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Please help (SKINBRIDGE or EPITHELIUM CONNECTS AS SHEET)

Written by Stu at 20 Jul 2004 19:40:09:

Hi,
I have what seems to be a very rare problem and in all honesty I'm scared out of my mind. On this website, in the 'Post Circ Problems' section there is series of messages under the heading 'SKINBRIDGE or EPITHELIUM CONNECTS AS SHEET' (http://www.male-initiation.net/library/passages/skinbridge-sheet.html#start). This person seems to describe the same problem I have.
I developed pin-hole phimosis when I was around 12/13 years old. Having no-one to talk to, I kept it to myself. I'm now 25 and some weeks ago I had a circumcision. My Gp sent me to a surgeon and I was basically told that this was really the only way. I'm disappointed that I was never told about any creams, stretching exercises etc, as given the choice I would much rather have kept my foreskin.
This however, is not even an issue for me now. I have much bigger problems. The circumcision hasn't been done properly because it turns out, on the lower side/face of the head, all around the frendulum, there is no space between the head and the foreskin. It has sort of fused together.
It seems no-one understood this other guy when he tried to explain it so I'm trying my best. If you can imagine about 25% of the head is still covered by foreskin, which is literally stuck to the glans. It starts just below the pee-hole (sorry, don't know the medical term!) and runs back to the normal shaft skin, covering the whole frendulum and basically the whole under side of the glans.
My surgeon called it an infection and I'm pretty sure he used the term 'balanitis', but from what I've read on the internet that doesn't seem right at all. At my first post surgery meeting with him he said he'd talk to some urologist and for me to see him in two weeks. Two weeks later he basically had nothing to say to me except to come see him in another six weeks. So I figure he doesn't really know what to do.
In the mean time I'm going insane. I've never had sex, or had a girlfriend because of my problems and now it looks like I never will. I see a life with no marriage or kids and literally do not know what I'm living for. I honestly do not know how to live my life at the moment as I have no interest in the future placed before me. (Don't worry I'm not suicidal or anything, but I just see a long life of depression ahead).
So I would really like to know if anyone has heard anymore of this condition since the message I referred to was posted. If anyone know sof any ways in which this can be fixed I would love to hear from them.

Sorry this is so long and thanks very much to anyone who reads it.

Stu.

P.S. I don't want to sound mean or anything, but I really don't want to read any messages of false hope telling me things will be alright or that I'll learn to live with it etc. Just any info on this condition please. Sorry again if I sound bitter and twisted in in saying this...


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