I'm 26 and all my life I've suffered with tight foreskin. I can retract it when flaccid, but it won't retract when I'm errect. So one day I decided I had enough and went to the doctor. He took one look and me and immediately referred me to a specialist telling me that I need to be circumcised. But I want circumcision to be the last resort, after everything else has failed. So I started doing some stretching exercises about 3 times a day for 5 minutes, and now when I get an erection I can see a bit of my glans poking through the opening of my penis where I couldn't before. So, should I keep on doing the stretching exercises, because now, when erect I can pull the foreskin back more than what I used to. I can't pull it over the head yet, but it's still an improvement. Another thing I'm thinking of doing is going to another doctor to see if he will give me steroid cream to help loosen up the foreskin. Because with the way things are going I'm seriously starting to doubt that I need circumcision PS. I just realized that I accidental posted this in the wrong section of the forum. Sorry about that
I would keep stretching it. I had a similar issue and after about 6 months I can fully retract my foreskin after about 6 months of stretching.
Circumcision is definitely the LAST resort. But doctors want the quick money, got kids to sent to college. There's a procedure called "dorsal slit" which is just a cut (just??) to relieve the tension. What you have is called "phomises," not a bad thing. I'd kill to be uncut!!
Because it's "Normal," It's "Natural." When mutilation becomes the norm, something is very, very wrong with the society. Mutilation only became the standard in the USA because doctors and hospitals found out that they could make money from it. Doctors got to bill the insurance companies; Hospitals got to bill the insurance companies for operating room, surgical staff and an extra day's room and board for the mother and son. Now that the insurance companies in America aren't automatically paying for it, it's decreasing in the States. "Oh, it's so much cleaner." Bulls..t. Ever hear of soap and water? Our ears get dirty, never hear that they should be chopped off. Religious beliefs are a totally separate concept. Think about it, nobody wants to run around the desert with sand in their foreskin. Hence, "God said it." Think about it, God didn't give us something for us to modify it.
God didn't give it to us, evolution did. And, like the appendix, there are some evolutionary leftovers that, at best, are simply no longer necessary. At worst, they are ugly and a health hazard.
what stretching exercises was it that you did? i have the same problem and am 17. also since i have never been able to retract it with an erection it is quite sensitive (not sore just uncomfortable to wash)
Soak in shot bath, then put a cortisone creme under the foreskin and gently stretch it. Keep doing this for a month to see if there is improvement. If not, explore circumcision. I have a "loose cut" circumcision, with just enough of the tip cut off to allow the foreskin to sit naturally behind the glans. I can still roll the shaft skin entirely over the head when soft, and most of the way over it when hard,allowing me to masturbate like a completely uncut guy. But my glans is entirely exposed during intercourse.
The part I cant get my head round is this, allowing me to masturbate like a completely uncut guy. But my glans is entirely exposed during intercourse. It dose not make sense as you are either covered on uncovered, as you cant be both.
Hi Below is advice on how to stretch, stick with it and your win. Hi Below is a post of mine on foreskin stretching, its easy to follow. So this is how you can try to do it, first you start by getting your foreskin warmed up, by doing this it aids the stretching, massage some either baby or coconut oil into the foreskin before each time only just a small amount will do, so with the first finger of both hands and thumbs, and take a small pinch of foreskin from each side, and pull away from the body why at the same time pulling out sideways and just hold for the count of 5 and do the for 5 minutes each of the 6+ times a day, can take up to 6 months, but far better than getting the chop. Do not worry about tearing your skin why stretching as you wont your stop before that happens, your see its very hard to break the skin as your cry first, its not advisable to use steroid creams why exercising as this thins your skin on your foreskin, warming and massaging will really help. If you want to read more just google foreskin stretching and your find more of much the same.
One of the things they asked me about when I got my "procedure" done in 2003 was "is it too tight or something?". I thought about that never... I immediately indicated that my reasoning was nothing to do with physical fit. No... I hated being uncut my entire childhood and teenage life. When I was 23 & having moved back in I asked my parents if I could get it done. I think I was even still on their insurance at the time, but it would be considered a cosmetic procedure in my appraisal since my situation was unlike the title of topic here. Well it's done. Now I don't have to think about "what she's going to think" anymore. And I should mention that I don't miss it. I used to dread things like stripping down in front of others having heard people make jokes about dudes being uncut and uncool things of that nature. The only thing I regret is that one shouldn't have to worry about something like that. Having been sexually active, and in many cases with a girl only one time before she vanishes like the wind, I saw no comfortable alternative for my ego. Anyway, by my logic today one wouldn't necessarily want to undergo the procedure because who cares what people think anyway. But in reality I'm more comfortable without having that worry in the back of my mind - when I go pee at a urinal, change in a public setting, have sex, meet a woman, or any other time. Maybe society is less rigid than it was in 2003 though.
Got chucked off a site for fighting with pro circumcision guys who's answer to any guy with a foreskin problem was get cut, which is not the way to go.
