sleep with it works!

I'm curious. Since you are a doctor, how do you feel about these units in general being safe for long term use? I'm afraid to ask my doctor. I've been using mine for about 3 months now and no problems so far. I have not achieved the Super O but would really like to try the overnight method if I could ever get my wife out of town.

I for one appreciate your effort in passing on the great info about your experience.

Mark

Mark

A great question. They say no one is as ignorant as a specialist outside his field of specialization. Unfortunately, I'm not a urologist, so take my medical perpective with a grain of salt. Since puberty, I've noticed that even during bowel movements, stool can press on the prostate and adjacent structures, producing pre-cum at the tip of the penis. It's an example of natural prostate massage. The Aneros seems to me to reproduce that same effect, except maybe with more control on the user's part. Until the orgasm occurs, the aneros user can control the amount of pressure exerted by controlling the contractions. During orgasm, the smooth muscle of the prostate rhythmically contracts, with or without the Aneros, right?

I'd be reluctant to perform intentional prostate massage if I had prostate cancer, or high suspicion of prostate cancer (such as an abnormally elevated prostate specific antigen (PSA) test. I'd certainly ask a urologist if that was my circumstance before using Aneros or any other intentional prostate massage. I'm thinking here about the possibility that prostate massage might increase risk of metastatic prostate cancer (spread via bloodstream to other parts of the body), if you're pressing on a cancerous prostate. I don't have any data to support this concern. Would rely on a urologist's expertise if you have prostate cancer. My prostate exam and PSA were normal.

There was a posting some time back expressing concern about damage to the membranous portion of the urethra. Afraid I can't shed any more light on that topic.

Like you, I can't use the Aneros for any extended times because my wife's rarely absent. I do enjoy some massage in the shower, but my showers aren't thaaat long!

Thanks for the question.

I'd enjoy hearing from any others who've used the overnight method.

Also, has anyone else experience the color experience during Aneros climax?

My overnight experience:

4 times now I've tried to sleep with it in and each time I'm awakened at 2 am because of feeling full in the rectum; get up and have a bowel movement after removing the Helix. I eat a lot and perhaps I tend to have a lot of mass of stool. I always move my bowels once a day, on arising, and that bolus is (I suppose) working its way to the exit when I want to use that space for the HElix, so there's a traffic jam.

Never get any good feelings, awake or asleep.

I did a digital self exam and verified for myself that I seem to indeed have a prostate, or at least a pleasantly fluffy area on the anterior rectum wall, pleasant to touch with a (Well Lubed!) gloved finger because my finger senses an intriguingly velvety and spongy area. That's the sensation inside my finger. I can sense nothing at all inside my prostate; it is apparently numb. I had been thinking my ANeros doesn't fit, but now I realize that I would never know; massaging [the area that I think is my prostate] with my finger has absolutely no effect I can sense.

I highly recommend a careful, gentle digital self exam... it really amazed me that I was able to discover a part of my body that was totally unknown to me after 47 years. Body self exploration is an infant/toddler developmental stage, but this was happening in middle age, which ... is thought provoking. What else do I not know that I could know, if I looked?

I also gained a way more complete knowledge of the tone and arrangement of the sphincters that the Helix uses, the dimensions of the room it plays in, and the subtle feelings associated with stimulating various areas on the way to the prostate. For example, I had conceived of the sphincter as a simple drawstring, but that is just the external sphincter, the "seal" if you will allow a mechanical analogy. The internal sphincter is actually more like a tube about an inch long which can decrease its diameter to zero. It has a smooth bore like a shotgun barrel. The external sphincter is like the drawstring neck of a duffel bag. Playing with the drawstring feels good when tickling the outside and going in and out the entryway. Stimulating the tube is appreciated along the entire length where the finger contacts it. (I suppose that's self evident... the stimulation is apppreciated according to the shape of the structure touched... there is something neurological going on here which I am not prepared to describe in a professional, scientific manner. )

I'm thinking this out as I type it; I haven't thought about it since I did it a week ago or so.

The neurological event that I think is happening, (forgive my untutored self taught ramblings and suppositions here; I'm obviously not an anatomist or neurologist or developmental psychologist, anything like that) is a kind of delayed connecting of the conscious and unconscious mind and the motor and sensory nerves of the hand and digestive tract and sex organs... Something like this happens when we learn to walk; try, totter, fall down go boom, try again, do a little better; as the feedback loop reinforces the skill of navigating in the gravitational field, we learn to walk.

This business of connecting the brain in a new way to the existing nerves and muscles takes a hell of a lot of mental energy, practice, etc.

NO WONDER I'M IMPATIENT! THIS IS ONE HUGE JOB!

I once read a book about digestion by a gastroenterologist who said that the digestive tract has as many nerves going to and fro and in it as the rest of the central nervous system. So your gut is as smart as your "mind" ("although", he said"i wouldn't want to be a passenger in a car it was driving"). I am starting to see the wisdom of the apporach that says "consider this Aneros quest as a learning experience". It couldn't be anything else. The mind/body is all one thing, it's complicated as hell, it plays by its own rules, not my timetable, and my job is to tweak little things, practice, and pay attention. There's a lot going on all the time.

It's coming a little clearer to me now what I'm doing here.

My $.02; YMMV

Good topic, Bill.

Bill,

I experience something akin to flashes of colored light (yep..the 'ol fireworks) at the onset of my Super O's with almost signature regularity. I've always assumed that it's evidence of some kind of a cortical phenomena, as opposed to a true optic event i.e. the dissociation of "visual purple" (rhodopsin) upon exposure to bright light.

Does this always occur when your eyes are closed or as soon as you open them?

BF Mayfield

Also had curious sensation of color, like my skin was an iridescent green, but mostly my eyes were closed.

I've had a similar experience with discrete synaesthesia(?), although it was during an acupuncture session I was having. A needle was inserted, as I recall, in my left leg on the lateral/anterior side of things about halfway down my shin...I had a distinctly brown feeling run up my leg...it was weird...there wasn't any visual brown or anything...just tactile...really weird. Has anyone else had anything like that happen to them during acupuncture at all?

B Mayfield,

The iridescent green body sensation was just with eyes closed, if I recall correctly. This was my first Aneros orgasm. So much was new to me. In the excitement, I may not have been the best observer on that detail!

Thanks for your input!

Last night I fell asleep with my MGX classic and I woke up several times moaning and tossing. Finally I woke up enough to take it out, today I woke up with balls aching... Like someone kicked me in the balls.

So obviously it was doing something during the night, not enough to wake me up completely but yes enough to hurt my nuts 🙂

Bill,

My guess it that it is cortical activity of some sort, particularly if it occurs concurrently with the Super O. By the way, I should mention that it took me several months of Super O's to be able to start sifting out the details with any clarity. The experiences themselves just seemed to clean my clock. It was hard to remember anything that had happened other than the intensity of the sensations. Given time, it will be the same for you!

BF Mayfield