if your glans is so sensitive that you jump when you touch it then circumcision doesnt sound like the best idea. the foreskin is there to protect your glans. most cases of phimosis are treatable, but i dont know how severe yours is. can you pull back your foreskin at all when flaccid or erect? if so how much?

you should try the stretching exercises. have you tried them before? if you do them every day then slowly you should start to see improvement.

Hold on a minute now.

There's a reason why an uncircumcised glans is really sensitive. When you get circumcised the glans needs to grow an extra layer of very thin skin which allows for normal sensitivity to resume. This takes about six weeks.

If your foreskin doesn't retract at all, none of the stretching techniques will work. I'm facing the exact same situation come summer and it doesn't worry me at all. Rest assured, surgeons tend to do a very good job with this operation because it's very common. You will experience a degree of pain but you will be prescribed painkillers and you will have to take time off work/school. Other than that you have nothing to worry about.

Are you sure I will be prescribed painkillers? I heard they don't give you anything for circumcision.

I can't pull my foreskin back at all whether flaccid or errect. I've tried stretching techniques and I did them every night for a while. But when I woke up in the morning its like I didn't do any stretching at all, there was no difference.

I'm sure that stretching techniques would work but it would take me at least a year to cure it myself, and even then I would still have to deal with the sensitivity of my glans.

You may not be prescribed painkillers but an over-the-counter anti-inflammatory/opiate might be recommended at the very least. They usually recommend to wear baggy clothes immediately after the operation in order to avoid the sensitive glans (which will probably feel most sensitive only on the upper side) rubbing off material.

If you're in the same boat as I'm in (and I'm guessing you are), the stretching techniques are ineffective because you probably have a phimotic ring which is consistent with the type of phimosis which disallows retraction, flaccid or erect. A phimotic ring is a ring-shaped build-up of tight skin above the glans which cannot be loosened by stretches or ointments. The only way to get rid of it is circumcision.

Circumcision has its benefits, it's certainly better having a circumcised penis w/o phimosis than an uncircumcised penis w/ phimosis.

There's absolutely no need to get worried or stressed about this. It's a straight-forward, highly beneficial procedure in your case. Leaving this be would be far worse in terms of hygiene and long-term libido problems.

Alright thanks.

Do you know how long it would take for the sensitivity to go away? I can't picture myself walking around with the whole head of my penis exposed for the first time in my life under my pants/boxers. I think i'd have to just sit in a chair all day and sleep on my side or something.

It's recommended that you sleep on your side for the first couple of days. You should get used to the initial sensitivity within the space of a few days and then things will start feeling perfectly normal after a few weeks. You will have to abstain from masturbation and sex for a month or so as well in order to let it heal properly.

It isn't the most convenient thing but it's not exactly the most terrible healing process in the world either. It's better to bite the bullet and get it over and done with when you can.

BTW, they can remove ONLY the phimotic ring causing the problem, a small change that will preserve most of your forskin. They can even do a Z cut in it which widens it and makes its removal unneeded. Circ is a pretty severe solution to a relitivty small problem..

It is my understanding that the phimotic ring can only be removed on its own if it can be retracted under the glans normally, this being known as a preputioplasty where the ring is simply snipped. Forcing the glans through it if it's very tight wouldn't be done.

actually, the band is removed, then after healing, stretching with steroid cream is done for the rest fo the foreskin. this is an alternative for the guy who does not wish to have a full circ and does not like the look of the V notch they take out for the other alternative procedure. It takes a bit more work, but if a guy wants to keep his foreskin, then its an alternative. This is for true clinical Phimosis where the ring has hardened and may be even calcified. Skin can be stretched, but a clinically hardened phimotic ring can not. 95% of guys diagnosed with "Phimosis" do not actualy have clinical Phimosis, but just lack of plasticity of the foreskin which can be treated more conservatively.

hi

i am a 13 year old boy and my foreskin is tight. i mastabate reguarly but my question is : is it normal to have a tight foreskin at the age of 13 dose it go away in later life. all replies welcome

p.s plz dont say the doctor i would rather stear clear of that if possiple

Conger

I would suggest you ask a member of your family, dad, older brother, uncle etc

I personally suffered from a tight foreskin until i was 26 when i plucked up enough courage to do something about it.

Also this April i took my nephew to be circumcised privately since the age of 6 he has had problems adn eventually pain and this intensified has he entered his early teens and got the million plus a day erections, 1 week before his 13th birthday he was circumcised , after he insisted to his mum he needed it doing and since no dad was on the scene i took him with consent.

He was nervous and worried but knew he needed it sorting

this is what happened..

we went into the doctors who examined him

then he injected his penis with some numbing stuff

5minutes later he cut down the foreskin removed his frenum (because after explaining what it was he wished this) with this electrical zapper thing and inserted a device called a plastibell and tied it, it took 14minutes , my nephew then stayed with me, because i was at home, 10 days later it dropped off foreskin and all, my nephew is really pleased with the result and has told me that the worry was the worst, not the operation.

the first night he said was the most painful - paracetamol got rid of the pain NO Aspirin based pain killers must be used, after 2-3 days the pain wasnt there he said he got used to it and the only discomfort was when he was erect etc.


So mate go and get yourself seen to, we as men always put things off.

Circumcision is the LAST resort for phimosis. Normally, phimosis can be treated non-surgically.

The opening of the foreskin can be enlarged by gently stretching with or without a steroidal cream. You need to stretch for a few weeks to a few months. Don't stretch so hard that it hurts.

In the United States, where there is a culture of circumcision, most doctors immediately recommend circumcision to treat phimosis without considering less drastic options first.

If you look, you will find many reports of men who were circumcised to treat phimosis and have come to regret the surgery because of the long term effects. It may take a few years, but there will be a loss of sensitivity of the remaining penile skin. After all, circumcision amputates erogenous tissue from your penis and exposes parts of the penis not meant to be exposes.

Circumcision is the LAST resort for phimosis. Normally, phimosis can be treated non-surgically.

The opening of the foreskin can be enlarged by gently stretching with or without a steroidal cream. A web search should show you several techniques for stretching. You need to stretch for a few weeks to a few months. Don't stretch so hard that it hurts.

In the United States, where there is a culture of circumcision, most doctors immediately recommend circumcision to treat phimosis without considering less drastic options first.

If you look, you will find many reports of men who were circumcised to treat phimosis and have come to regret the surgery because of the long term effects. It may take a few years, but there will be a loss of sensitivity of the remaining penile skin. After all, circumcision amputates erogenous tissue from your penis and exposes parts of the penis not meant to be exposes.

Sorry if this is an obvious question but re: stretching, I have a few questions:

1. Am I to stretch once a day? (Should I stretch more often?)
2. Erect/not erect/doesn't matter?
3. What about prior/after sex/masturbation? (Does it again matter?)

I think from my own observation that I have phimosis (only found out there was a name for this condition!) and am willing to try the stretching technique before seeing a doctor. But if nothing works out, I will see him ASAP.

I thank all of you for what you have written so far. A few days ago I was absolutely oblivious to all of this :S.