What is this?

Okay, so, I’m kind of going off-script with my approach to PE, and so far, it’s been working pretty well for me. I’m about a month in, and I MAY have added .5” to my BPFSL, courtesy of what I’m told is a ‘Newbie Pop’ and time invested.

Most of what I’ve read on the topic of PE, from actual accredited scientists and doctors, who lend ANY credence to it. Emphasize PE as a form of ‘Creep Deformation’, or as Titleist, I believe, put it, ‘Scheduled Trauma’. Basically, the goal is to slowly stretch and deform the flesh to a different length or girth, as a way to modify its properties and size. Hence the end results and diminishing returns on time invested.

As such, I’m using parts of the Newbie Routine, and ideas inspired by those medical articles in my approach, i.e. Long Periods under low amounts of tension, using light hanging, an extender, and a home-made ADS system, accompanied by stretching, jelqing, and kegels for health, and to help build up my unit as it were.

The weird thing is, when hanging, I seem to have parts of my skin balloon up, it’s not painful, and it subsides afterwards over the span of half an hour, but I’m not sure what it is, and I’d like to read more up on this topic, so I know what it is. After all, knowledge is power, and it takes a rather big fool to charge in blind, especially with what our end goals are and what we’re working on.

For the record, I’m using a Zen Hanger, with the rubber over my skin, and the cloth tightened around the rubber, while I hang. Until the replacement parts for my X4 extender arrive, I’m hanging for two three-hour sessions a day. Also, most of the swelling or puffing up of the skin, tends to happen around my circumcision scar tissue. Not painful, just wanting to make sure I know what it is.

Is it just skin puffing up, or is it perhaps a vein under the skin? Search Thrombosed Vein.

Are you hanging 3 hours straight, no breaks? If you have a vein that isn’t happy you might want to schedule in a few short breaks, just a couple minutes each to massage the vein and surrounding tissues.

I really don’t think that’s what it is. The skin is just puffing up. Almost like pruning, when you’re in the water for too long. I’ll post a picture later, but it’s concentrated around my circumcision scar tissue.

It’s just lymphatic fluid build-up. It’s not harmful, but if it happens often it can become more prone to happening more easily. It usually happens when lymphatic flow is restricted by a wrap when hanging, by a clamp when clamping, or by the skin being stretched away from the shaft when pumping.

You could probably avoid it by making your sets shorter.

Around the circumscision scar is the most common place for it.