2 Months In

3/15/22
BPFSL pre 18.0cm
BPFSL post 18.3cm
Strain 1.9%
Weight 3.5 lbs, 10 min no heat
Weight 4 lbs, 20 minutes add heat
Weight 4.5 lbs, 10 minutes heat
Weight 5 lbs, 10 minutes heat
Weight 6 lbs, 15 minutes no heat

I ditched the aluminum foil heat shield today and just went back to the ace bandage only wrap. What I found was that I could wrap the heating pad tighter with just the ace bandage, it actually hit too hot today and I had to re-wrap and loosen it just a bit. Going to stick with this exact setup for a while now as it felt good and the numbers are still good and back to progressing.

I’m not, I’ve ceased pretty much all other PE while the hanging sessions are active. I may do a light pump/clamp routine in my de-con weeks. I need to read up more on that before I decide though. I’m going to really save my girth focus until I get my length goals or very close to them.

3/16/22
BPFSL pre 18.0cm
BPFSL post 18.6cm
Strain 3.3%
Weight 3.5 lbs, 10 min no heat
Weight 4 lbs, 20 minutes add heat
Weight 4.5 lbs, 10 minutes heat
Weight 5 lbs, 10 minutes heat
Weight 6 lbs, 15 minutes no heat

Nice day today, back in the 3% for strain and also a new milestone on my post stretch number. It might have even been 18.7 but I wanted to read conservatively. I’m mid 3rd week for the first cycle and already seeing very good results. I’ll be very interested to take my BPEL measurements after my full 6 weeks hanging and then again after my 4 week decon.

My gut is telling me I probably couldn’t get the heating pad wrapped tight enough with the aluminum foil shield. It makes sense on paper to add it in there, but sometimes real world I’ll tell us otherwise. In any event, I’m going to stick with what’s working.

3/17/22

BPFSL pre 18.4cm

BPFSL post 18.7cm

Strain 1.6%

Weight 3.5 lbs, 10 min no heat

Weight 4 lbs, 20 minutes add heat

Weight 4.5 lbs, 10 minutes heat

Weight 5 lbs, 10 minutes heat

Weight 6 lbs, 15 minutes no heat

3/18/22

BPFSL pre 18.4cm

BPFSL post 18.9cm

Strain 2.7%

Weight 3.5 lbs, 10 min no heat

Weight 4 lbs, 20 minutes add heat

Weight 4.5 lbs, 10 minutes heat

Weight 5 lbs, 10 minutes heat

Weight 6 lbs, 15 minutes no heat

3/21/22

BPFSL pre 18.6cm

BPFSL post 18.9cm

Strain 1.6%

Weight 3.5 lbs, 10 min no heat

Weight 4 lbs, 20 minutes add heat

Weight 4.5 lbs, 10 minutes heat

Weight 5 lbs, 10 minutes heat

Weight 6 lbs, 15 minutes no heat

3/22/22

BPFSL pre 18.6cm

BPFSL post 19.0cm

Strain 2.1%

Weight 3.5 lbs, 10 min no heat

Weight 4 lbs, 20 minutes add heat

Weight 4.5 lbs, 10 minutes heat

Weight 5 lbs, 10 minutes heat

Weight 6 lbs, 15 minutes no heat

3/23/22

BPFSL pre 18.5cm

BPFSL post 19.0cm

Strain 2.7%

Weight 4 lbs, 20 minutes add heat

Weight 4.5 lbs, 10 minutes heat

Weight 5 lbs, 10 minutes heat

Weight 5.5 lbs, 10 minutes heat

Weight 6.5 lbs, 15 minutes no heat

Last 2 days have been rough, have a cold.

3/25/22
BPFSL pre 18.8cm
BPFSL post 19.0cm
Strain 1%
Weight 4 lbs, 20 minutes add heat
Weight 4.5 lbs, 10 minutes heat
Weight 5 lbs, 10 minutes heat
Weight 5.5 lbs, 10 minutes heat
Weight 6.5 lbs, 15 minutes no heat

3/28/22
BPFSL pre 18.5cm
BPFSL post 18.7cm
Strain 1%
Weight 4 lbs, 20 minutes add heat
Weight 4.5 lbs, 10 minutes heat
Weight 5 lbs, 10 minutes heat
Weight 5.5 lbs, 10 minutes heat
Weight 6.5 lbs, 15 minutes no heat

Not great numbers here, but there was quite a bit of slippage in my cap for the second reading. Not sure how that effects the numbers but I’m sure it probably has an impact.

I’ve been having a harder and harder time getting my seal to stay tight. I’ve been doing everything the same but setup is taking longer because when I test pull, 9 times out of 10 I’m getting significant slippage.

One theory I have is that since I’m no longer pumping, I’m losing some girth over time, when I ordered the total man setup I was exactly at the crossover girth between the large and small sleeves. I went with the large but just ordered the small. Hopefully it’s just that the sleeves I have are stretching a tiny bit and not giving enough pressure to seal 100% of the time.

If anyone else has some ideas for me I am open to suggestions.

Common sleeve sizes seem to be 19mm and 24 or 25mm. You can find 20mm and 22mm sleeves on eBay.

Autoextender.com (vendor monkeybar here) has sleeves in various sizes, and also different softness/stretchiness. Some other vendors also have that option.

I wound up with a collection of sleeves before I found one that worked the way I wanted.

“Slippage” for a sleeve basically means air is getting between the inside of the sleeve and your shaft. In old messages, I’ve seen people recommend cutting a piece off an old sleeve and putting it at the opening of the extender sleeve, to give come extra compression to reduce leaks.

Also, make sure you’re clean and dry when installing the sleeve. It’s supposed to stay on just with vacuum, but I’ve had slippage if I had lotion or moisturizer on.

One thing could be your actual sleeve is used.

Used with FIR they seems to last between no more than 2 to 3 months.

3/29/22
BPFSL pre 18.1cm
BPFSL post 18.7cm
Strain 3.3%
Weight 4 lbs, 20 minutes add heat
Weight 4.5 lbs, 10 minutes heat
Weight 5 lbs, 10 minutes heat
Weight 5.5 lbs, 10 minutes heat
Weight 6.5 lbs, 15 minutes no heat

Thanks for the comments guys. I’ll test out the new sleeve when it comes in and report back.

3/30/22

BPFSL pre 18.5cm

BPFSL post 18.8cm

Strain 1.6%

Weight 4 lbs, 20 minutes add heat

Weight 4.5 lbs, 10 minutes heat

Weight 5 lbs, 10 minutes heat

Weight 5.5 lbs, 10 minutes heat

Weight 6.5 lbs, 15 minutes no heat

3/31/22

BPFSL pre 18.6cm

BPFSL post 19.0cm

Strain 2.1%

Weight 4 lbs, 20 minutes add heat

Weight 4.5 lbs, 10 minutes heat

Weight 5 lbs, 10 minutes heat

Weight 5.5 lbs, 10 minutes heat

Weight 6.5 lbs, 15 minutes no heat