I wish i saw this thread a month or soback when I purchased my first pump. I never really cleaned my tube out and what do you know, with my luck, 2 days after my insurance gets dropped I notice that my dick is a little itchy and a couple red blotches are on it. So, not wanting to pay for a doctors appointment, I end up putting neosporene on it and stopping pumping in hopes that it would heal itself. Worst mistake I have ever made. Three days latter I woke up in the middle of the night with the worst itch I have ever had -it made posion oak seem like a walk in the park. It felt like an itch that would never stop no matter how much you itched it. So I waited for the docs office to open and went in, she said that it was one of the worst cases of yeast infections that she had seen. Gave me an rx and that was a couple days ago. Feeling a little better but take this post as a warning. I swear to god, I would kill myself if I had to go through something like that for more than a few days. Whats worse is that the pumping was working so good for me. erect length grew 3/16 to 1/4 in a month/month and a half. So as soon as it heals, Ill wash the tube a few times and Ill be back at it. You know, this is I think my first time posting on thunders even though I have been reading here for over three years. Oh well, I hate typing so learn from my mistake, clean your tube, and thanks for all the help