Buckfever's progress report/bananaman story.

A point of clarity. I strap in then at 2.5 minutes, I push the extender down and every 2.5 minutes after that increase the tension till I get to the max tension for the session. You need to go by what the tissues will give you.

As far as measuring I have not measured since July 21, 2017. That said I have since that time added a full inch to the extender and the glans is sitting pretty much in the same position in the cradle.

I realize that measuring would be useful to the community, but there are several reasons I don’t. First I started off by measuring the max stretched length in the extender, which was a purely intuitive decision on my part as not being part of this community at the time, I had not taken any of the traditional measures, really wasn’t even aware of them. Secondly, I thought all of this was bullshit, either the clinical publications were biased to achieve publication or were driven by the device manufactures to prey on desperation.

I had only taken a loose measurement when after the initial troubles with the extender I had contemplated vacuum extending, but those numbers were just ball park measures and lacked precision and I am not confident in their validity.

That said I am very confident in the precision of the max stretched extender lengths that I took very near the onset and subsequently.

I actually stopped all measuring because of something that Titlest wrote about how when he stopped measuring for a year and focused on the process was when the results came for him. This resonated with me because I found myself initially measuring incessantly instead of focusing on the process.

There are other things too why I have not followed the traditional measures. I’ve talked about this before. I do not pass judgement on porn use or masturbation or edging, I think of times in the past where I see their roles as potentially enhancing sexuality, there were times that it sure did it for me and I don’t regret that.

It’s just not the case for me now. It’s funny because I just had this conversation with a member here recently. I’m in a place where I really want these things if not eliminated, minimized to whatever degree possible. I’m at a point that regarding porn or the erotic, except where it might enhance ideas or give something more to have in your pocket, I don’t want any of it at all. I do not want to be misunderstood I’m not passing judgement at all, but for me very clearly at this point I do not want my sex to be driven by an external paradigm. I want it to be organic in the sense that it’s driven internally.

What I have found is that when you get away from all of that, nothing interferes with you’re internal desires finding creative expression. But I also find that it is rather fragile. So that’s where I’m at.

As far as the masturbating/edging. Again not opposed to it, as far as the masturbating, I plain do not want to do it. Maybe if I find myself having to go for some reason 3-4 weeks or something I will that can’t be healthy, but otherwise I want to hold the tension.

As far as edging - I think there is surely some benefit post stretching to reinfuse the tissues. But I just don’t want to. Not something I’m willing to spend time on. I do not have in use EQ issues or stamina issues, so that motivation is lacking.

The other thing with traditional measures, is that you’d have to actually get excited, aroused. In the presence of a woman, it’s no problem for me, but otherwise not so much. And that’s not something new, been the case since my mid twenties, it’s a personality thing. And given the aforementioned….

I will be taking max stretched extender length measures periodically as has been pointed out to me, that can be a positive loop reinforcement.

But if I ever do the traditional measures, it will be perhaps at the end of the journey and that journey has a clear definition at this point. To add an additional full inch of extender length or to hit the point of diminishing marginal returns, which ever comes first.

It winds up that rest days are forced on me so that’s my approach on full days off. The other thing is that often for me Saturday night is date night so I only do a morning session and cut that session short. That said hook up can and have occurred on heavy days and sometimes that has worked out just fine.

It’s kind of funny that you bring this up because when I first came on board here people talked about positive indicators as a measure of keeping it in the sweet spot and I think I had pretty much dismissed that as nonsense, only to come around to an awareness of the tug back. And if you think about it avoiding tug back is actually a positive indicator.

The way I’m dealing with the rest issue is paying attention to the log and trying to keep it in the sweet spot. Slow incremental increases in tension, the rate of tension increase and duration, while avoiding or minimizing the tug back. That’s the sweet spot and all I’m doing as far as rest is adjusting things to keep it there.

I do not have greater precision than that.

Yeah man I was only interested in how much you added to the extender and one inch is awsome, I hope you get st least one more! Thanks a lot for the advice however I fo get lots of spontaneous erections, but they are not EQ 10 as the measure goes they are more like 6 or 7. So getting a 9 after using the extender is a huge plus!

