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Re: Tight something.
As an answer to: Re: Tight something. written by LG at 16 Dec 2001 17:24:43:
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> the second pic is probably the best visual ... the head doesnt bend down from the tightness.
Actually, the next picture in that series looks in some ways even more curious, but remembering that the picture is actually of a normal penis, shows that the "bend" was only a quirk of the considerable flexibility of the glans.
> the doc ... said that the horizontal slit will let the circumference of the 4skin ease up a bit
We remain somewhat puzzled by this description. A vertical (dorsal) slit, which is then sutured up horizontally would allow the circumference to increase, while a horizontal slit of the fraenulum underneath would allow the foreskin to pull back further, and this appears to be what you are describing.
However, a short fraenulum (fraenulum breve being the popular "buzz-word" on this web-site) is rather unlikely to become worse over time, whereas a tight foreskin certainly may.
> mine has never retracted on its own when getting an erection and this is supposed to hel that.
And this observation again favours a short fraenulum.
> this might not work as well as needed and that i should be prepared for it
Well, if it doesn't, then at least, as it sounds, you will have completely removed any contribution from a short fraenulum. Given that, then any tightness that remains will be manageable by the use of steroid ointment and stretching, because the fraenulum is the only part truly difficult to stretch.
Since what you have is at least in part, what is called a "secondary" phimosis (i.e., it used to retract, but later wouldn't), then the sort of stretching you would likely need would be continuous and together with the use of the steroid ointment.
The elegant trick to the continuous stretching, is the "wearing" of a "dilator" inside the foreskin, and a good candidate for that would appear to be a plastic 35mm film canister. Unfortunately, that is a fixed size, but other similar, smaller manufactured objects should be able to be found.
Of course, it would take at least three months before you could fully assess the success of the operation and decide on the absolute necessity of any further step. Do not misinterpret this however as any indication of how soon you could "try it out" - for a fraenuloplasty, this should be quite practical in two weeks.
> she seemed well versed on the procedure and seemed to cover all the bases should this not work.
I have tried here to "cover all the bases" also in some detail. I wonder if you have the opportunity, whether you could sound her out on the concept of continuous stretching using a "device". She may not have seriously considered it as being practical, but the more you work through the details, the more practical it is revealed to be.