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Saw the doctor today: cerebral phimosis

Written by Paul B. at 30 May 2002 13:31:49:

As an answer to: Saw the doctor today :phimosis: written by jim at 29 May 2002 17:41:14:

Phimosis? That means your foreskin will not pull back.

> Basically he told me I would need to be circumsised because I have some scar tissue.

Well, that's a damning indictment of himself for sure. Firstly, the surgical treatment, if you needed it, would be a dorsal slit. The only reason to have a circumcision is the desire to have an operation (or as it may reflect, the desire on the part of a surgeon, to perform a procedure that pays, being a circumcision, rather than one that does not, being a dorsal slit).

Secondly, what is this "scar tissue"? Did he point out something that is identifiable as scar tissue? Can you see scar tissue? More particularly, from where and why would you have developed scar tissue?

> I did tell him I would like to try streching first, with betamethasone ointment, so he gave me my prescription, and i picked it up.

Well, that is interesting. You evidently have him worried.

> Ive started my streching yesterday, and started using the ointment today.

Excellent! Which strength, by the way?

> im really hopeing in 6/7 weeks I will have mad a lot of progress (from pinhole phimosis, to almost normal hopefully)

Hopefully - perhaps not quite that quickly but with the ointment, well, it may happen. Did you figure out my instructions on how to selectively apply the ointment on the tight skin only? If I can find a web reference picturing a tight foreskin being pulled back, I will hot-link it in future. (Actually, I encountered this very situation today, but it would not have been politic to grab the camera at all!)

> He also told me that streching and the ointment was definantly not going to work, and that seeing a urologist for circ is the only solution.

I wonder exactly how much of an examination he made of your situation? When you do achieve full retraction, it should be very valuable to go back and show him. By your description, he sounds ignorant, but not malicious, and such a situation could be a turning point for him.


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