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Written by Ralesk at 09 May 2004 02:26:09: Re: Phimosis since childhood, my story
As an answer to: Re: Phimosis since childhood, my story written by Greg at 08 May 2004 21:47:56:
>I'm 16 and I feel exactly as you did before your circ. I also have other problems with my penis apart from phimosis (veins, short frenulum, weird bumps at the base of the penis).
Very visible veins can well be just a genetic trait and nothing serious otherwise. The bumps, I really don’t know what kind of bumps they are, but if they are little white-ish ones from which hair may grow, they’re nothing serious either. If concerned, better see a doctor about it.
As for the foreskin. Someone just said — well, not literally, but that’s what I could feel from his words — that you will be given bad advice unless it’s the advice that makes you choose to get circumcised, so… let me give you my “bad” advice. Having guided a couple people, some of whom I still have contact with and report that they’re indeed fine, I don’t think I’m way off here. Your problem can be solved without throwing money out the window, and here’s what you can do.
You pull the foreskin forward, and then try to pull it open with your fingers, so as to kind of form a tube with it. Skin responses to tension (which should NOT be rough!) with growing new cells — it isn’t a fast process, but the younger you are the better it responds. When you do it, you should hold it so for a couple minutes; I again emphasise that doing it rough WON’T help. It might even slow the progress.
Whether it works? Yes. Unless you have a condition that hinders it (which can be anything from a very simple fungal infection to some more serious illnesses that give a dermatologist a headache — then again, you’re 16, so these aren’t quite likely anyway), it works. Proof? Thousands of people who did this, millions of people who have played with their penises when they were very small, and thousands of people again who have decided to so-called “restored” their foreskins with methods based on the same principle.
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