thanks for the detailed letter. Must say first I am not a doc.
It sounds to me like you have a mixture of frenulum breve and a
phimotic ring. Simply, the frenulum will be practically impossible to
stretch - the phimotic ring may very possibly respond to stretching.
However trying to stretch it fighting as well against the frenulum
will be tough work. However - because your phimotic ring allows
retraction when flaccid, then you could first have a frenuloplasty to
cure the frenulum with this operation.
Do I make sense? You seem to have both conditions, and this is not
unusual. As you are particularly interested in stretching, I will
expand there, you could ask your Dr: Mackay for betamethasone or any
other skin stretching steroid, this will help stretching the ring. The
frenulum, there are wild rumours about stretching the frenulum I have
no bona fida report of this, and your frenulum is from your
description very short it would need to be stretched twice as long, so
I say thats impossible, you must get it operated, and then you are
just fighting one problem, stretching the ring.
Then a word on frenuloplasty, I have a new page on my site from a guy
in Holland with a brilliant and the simplest cure for frenulum breve called
"tying the frenulum" - you will find this as 6th link on
www.male-initiation.net/frenulum_index.html it is worth looking, the
page is very disorganised at present and Im trying to develop it with the
guy who wrote it ... itll take a while ... maybe 3 weeks till I have a
special page on just this one subject ... but its maybe worth you looking
and understanding it ... and maybe even suggesting it to your doctor.
There is another reason why men discover late - our language is
confusing, we think the end of the penis is called a gland, a hidden producer of hormonal
essences - but its not, its called a "glans" and has nothing to do with
thyroid gland or perinneal gland etc
You say help in research - I need help as well with just getting kids
monitored before puberty, throughout the Western medical world.
Help in research - you say theres no whiteness in your ring, just
seems normal skin colour? - if you move your finger nail across the
inner foreskin and then across this ring, do you feel if it is dead
skin and insensitive? or does it seem sensitive?
You are 25 and you discovered late ... dont you feel this should have been
checked earlier in your life? ... are you angry, or upset, or feel
neglected?
anyway answer if you want or can - take care - good luck - keep in
touch
Robin
>Dear Dr Robin Srtuart
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>I am 25 and I have recently used your website to self diagnose myself with "Frenulum Breve / Phimosis".
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>My late diagnosis is in line with your observations as to why it takes some men so long to realize that there is a problem. Specifically my conditions are as follows:
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>When flaccid the foreskin can be pulled back although because the "ring is smaller than the gland, pulling back is tight and a 'bottleneck' like maneuver. Pulling back is a recent discovery for me.
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>When pulled back the Frenulum is tight but bearable. All of the foreskin can be rolled over (inside exposed) exposing all of the gland.
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>The frenulum (zip like join) appears to be higher on the gland (closer to the penile) than normal. So when flaccid the natural tendency is for the skin to pull forward unless it is forced right over the gland.
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>You make specific mention of a "monotonous clinical appearance" of a thin strip of tight tissue which is embedded in the inner foreskin). There does not appear to be any white tissue forming a ring, the tightness seems to be caused from the ring itself being too small in circumference to start with.
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>When the penis becomes erect the foreskin remains forward covering 97% of the glands. When erect it is not possible to pull the foreskin back over the gland. An attempt only exposes 85% of the glands.
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>If the foreskin is pulled back when flaccid and the penis begins to become erect the ring becomes very tight making an unusual hour glass shape. There is painful tension on the frenulum that feels like it could tear.
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>I have made contact with a Urologist: here in Auckland New Zealand. I have found your treatment recommendations valuable. I hope that I can further contribute to your research. For my benefit, based off the above, what treatment do you recommend.
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>I am specifically interested in stretching treatment because the condition has been a late discovery. Perhaps years of no pull back could be corrected with proper stretching treatment? Or does it appear that my self diagnosis was correct and I do have Frenulum Breve / Phimosis.
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>Any contact for a second opinion or other surgeon recommendations would be most appreciated. Further contact may also be useful for the website.
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>Kind regards.
>
>Hugh.
