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Re: Several problems... desparetely need advice :-(

Written by Ralesk at 18 Apr 2004 23:20:32:

As an answer to: Re: Several problems... desparetely need advice :-( written by nick at 18 Apr 2004 22:21:12:

>The adhesion is really worrying me. It's only a little bit, only a couple of millimetres in width along the corona, but it's stuck pretty tight. I don't think it's just dried smegma, as I've already given it a gentle tug in the shower.

Keep on trying.

>I've also read that whether adult adhesions are self removed or surgically separated, it can leave the glans extremely sensitive to the extent that you only feel pain through it.

Sounds bullshitty to me. I think I mentioned in a reply to you, forced separation is the first step of a circumcision (especially those done on preteens), and we don’t hear them complain about feeling only pain through the glans. The adults shouldn't be any different there. As far as the glans’s surface is concerned, if it hadn’t been exposed, it will likely be more sensitive than if it had. Many people who have grown up not having retracted their foreskin report that their glans is rather painful — this, of course, will pass as time goes on. The very same applies to the adhesion.

>What scares me the most is that so far it looks as though it's stuck too tight to remove myself - at least, not without excruciating amounts of pain and permanent damage.

I heavily doubt the permanent damage part, however I do understand the excruciating pain — having been there and done that.

> And that means the trip to the GP, which I dread. Especially since I've just registered at a new NHS practice and don't know my doctor at all. :-(

Well, you don’t have much to lose there. Either you do it at home, or you have your GP do it (again, a urologist is mainly a surgeon.) — or you can leave it alone and wait for it to separate by itself.


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