Buckfever's Post Collagen Remodeling Theory with Heat

2/23/2022

36%

2.5 minutes down position
5 minutes reset noose
7.5 minutes add high heat
7.5 minutes add 6%
10 minutes add 6%
12.5 minutes add 6%
15 minutes add 6%
17.5 minutes add 6%
20 minutes add 6%
Periodically turn off heat for 20 seconds
52.5 minutes turn off heat remove pad
59 minutes end session

This session went better than the last. The contact burn continues to heal and the heat is better tolerated, still looking forward to the TotalMan heat pad because I am averse to dealing with hot spots again.

I ended the session a minute or so early because I perceived slippage. I forgot to change the noose so it could be that or maybe the tension is too high but given how much longer we went today I think this will work out. We’ll just have to bake here for a while. I’ll know better on Friday.

New noose installed!

Right now with the new work schedule I’m looking at only 3 sessions per week, which I suspect is more of a maintenance deal. I think what we’ll do is have the 3 times per week as the baseline and just be flexible and add sessions as the opportunity presents.

A little post session redness on the glans at the attachment. Going to back off the tension. This is very much an incremental phenomenon and if backing off the number of session per week, the tension progression is going to really be slowed.

2/24/2022

30%

2.5 minutes down position
5 minutes reset noose
7.5 minutes add high heat
7.5 minutes add 6%
10 minutes add 6%
12.5 minutes add 6%
15 minutes add 6%
17.5 minutes add 6%
50 minutes turn off heat
52.5 minutes remove pad
60 minutes end session

Okay so backtracked on the tension and will stay here for a while. The heat tolerance has improved completely now that the healing on the contact burn has largely resolved. Probably jumped the gun on the TotalMan heat pad but it’s a better size for when I pick up a VED (pump) later on and I want to compare it to the Thermedic. And I remain pretty disappointed about the design of the Thermedic hot spots. Not happy about that contact burn.

Crashed early yesterday and woke up early so scheduling might work out anyway with the new work schedule.

Removal of the pad at 52.5 minutes results in a better ramp up in tension during the cooldown, which makes me think the cooling is more complete by removing the pad earlier during the cooldown.

Glans condition at the end was better than yesterday so while maybe it was the noose losing integrity, I did not want to risk too much tension. I want to give this a good week and a half more at 30%, before thinking about adding tension.

Again the only mistake I make here is going too fast on the tension ramp up.

2/25/2022

36%

2.5 minutes down position
5 minutes reset noose
7.5 minutes add high heat
7.5 minutes add 6%
10 minutes add 6%
12.5 minutes add 6%
15 minutes add 6%
17.5 minutes add 6%
20 minutes add 6%
50 minutes turn off heat
52.5 remove pad
60 minutes end session

Well it feels like I am full of contradictions. Today at 30% tension it was clear that a higher tension could be accommodated. So I went ahead and went back to 36%. It was three days in a row of traction and it seems that with this style of slow increases that continuous days yields a better adaptation. So 5-6 days/week is where I want to be, based on the experience so far.

Maybe a strategy would be to step back on the tension for a day after a day off?

Once again the heat tolerance has increased with the healing of the hot spot surface burn and the addition of the 2 small bandaids over the hot spots on the Thermedic. I still would prefer to not be using this pad and am hoping that the TotalMan heat pad does not have this issue, we’ll see.

If you are using the Thermedic feel on the underside where the wiring is protruding and cover it with a couple of bandaids. You’ll be glad you did.

Glans condition at end of session - excellent!!! Improved flaccid continues.

2/27/2022

36%

2.5 minutes down position
5 minutes reset noose
7.5 minutes add high heat
7.5 minutes add 6%
10 minutes add 6%
12.5 minutes add 6%
15 minutes add 6%
17.5 minutes add 6%
20 minutes add 6%
41.5 minutes turn off heat
45.5 minutes add high heat
50 minutes turn off heat
51.5 minutes remove pad
52,5 minutes end session.

Every thing went great today EXCEPT I pinched the skin a little at the attachment which started being an issue about 40 minutes in and I just did not not have the endurance to sustain the full cool down. I turned off the heat at 41.5 minutes for 4 minutes, thinking it was a heat issue but it was the pinched skin.

