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Written by Ralesk at 30 Dec 2003 04:27:05: Re: Tight foreskin - Efcortelan hydrocortisone 0.5% any good?
As an answer to: Tight foreskin - Efcortelan hydrocortisone 0.5% any good? written by ukguy.21 at 29 Dec 2003 19:45:13:
>Hi all, im 21 and have phimosis, ive never been able to pull my foreskin further back than about half way down the gland when soft, it has never been a real problem for me (its just embarasing at times) and never caused any pain. Recently ive started to take action too make myself feel more "normal", and have been trying stretching for a few weeks with a small amount of success.
Keep at it ;)
>Today i went to my gp about my problem (the first time), he told me that the only real resolution was too get circd, but im not over keen on the idea off this, and dont want too rush into anything 2 permenant, so I talked him into giving me a steroid cream to aid the stretching, he gave me Efcortelan hydrocortisone 0.5%, and refused to let me try betamethasone, saying that it was too strong, and that it probably wouldnt work anyway, and if i dont see results in 1 month that i should concider having the chop!
That's so the default, book-standard answer! And Hydrocortisone! That one is an evergreen. Particularly, at the few cases where people here reported getting HC they either asked if it's good or said it didn't have positive effects (but there were examples of negative ones).
On the part that says "too strong" but "wouldn't work anyway", I have to laugh. Doesn't that sound a bit contradictory?
I say, continue stretching without using anything, and see how that works out. One month (haha, FOOL!) is not particularly enough for anything. If you work on it often enough, then maybe in your case (halfway retractable) it gets to a near-optimal state in that much time, but in most cases it's a longer work (Just think about it, children who don't have phimosis usually don't have it because they worked on it by instinct, now that's not one month!). Of course, small changes can be seen in a couple weeks.
>I was wondering if anyone has experience with Efcortelan hydrocortisone 0.5%, and if its off any use in stretching?
>Thank you for yout time. Ad.