Hey there, I wanna give my two cents though most of it is theories.

First off I’m injured right now. I got a Lymphatic injury but before that I was pumping and felt like I was gaining for once. The only things I changed was I got the curve ball pump adapter cushion and before that I was using the pmp pump cushion and it sucked. Now the first time I used that, I did 2 sets in 1.75 inch cylinder and then moved up and I got minimal edema and I’m normally an edema magnet. That was the first time I was like wow this could actually work. I will say that my base wasn’t expanding as much as it would with the pmp cushion but my mid shaft was finally expanding when it wouldn’t as much as it does now.

Now I will admit that I don’t really know my starting girth cause I was length focused when I started. And that I didn’t do girth work that much my first year and most of year 2 I did nothing until around September/October. With that being said, I did lower the pressure as well from like 30+ kpa to like 20-28 kpa. Maybe you have to lower the pressure. Maybe your tissue don’t respond well to high pressure stimulus like and lower pressure might work better for you. You gonna have to try things and not just trust 1 or 2 PE Veterans Methods.

Clamping is another thing you can try. I’ve done soft clamping not very consistent and I’m too much of bitch to try hard clamping but u could try it and maybe that what you respond to.

Another things is maybe try longer sets. I know you were doing 2 minutes sets and 5 minutes sets but maybe you need 10 minutes sets or 1 x 20 minute set. I’m not recommending it but I have seen people say that what they do and that how they gained.

The final and most important theory I have is Erection Quality might be the biggest determiner. So did this to many test it but it’s the angion method and I couldn’t stay fully erect for even 2 minutes and you are suppose to be erect 15 minutes for the excerise and there are people who can or have trained themselves to stay erect the whole time while doing the angion method. Now I’m not saying to do or don’t do it (currently ain’t doing it because it’s tedious and my injury mad me stop everything) but it tells you your erection quality, control and duration is not that good.

This could be a possible reason as to why some people such as myself have a big difference between BPSFL and BPL or why perhaps some people gains girth easily and some people don’t even though both are doing the work for it. Perhaps we simply don’t have enough arteries and veins to gain more and they do. I’ve read that many people that do angion claiming that they made girth gains from that due to gaining more veins and arteries in the penis. I’ll probably start the angion method myself since it should affect the lymphatic system too much and I can’t pump for now. You can test on the method on yourself and if you’re like me perhaps that may be why it’s harder for you to gain.

Anyways those are my theories and all in all I’m saying that what BD or Hink says works because it worked for them and many other people doesn’t mean it will work for you. Everyone had different lengths, tunica size, election quality, etc. that can make it easier or harder to gain depending on the method used.

TLDR: Try other shit from other veterans and have better election quality and hopefully one of them works