Squeezing the muscles around the stent once it's in can help relax muscles for larger sizes. While it's important to maintain pressure on the stent, I found I could hold it in place with my thighs for short periods of time, like when I was turning newspaper pages. If you feel a sneeze coming on, you should quickly but carefully remove the stent, as sneezing with it in can be painful. If dilation is painful, don't just skip it. I know someone who did this, and she had partial collapse.
Dilation is a chore at first and requires discipline.
Discipline is simply facing something you don't like to do and doing it anyway. Rinsing out the lubricant after is not always necessary, but I found it made less of a mess later. After douching, bear down like you're having a bowel movement to expel any water. It'll save you a potential problem later. A.J. James .