About two weeks ago, after reading through this all 40 pages of this thread countless times, I decided to take the plunge.
Day before I ordered the stretch magic string (0.5mm) off Amazon, and double checked that I had Emla cream and 18g needles at home.
Day of, I put the Emla cream on - really didn’t use a lot, but put as much as I could, and rolled the foreskin back. Set a timer for 45 mins and gathered my alcohol spray, scissors, stretch magic string and needle.
Went into the bathroom, sprayed the scissors with alcohol, cut the string, sprayed the string with the alcohol, shone the light through to make sure no veins, got as close to the gland as possible and started applying light pressure. Felt nothing. A bit more pressure and it was through. Shockingly little pain. Maybe 1/10. Strung the stretch magic string through the needle from the pointed end that had just pierced the frenulum, and pulled it back out. Tied about 5 ties as tight as I could.
Spur of the moment decided to do another one a little further down. Not really sure why I did this besides the fact that I was so shocked it didn’t hurt. Again minimal pain, a bit of blood, but got the needle through easily, and got the string through the needle.
The issue with this second one is that I was a bit cocky, and was less careful, and absolutely hit/scraped a vein. When I took the needle out it bled and bled and bled. Stopped it by putting pressure and spraying my alcohol spray on it. The bleeding eventually slowed enough to tie the second one just like the first.
I clipped off the excess string, was pleased to see I could roll my foreskin up over the knots very easily, put some toilet paper in my undies for the tiny bits of blood that were still coming, and went on with my day.
Over the next 8 days, it was pretty unobtrusive. I went to the gym and did burpees the next day with no issue. A bit of aching occasionally - max 4/10 at its worst. Sprayed it with alcohol every day which burned, but that was more the dick less the wound. Washed as normal in the shower a little sensitive but overall fine. The two cuts were quite close together, and the knots kind of chafed the skin in between.
Took 8 days for the first knot to come out, and that was with a lot of tugging on it to try to encourage it. Turns out I’m not very patient. Next morning the second one came out, but I pulled that out more than it falling out.
I’ve been pretty happy with it since - it’s healing, but not too sore. It’s not as much as I’d like, so it still tugs if I pull my foreskin back, but I can get it back quite a bit easier. A little harder to roll foreskin back over. No sensitivity change that I’ve noticed so far. I would do it again, and will do more ties.
I took pics each day but they really don’t show much change or are that interesting so I’ve combined them. Second picture is the “after” - left is one day after both ties were out, and the next one about 4 days later
I’ve got a few ties to go - but from now on I’ll do one at a time. I’ve also got a Plasma Pen en route from Aliexpress. Never noticed the PPPs until taking a daily close up picture - but I’m sure as hell aware of them now. Glad the plasma pen will get rid of them.
Things I’ll do differently for my next ties
- Not do 2 at once
- Use a surgeon’s knot every second knot
- Not clip it right up to the knot, leave a little more string
- Be way more careful about vein
Thanks to everyone here for all the detailed info. Stabbing my dick with a needle is something I never imagined I’d do, but now I’m just wishing I found out about this earlier.