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Posted 8/2/2015 12:13 AM (GMT 0)
I do it in the shower. I pee, rinse off and then use the VED with the smaller adapter ring. During that time I am brushing my teeth. 2 minutes max. Then I release, bend down put on shampoo and start pumping the the VED again with the larger adapter. All the time I am lathering I am in the tube. Maybe 4 minutes. I rinse off, release the pump and start pumping again while I shave. Maybe 2 minutes. I do a final rinse and I'm done. The max time is 8 minutes. Are you guys really doing it for 15?

I can't spend that kind of time. I'd get bored. And I certainly don't want to waste that much water.

Note: I have marked my tube with a black Sharpie permanent marker so I have real data to track if it is ever needed.

Jeff
Posted 8/2/2015 9:29 AM (GMT 0)
10 -20 minutes every day, not in the shower as that would get water in the pump and I was warned about that. Yes, it is boring. I check my email, which is also boring. rolleyes

Don't have to measure either, as I have for sure lost that 4 cm. sad
Posted 8/2/2015 10:06 AM (GMT 0)
Hey Trail guy.

Does that mean for 10-20 minutes you sit somewhere, (kitchen, home office, bedroom, bathroom...) with the VED stuck to crotch?
Is there any chance of someone walking in on you?

I keep my computer on the kitchen table and check my email there. I'd be mortified if someone saw me "engaged" with the VED.

I keep mine hanging in the shower so it rarely leaves the bathroom. I'm such a prude.

By the way, are you sitting or standing when you "check email"?

Jeff
Posted 8/2/2015 11:31 AM (GMT 0)
I sit on my office chair in front of my office computer at home when I check my email. Yeah, for the whole 15 minutes average as I really want to maintain those tissues just in case I get to use them again for the intended purpose.

I am self employed. No one has walked in on me thus far save for my beautiful Labrador Retriever and she don't really care about that stuff.... I have other computers elsewhere in the house but I don't use the pump while I am on them. blush As long as I keep up the pump sessions the wife is not concerned, my 23 year old son knows and is totally not interested, I do my sessions when he is in his basement studio area working.

I lost a lot of my self - consciousness (what little I had left) at the hospital when - after a couple of days of everyone popping in the room every few minutes asking "Have you passed gas yet? Have you had a bowel movement?" - I finally sat on the toilet after my wife had stuffed that explode - oh! suppository up my arse (the nurses really wanted her to do that so they wouldn't have to) and had that bowel movement with lots of explosive gas before a crowd of 6 nurses and the wife while hanging on my accessory pole in my hospital gown.

Rich
Posted 8/2/2015 3:31 PM (GMT 0)
I alternate every other day between the VED and tri-mix. I read somewhere on this forum when I started out that the VED draws in venous blood and the tri-mix brings in arterial blood - with the arterial blood being more healing for the caverous nerves. I also take sildenafil nightly to keep blood flowing in the caverous nerve region. I've stuck with that routine for a couple of years but I think by now it doesn't really matter. It's pretty clear four years after my RALP that my caverous nerves are never going to work again. C'est la vie.

Anyway, my VED routine is, before I shower, to pump up and put a large and medium ring to maintain the "inflation." Then I take a shower while I'm inflated, which is probably 15-20 minutes total - then I take the rings off and shrink back to normal size. When my wife and I feel frisky, I use the VED rather than tri-mix. Tri-mix can be hit-or-miss and the VED is reliable every time (don't want to risk a miss while we're both in the mood). Also I don't get the same amount of firmness with the tri-mix as I get with the VED. But I don't count the amorous events as "healing" since they're infrequent and spontaneous.

Mike
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