Indyman's Journey

Thought I would give an update on the blister. Might prove useful for anyone in the future.

Everything started healing pretty fast. It took about 24 hours for the blister to completely seal, and about 48 before it was visibly clear that the healing process has started. I stopped applying any creams after this and let the body do it’s thing. Right now it actually doesn’t look too bad (the “rawness” is definitely gone), though I suspect once the new skin starts to show through it will be a while before it is conditioned enough to even consider hanging.

As stated previously, I will wait at least a full month before restarting cycle #1 (as long as it takes for the skin to look healed enough that a blister never happened). However, this time instead of jumping straight into hanging I will have a week “break-in” period, where I slowly increase weight and duration to condition myself properly for the cycle. I’ll likely follow a similar routine for subsequent cycles to prevent future disasters.

Brief update on the blister.

Started the morning with the blister tingling/itching a little. During a shower I essentially gently “rubbed off” most of the loose skin except near the bleed site (guess it was my body’s way of telling me it’s time to lose it). New skin super pink/red underneath.

Applied a little antiseptic cream just in case, but will only do this once. I expect the last of the blister skin to go in the next day or two. Then it’s just a matter of letting the skin finish healing and conditioning.

Restart of cycle #1 might happen in April if healing goes well!

I got a couple of blisters 18 months ago. They healed pretty quick but I can still see a different color sometimes were those bastards popped up.

Hey Patrik, thanks for the heads up. I’ll keep that in mind, as I’d likely think I was getting another blister if I didn’t know better!

Just a quick question. How long did it take you to heal? I’m 5 days in and feel mostly healed (only the part that bled still a bit to go), just trying to get a gauge on duration.

I don’t remember exactly, but i think I had sex after just a few days an started PE after a week or so. But I didn’t do any vacuum hanging until now in February this year. But that was not because my blisters didn’t heal. I just lost motivation to hang. Low weights and heat are the right way to go. The second most important thing to avoid blisters is to wrap the glans. The most important thing IMO is to make sure that the top of the glans is all the way up against the vacuum cup during hole session.
If there is a leak of vacuum there might be a space between the glans and the vacuum cup. If that happens there is a risk to develop a blister. That’s one of the reasons why I prefer to hang SO. Then I can see if there is a space building up.

Thanks for letting me know, it helped me feel more confident about the situation!

Another update to those who read. Its now been 1 week and 2 days since the incident. The skin appears fully healed now, except for a small region about the size of a grain of rice (in the location where the blood appeared). This is great given the starting size of the blister was around 1.5cm x 1cm! I suspect by week 2 there will be minimal evidence of a blister. Daily thorough cleaning has prevented any infection from occurring.

Though I am massively impatient, I am still unsure when I will resume/restart cycle #1.

All that sounds exactly like a recent blister I had. I unwisely tried to prevent the blister from popping. I should have done like you did and pop it early on. Glad to hear that you’ve recovered.

I thought I would post one final time on the topic of my blister. As of today a full two weeks has passed and the skin is now fully healed. The only telling sign it was ever there is a slightly pinker region of skin (specifically at the bleed site). It is not any more/less sensitive than usual.

In terms of restarting cycle #1, I will likely start in two weeks. Hopefully all discoloration is gone before then.

Honestly I am not 100% sure that popping it was the correct decision. I only did it since I am uncut and the blister was large enough that I was concerned it would pop on its own at an inappropriate time. I do not know if this would effect healing time or not, the only risk is infection.

Hello, as promised I restarted my hanging cycle #01.

I used a new setup, where I hang a basket off the front of my desk, using my monitor stand as a pivot. This allows me to hang straight out (SO), which makes wrapping the heat pad a little easier. I have commented this elsewhere, but if you want a more detailed breakdown on this, let me know. Here are the results for my first session:

:: Cycle 1 ::
Weights:
0.35 kg heat for 5 mins
0.60 kg heat for 10 mins
0.85 kg heat for 10 mins
1.10 kg cool for 5 mins

Results:
Pre-BPFSL: 16.8 cm
Post-BPFSL: 17.0 cm
Strain: 1.19%

I started with light weights for short period. This is intended as a re-conditioning period, due to the blister I recently has. However in this regard while on a day-to-day basis the blister has healed such that there is nothing visible of it anymore, after this session I could see a distinctly reddish area where the blood blister previously was. This means that the skin most definitely is not yet capable of doing session any more intense than this for now. I’ll reassess tomorrow and possible follow a 1 on 1 off schedule until it is no longer present. Otherwise it is a fairly uneventful start :)

I was not happy with my hanging setup and have come up with a simple upgrade. I have also come up with a new strain measuring system, so I figured I should make a separate post on all this.

First, a better description of my hanging setup:
I stand in front of my desk with the vac cup attached to a long piece of string. I loop the string around a monitor arm (attached to the back of my desk) and back toward the front. There I attach a basket, which hangs off the front edge of the desk. This allows me to drop weights in or remove a weight easily. My simple modification is to put some plastic top sticky tape (any tape with a slippery plastic surface) on the edge of the desk, so friction doesn’t affect the weight as much.

