AndyJ's Body Enhancement Thread

The “XXL” posture harness turned out to be very difficult to put on; it required forcing the opposite arm in after the first went through the straps. Then it wanted to ride up the back of my neck, my shoulder blades felt like they were going to touch, and the lower straps were just below my ribs. In my estimation it’s more of a “medium” size.

I found another, this one with adjustable shoulder straps, and ordered that. Hopefully I can adjust it for a proper fit. Fortunately they’re cheap.

Reading the “Holy Grail of Cum Load” thread, I found that I’m not the only one who has a bad reaction to the standard 50mg dose of zinc. Hooray?!

TRT injection #6 this morning. I used the “Z-track” method and left the needle in for a count of 10 before withdrawing it. No leakage.

I started the chelated copper supplement yesterday. Interesting. It didn’t make me feel quite as bad as the 50mg zincs do, but it was noticeable. I used the pill cutter to chop them in half like the zincs.

I’m not sure what the mechanism is here; both the zinc and the copper had noticeable nausea/headache within ten minutes. That’s pretty fast uptake. And since the time before nausea is the same for both the ordinary and chelated zinc, I’m wondering if the more-expensive chelated stuff is actually necessary.

Day 28 for the keto diet. I’ve only exceeded 20g carbs once (22g).

[wife’s Vitamin D prescription]

…and I was mistaken; it’s a 50,000 IU gelcap once a week. I went to lunch with a buddy this afternoon and we were taking about supplements; I mentioned my wife’s D supplement and he said his doctor had prescribed the same thing for him, 50,000 IU. I checked with her when I got back home, yes, 50,000.

“Sorry about that, Chief!”

It still sounds wonky; even if it’s a time-release pill, it would be excreted in a day or two anyway. Maybe it’s fast-uptake and D takes a while to decline? Even so, it looks like the D levels would go up and down way more than they’d have to.

My Tetra aquarium pump showed up yesterday. I took it apart, reversed the innards, and posted some comments on the main aquarium pump thread here: AndyJ - $15 electric vacuum pump for anyone!

It pulls just under 5” Hg, which is my normal pumping level. Since I’m acclimated to the vacuum I use 30-minute sessions. I’ve accidentally gone 40 minutes without a donut, using heat. I’ll have a mild donut without heat. I move immediately to the extender for cool-down.

Now that the skin on my shaft is toughened up a bit, I did a session with the vacuum extender ADS. It’s just a cheap eBay bell and sleeve with an elastic neck strap. I got four and a half hours before it got uncomfortable to the point where I had to take it off, though a bathroom break was imminent anyway.

The neck strap pulls the shaft straight up. I don’t know what the tension is, but I added a couple of carabiners to reduce it some, since it was probably not intended for men of my portly physique. I have a nice digital scale with hooks on each end, that I could have replaced the carabiners with, and I actually moved it out of the way on my desk while wearing the extender, but didn’t have the “aha!” (trans: ‘you dumbass’) moment until after I’d removed the extender.

Comfort: very comfortable to start with, other than occasional needle-stabs of pain here and there. I got similar stabs when I started pumping, and again when I began using the Size Doctor bell straight out with paracord and weights, and again with the Size Doctor in its normal extender configuration, where it generally points straight down. I didn’t expect straight up to do anything, but I guess that angle loads things differently. The pains are bits of scar tissue pulling loose; they should go away in a day or three.

The comfort faded over time. Even though I’d shaved in the morning, the stubble was enough to irritate the skin not covered by the sleeve. I have facial hair like broomstraws, and get five o’clock shadow by noon. My pubic hair is the same way. Then I started feeling a burning in the sulcus behind the glans, which got slowly worse.

The open edge of the bell falls in that area, but I suspect the problem is just stretching. The Size Doctor gasket rests in the same place, but the gasket compresses the flesh. The ADS bell is rigid, and that area isn’t used to stretching. (it doesn’t stretch noticeably in the tube, either). The neck strap may also be making more tension than I’m ready for.

The glans was fully expanded into the bell and hard; larger than then it comes out of the Size Doctor, though to remove it from the Size Doctor requires squeezing it through the not-very-expandable gasket which squeezes it down on the way out, so it might not be a good comparison.

I figure 4-1/2 hours isn’t bad for a first run, and the soreness went away in an hour or two.

Four hours on the second day with the ADS; it got uncomfortable around the sulcus again and I didn’t see any need to push things. I suspect it’s just a matter of getting used to it. Glans swollen and hard, same as yesterday… but with a small hard bump near the meatus. I also discovered one underneath. They didn’t hurt, but they freaked me out for a while until I realized they were probably from being sucked into the bell’s vacuum port. So they’re tiny blisters, probably.

They’d largely subsided by ten hours later, but came back to full size during a short pump session. So today and tomorrow, until the bumps are gone, no more ADS, Size Doctor, or pumping. I think I saw someone mention this problem in an old thread, and people were suggesting bits of sponge or gauze over the port to prevent it.

I did find my “hanging” digital scale, and it’s sitting by the keyboard, waiting for my next ADS session.

