What is the best treatment of phimosis and sensitive glans in an adult male?
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I don't know why there is such an (American) obsession with circumcision as a cure all for foreskin related problems.\n\nI personally have a condition which can be described as phimosis. As a child I got instructions from the school doctor how to stretch. My mom explained me what to do and made sure I did my 'excercises' on a regular basis. Nothing special. Just pulling back the skin as far as it would go on a regular basis and after showering when the skin is more flexible. \nNo panic, just a little inconvience that was solved over time. I ended up with a foreskin that did not totally cover the glans. I have never seen this as a problem. My few girlfriends and my wife have never commented on it. \nNow I am 42 I notice that my foreskin begins to tighten again. I did some searches on the Internet and found many foreskin restoration websites that led me to using the low impact o-ring method. Despitre te fact that this method is used in order to get a foreskin back after circumcision, it helps me to stretch the foreskin with succes. Slowly and comfortably and cheap. O-rings are small rubber rings that you buy in hardware shops for just a few dollars (assortment ;-) )\n\nMy son has the same condition. I remind him to pull back every so often, like my mom used to do.\nI am from the Netherlands where we don't panic so easily over these small hickups of nature. \nJust try it this way first. There are circumstances that circumcision is the only satisfying method in the end. Pain and infections can be a sign that an operation is justified. \n\nA sensitive glans is what circumsized men miss and is also given as one of the most rewarding experiences of 'restored' men. This is normal. Your glans has not the normal exposure that a male without phimosis has. Therefore it is more sensitive as it is hidden in it's moist protective environment. As soon as you are able to have your glans peeping out more often you will get used to the feeling and also the sensitivity will be less.\n\nRegards Barra\nI can be contacted to mail outside this list if you want or need extra information.
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If they can still do a proper normal circumcision without extra scarring, then I would have it all removed since you are having surgery anyways.  Otherwise, I might try the creams.  It all depends on if you are happy with the look and the "feel"  Good luck.
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I have known a number of friends from England, Germany, and France who, after living here for a while, had themselves circumcised at the urging of their wife or by friends like me.\nI am still in touch with them. I asked how they liked it and how is their sexlife now. All of them liked it very much and found that whole penis sensitivity is as good if not better than being uncircumcised. Two had a tight foreskin. They are gratetful to be rid of the pain they had in intercourse. Three had general anesthesis. Two others had local. There was no pain during the procedure. There was slight discomfort for 2 to 5 days afterward. All went back to work between 1 and 2 weeks. A good resource is www.circumcision.center in Atlanta GA. This clinic under Dr. David Cornell, a skilled urologist, is one of the best I understand. There may be others less expensive. Sometimes whether you are Jewish or not, you can find a mohel through a rabbi in a synagogue near you, who will do the circumcision at a reasonable price. Be sure to check out any urologist or mohel as to how many adult circumcisions they have performed successfully. Also figure out what type you want, high and tight, loose, etc. Anyway go for it, you won't be disappointed.
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Take every day a hot bath and move slowly your skin up and down. Pull it every time a little bit further. Do this for a few weeks. This way you can slowly stretch the skin and day-by-day you can get the skin more further over the top of the penis. Keep repeating this until it goes easier.\nIf this doesn’t work, than I think you should visited the doctor. Maybe you need a little cut in the skin. There are many other boys with the same problem. Don’t feel sham. \n\nIf your penis is red and irritated my advice will be: go to the doctor too. \nBut I can understand if you don’t feel comfortable to go,  so try this first. Because if you can’t move your skin you probably never wash it. This way he become dirty. That is why he is so red and irritated. \nIf you can’t wash it try this:\nWhile sitting in bath(no soap), pull you skin like you make you penis longer. Open the skin and let the water go in, close the skin and massage now the water what you hold in the top of your penis. Let the water go out and repeat. This way the dirt can get out. Do this a couple of times for one week. If you do it good, you will see it become less irritated. If it does so keep going on until it is not irritated anymore, but if NOT, please for your own good go to the doctor.\nGood luck
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This was the scenario for myself during my early teens.  At first, I was able to expose only the very tip - about the diameter of a button - when erect.  With stretching and time (this took my teen years) I was able to retract my foreskin so that the glans was fully exposed during erections.  It just takes time and stretching.  Be thankful that you are not circumcised. Enjoy.
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Ouch.... good preventative care is the best way to take care of it.  Now that you have them to some extend you'll have to suffer, but try rubbing unscented anti-persperant over the affected area.  It has great moisturizers for shaved parts.
