foreskin problem, advise needed

Jonadame - Try taking a hot bath and then spread hydrocortisone cream on the glans and the underside of the foreskin, and gently retract the foreskin. You may have to do this for a month or so before seeing results. It may also correct itself as you get older, but the frenulum ("the string of skin under the head" appears to be too tight, and this may only be able to be corrected with surgery. But the surgery, called a frenuloplasty, is a minor outpatient operation, and I urge you to consult a doctor. At 15, you are embarrassed about your body, and reluctant to tell anyone, but you must, and you will be surprised at how understanding your father or doctor will be. If you have a good relationship with your father, confide in him. He may have had the same problem when he was your age.

I don't know where you live, but consultation with a doctor might be a good idea. Most family practitioners have seen this problem before, and will know how to deal with it.

Regarding washing your penis, a substance called smegma collects under the foreskin and needs to be washed off. Pull the foreskin back as far as you can when showering, and wash the head and the area just behind it with soap and water. For cut guys, the smegma dries and drops off, so washing is not necessary.

Let us know how it goes...

 

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Jonadame - don't force it back too hard. Do it gently, after a hot bath or shower. Put hydrocortisone cream on the glans and underside of the foreskin (you can buy the cream in a drugstore) and then gently pull it back. Do this every day for a month. Don't try to force the frenulum back too hard, however, or any other skin attachments of the foreskin to the glans or shaft. They may go away when you get older, and you don't want to split the skin. Forcing it in the past may have been what made it sting.

Your glans will feel sensitive, more so than for cut guys like me, since your foreskin covers the glans at all times unless you are erect. The glans of cut guys gets a little less sensitive over time since it rubs against our clothing all the time. The coronal ridge of the glans (the rim at the back) is the most sensitive part, and is often of a purple or reddish color. That is normal.

The smegma (a whitish, cheesy substance) collects all the way around the area just behind the glans, not only in the area of the frenulum (the stringy part). So wash the whole area carefully. If you don't, it can smell sometimes.

In the UK you have National Health, so you can easily see a doctor if you need to do so. And I believe they will keep it confidential if you want to. You could go to the doctor for another reason, and then bring the foreskin issue up. Since most boys in the UK are uncut, the doctor has almost certainly seen the problem before, since 10-15% of all uncut guys have your problem.

At your age, all post- puberty changes in your body are new and embarrassing, and you naturally want to keep them private. But everyone goes through things similar to what you are going through. Just think about girls your age, and the menstration which occurs at puberty, which cannot be ignored and must be tended to. Mothers help their daughters prepare for this, so there is no reason why your father cannot be helpful with your problem if you cannot solve it yourself. He may have had the same problem when he was your age.

When I was only a few years older than you, I developed a regular pain in my left testicle, and i could feel that something was wrong down there. It gave me a lot of sleepless nights. I had a good relationship with my father, and I finally got up enough courage to talk to him about it. I described the problem, and he immediately said that it was a varicocele, an enlarged vein connected to the testicle, and that he had the same problem in the same testicle - it was hereditary. My doctor checked it out and confirmed that it was a varicocele, and that it might have to be removed if it continued to bother me. (It never had to be.)

Let us know how it goes...

 

If your figures are accurate, 120 million of the remaining cut guys live in the United States, and we provide raw material for a lot of the stem cell research that George Bush does not want to allow.

 

Sounds like you have phimosis. I had that, and am now circumsized. Google the condition and see if it's what you have.

I posted about my circumcision experience in this thread.
http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=264007

I'm happy to answer any other questions you may have.

 

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Jonadame - sounds like you can resolve it by stretching. But if the foreskin will not retract over the glans at all when erect, after trying the stretching exercises, you may have to get it cut if you want a quality sex life.

 

I had the same problem back when i was 13, what you should do is wash in warm soapy water regularly and keep your foreskin pulled back as much as possible. Touch it a lot even if it is sore and gradually it wont hurt anymore.