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Please Help!

Written by Carl at 14 Feb 2003 05:39:33:

I am at my wits end....When I was 19 or 20 my foreskin seemed to become too tight. Sex became too painful and it was obvois that my foreskin would not retract and began to tear during intercourse. I was refered to a urologist who performed a circumcision which solved the problem for almost ten years!! At the time it seemed to me to still not look totally right. I still had a total and complete frenulum (i noticed from {adult films} that it appears many are gone!) and the skin was bunched up at below the glans, however things were working so on I went. Then suddenly it seemed to happen again. The skin that was left became tight right underneath the glans and soon began to tear. My urolgist had no answers...we tried a topical steroid and had no luck. I was then referred to a plastic surgion who release a very small amount of skin and did a skin graft to make up the difference so to speak. Still no luck. I honestly believe despite my best efforts to explain this, the Dr's are not gasping the problem. I truly think that my real problem is the difference in size from flacid to erect. My penis is almost tiny flacid, but I would have to say larger than average erect and there is just not enough skin there. Thus, it tears at the weakest point under the stress of intercourse, which happenst to be right at the pount where the skin ends and the glans starts...right at the ridge. i am guessing that the only thing that may work would be to release the skinn, release the frenulum and graft skin to allow for the expansion...Is this a posable opperation??? Honestly I'm getting very frustrated going back to different doctors who are trying there best but seem to have no idea what to do to help me. I guess my main questions would be: 1. Do I need a frenulum? 2. Is there a chance that if the plastic surgion released and grafted new skin to allow for both girth and length that that might work? and 3. Am I the only one in the world who has had this problem???

I know I might sound stupid but honestly I can no longer afford to be discreet or shy. This is causing problems in my marriage and self esteem that is plauging my whole life.

Thanks for your patience and understanding

Carl


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