Buckfever's "It's The Final Countdown" Journal

Next week on 5/12 it will have been 240 days since the last traction session and indeed except for a short experimentation with pumping no PE what so ever has been done during this time. So the tissues are well remodeled for what will be for me the final effort before transitioning to a maintenance program.

Right now the plan I have is for 3 one hour sessions a week. I do plan on incorporating heat although I do not want to ever risk a burn again so the heat component may not be as robust as what the true practitioners would advise. It is possible that additional shorter sessions may be included but that is entirely unclear to me if my schedule will permit it. I guess we’ll see on that.

The duration of the campaign is also unclear to me, and that is because I am planning that the progression of the tension increases are very and very gradual. Thinking ~ 4 months but if it takes a little longer that would be fine.

Just setting the table. We start next week.

Can you tell us your current stats and if it changed since you last pe’d

Your forst.stats as well.before you ever started in you pe career.

Looking forward to your success. Ty

I started this process well before discovering Thunders. I only started this process because of an injury in which there was an indentation and I was concerned about peyronies. I only took measurements of the maximum stretched length in the extender, this was an intuitive decision as I was unaware of standard measurement techniques . When I started the max stretched length was less than 7”, but I did not take an exact initial measurement, I just remember thinking that getting to 7 might improve the indentation. . At the last campaign I saw one measurement of 23cm but was not able to get picture confirmation. The campaign before that I did get picture confirmation of 22.5cm. Best as I can figure that equates to ~ 5.5cm of stretched length increase in the extender.

Most of those gains occurred very early on. They were outsized gains and that’s when I joined Thunders to share the findings. I believe that my gains were mostly regaining lost length as a result of aging. All of this is documented in my previous journals, but just to give a synopsis here.

It’s a fair question. I have added 1/4” of length to the extender for this campaign.

IMO success would need to see a consistent 23+cm stretched length ln the extender.

Played around with the extender today to refamiliarize myself with the process. Only went 8 minutes with no tension and clearly I’ll need to recondition the tissues to the noose. We’ll see how it goes Friday.

5/12/2023

0 half turns @ 20 minutes; 5 minutes manual stretching.

Was going to apply heat but I felt the tissues weren’t ready for longer than 20 minutes.

Looking for a slow careful ramp up.

5/14/2023

0% @ 25 minutes
7 minutes manual stretching,

Good forward position in the cradle, however the attachment tissues are a long way from adequate conditioning. Also I’m rusty on executing the attachment.

0% @ 15 minutes

I think the length addition is too much, I took that off, we’ll see how that goes from here. Not an auspicious beginning.

0%@ 35 minutes

reset attachment @ 16 minutes because of uneven attachment.

Tissue conditioning remains an issue as does execution of attachment.

Much better than yesterday though.

5/19/2023

0% @ 60

7.5 minutes reset noose
10 minutes down position
60 minutes end session

So I took a starting point measurement and it looks to be a hair over 21 cm in the down position. This is with no tension applied yet and as a reminder we need to see over 23cm in this position for the campaign to be successful.

This was the first session in which we made a proper secured attachment and was able to go to the down position for the session successfully.

Glans position was well forward in the cradle. Glans condition was excellent at end of the session.

I’m not sure if 3 days a week is going to work, here the 2nd day in a row provided the best accommodation so far, we’ll see.

I need to do these sessions earlier in the day, it seems like there is a better head swell which facilitates a more robust attachment earlier in the day.

Better.

5/21/2023

6 half turns @ 60 minutes

5 minutes reset noose
7.5 minutes down position
10 minutes add 6 half turns
17.5 minutes add Thermedic low setting
50 minutes turn off heat
52,5 minutes remove pad
60 minutes end session.

So we are getting back in the groove. Had a real good head swell today and experienced no attachment issues. Was able to add 6 half turns of tension and was able to apply the Thermedic pad without difficulty. Am going to keep the heat at the low setting as I experienced a burn during the last campaign and do not want that to happen again. Plan is to increase the tension very slowly. I know that the extender can take 114 half turns to get to the max length so that works out to 19 weeks so i guess that’ll be the plan.

5/24/2023

12 half turns @ 60 minutes

5 minutes down position
7.5 minutes reset noose
10 minutes add 6 half turns
12.5 minutes add 6 half turns
17.5 minutes add Thermedic low setting
50 minutes turn off heat
52.5 minutes remove pad
60 minutes end session.

So I had a question about the 3 times per week whether it would work but specifically as to whether there would be any pullback after 2 days off. At least at these early tension levels there does not appear to be any issue.

Good head swell and relatively easy attachment execution, now that the attachment tissues have been conditioned.

Still experiencing hot spots with the small Thermedic pad even with low heat so I’m done with that I’ll be switching to the Total Man for the next session. I practiced installing that at the end and it was no problem.

Was able to increase the tension to 12 half turns and quite frankly that was very, very light, but there’s no hurry, I want to introduce the tension increases very, very slowly.

Good forward position in the cradle and glans condition excellent at the end.

So far so good.

> hot spots

You might try some thin (1/4” / 6mm) bubble wrap to spread the hot spot out. Almost all clear plastics will still pass about 90% of infrared through.

My conventional resistance heating pad also has hot spots; putting a couple of wraps of heavy duty aluminum foil around the tube took care of that.

5/26/2023

18 half turns @ 60 minutes

5 minutes down position
7.5 minutes reset noose
10 minutes add 6 half turns
12.5 minutes add 6 half turns
15 minutes add 6 half turns
17.5 minutes add Total man low setting
50 minutes turn off heat
52.5 minutes remove pad
60 minutes end session.

It took a few tries but we achieved the most robust attachment so far, with excellent head swell.

I installed the Totalman IR pad with the on button towards the glans and fishing it through the left side and then bringing it up on the right side and then folding the other portion over and outside the extender on the right. Very easy install.

I did feel a traction increase during the cool down so maybe a good sigh. There were no perceived hot spots with the Total Man. Could be a higher heat setting could be tolerated, maybe I’ll test that down the road.

Good forward position in the cradle at the end of the session.

Total Man IR heat pad.

So I used this pad today on the lowest setting which seemed plenty warm and I during the cooldown I perceived the tension increase consistent with the therapeutic heat effect. But looking at the website the range of temps for the low setting are no where near what Kyrpa et al have cited as therapeutic.

So I took the pad and wrapped it around 2 fingers, removed my fingers so that there was a space and let the pad heat up. I then took a temperature by holding the thermometer in the middle of the space and the temp topped out above 110F.

Given how long I am letting the heat penetrate the tissues, I’m thinking that the pad provides a useful level of heat, especially given the anecdotal evidence of the tension increase during the cool down.

Maybe others with more knowledge can comment.

I used to read your old campaign thread prior to my beginning hanging. I know why you care about the glans now. Sometimes after.about 5 min in the hanger I have to reset the grip. Some.days the hanger fits perfect and it fewls a bit euphoric others its a struggle.

Keep at.it !