Red Spots/Sploths Coming Very Easily Now

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I had been following a clamping routine for a several months, and towards the end of the routine I noticed I was getting a red splotch on the glans which I had never really gotten before (but it would heal normally). I reached a point where I was exhibiting signs of over training (negative PI’s) and took 3 weeks off. At that point everything seemed to have fully recovered (Full erections, no loss of girth gains of 1/8 inch).

I started back up with clamping, and during the very first set I noticed that same splotch developed very quickly. I stopped clamping and waited a couple of days (the splotch healed). I decided to trying jelqing only (which I had not done in quite some time) and noticed even that caused quite a lot of redness all along the shaft and head that I had never gotten nearly as easily in the past.

Can someone advise as to how clamping might have caused this or what might be happening?

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As an aside, I also noticed, when I started to do the jelqing, that a session of 350 jelqs for about 3 out of 4 days seems to have put me into over training (in the past, doing 500 per day for days on end would not do this).

In sum, it seems clamping has somehow caused a change in my penis that is worrying me.

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As another aside, right after the several days of jelqing that seemed to over train me, I think I may have strained my psoas muscle (still waiting on appointment with Doctor) and that may be contributing to my issues, in terms of not feeling recovered when I certainly should be by now. Can anyone weight in on this?

Clamping places tremendous force on the penis. My recommendation would be to skip clamping and use another PE method to help you achieve your goals.

If you wish to continue you clamping, I’d take six months off. When you resume don’t clamp so intensely.

Yes, I certainly will not be clamping anytime soon.

When you say take 6 months off, do you mean completely, or to go ahead and PE with other methods without clamping for that period of time?

FYI - I have made all the length gains I desire, I only wish to work on girth, but this have proven very challenging for me

Thanks

No PE at all since you indicated that it’s not just clamping that gives negative results.

That seems like an ultra conservative approach. I have a different opinion on them.

I’ve had red dots many times on the first workout back after a break, and then no more spots for workouts after that - even if I’m doing the same routine and intensity.

Other factors are a proper warm up and heat.

And conditioning. Bib called it soft tissue conditioning. Meaning on the first workout back after a break, you don’t go full power, you recondition the blood vessels to being unnaturally pressurized. Spend a few days working back up to where you left off before the break..

All that said, we are putting strong forces on the blood vessels, and sometimes the spots show up anyway even when conditioned and warmed up.

If the dots are small, they go away usually in a matter of hours, and I don’t take any rest days for it. Almost all the time, the blood vessels will adjust to the workout and there won’t be any more spotting until I take another break. If they’re bigger, it can sometimes take up to a couple days for them to go away, and I do take off days for those.

I think they come with the territory, and shouldn’t stop you from doing PE. Provided they’re only happening every once in a while.

The red spotting comes very easily now, and even if I do just 50 jelqs they will appear (this, as I said, is a significant physiological change for me). I’ve only tried to do these 50 jelq sessions a couple of times over the last month and each time the red spotting happens.

I too have had minor red spotting in the past, but that would be the result of rather intense PE. Now it comes insanely easily. It’s almost as if my penis had some sort of inner barrier that prevented significant spotting, and that that barrier has been broken by the clamping.

I suppose it’s possible. Especially if you have recent changes that would thin the blood more than normal, dietary or medication -wise.

Or that for some reason the burst blood vessels are not fully healing between your workout attempts.

But from only 2 workouts of spots, I wouldn’t read that much into it - that’s being a bit overly hypochondriac for me. I’ve had periods where the spots come easier, and then a few workouts or weeks later things are back to normal. It’s tough to pinpoint exactly when they happen or why they happen easier some workouts. It would take a lot more than that to convince me I’d had some underlying physiological vascular system change.

I have a spot on my lower ventral shaft which will splotch easier than other areas. And if I do some particularly intense workout especially after time off, a big old dot will appear there that requires a couple days off. But then I can resume PE and it normally will not happen again (blood vessel conditioning).

