Night erections

Yes it eases off eventually, just keep with it and enjoy

 

It will ease off for sure but one piece of advice.

Do Not drink any liquids in the evening. This really helps.

 

Nocturnal erections have two major causes:

1. You are aroused. Sometimes you can "think pure thoughts", and the issue will gradually subside. Sometimes this doesn't work. In my experience, the body does eventually learn to not strain so hard against the cage, so the erections are somewhat less fierce. But this adjustment process is extremely slow, and may take a year or longer.

2. Your bladder is full, or getting close. The body is designed to not allow urination when erect. If you need to pee while you are asleep, your body will trigger an erection to ensure that you don't "wet the bed".

If you are bothered by an erection at night, get up and have a pee - if the cause of the erection was a full bladder, this will solve the problem. If the cause of the erection was arousal, the erection will subside so you can pee, and maybe it won't come back.

If you are having issues with ring burn at night, try applying a bit of A&D Ointment on the trouble spots before going to bed

 

It will get easier.

 

Gosh, epic fail in my first attempt to reply. My intent was to just let you know that after my first 6 nights of sleeping with the device on, learning about the A&D ointment trick saved my life. What a difference it made! Much appreciated.

 

Here's a couple I've learned over my short time so far:

1) Make sure your base ring is the correct size. Too small with long and strong erections caused me some pain, especially ball burn.
2) Make sure your cage length is short enough. If it's too long your erection will get too far along and pull up at your testicles and cause a lot of pain.
3) Moisturize just before bed. This one helps for sure.
4) Get up and pee. I get the nocturnal erections regardless of how hydrated I am. Peeing causes the erection to subside.
5) Lay on your stomach and allow your body weight to press the cage into you and give the erection no room to grow. If I find a comfortable position, it's actually pleasurable and I can fall asleep again.

 

I find the opposite tack also works...
Drink plenty of fluids and if your bladder has some volume in it, then it's much easier to quickly urinate when you wake with an attempted erection. There's a subtle difference between erections caused by a full bladder, and those by simply being aroused, both being easy to subside by peeing, but the latter might be more difficult with an empty bladder. Of course either cause could happen, on alternate nights!

Personally, I prefer being more hydrated, but do experiment, the key is understanding the different things that might be happening and finding out what applies best for you.

 

I'm not disagreeing with what you say but I want to just pitch in with my own experience.

Nocturnal erections wake me up and are often not caused by either of these things. As part of the normal sleep cycle, erections are caused by the REM sleep phase. The only thing I can do after waking up with a painful erection is to do some squats which causes blood supply to be diverted to the large leg muscles and then I can get some relief for a couple of hours before it all starts again.

I'm not sure why being erect would help prevent accidental urination since I've always been able to urinate quite freely whilst hard.

Also, I wear a very short (although not "negative" cage) and my erections push everything forward almost tearing my balls off. I have found that a longer cage is actually better for this but I have to manage an exercise routine with other people so a large piece of steel hanging off my cock would be rather impractical and obvious.

Moisturiser at bedtime and then Sudocrem in the morning helps the burn.

 

I had a cage that was a little too big for me so I never had a problem with nighttime erections but for the past 5 days iv been kept in a new fitted custom cage and holly mother of god am I knackered, iv been woken up by excruciating erections multiple times a night every night. The erection pushes the cage away from my body and tugs on my balls something rotten. Getting up and going for a piss seems to work. Just gotta ride it out I guess, as the cage is a perfect fit.

 

Same here!

I'm quite sore now with all the friction so in order to get some relief I pulled out of the back and slept like that with the cage just hanging off my balls. With some difficulty I squished everything back in this morning. I don't want my wife to know as she'll give up but I needed some relief.

 

Next time she offers to remove mine for a deep clean I'm going to ask if I can swap to a different cage with a different shaped ring. It will still hurt but hopefully the contact/stretch points are in a slightly different place which will give me a chance to heal.

 

Your body will adapt and adjust to the restrictions you have, it will get easier but it just takes time.

 

She wouldn't let me! She said the cage I suggested would be too easy to escape from. Luckily my body seems to be getting used to this one now and I'm sleeping much better. Perhaps actually swapping would have been a bad idea after all. As she likes to remind me, my wife knows best!

 

Thanks for this tip, I will now check hubs to be during the night to make sure he doesn't try this one!

 

Did this take weeks, or months for you, if you don't mind my asking. The lack of sleep for us both is really starting to wear thin. It's worse for him, but I'm constantly being disturbed during the night, and I'm awful when sleep deprived.