Now an update to my measuring system:
To make reading *hopefully* easier, I am labelling BPFSL measurements without a vac-cup as wo.pre and wo.post, and measurements with a vac-cup as w.pre and w.post.
The wo.pre is by far the most important value since it directly indicates our gains. This is not debateable. However I feel that the edema present in the wo.post measurement throws off the strain (since edema is both a pressure and duration dependent factor). This is where measurements with the cup included come in. While the absolute w.pre length can vary depending on how the vac-cup was put on, I feel the change w.post - w.pre, will be far more accurate since it directly measures shaft elongation (changes to glans will have little effect). Another benefit is that it is possible to measure BPFSL using weights/load rather than by hand, so identical stress can be used for every measurement (not just during one session but for all sessions in all cycles). In my current setup the only drawback is that I cannot stand against a wall to measure - this is something I will mull over.

Going forward I therefore will also include a “final strain” which may be calculated as : (w.post - w.pre) / wo.pre. I am not sure which weight I will do this at yet, but it will be mentioned. For the duration of this cycle I will post both sets of measurements. Note for clarity, wo.pre is measured by hand+weight since I have nothing to attach it to.

Decided I’ll do a day-by-day account for the first week, then I’ll decide whether I keep it going or switch to a weekly update.

I went for another session last night as the discoloration went away. Again, post session there was a little redness but pretty much the same as previous - great! So I’ll keep this intensity until Friday, then will likely increase duration? Not sure yet. Anyway, here are the results:

:: Cycle 1 ::
Weights:
0.35 kg heat for 5 mins
0.60 kg heat for 10 mins
0.85 kg heat for 10 mins
1.10 kg cool for 5 mins

Results:
Pre-BPFSL: 16.8 cm
Post-BPFSL: 16.9 cm
Strain: 0.60%

Honestly the pre-measurement sometimes was measuring 16.9cm but I felt it was not consistent enough to use that number. However, that does mean that there was possible 0% strain over this session (rather than 0.60%). This isn’t unexpected since this is a low duration and low weight “reconditioning” week.

Well… I sort of vanished after my second session, didn’t I? Apologies for anyone following my progress, but unfortunately I had a lot of commitments pop up all at once which made it impossible to find time to hang (well I could have, but I was exhausted by the time I could). To top things off, I’ll be extra busy over the coming 2 weeks.

So I have decided than rather do some pointless sporadic hanging, that I’ll simply take this as a sign to further extend my decon break. Since I am an absolute nut for round numbers/dates, I will start cycle #01 at the start of May - bringing me to 3 months total.

Even though I really want to start hanging already, I know it will be worth it in the end. I feel from my previous PE that I was likely extremely conditioned when I started my failed cycle #0. So according to the reigning theory, the longer the decon the better. See you all in just under 3 weeks.

Nice good work

With a week to go, it is a good time to revisit the plan for cycle#1. The previous two session were light weight and short duration, which worked well and I only saw a little discoloration at the blister location. With the additional two+ weeks off, things must have improved.

I have come up with two possible incremental methods to follow. The first ends the cycle at 45 mins hanging per day, the other ends at 60 mins. Both end the cycle with 2.35 kg. Since the forum is not great with tables, I have attached a screenshot of both. The weights listed is the maximum used during cooldown - all sessions will start at 0.35 kg and increase by 0.25 kg increments at appropriate time intervals.

Method 2 is the one I’ll most likely start with as I feel that reaching that 60 min milestone is important (my cycle#0 was 55 mins total). However if I feel it is progressing too fast, I’ll likely switch to method 01 (or some altered form of it).

Thanks my7k, hopefully I’ll be able to share positive progress from next week.

Finally, the day has arrived! I have only just barely been patient. I thought I would update my hanging plan prior to tonight’s session, since I have made a few adjustments based off some old posts I was reviewing from Tutt and Kyrpa. From what I read (again), we shouldn’t apply heat if the weight is below 1kg or 0.1MPa. If I used my method 2, my max weight would only exceed 0.1MPa (1.6kg) at the end of the second week. So I have re-adjusted so I start every session with the following warmup:

0.35kg (12.3oz) to 1.10kg (38.8oz) cold over 5mins
1.10kg (38.8oz) to 1.60kg (56.4oz) heat over 15mins

The idea is that I both minimise the cold hang time and when I end the warmup with 1.60kg, I should have 15mins time under heat (which should be around 40C). Right now I am starting with 10mins for the main heated section, however at some point will increase it. I have also adjusted the cooldown to be more gradual (again trying minimise time hanging cold):

2.5mins medium heat
2.5mins low heat
2.5mins off (pad still wrapped)
2.5mins off (without pad)

I have introduced smaller weight increments of 0.125kg (4.4oz), as previously I felt 0.25kg (8.8oz) was a bit too large of a step. This is all a fair bit more involved that my previous cycle. Hopefully it’s all worth it!