This morning I did some ball pumping and edging instead. EQ was very good, and I’ve had excellent flaccid after starting with the ADS. I hope that continues.

Thanks for posting this. When my pumping run ends, I’m looking at either hanging or stretching. Your stuff is always useful. I appreciate it.

You’re welcome!

Since I’ve been using the extender I’ve found that a heated pump and then extending for cooldown gives me a longer flaccid for the next day or so. Later I’ll slip the tube back on and switch to the breast pump for a nice massage.

I’ve never focused on only one method; lately it has been mostly pumping and extending though. Hanging is on the table now, but I haven’t done any yet.

So, yesterday evening I did a half-hour pump session with the tube and breast pump. The breast pump is supposed to pull something like 15” of vacuum, but since it’s a “suck and release” device, the volume of the hose and unused area of the tube drops that down so the needle on my gauge (hooked to a T fitting) just vibrates between 1 and 2”.

The tiny amount of pulsing vacuum (buzz - buzz - buzz…) doesn’t do anything as far as stretching, but it’s my opinion that it helps keep blood flowing and keeps the tissues fully oxygenated. Can’t tell for sure without fancy test equipment, but I figured it couldn’t hurt, so why not? I use it after PE sessions, and at least once every time I lay down to take a nap or sleep for the night.

I finally got around to adding a check valve and bleeder valve to the hose a few days ago, and adjusted it so that the vacuum level fluctuated between 2 and 4”. The extra authority felt pretty good. No donuts or problems that I noticed… but that was right about the time I first used the ADS, and had a sore glans, then a blister.

So, after a few days off with no PE, I slapped the tube on last night and pushed the button. And… wound up with not one, not two, but three - yes, three! small, painful blisters. And as an added bonus, in completely different places than I’d had blisters before.

Sonovabitch.

Maybe it wasn’t the ADS that was the problem. At least I can measure the tension next time I try it. With that and the area of the bell, I can figure the amount of vacuum it’s putting on my glans.

My “high vacuum” pumping is 5 or 6” using the Mityvac. It didn’t even occur to me that 2-4” pulsing might cause a blister. Indeed, if that was the real problem. I guess I’ll find out after I heal from this set.

[flips a coin between “live and learn” and “grumble, bitch, whine”]

Zinc. Are you sure it isn’t the delivery mechanism more than the actual product? I find zinc tablets to be like rocks. They sit in my stomach and take forever to dissolve. Taking it on an empty stomach is incredibly painful. I wish I could take it, but it’s never a good feeling.

Just a thought, from reading this, can you control how fast it pulses?

In my mind’s eye, the pulse would/could cause blistering. Some vessels fill and release faster than others, they’ll remain healthy. The vessels that can’t release fast enough, would just continuously get pumped; stretching and pulling in more fluid as often as the pulse occurs, creating the blister.

I might be wrong, but it seems logical to me. If you can’t slow the pulse, I’d reconsider using it.

How long do women usually use them for milking? I wonder what amount the available space in the vacuum chamber affects pressure? Their nipples are usually drawn tight to the cup. In essence, packed.

I take zinc and D3 in the morning, usually on an empty stomach. Doesn’t seem to matter if I eat anything first.

The plain zinc bottle says:
Zinc gluconate, cellulose, dicalcium phosphate, croscarmellose, silica, magnesium stearate, stearic acid

The “chelated” bottle says:
Zinc gluconate, dicalcium phosphate, stearic acid, croscarmellos, magnesium stearate, silica.

Well, well, well… looks like the same stuff, except the “chelated” cost three times as much.

The chelated copper also makes me nauseous if I take a whole tablet:
calcium 103mg, copper 2mg, dicalcium phosphate, cellulose, calcium silicate, silica, magnesium stearate.

Surely that’s not metallic copper? I expected oxide, sulfate, something like that.

The common factors are dicalcium phosphate, calcium silicate, silica, and magnesium stearate.

I guess I need to look those up.

No, it’s a fixed cycle. It pumps from zero to… I think it’s just under 15” Hg, then dumps the vacuum and restarts. It’s supposed to prompt the breast to “express” milk. Frankly, it sounds like it would be painful.

I expect you’re correct. From what I’ve read the pulsing penis pumps use a much slower ramp and longer durations. The sharp, fast steps weren’t a problem at 1-2” of vacuum, which is what it averaged out to with the extra volume of the tube.

I was an experiment I don’t care to repeat. I have a box full of valves, controllers, and doodads that is supposed to be a proper pulsing pump someday. I need to get back to that…

All the ones I looked at had a hardwired 30-minute cycle. They used small-diameter tubes and the nipple cups are small. The pulses would be very sharp.

In fairness, I should point out that I blister easily; I’ve had several with the Size Doctor. Not really the SD’s fault; my fat pad is so thick that sitting up in bed or sitting down in a chair will push it painfully far out, if not off entirely.

Once you’ve been eating beef for a while, you should be able to drop the zinc supplement.

A lot of supplements are in useless forms. Like the way iron filings are added to flour.