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Adhesion management.

Written by Paul B. at 09 Oct 2002 23:47:43:

As an answer to: Re: Adhesion - Cure without surgical inervention????? written by nano at 09 Oct 2002 20:55:25:

>Is there any url where I can see pictures of adhesions/foreskin attached to glans? It would be a lot easier to say "mine is like this" or "not so adhered", etc.

OK, though I was not so confident of finding close-up detail at first, and it would seem to be difficult to find an exact match, using Ben's recommended (;-) site, we can at least run through a couple of suggestions.


Here's a specimen with fairly tight bunching at the fraenulum, though the "cheeks" are fully exposed. It might be a close-up of this. This is another such view. Obviously all these are normal.


This is merely incomplete retraction, but could be what our friend nano's problem looks like, at least. Another such view.

And of course, a view of complete retraction to compare"


> When the foreskin is retracted, the peehole faces down instead of forward.

I would be advising progressive stretching anyway. Either the adhesions - if that is what they are - will part, possibly with some discomfort (my usual recommendation being Zinc and Castor Oil ointment to soothe), or the skin will stretch so that the meatus is not so stretched on retraction, in which case it will work fine even with the adhesions. The "gold standard" is whether you can pee accurately with the foreskin retracted (but not too tightly). If you can't, then there is definitely room for improvement, if you can, you are pretty fine already.


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