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I've been with both and the circumcised guy will last longer because there is less sensitivity at the head of the penis. This happens, of course, over time if a guy was clipped at birth. I've never known of anyone who had it done as an adult. What are his reasons for wanting unnecessary surgery? Has he looked into the complications? Infection, AMPUTATION! Is it just so he'll match his buddies? It really will affect your sex life, so he should seriously discuss the repercussions with a doctor and also consider your feelings about it. Good luck.
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Have him try Cialis or Levitra.  The side effects are different.  \n\nI had a temporary problem after having cancer treatments.  Viagra was a godsend.  I don't need it now, but I still have a few pills left that I use for when we go away for the weekend without the kids and want to have a sexual marathon.  My wife loves it -- it's like having the enthusiasm of an 18 year old with the experience of an older gentleman.\n\nOther options:  STAY AWAY FROM YOHIMBE, IT'S DANGEROUS.  The amino acid l-arginine can really enhance erections, and it is perfectly safe.  I take it every day, and I stopped needing Viagra.
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Guys get pissed off because it gets sore! If you walk allot, run, cycle climb or most any activity the exposed head gets damn sore! Doctors don't see a problem with this because they work in an office and their idea of exercise is to ride a golf cart for 18 holes. Try a job where you walk for 10 hrs (I have logged 14,000 steps on a pedometer) or bounce in a tractor across a rough field for 16 hours a day for weeks, it gets damn sore!\n\nAnd then to try to make love to my wife. I couldn't feel that I even had penetration. \n\nThe problem with the restoration surgery is that while you can get the glans (head of the penis) covered and protected from friction, and injury, and regain some sensitivity, it never will be a real foreskin. Do I want more skin on my penis with limited nerve function? I have enough of that already. And after being circumcised I have a real problem with letting anyone near my willy with a knife. In fact I rarely believe anything a damn doctor says, except for when they say they can't do anything for me and still charge me for an office call.\n\nWhat I have been trying is a penal sheath that protects and restores the sensitivity of the glans (to some extent). See http://senslip.com/. I have been wearing a sheath under my clothing for two months night and day removing it only to shower and for sex. Now I can be as active as I need to be and not get so sore, and sex is better for me than it was 31 years ago. And the wife likes me allot better too.\n\nHygiene: teach your son about using soap and water; this will open a channel of communication with him. Get yourself and him used to talking about things that are important to him, and believe me his penis will be important to him. With this channel open you will have a chance to talk about things that he might not see as being so important yet; things like safe sex, smoking, drug use etc.\n\nCircumcision doesn't protect from STDs (a claimed lower rate of infection is not protection); safe sex and condoms protect from STDs. Sweden never has had wide spread circumcision (and now has banned circumcision of children) and their incidence of STDs is 50 times less than the US.\n\nMost of the world’s males (85%) are not circumcised including the fabled French and Latin lovers. It is just some spoiled, shallow US females that think that males should be modified to look like plastic dildos (which BTW can't feel anything either)
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None - the best is abstinence
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Removal of the foreskin.
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hi....well circumcision if done in childhood , makes the glans almost least sensitive to superficial touch when we grow adult...But if done in adulthood then surely you will have hard time as the exposed area shall give you so much pain..\n\nAs far as orgasm is considered, I feel that it should not ideally make any difference if one is circumcised or not...However many people who are circumcisied claim to hold for longer than those who still have fore-skin attached...But I guess that its more of hyped and rumor only as there is no technical study to proove that......I hope that you shall agree with me that there is no meter to measure the orgasm....so its soooo  difficult to answer it exactly..\nBut its also true that I have come across many people who claim that after they got circumcised ,they can do better or longer...coz their tool get lesser sensitive.
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What you have is very common - it is called PHIMOSIS.\nSome men experience pain with erections because it is too tight, others are never bothered.\nThere are a couple of solutions:\n-Manual stretching techniques to expand the foreskin. These are done daily, and you'll see results in a couple of months. Go to www.Norm.org for info.\n- Another option is called PREPUTIOPLASTY. Talk to a Urologist to find a doctor who performs this procedure. It is less invasive, heals quickly and keeps your penis intact.\n\nDO NOT GET A CIRCUMCISION , and be suspicious of any doctor who tells you that's your only choice. Find a new doctor. Some don't know about the procedure above - find one that does. I'm a doctor, and I can tell you that both steps above are a million times better than circumcision. Circumcision should only be performed in situations involving cancer, and NEVER unless. REMEMBER _ DO NOT GET CIRCUMCISED !\nAgain, go to  www.NORM. org for information and help.\nGood luck.
