Though I hate to contradict vets like DLD (and please don't take this personal by any means, bro) but in terms of well-known and common pathological symptoms PE knowledge doesn't help in every case and can't substitute medical knowledge. Thus I will repeat myself over and over again on this subject: don't use heat or "deep tissue massage" on an irritated vein! If you think you've made the experience that it went away because of that, try again next time without it and see if it won't go away faster. It's much more likely that it went away
despite using heat and massaging.
What Pogzee (and a lot of other PErs suffered from in the past and continue to do so) suffers from is strictly spoken not a thrombosis. A thrombosis, as you can read in any book about medical science or just ask your M.D., is a severe and very painful infection of deep-lying vein structures and requires
surgical intervention in many cases. It appears in almost any case in the legs (and especially in women's legs who are more prone to it), very rarely in arms and shoulders and I'd be astonished if a man ever had a real thrombosis in his genital area.
So this is (if it's not a blister but it does look more like an irritation of the vein) a
phlebitis which is just an irritation of the vein. That's the reason why it's still soft and puffy. If it gets hard and cord-like, then you have a
thrombophlebitis which is an irritation that caused a blood clot>this is what most PErs have here reported as "t-vein" or "thrombosis".
In these cases - phlebitis or thrombophlebitis - rest of the affected area is needed and certainly no further irritation by massaging! Also you don't want to heat an already irritated or inflamed area. If you don't want to investigate that by yourself by checking med. books or consulting your doctor, then just use common sense: an inflammation is called metaphorically as it is for a reason>if anything it needs cooling. Aspirin is ok and may benefit your symptoms. I personally wouldn't take that more than 2 weeks or so, but it's not heparin, so there shouldn't be major problems with that.
Again: don't want be a smart-ass or piss anyone off, but these in principle harmless symptoms can cause major anxieties to many who are new to PE or new to such kind of injury, so I wrote this solely to help clearing some common misunderstandings which circulate here within the PE community. Also it's important to know what to do in such cases and even more importantly: what
not to do. So please keep the good nature of my intentions in mind when reading this.
Oh and Pogzee, your doctor seems a bit overzealous advising a Doppler test in such a case. Some specialists just want to get paid (especially in countries where private insurances are the rule), sad but true. I went to a good and philantropist doctor myself when I had my first irritated vein and he told me to just refrain from "extravagant" sex techniques (incl.
cock rings and stuff), lol. So, masturbation and "vanilla" sex are totally ok. In fact, they might even benefit the healing process insofar as motion and blood circulation are good for healing any kind of vein irritation (that's why also people with a real thrombosis should walk around a lot) as long as you don't massage the vein itself thoroughly.
Cheers
That wasn't my intention in any case, believe me and I seriously hope that DLD doesn't read that into it as well. And by no means I wanted to spread doubt about his enormous PE knowledge, with which I don't want nor can't compete in the slightest. I'd consider myself an intermediate in terms of manual girth training at best