What's a good rest though? I just took a week off from pumping or manual work. I've been using redlight, icing, heat, vitamin E, changed my coconut oil to fresh bottle with pump. I've kept everything clean and dry but moisturized. I've been sleeping 8hrs a night.
As DLD said, the rest can be as simple as flaccid work without erection to prevent the purpura from manifesting. I still get purpura, the red and purple spottings, from time to time when I exceeded my common expansion levels. I tend to push past 0.75in of extra circumference expansion while my superficial tissues are still weak, trying to take advantage of it. It's just your body telling you that you went a little too far and the superfiscial tissues is under quite a bit of stretching stresses and need bit of rest to strengthen the tissues.
However, it doesn't mean you should stop PE. PE can be switched from girth to length. If you're still going for length, use the Length Master or manual stretches to perform longitudinal gains while allowing lateral tissues to strengthen up and healing. All flaccid, no erection past its normal internal pressure.
If you're not chasing after length any more, just wrap. Allow rest up to 1 month. From there, work only with lower pressures first, between 5 to 6inHg only for a week, then slowly up to 5inHg to 7inHg for the next week. You are conditioning your tissues again for higher pressure zone. If purpura still manifest, at lower pressure, tissues are still young and tender. Rather than 1 month, go for 2 months of rest. Don't stop on the elongation PE, be actively with the Length Master or with just wrapping.
Overall, you're fine. Most of us still have some purpura development when when we are fully conditioned. We may not see it, but a few spots are still developed.
