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Written by RJK at 12 Apr 2002 00:07:27: Re: Make Sure you think carefully? See the specialist first!!!!!
As an answer to: Re: Make Sure you think carefully? See the specialist first!!!!! written by Jim at 11 Apr 2002 00:44:52:
>>>>Guys i have my first appointment booked up in 2 weeks to see a consultant regarding similar problems of unretractable foreskin and have decided to see a speciaist. I adise you to do the same because no one on this website is qualified to give medical adivce of this nature!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>Judging from what one sees here, it's certainly advisable for you to visit a specialist. People present numerous opinions here, but having a QUALIFIED person gaze at the problem directly has a lot of merit.
>>>Certainly you are not qualified, so you are right to that degree. For your information, I personally have been working with stretching and using stretching devices for no less than 14 years. I've never had a failure nor a casualty. Is that qualification enough for you?
>>>Your "specialist" on the other hand has most likely had exactly NO experience in this field.
>>Before the fact you, Jim, make this contention, for which you have exactly NO proof, as though it were true. Doesn't say much for your confidence in the medical profession!
>>His only experience will likely be in cutting. Is that what you want?
>>>Also for your information, Dr Paul B
>>Is Paul B indeed a doctor? From what medical school? What year?
>>has had personal hands-on experience in treating these little challenges as a physician. He has many times endorsed the stretching processes and the judicious use of devices by those with good sense. Does that count?
>>When the stretching efforts succeed, one can accept the process gratefully. But when they're tried on and on, seemingly into infinity, without achieving the needed result, some (like the man writing here) may justifiably feel that a more effective approach is in order.
>>>You may think this is a medical problem,
>>If it's not a medical problem, it's fooled a lot of doctors & their patients, and also the authors of a number of medical texts, for a long time.
>>but in the true sense it is more like a physical exercise challenge. There is nothing bleeding or infected. There is nothing broken, and there is nothing life-threatening. What we really have is a situation similar to a muscle lacking tone. You haven't done the exercise necessary to get it in shape. Would you go to your doctor because your gut lacked tone? Wouldn't it make more sense to ask the acvice of a personal trainer?
>>It makes all the sense in the world to go to a qualified phyhsician (or more than one) when faced with a problem that has not yielded to your previous efforts.
>>In this case, if you want to keep your foreskin,
>>This apparently intentional scare tactic suggests that all doctors are hellbent to cut off all foreskins whatever the desire of their owners. You, Jim, know prerfectly well that a short dorsal slit [see Spyros' earlier postings here] removes no tissue at all and can get rid of the problem [not necessarily the foreskin!] that the prolonged stretching has not alleviated.
>>you'd be well advised to take the advice of those who understand the process of making it work right, not those who would just eliminate it. It's up to you.
>It's your penis. If you wish for it to be deformed by a dorsal slit, that is certainly your privilege, isn't it?Pretty MINOR deformation (which some instead consider an enhancement) that eliminates all problems of a tight foreskin and removes no tissue. I've seen one that was so short it was virtually unnoticeable when the penis was flaccid, and I grew up with a number of guys who had doresal slits and did not consider themselves deformed. Some doctors have started doing it recently in some parts of the US as a substitute for circumcision. I wonder if Spyros considers his penis deformed.
It is my privilege to decide how I want my penis, and nobody else's. You certainly have no right to puff and blow over it. . .
BTW, what are your credentials? You have absolutely nothing on which to base your accusations or claims, do you?