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Iodine Tincture (47º alcohol) applied topically every day even few days after they dissappear. I am sorry I did not realize this was a std Question. I don´t know if it´s going to work or not in genital areas. It works very well knees and torax.
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A significant number of men develop impotence from psychological causes that can be overcome. When a physiological cause is treated, subsequent self-esteem problems may continue to impair normal function and performance. Qualified therapists (e.g., sex counselors, psychotherapists) work with couples to reduce tension, improve sexual communication, and create realistic expectations for sex, all of which can improve erectile function. Psychological therapy may be effective in conjunction with medical or surgical treatment. Sex therapists emphasize the need for men and their partners to be motivated and willing to adapt to psychological and behavioral modifications, including those that result from medical or surgical treatment.\n\nMedical Treatment Oral Medication Oral medications used to treat erectile dysfunction include selective enzyme inhibitors (e.g., sildenafil Viagra , vardenafil HCl [Levitra], tadalafil [Cialis]) and yohimbine (Yohimbine, Yocon).\n\nSelective enzyme inhibitors are available by prescription and may be taken up to once a day to treat [5]ED. They improve partial erections by inhibiting the enzyme that facilitates their reduction and increase levels of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP, a chemical factor in metabolism), which causes the smooth muscles of the penis to relax, enabling blood to flow into the corpora cavernosa. Patients taking nitrate drugs (used to treat chest pain) and those taking alpha-blockers (used to treat high blood pressure and benign prostatic hyperplasia) should not take selective enzyme inhibitors.\n\nMen who have had a heart attack or stroke within the past 6 months and those with certain medical conditions (e.g., uncontrolled high blood pressure, severe low blood pressure or liver disease, unstable angina) that make sexual activity inadvisable should not take [6]Cialis®. Dosages of the drug should be limited in patients with kidney or liver disorders.\n\nViagra is absorbed and processed rapidly by the body and is usually taken 30 minutes to 1 hour before intercourse. Results vary depending on the cause of [7]erectile dysfunction, but studies have shown that Viagra is effective in 75% of cases. It helps men with erectile dysfunction associated with diabetes mellitus (57%), spinal cord injuries (83%), and radical prostatectomy (43%).\n\nIn clinical studies, Levitra has been shown to work quickly, provide consistent results, and improve sexual function in most men the first time they take the drug. It also has shown to be effective in men of all ages, in patients with diabetes mellitus, and in men who have undergone radical prostatectomy. Cialis has been shown in clinical trials to stay in the body longer than the other selective enzyme inhibitors. It promotes erection within 30 minutes and enhances the ability to achieve erection for up to 36 hours.\n\nhttp://www.edpills.net/article_viagra_cialis_levitra.php
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Please pleae do NOT go ahead with circumcision!\n\nRead at the "Intactivism" site.\n\nhttp://www.circumstitions.com/?term=%22urethral+meatus%22\n\nWhatever problem makes you THINK you need circumcision, there is VERY LIKELY another, better solution.\n\nPLEASE! For the sake of your pleasure, and that of your partners (especially if they are female) PLEASE I BEG you research it very very well.  It is harder to reverse ... no.  IT is IMPOSSIBLE!!! to reverse (fully).\n\nTake the time to read.\n\nMen there refer to their adult circumcison as the most foolish thing they ever did, and sex afterwards as like vision without colour.\n\nCanada is one country where it is still legal to do it, but the fee is aimed at trying to dissuade people from this bad bad surgery.\n\nMany problems are better treated with application of steroid cream to the area, rather than amputating the foreskin.\n\nPlease read all about it; what is irrevocably lost to circumcision, the function of the foreskin, etc.
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If it's what it sounds like from you explanation you have a condition called Peyronie's Disease, which isn't overly uncommon.  It is the result of scar tissue forming inside the penis, causing it to curve or bend when erect or hard.  \n\nTypically this will eventually fix itself without treatment, but some treatments have been known to help. I would say try taking viatmin E supplements which have been known to help, and if you're seeing no results, I would reccomend seeing a doctor (specifically a urologist), who can reccommend additional treatments.  Surgery is also available, but should only be performed in extreme cases due to the complicated nature of the procedure.  \n\nYou can find some addional information at this website:\n\nhttp://www.ethex.com/emyhealth/data/Curved_Penis.asp