[ ARC forum 2 ]
Written by Rood at 06 Jan 2003 21:48:17: Re: Progress and doubts
As an answer to: Progress and doubts written by Val at 06 Jan 2003 21:06:29:
Hi Val: I'm not an authority on stretching, having opted years ago, on the advice of everyone with whom I consulted, to solve the "problem, so called, of a tight foreskin by circumcision. Being by now an authority on circumcision and of surgical solutions to minor problems, I can definitively state that stretching tight skin and "ligatures", whatever they might be, is by far the prefered treatment. Remember that 'creams' are just an assist to the actual stretching process, which is where you should concentrate your efforts. The process can be accomplished without creams. And about these ligatures...do describe them: their location, their length and width, etc, as completely as you can. It's difficult to advise when one can't see or picture them.
As frustrating as the stretching process can be (and I'm a pro at that, having stretched an entirely new foreskin) the time spent stetching an INTACT foreskin and frenum is much less than the time required for restoration. So be thankful for being INTACT, and don't grow impatient. Cutting doesn't solve anything. It only presents one with more problems.
>Hi,
>I've been stretching now for quite some time. I have to admit I don't do it as many times as I should but I normally do it at least once a day using hydrocortisone cream. The first results have been very quick to show, in a couple of weeks I was able to retract my foreskin behind my gland with an erection but since then I haven't gone much further. Retracting the foreskin behind my glans I have been able to find out 2 things. The first is that the frenulum is very short and the second is that beside the frenulum there are some other ligatures that connect the foreskin to the base of the gland and cause the gland to bend forward when the the foreskin is pulled back further than the base of the gland, which of course is not comfortably achievable during an erection. These ligatures really seem like they should be cut surgically. Any advice?
>I have spoken about this with my stepfather who is a doctor/surgeon and he suggested continuing the steroid treatment for some time to see whether the ligatures eventually give in and if they don't I might have to have the hard and narrow part of my foreskin surgically removed which (apparently) should also solve the problem with the ligatures...
>Any ideas/previous experience greatly appreciated.
>Thanks!