[PoisonIvy]

I just tried a new method for my morning session and had the best swelling ever and with no overpumping or pain or red marks or anything. It's going to be 1 hour 30 minutes more each day for a total of 4 1/2 hours a day 7 days a week now which is a lot but I'm really tired of the asymmetry.

I don't know if anyone else on here has done a combined method because I haven't been able to find a thread about it on here or the noogleberry forum but that's exactly what I did. 10 minutes of heat before and after. 10 minutes of massage before. And then my actual pumping method was 3 sets (so roughly 30 minutes) of pump and release 10:2 and then I did 1 hour of pump and hold. This was a total of 1 1/2 hours. I plan to try to do this three times a day. I didn't even have to use a lot of pressure for the pump and hold either. I started to think this might be the best method for me because the pump and release beforehand gets me a decent amount of swelling and stretching but not for so long that it's overpumping and then I can more easily retain that for the next hour of pump/hold even at a low pressure because it's like the pump and release beforehand preps my breast for the pump/hold or something. I did start to think pump/hold for the majority of the session would be better for me though because of how much issues I have with overpumping I don't feel like I am able to get that much pressure so it felt like lower amounts of pressure for longer might be better, but the pump/release method beforehand really preps it for me by getting me a decent amount of swelling beforehand. 

Hope things are going well for you.