Buckfever's progress report/bananaman story.

2/21/2018

Ran into a new equipment issue. I was experiencing the noose slipping again an issue that I had resolved by periodically replacing the noose and using velcro through the slots to secure the noose in the retention slots. But that was not resolving the problem this time. My initial thoughts were that the replacement nooses were a slightly smaller diameter, but in fact what had happened was that the holes in the cradle that hold the noose had opened up through time and so the noose wasn’t being held as secure.

Replacing the cradle immediately identified that the noose was held nice and tight as it was previously. I went ahead and bought another extender to have for replacement parts. Between the cradle and the extension arms that periodically strip it’s just more economical to go that route. They really rape you on replacement parts. FWIW

I’ll have to back off on the tension here with the new apparatus as things are being held more securely and I’ll push out the date on adding length. Slow and steady wins the race.

X4 fought me on sending a new spring piston after I broke mine. Then charged like $35 to ship it. “Free lifetime warranty” my ass!

2/22/2018

Max tension for 61.5 minutes for the session which is a new high. The new cradle for the extender solved the problem and we’re back on track.

Also back to the workouts and back on the cut, targeting April 1st to lose 5 pounds, we’ll see what that looks like and reassess.

2/23/2018

Started way further forward in the cradle on the extender which I view as a good sign. Was able to get to max tension and ride it out to 50.5 minutes. Been at this length for a while now, but definitely signs we’re starting to Max out on it. No hurry though, but nice to see the signs of incremental progress. Life makes it hard to be consistent some times, but I’ve just settled into it and grab what I can, when I can.

3/11/2018

With the new cradle/noose and new tension rods(one stripped)I wound up having to backtrack on the tension/duration. Also I got hit with that bug going around so I was lacking in consistency.

That said today we where able to get back to max tension for 52 minutes. It just seems that every time I get back here something throws a wrench in the works so we’ll see.

I did have one strange thing happen. Because I’d been sick I hadn’t been interested in intimacy but then I did hook up a couple a days ago. At some point I got to full EQ and I have to say it almost looked too big. Anyway it was unplanned and the condom I pulled out was from my wallet didn’t look great so by the time I grabbed another one the EQ had fallen off, so I didn’t get the full “in use” experience of that size.

The reason I bring this up is it’s the first time I had a thought like this where I asked myself: “How big do you want to get?” Maybe it was illusory, maybe it was because the EQ was through the roof because it had been a while, I’m not sure. It was only a fleeting thought and it has not dissuaded me at all but I was just wondering if others have experienced something similar.

Irrespective of what the initial motivation is, you’re just happy to see progress, but as you carry on well past that, it’s a different experience.

Anyway my answer was, “a little more for sure”. I wonder if this is how it goes.

Everyone, with a reasonable body image of themselves, will have this moment. I had it some time last year or the year before.

You have to decide exactly what you want for yourself because…if you have a reasonable body image of yourself…the gains you experience will actually exceed what you see in that body image and you have to decide if that is good or bad for you, personally.

For me, it is good and I like that surreal feeling. It is motivating. (probably should post on this instead of take your log off topic)

Think on it in an empowered way, Buckfever. You have all the power to choose exactly where this ends. Remember this.

3/14/2018

62.5 minutes at max tension, new milestone at this length, we’ll see if we can stick with it and consolidate this level.

Woke up with rock hard morning wood something that just does not happen for me anymore and I have been aware of nocturnal erections. These developments are a nice surprise. Considering the high EQ last week I looked over the log and the thing that I see is higher tension with fewer but longer sessions. Not enough data points to know for sure but something I want to monitor.

3/18/2018

Couple days off, but was able to get right back to max tension, with the duration only dropping off to 48.5 minutes. So even though these recent times have been fraught with inconsistency, there is a very clear tendency towards the sessions having higher tension and longer duration. Qualitatively EQ continues to go through the roof and “in use” and “postgame” feedback remains positive. Back on the cut working on the fat pad.

3/20/2018

Time and privacy remain scant. But since we’ve been hitting max tension consistently, yesterday I decided to increase the rate of tension increase so that I’m at full tension in 20 minutes. Yesterday I only managed 25 total minutes in the extender, but today jumped up to 45 minutes, before running out of time. Last few weeks have mostly been limited to one session per day yet progress seems forthcoming. Not going to rush it but getting real close to adding length to the extender.

3/21/2018

Having kept a log I have been aware that I have benefited from the occasional days in which I was able to manage 3+ sessions to get a concentrated duration in a day. I had time today so I managed 3 sessions for a total time of 155.5 minutes which is the longest duration over three sessions I have ever recorded since keeping a log. I’m going to go ahead and add ~1/8” to the extender and see how that goes.

3/25/2018

“What the hell happened down there, why is it so fucking big”. Women will say the funniest things and it’s very hard to interpret as what they say is seldom what they mean. But as the feedback has more of this narrative, it’s not something I want to disregard. It came up over dinner the next day and the characterization was hardly so harsh. So I’m not going to ignore it, but I’m not going to jump the gun and come to false conclusions.

I’ve gotten good advise on the “how much size issue” and there’s some great discussions here on this forum regarding this and I have given it some thought.

