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Redness of urethral opening

Written by Paul B. at 09 Oct 2001 13:50:53:

As an answer to: Redness on urethral opening(meatal lips)? written by Andrew at 09 Oct 2001 11:54:57:

> Summary: 22 old,phimosis,only recently able to see part of the glans for the first time in life.

You're a bit behind then. Get going on the stretching exercises.

> Condition: redness on both sides of urethral opening,

Like this perhaps?

> both sides are sligthly lifted up (right one a little more).

As in these pictures?

> If I touch (strum -like a quitar) each side with some small object(q-tip) I feel something
> like a string in a guitar. Is this normal?

I have to chuckle at this one. It's undoubtedly normal, but the testing method is a little - curious! (:-)

> I have this at least 2 month (that is the time i first saw glans),
> but maybe I have this my whole life but I wasn't able to pull foreskin back to see.

Exactly, just as Tommy and Jim said.

> I have no problems urinating.

Then one wonders, why all the questions?

> 2.Could this happened due to long year urinating with unretracted phimosis and/or not cleaning that area

Could what happen? You haven't described anything happening yet, other than the fact that you've only just started to look at your urethral opening.

> are these two things dangerous and can they lead to cancer?

What two things? You have a urethral opening which has two lips to it. You have described nothing whatsoever out of the ordinary. What is dangerous about having a normal urethral opening? Why are you asking these questions and why would you ask about cancer?

> 3.Do you clean your urethral opening and how?

The standard method is to pee through it.


The light dawns! I understand it now. What have you been doing that is making you feel guilty?

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