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Preputioplasty

Written by Mick at 11 Jul 2002 03:11:31:

Hello all. 2 weeks ago to the day I had a preputioplasty operation to try and cure my phimosis. The doctor told me there was about 85% chance it would work. I've been trying to retract my foreskin, but alas, I am unable to bring it back as far as I would have liked. Basically, the hole isn't big enough. The surgeon has mis-calculated the size of my penis when erect.

Now I'm wondering what I should do. The doctor told me initially that the first line of treatment would usually be cream, like bethmethsone. I told him I'd prefer a surgical option that would fix it once and for all. Well it hasn't worked in my case. Before the operation I wasn't able to retract my foreskin at all. Now I can retract it I'd say, half way down my glans. I still have phimosis, just not as severe.

Also I'm not sure how long swelling and bruising is supposed to last, but I seem to have a swolen area right where my frenulum is. It pokes out of the top of the foreskin when flaccid and It hasn't really decteased that much in size. Could it be a clot of some sort? I'm going to see what my GP has to say about this.

I think I'd like now to try and use the cream that some of you have already been using. Yeah, you might think that's silly, and why didn't I use it in the first place. I have my reasons, and no-one here need question them.

My doctor told me that with the cream, you don't need to stretch. He said stretching can damage your skin. What do you think of this?

I'm kinda pissed off with the surgery though. I think I "grow" quite a lot when I get an erection. Each man is different and the surgeon has made a mistake in my case. He might not be far off though, but since I've never, ever retracted my foreskin, I don't actually know how tight it should be when it moves across the glans. Should the foreskin automatically retract on erection? At the moment, on erection my foreskin doesn't retract. ugh. oh well, I think it's going to be either cream, or yet another bloody operation, though this time I'll have to do a full circ, which I didn't really want to.


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