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Written by Ivan at 23 Jan 2004 07:45:39: Re: Trouble?
As an answer to: Trouble? written by Redrum at 23 Jan 2004 05:46:06:
>I have a problem which i have a really hard time talking about. A couple of years ago I found that on the end of my foreskin two lumps occurred. I don't remember if I had them during my childhood, but now this problem of mine is really annoying and embarassing me.
>I don't experience pain of any sort while urinating or masturbating, but I can't seem to be able to retract my foreskin, and the top of it doesn't even allow my head to pass through. I had a look at various diseases associated with this, but I'm still not sure what it is: could it be phimosis? Naturally, because of this problem of mine I still haven't been able to have sexual intercourse with anyone, for fear tht my partner might get suspicious of something being terribly wrong, even if I were to use a condom? Can anyone help me in realtion to this? What is it? How is it cured? Will a circumcision be enough? ThanksIt's odd that your first thought would be toward surgery. If you found a couple of bumps on your tongue, would ask the doctor to cut that out? I hope you would ask him to find out what it is first. The fact that you can't retract your foreskin is phimosis. Whether that is a newly developed condition or related to the bumps cannot be told from your post. The bumps are suggestive of a disease process, possibly a fungal infection. The doctor you need to see, after perhpas your GP, is a dermatologist. It is first and foremost a skin condition. Determine what the bumos are and whether you have any infection. The you can sort things out and deal with it. There is very little chance that circumcision is actually necessary, but you may get recommendations for it by doctors with an animosity to foreskin. Shun doctors who too readily seek to make irreversible changes to the body.