Glans condition excellent at the end.

Plan is to stick with the 36% thinking 10-14 days until there is clear accommodation.

Nothing else to report the plan is set now it’s just like watching paint dry. Slower and steady.

2/28/2022

36%

2.5 minutes down position
5 minutes reset noose
7.5 minutes add high heat
7.5 minutes add 6%
10 minutes add 6%
12.5 minutes add 6%
15 minutes add 6%
17.5 minutes add 6%
20 minutes add 6%
50 minutes turn off heat
52.5 remove pad
60 minutes end session

Best session yet!!! Looking like in 10 days we’ll up the tension. So far so good!!! Long way to go though,

Just want to follow up from the morning. There has been consistently no issue with the hot spots since the surface contact burn has largely healed AND bandaids were place over the hot spots on the Thermedic Far-IR heating pad. At this point I’m not sure I would have been compelled to have moved away from the Thermedic.

And while I am not disclosing the tracking of the measurements the terminal strain continues to progress with the increase in tension and the observed further forward location of the glands in the cradle.

Just want to provide as much forthright observation as I can, as it is realized.

3/1/2022

36%

2.5 minutes down position
5 minutes reset noose
7.5 minutes add high heat
7.5 minutes add 6%
10 minutes add 6%
12.5 minutes add 6%
15 minutes add 6%
17.5 minutes add 6%
20 minutes add 6%
50 minutes turn off heat
52.5 remove pad
60 minutes end session

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Have you had any desire to test the TM for temperature? With a thermocouple. That would be interesting. When my overlays arrive, I will definitely do that. Just to make sure I’m not wasting my time.

As far as the Thermedic it’s been tested elsewhere and 5.5Squared used the Thermedic successfully, so I don’t think there is a need. I guess the only question I would have is when the TotalMan heat pad arrives, would be if that one has been tested/compared. I’m not going to do that tough I’ll probably just look at the specs and survey what info is out there.

I think it’s a good point and does make me want to stick with the Thermedic now that I have the hot spot issues sorted out.

3/2/2022

36% ?42%

2.5 minutes down position
5 minutes reset noose
7.5 minutes add high heat
7.5 minutes add 6%
10 minutes add 6%
12.5 minutes add 6%
15 minutes add 6%
17.5 minutes add 6%
20 minutes add 6%
50 minutes turn off heat
52.5 remove pad
60 minutes end session

I got distracted and couldn’t remember if I added tension at 20 minutes or not so I added tension at 22.5 minutes to be sure. So there’s a chance it was 42%. I do not want to add tension yet. I want to finish this week and next and then move up. I think that would be very safe.

Everything great today. Glans condition excellent at end.

So this is interesting. Your post prompted me to look up the rating on the TotalMan heat pad and it isn’t rated anywhere near the TherMedic. Not saying it won’t work but clearly I did not do my due diligence. It may be more for use with a vacuum pump which the TherMedic would be too small for.

When you say rated, do you mean as in user reviews or product performance? As I cannot find product performance on either (e.g. spectral intensity profiles).

The temperature rating is all I found and the TotalMan settings are well below the Thermedic.

3/4/2022

42%

2.5 minutes down position
5 minutes reset noose
7.5 minutes add high heat
7.5 minutes add 6%
10 minutes add 6%
12.5 minutes add 6%
15 minutes add 6%
17.5 minutes add 6%
20 minutes add 6%
22.5 minutes add 6%
50 minutes turn off heat
52.5 remove pad
60 minutes end session

Again with my contradictions. I got to 36% at 20 minutes and it was very clear that additional tension could be tolerated. I looked at the log and realized that it had been 2 weeks @ 36% so I guess that makes sense. Also today is 5 days in a row so there does seem to be a benefit to successive days. Planning for 6 days in a row this week. We’ll see if this impact EQ, possibly tonight, we’ll see, but Saturday for sure.

The tension increase during the cooldown was appreciably greater so that is another qualitative measure of where we are in the process.

Glans condition at the end was excellent. Heat tolerance has remains great with the 2 bandaids on the hot spots of the Thermedic.

Really hard not to think we’re making progress.