Originally Posted by avocet8
One of the goals of pumping when you have ED is to gradually increase arterial efficiency. You have a network of arteries just under your shaft skin - whether you can see them or not - which supply the CCs to expand the shaft. A tube that is too narrow only squashes these arteries rather than allowing them to open and expand. I agree that you’re better off waiting until the large tube arrives. Meantime, practice some jelking, which will help.Do you use an ED drug during your PE sessions, or no?
Thanks for replying, avocet 8. I received the 2.5 inch tube about a week ago, and have only used it on three days, partly because of lack of privacy—lots of children and grandchildren present as houseguests during the holidays. Actually, it turns out that the 2.5 inch tube is a little too big. The 7-inch girth that I have at the base is only with a rip-roaring 100% erection, which I don’t always achieve. Otherwise, the tube tends to suck in a fair amount of scrotal skin, and occasionally even one ball. I don’t achieve a complete seal, and usually have to do some pumping throughout the whole 5 minutes to maintain a vacuum. I’ve been going for about 4 sets of 5 minutes at 3.5 to 4.0”, sometime going up to 5.0” because I know it’s going to quickly fall to a lower pressure anyway. I’ve gone ahead and ordered a 2.25 x 11 cylinder as well. It hasn’t arrived yet, but I suspect I will easily get a good seal with it and will eventually be using the 2.5 cylinder as a second stage.
As to the ED drug, yes and no. The first couple or times pumping, I didn’t use one, and I was working with about a 75-80% erection. Yesterday (Friday), I did some edging along with the pumping sessions and had pretty much 100%, though not necessarily long-lasting, erections because I had taken a Cialis on Wednesday morning and had had good sex on Thursday. I usually find that the Cialis effect lasts a day or so beyond the purported 36 hours. Then too, I can have pretty decent erections even with direct stimulation even without an ED drug, but they just depend on continued direct stimulation and are not long-lasting without it. I seem to go through cycles of pretty good nite wood alternating with cycles of sort of ho-hum erections (like right now) and I can’t really put my finger on what is making the difference.
I’m interested in ballooning, and I’m trying to stimulate the non-trigger areas, but at present they aren’t enough to maintain a good erection or get me close to ejaculation. The edging I’ve been doing is the more conventional edging using the trigger point areas.
And BTW, I am doing jelqing and stretching with a small number of horse 440’s, ulis, and Sadsak head exercises mixed in. And, of course, Kegels.