I guess you know your body and PI’s pretty well. Especially if you are older perhaps 50+ I’d take it more seriously like Titleist says it may be an indicator of some body change. If it were me though and my health were otherwise normal (i.e. not getting excessive bruising / thin blood elsewhere on the body) then it wouldn’t change my PE at all except perhaps an extra off day and a slower force progression.

Worst case scenario of continuing PE and getting more easy splotching workout after workout is that you get some extra bruising and confirm something has changed and need to see a doctor. Best case scenario is it all goes away.

I should add that I regularly take 1-2 month breaks as a matter of practice, and it’s never a bad idea to take a decon break to let everything completely heal up. Keeps the penis healthy and promotes long term gains.

I am 35 years old and in good health with no recent health changes or changes to my diet or supplementation (other than a potentially strained psoas muscle, which would mean muscle in the back/pelvis, which I understand can affect sexual function).

I brought this topic up because the blood change happened prior to the strain I mentioned. I think the answer is that I have to wait for this other issue to clear up because it seems to be muddling my ability to properly perceive what is happening with my penis (in terms of seeming to be in an over trained state, still, when I should not be based purely on PE activity)

Since I am discussing two distinct physical issues, I think a simple timeline is in order:

Dec. 8: I begin decon break after a consistent routine of clamping
Dec. 28: I end decon break, and at this point my sexual performance and EQ are at 100% and I have no problems having sex
Dec. 28: I perform one clamping set that brings on the splotch within a few minutes, I stop immediately, a couple days later it has healed and I never develop EQ or over training problems
Between Dec. 31 - Jan. 8 (I don’t remember exactly) I perform about 5 sessions of 350 jelqs, and do so for about 3/4 days toward the end of this date range, which leads to blood spotting (more than usual, but it heals) and over training (over training by just this is unusual for me)
Jan 5. I believe I mildly strain my psoas muscle (or something in that region)
Jan. 8: I begin another decon break, only for as long as necessary to get back in order
Between Jan 5 and Jan 16 I exhibit mild symptoms that would indicate a psoas strain, and I feel over trained
Jan. 16: I seem to be close to 100% recovered sexually and feel no more symptoms of the strain
Jan 18: I, not considering the mistake I was making, perform ab rollouts in the gym, and as is turns out that hits the psoas hard, and it seems I significantly aggravate that strain, the symptoms came back stronger and my sexual function declines significantly
Jan 18, except three sessions of 50 jelqs, I’ve been on a decon since ( really since Jan 8)

Note: the day I did just 50 jelqs in the morning seemed to help my flaccid hang in the way it would help a newbie, but the other two sessions were on the same day, morning and afternoon, and that seemed to be too much (over trained).

A simple theory is that it seems that my clamping routine has sent me back to a state where it’s as if I’m a newbie again, odd.

I suppose, if we assume the non PE strain I have is what I believe it is, then the symptoms of that may be blending with the symptoms of PE over training, or in fact presenting as such when I may not be PE over trained. But even still, the easy blood spotting issues exists where it didn’t before.

As a side note, I was able to successfully have sex last night (although not with all my power, so to speak) and today I feel a bit better as well. I’ll be away on a business trip next week and hopefully that break from all things physical will be just what the doctor ordered so that I’m fully operational and can proceed to see about the blood spotting issue.

There are different sorts of red spots. Most people are familiar with the burst capillaries in the skin. At the glans, however, it’s possible to injure a deeper internal area because the urethra is so fragile. If you can pinch the head and feel a soreness internally around the area of the urethra, it’s likely that you have this sort of injury. If there is no pain when squeezing it might be a harmless discoloration. I had a large red spot happen as a result of clamping combined with very long sessions of vac ADS afterwards. It took about 5 days to heal (using intermittent fasting accelerate healing), and I still need to be careful not to aggravate that spot again.