FrankTalk.org

I was chatting with another member in our chat room tonight and he said something that I'd never heard before. He indicated that the thing that helps most to see penile growth after an implant is more cycling of the implant, not just staying inflated for long periods.

This is the opposite of what I thought I understood, but I admit that I really never investigated, just went with what seemed to be right. I've done some surfing trying to get more information but haven't found anything. I also searched the boards here, but I didn't find anything clear.

Have any of you seen research or heard from your doctor about the best approach for cycling to get maximum growth? My doc said to cycle twice a day for at least a half hour. But I never asked him whether being up longer or cycling more often would be of more beneift. I'll call him this week and see what he says, but I'd like to hear from anyone else that has good info on this.

I love the way the implant functions and feels, and if I saw no growth at all I'd still be a very happy camper. But I also wouldn't mind being bigger.

Quincy.

I also went with Dr. Karpman’s regimen. I cycled twice a day for at least an hour, sometimes even two hours. After about 6 months I was larger than pre op. I’ve been on this board over 5 years and I don’t recall ever hearing that more cycling provides better gains than duration. But hey, you never know. I just have it in my mind that if you cycle several times a day, you’re putting more mileage on your implant than necessary.

How many times would you inflate over this one or two hour period?

Quincy wrote:I was chatting with another member in our chat room tonight and he said something that I'd never heard before. He indicated that the thing that helps most to see penile growth after an implant is more cycling of the implant, not just staying inflated for long periods.

This is the opposite of what I thought I understood, but I admit that I really never investigated, just went with what seemed to be right. I've done some surfing trying to get more information but haven't found anything. I also searched the boards here, but I didn't find anything clear.

Have any of you seen research or heard from your doctor about the best approach for cycling to get maximum growth? My doc said to cycle twice a day for at least a half hour. But I never asked him whether being up longer or cycling more often would be of more beneift. I'll call him this week and see what he says, but I'd like to hear from anyone else that has good info on this.

I love the way the implant functions and feels, and if I saw no growth at all I'd still be a very happy camper. But I also wouldn't mind being bigger.

Quincy.

I was told 3 times a day for a minimum of 30 minutes. It's really no different then stretching elastic bands, shoes, etc... in order to stretch them you have to stretch them often and long enough to make a difference. As for the doctors advice, they will tell you what AMS or Coloplast tells them (or whatever they have been taught) and there's nothing wrong with that but medicine is constantly changing, Many Frank Talk members have tried other combinations of cycles and length of time cycling and had great results, which they share. This is one of the things I was referring a while ago about our members being the experts on this subject. Donnie has a great routine. I've never said that the doctors are wrong, just that those of us with the implant, have great success stories that are different than what the doctor says. Good luck my friend.

Larry

My opinion on cycling is if you pump till You can’t pump another pump and it’s painful because things are being stretched then your gaining something. It’s difficult to be accurate every time but if you try to be consistent with the way you squeeze the pump and repeat the same every time if you get in more pumps and less discomfort your gaining . There is a point of maximizing the amount of fluid your cylinders will hold and that is where the stretching will end
Dave

Larry - interested to hear about the routines that Donnie has going - do you have any links to any his previous posts on this?.. or if you have just his username that'd be great also I can pm him. I'm only 1.5 weeks into cycling myself (I am Titan), so eager to learn others' advice and experiences out there.

This is a really interesting question, I've been wondering the same thing myself. As a guess, I reckon that keeping it inflated longer might be the more advantageous - simply because you can then try and squeeze in a few more pumps every few minutes - as opposed to repeatedly deflating and starting over again.

LeRoastBeef wrote:How many times would you inflate over this one or two hour period?

I would inflate it once. Then try to get more pumps in every 5 or 10 minutes.

Dave52 wrote:My opinion on cycling is if you pump till You can’t pump another pump and it’s painful because things are being stretched then your gaining something. It’s difficult to be accurate every time but if you try to be consistent with the way you squeeze the pump and repeat the same every time if you get in more pumps and less discomfort your gaining . There is a point of maximizing the amount of fluid your cylinders will hold and that is where the stretching will end
Dave

Exactly !!!

Larry

Quincy wrote:I was chatting with another member in our chat room tonight and he said something that I'd never heard before. He indicated that the thing that helps most to see penile growth after an implant is more cycling of the implant, not just staying inflated for long periods.

This is the opposite of what I thought I understood, but I admit that I really never investigated, just went with what seemed to be right. I've done some surfing trying to get more information but haven't found anything. I also searched the boards here, but I didn't find anything clear.

Have any of you seen research or heard from your doctor about the best approach for cycling to get maximum growth? My doc said to cycle twice a day for at least a half hour. But I never asked him whether being up longer or cycling more often would be of more beneift. I'll call him this week and see what he says, but I'd like to hear from anyone else that has good info on this.

I love the way the implant functions and feels, and if I saw no growth at all I'd still be a very happy camper. But I also wouldn't mind being bigger.

Quincy.

I've tried both over extended periods and for me both worked equally well. Here is the problem,your penis is like a rubber band. So when you stop stretching it well guess what it shrinks. Either way it shrinks. Consistency is more important. At 4 months my penis has finally become more generous. I don't have to do as much to stay around 6" . Before I'd shrink away to 5.7, 5.5 in just a day or so. Not a huge difference but if it keeps up maybe in 6 months I can just use it when I'm ready and forget about it in-between.

My question is how do you leave it pumped for some time during the day. Is it comfortable (relatively) during that time. Do you have clothes on? Pants and underwear seem to push back on willy and that is not comfortable for me, in a different way than just pumped.
Thanks