Sorry I guess I over did it in my response. Although the response wasn’t just directed at you as I get that inquiry and periodically I like to put out my position on it.

Actually during the newbie stage I had added quite a bit of length to the extender as well, unfortunately I did not track that. However during that time the max stretched length in the extender went from ~17.25cm-~21cm. The newbie phase was profound for me but I’m older and was regaining lost length.

As far as EQ if I’m doing a high volume of work it’ll fall off a bit sometimes, but for the most part it seems enhanced as if the stretching improves engorgement.

No kidding, I get that one!

I definitely need to be more conscientious of the tug back, I tend to try and brute through it, I sense this is about as efficient as trying to swim against the current.

I am locking measurements the turn of this year and suspect I will be looking at another 6 month stint with very little gains, but we shall see. I also know there are things at play, necessary foundations built that may not be measurable, but necessary for future growth.

So a variable change to consider might be to reduce tension from max to avoid tightness/tugback.

Obviously this would be changing two variables at once since I just added heat to the mix, but results are more relevant to me than good scientific practice!

If you had a date last night, I hope it was good one!

“I also know there are things at play, necessary foundations built that may not be measurable, but necessary for future growth.”

I suspect this is true. Even though there is no long term clinical data specific to the tissues of the penis, there is no reason to think that the basic physiology of connective tissue is any different here. In my mind, 8 months is the litmus test. If you hit a wall and want to get more, from a physiological standpoint you’re going to have to mark time for 8 months and see if the progress resumes, from there.

So if you have gone nowhere for 6 months, I definitely think you have to view that as an investment for future progress.

I don’t know what the plan is but I hope that they keep the Restorex study going for more that a year, because they are definitely using a high tension extending approach there and that would give us some more clues.
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And yes date night was lovely, although there were some fit issues to overcome. Skills can always be improved. And a Brazilian surprise. ;-)

11/18/2018

100++max tension @ 51 minutes

11/18/2018

Second session:

68% max tension @ 22.5 minutes

Followed by

Low tension @ 60 minutes

133.5 minutes total on the day.

11/19/2018

100%++ max tension @ 33.5 minutes.

As was the case last year I expect this year as well should be a challenging time during the holidays. As goal oriented as I may be, this is just something I have to work on accepting.

Can you smuggle the extender into the bathroom and use it there? Maybe go to the bathroom at night even for an hour.

I reached out regarding the clinical research on the Restorex device and this was the response I received today:

“Thank you for your email. Our clinical trial will conclude in about a year’s time. Updated preliminary results were recently presented at a conference and will be on our website in early December.
Please let us know if you have any further questions.

Thank you,
Pathright Medical Support Team”

11/21/2018

Yesterday:

100% max tension @ 25 minutes

Low tension @ 17 minutes

Low tension @ 15 minutes

Ran into a problem yesterday in terms of session duration and after the second session I picked up that the noose had lost elasticity and needed replacement.

Today:

100%++ max tension @ 61.5 minutes

got to max tension ~ 11.5 minutes
Glans held in forward position in the cradle.

Seems like I need to replace the noose monthly and I need to find a new supplier as the one I was using no longer supplies them. My attempt to find a bulk source didn’t work out.

We are were we want to be on the short term goal, just need to keep it here so the tissues relax a little more at this extender length. Still going to stick to the January 10th target for adding length to the extender and moving on to the final frontier of this journey. Want to be extra disciplined so as not trip myself up. Keep reminding myself keep it in the sweet spot. Slow and steady wins the race.

Well that’s going to be it for me for a few, heading out of town for the holiday.

Happy Thanksgiving gentlemen!

Use baby powder on the friction areas on the underside of the cradle. It’ll restore some noose function.

So will pieces of quality, like Bounty level, p sort towel.

Happy Thanksgiving to you too Buck. Just picked up my turkeys:-)

The same to you! I hope you sneak the extender with you on the trip and use it in the bathroom :) disassembelled it’s small enough to fit in a pocket.