AndyJ's Body Enhancement Thread

At least you’ve proved some useful things to yourself. The difference in pain level was a big one for me.

I hope you lose it quickly.

I saw the doc this afternoon. Due to insurance requirements, I had to have an office visit before the blood draw for the lab. I was his last patient of the day, and everyone who could draw blood had already left. I’ll swing by in the morning for the blood draw.

I had some questions for him, so we went over those.

My blood pressure had dropped sharply, systolic going below 100, and sometimes into the 80s. It would also occasionally spike into the 130s. He said that the last time he went through a continuing education course, the official word was that the lower limit of blood pressure was 1 point above passing out. However, the kidneys require blood pressure for perfusion… but there’s no agreement on how much. Based on his experience, 100 to 120 was fine, and he wouldn’t be concerned about 90s to 130s.

We talked about diuretics again, and he said that since my blood pressure had dropped so much between the weight loss and Lisinopril, they weren’t needed any more.

I asked him to have the lab run a check on my vitamin D level. I had moved from 4000 IU to 6000 IU six weeks ago and want to see how that has affected the numbers. He doesn’t like the idea of going over 6000 IU of supplements.

I tend to agree with him on low blood pressure. Generally speaking women have lower blood pressure than men and there are plenty of people who have low blood pressure for genetic reasons. Their kidneys work fine. I think you can get to below pass out level intermittently and still have no kidney problems (based on observation of others rather than data).

There’s an interaction between vitamin D and calcium and high levels of vitamin D can cause calcium to be pulled out of the bones. Though it’s also recommended that you don’t have a large calcium intake when mega dosing vitamin D. That’s probably his worry there. I can’t remember the exact interactions right now but in theory if you can get your vitamin D from sunlight rather than a pill, you’d be a lot better off and avoid the pitfalls of supplementing. The standard process is be in the sun when your shadow is shorter than you and expose as much skin as possible for at least half an hour for white skin and maybe 3x that for black skin. The added benefit is NO generation amongst other things.

From an article at bones.nih.gov, a too-low level of D will make it hard to absorb enough calcium from food, so the body will pull it from the bones instead, resulting in osteoporosis. So you don’t want to go too far in either direcion.

Given the difference in recommended D levels between America and the rest of the world, it would be interesting to compare osteoporosis figures between them.

Since I’m going back on the 6-hour intervals with Lisinopril, I’m going to spread the D supplements out to 4x instead of 2x.

It will be interesting to see what the D figures look like when the labs come back. Going from zero to 4000 IU just bumped me from “below recommended” to just over the OK line. I suspect going to 6000 IU isn’t going to make a big difference.

> when your shadow is shorter than you

Well, it’s probably taller than my soul…

I’ll bet your soul has a six pack.

Zeppelin reference, or something else? Really strong lyrics, if you pay attention to them. I do hope that’s not how you’re feeling, Andy.

No worries, it’s just a Zeppelin reference.

“and as we wind on down the road
our shadows taller than our souls…”

The Voices alerted to mem’s post and suggested the rejoinder. Fortunately they share my taste in music.

This morning I got a decent measurement. I had an NBPFSL of 6-5/8” earlier this year. I can’t *quite* get a good bone-pressed reading yet, but the fat pad has definitely thinned a lot. I got 6-1/4” NBPEL with about a 75% erection - it’s ruler-shy - and a solid 7” NBPFSL. The extra 3/8” is likely mostly from the thinner fat pad.

Every measurement is a combination of excitement and disappointment; excitement that I’m still seeing gains, disappointment that they’re small. It’s one of those self-defeating mind quirks I know better than to entertain, but the flash of disappointment is always there. Then the Voice of Reason (which sounds remarkably like James Earl Jones) tells me to man up, and that all gains are good gains.

One measurement problem is that the skin on my shaft is still extremely tight; when I push the ruler in, it actually curves my shaft up, and the tension is an added discomfort on top of trying to punch the ruler though the layer to my pelvic bone. It’s not as tight as it used to be; all the pumping is helping there.

Bib says that one common side effect of compression hanging is “growing extra skin”, sometimes to the point where some users have reported unwanted foreskin restoration. I still don’t see how that works - if I pull my shaft skin outward like when jelquing, it just tents up at the base - but I have a Bib Starter in one of the plastic tubs of PE stuff, and I’m tempted to cut back on my other PE and put some time in with the Bib, since the tight shaft skin is definitely a limit at the moment.

Why not just add a skin stretching routine. Skin stretches easily. If you hold near the top and a bit lower than midway and push the lower grip towards the base until there’s reasonable tension, you’ll see growth. Preferably heated.

What Bib is talking about is when you attach a hanger, it tends to slip forward. What you often do, especially as a new hanger, is create a lot of tension on the skin at the base of the shaft. So it grows and provides extra foreskin but you normally end up with turkey neck because of where you’re stressing the skin most (i.e. where there is skin at the top of the shaft under tension but below that is scrotum).

Hmm. Like a static jelq? Or would the lower hand be moving?

That’s pretty much what Bib describes, except my abdominal skin just pulls out over the base of my shaft and “tents” when I pull the skin forward.

I agree with memento, a bib will stretch skin as it needs some loose skin to work but it will stretch it from your body. So it will drag pubes and a bit of ball sack onto your dick.

If you stretch by pulling the top of your penis and the bottom, easiest when erect, then you are just stretching penis skin with none of the above mentioned side effects

I don’t think you need movement. It’s just a matter of feeling the skin stretch between two grips and involving as much of the shaft as possible. No need to be intense about it either.

Alternatively there are some foreskin restoration devices that would probably do the trick.

I’m willing to give it a try. Any recommendation for how long/often to stretch?

Just add it to your daily routine 2-5 minutes of slow stretch and release should be enough. See how that works and increase if necessary.

It sounds simple enough. I’ll give it a shot.

Meanwhile, I have finally worn out a silicone sleeve with the vacuum ADS/hanger. I’ve had some trouble with air leakage along the shaft for the last week or two, but it finally got to where it wouldn’t stay on. It looked fine and felt just as stretchy as ever, but when I compared it to the spare sleeve, it was 8 or 9mm larger in diameter.

It’s a 25mm sleeve and I’m not freakishly girthy, so I’m assuming the sleeve got stretched over time by folding it up around the bell to install it on my shaft. It’s a generic Chinese import, not one of the fancy ones from Autoextender or LG. I had expected it to fail by tearing instead of stretching, though. I’ve snagged it on split fingernails and it got nicked by a rough spot in an extender base, but the damage didn’t spread.

I’ve logged all my time with the bell and sleeve, so I’ll add it up later and find out how long it lasted. I guess I’ll put the stretched sleeve in Ye Aulde Boxx of PE Bits; perhaps I can find a use for it eventually. [all the Voices, which apparently have a high percentage of packrat genes, are signaling their approval]

It might be a good idea to order two spares this time…