and mindlessly pump my dick up to its bone pressed erect length mark on the bathmate. I appreciate the time you took to respond though, and it’s not falling on deaf ears.

The fact of the matter is the bathmate can be dangerous. The pressure on it can go upwards of 14hg. That’s a lot by pumping standards. Consider for a moment most of us keep the pressure on an air pump between 3hg and 7hg. That’s a big difference in pressure. But we need to keep in mind any PE can be dangerous if done too rigorous and too often. Which several on this thread are doing.

Is the bathmate a good product? Sure, it definitely has its place. But it’s way overpriced. keep in mind their affiliates get a 40% kickback.

A few of us have been speculating in other water pumping threads about the bathmate:

http://www.bathmatestore.com/

There is a lot of appeal for me because:

— it is discrete
— it is an all-in-one solution for water pumping

What we can’t figure out is how you manage pressure with it.

Many of the water pumping vets who use "standard" pumps say that it is really important to watch your pressure when you water pump as it is easy to go too high.

So how do you bathmate guys deal with this, as it does not appear the bathmate has a gauge?