During that last intimacy there was an interruption as the room was cold and I send her off to grab a sweater so she’d be warmer and during that time I was able to get a good look at the instrument. I really hadn’t examined things in quite some time and I was surprised to see that I could not see any indentation at all. Looks real damned healthy. Anecdotally length seems restored and girth appears robust.

These were the reasons that I stepped into this and I am very well pleased. So thinking about the path forward at the very least I would want to continue with what I am doing as preventative maintenance. I think at some point dialing it down to 45-60 minutes a day when I’m on the computer anyway is just a smart thing to do for good health. But I’m not there yet.

In my view I just got to an acceptable point on this journey. My thoughts on this, developed during this journey and in reading the experiences of others is given the nature of this, you need to overshoot and consolidate to secure that success. But the question remains how far to go, what is the path forward.

I am unwilling go give up the things I enjoy sexually. I think it’s a choice and I can understand those that decide differently. But without being explicit, I like variety and I do not want anything removed from the sexual arsenal. Also from what I have observed using just an extender and that I’ve gained thickness as I’ve gotten older(I can’t use regular condoms anymore) I suspect that I would gain girth rather easily. At this point nothing is off the table sexually, but I am facing some head wind in terms of girth already, so I am quite sure that I will not graduate to girth work. I think there will be likely be proportional increases in girth with the length work and that will be more than adequate.

So my focus will be on the length work while monitoring the girth as the limiting factor. For the foreseeable future I will carry on with what I am doing with the extender until the incremental progress stalls. At this point I don’t have any visibility on limitations regarding length and that work has been remarkably beneficial. That may change we’ll see.

Finally, I am intrigued by the use of a vacuum pump when used for length work. There is a growing body of clinical research that suggests some very positive benefits regarding penile health which are different than those gained from traction and also quite frankly IMO there is some ground breaking work being done here regarding it. Something to keep an eye on and explore down the road.

As far as an update, we’re at 50% max tension for 32 minutes at the new extender length, so things are going good. I’m at 316 days since keeping a log, looking forward to hit the one year mark.

So, can you give us your current stats as of now? I looked back at some of your thread but, frankly, didn’t want to go through the whole thing to find out where you are size wise at present.

Congrats on an interesting thread, I’ve been following it here regularly.

I’m interested in your current stats because I’m pretty much in the same boat as you right now, looking for length gains only.

The last official measurement I took was July 21st which was the max stretched length in the extender - which is what I have been monitoring - that was 21cm. I have not have not taken a measurement since. Since that time I have added and consolidated 5/8” to the extender and just recently added another 1/8”.

At the start of this process I was somewhere around 6.25”X5.25”(midshaft) I think NBP but I didn’t know about measuring then. Some months later there was an opportunity to measure and I was curious and did a quick measure with a hard ruler and it was over 6.75” erect length. I have not measured erect girth since starting.

I stopped measuring based on what I read here because I found that I was focused on measuring, instead on the process. It was something I believe that I read that Titleist said. I do have a plan on measuring though that I set for myself and that is I believe after I consolidate the next 3/8”” increase to the extender length. I actually have that documented here in my journal for accountability to keep me from measuring.

I don’t mean to be a bad sport, because do think it would be useful in terms of contributing to the forum, but I don’t masturbate, the closest I come to viewing porn is when I’m perusing lingerie. And I’m not opposed to porn or masturbation I just don’t do it anymore as I want the focus of the sexual energy directed towards actual intimacy. So I don’t really don’t have occasion to take erect measurements. I’m doing this stealth so pulling out a ruler and measuring tape during intimacy isn’t in the cards.

And while I embrace the principles here, for me they are a means towards a different end and that was specifically to arrest and possibly eradicate the formation of an indentation on the penis shaft.

I will take erect measurements at some point but not before I hit the mark on the extender goal. And if for nothing else because I’m really curious about the difference in volume, because it is an appreciable difference and I’m wondering what that measure is.

One thing I can say for sure, having done nothing but use an extender, is esthetically the results have been great. There’s no deformation of any sort, I would say words like restoration, enhancement, optimization is how I would describe the results.

And since I’ve taken this so far down a rabbit hole, I’ll also say this, the quality of the people here, the authenticity is startling. That probably more than anything is keeping me here.

If I can offer anything else, let me know.

Thanks for the reply Buckfever. You’ve really made it crystal clear what is motivating you and the goals you hope to achieve.

Best of luck on your journey.

3/27/2018 update

55 minutes @ 60% of max tension, at the new extender length, good progress. Been consistent the last 10 days.

Review of the log revealed that consolidating the last 1/8” of extender length took 72 days of traction over the course of 98 days. This suggests a much slower rate of gains, although the inconsistency during this time period I think explains some of that. I am anticipating having the opportunity for greater discipline for the next few months and so I’m intrigued to see what the rate of gains will be during this time. Still focused on my goal of consolidating the next 3/8” of extender length, which I believe will solidify the outcome I was looking for and then we’ll have to decide what’s next.

Trying not to draw conclusions in terms of time frame but consolidating this latest 1/8” will give some good data.