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Written by Ralesk at 07 Jan 2004 20:30:08: Re: phimosis
As an answer to: Re: phimosis written by IA at 07 Jan 2004 18:22:44:
>I think I'm gonna wait. His urologist recommended I apply a hormone cream to help with the tightness. Actually, when I was applying the cream, that's when the paraphimosis occurred.
Which obviously shows that something was loosening there and thus working. I mean, it /was/ tighter than that before, wasn't it?
Now obviously, one wouldn't want to have one's son experience more such trauma -- well, since paraphimosis is an undesired side-effect of relieving the tightness of the foreskin, I always suggest pulling the skin /forward/ rather than back.
> I don't want the paraphimosis to ever occur again. Since, I've read your e-mails, I instructed him to retract his foreskin only to where it is comfortable. I told him to pull it forward and stretch it and to also retract while he urinates.
Good!
> I told him not be afraid to play with his foreskin. But, I have told him not to do anyting that is painful. Since, he's been retracing the foreskin while he urinates.
>Should I still be applying the cream?It seems to have an effect. So if you wish to, of course, why not?
>When you mention a partial circ. what is that? The urologist was going to remove the foreskin that covers the glans.. she was going to leave the rest of the foreskin intact.. Is that a partial circ.? Or is that a full circ.?
That's pretty much a full one what you describe and it is absolutely not required.
The partial, as some people here refer to it, is a circumcision that removes the tip of the foreskin (at that, it's a whole circle and thus a whole circumcision, if you allow me to dig in the semantics a little!), and perhaps a little more, but not all that covers the head. Some would refer to it as a particularly loose circumcision. I don't think it is anywhere necessary in your case (or in most preteen and teen phimosis cases, in fact).