I am 13 and 2 months, and i have just started puberty. I have read that it would be better to get circumcised beefore my penis starts to grow, that the results will be more pleasing if its done now, than if its done after i grow older. My problem is this, i would like to remain intact, but my foreskin is very tight whenever im fully erect. I have seen a doctor about it and he viewed it erect and watched me retract it and said that its healthy, but it is a little bit tight. I normally try to wash myself when i have a semi, or when im soft. I have been working on streching too. When i started streching i could only retract it 4-5 times before it got sore and started to sting more than hurt. Tonight I talked one of my friends into letting me see his penis, he's 11, and his foreskin retracts just fine. Very easily. He saw mine and said that he was glad his wasnt like that. His retracted very very easily. I got worried and i asked my dad again if I could be circumcised, and he said we would need tot alk tot he doctor again, since I dont think I am getting enough progress from streching. I can now pull back my skin over my head about 15 times before it starts to get sore and sting. I researched ecverything and i want circumcised with a plastibell cuz it will leave a bunch of extra skin, wont require stiches, and wont cause me much discomffort or pain. but I can only be done that way for a while as i just started puberty and it only comes in small sizes. Dads going to make ann pointment for me to see the doctor again this week, and he's going to tell the doctor that if ythe doctor says it would be benefitial to me at this time, that he woudl consent to it and i can be done right then and there. So my question is.. should I do it? Id preffer to have a foreskin like my friend, but im afraid I never will. If i never will and i wait and try i might miss the change to get cut like i want to be cut. Does htis make sense?So how if I should do it, how do I convince the doctor to do it this week? Id want it done asap because shcool is comming the end of august and id want to be healed by then and we are going onv cation for a 5 days before school starts.
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Should I get circumcised?
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I think it's important to get the opinion of a doctor who is familiar with uncircucised penises. You haven't really tried stretching for long, and already it is loosening significantly.
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Originaly when i saw my doctor about this a little over qa month ago he told me that i needed to work on streching for a while. But I didnt think that it was doing a good job and when i masturbated this past week my foreskin got very sore, so sore that it stung to touch it. That, and talking to my best friend today is what made me talk to my dad and ask to see the doctor again.
How fast does the medications work? The doctor said i can try thenm if my streching doesnt work.
Also, i dont masturbate often, only about once a week or once every other week.
Im afraid of passing puberty and my dick growing big, and then missing the best time to get my foresking removed and have to worry aobut it being tight all the time. If I KNEW it would loosen up like my friends is.. then id be prefectly happy, but how can i ber sure??
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As I understand it, stretching typically takes some months. I'm not certain what medication the doctor was talking about, but it was probably a steroid cream that makes the skin stretch more easily.Normally when your penis grows the foreskin grows with it because it gets stretched by the growth. It's the same with the skin on the rest of your body as you grow - your bones grow, and this stretches the skin so it grows too. It can sometimes happen that growth is too fast for the skin to keep up, but that should only be temporary, and renewing stretching exercises will help.
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I've had friends who had this problem. The creams and stretching exercises really didn't work and complications followed them into adulthood. I know one guy who eventually had to get circumcised in his 30s because it was far too painful.
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if you just have a tight 4skin cause you never retracted it, then you probably dont need a circumcision and you can stretch it out. if thers a ring under the skin lik I got thats like scar tissue then stretching probably wont work and you should consider getting circumcised which i am scheduled to this friday.
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My answer in one word? NO. Two words: absolutely not. You wrote that you would like to keep your foreskin. I urge you to do just that. If you get circumcised now, you will regret it for the rest of your life. You will lose 70% of the sensitivity you have now. There is no "best time" to get circumcised. You can have it done any time later but I feel sure that, once you are through puberty and start having sexual relations, you will not have it done. As far as I can tell, the present state of your penis is normal for your age. It's just that you are expecting too much too soon. Patience. Patience. You will eventually be able to retract your foreskin the way your 11-year-old friend can. You are already half-way there. It's just the way you see things that is wonky, not your penis. It's not a good idea anyway to compare your penis with others and then get worried because yours is nor exactly the same. Be your own boss in that department. Never mind what the other boys do or have. Each penis is different. Retracting the foreskin over the head and pulling it forward again is only one way to masturbate but, for the moment, the opening in your foreskin is too small to allow you to do the maneuver more than a few times. Masturbate the other way for now, that, is by keeping the glans covered and pulling the foreskin forward and backward over the glans instead of retracting it. That way the glans doesn't dry out and lose its lubrication and cumming inside the foreskin is as good as or maybe even better than than with the glans bared but you can bare your glans at the last moment if you want. You can even add an artificial lubricant from the pharmacy like KY Jelly or Astroglide if you wish. By all means continue your stretching by fully retracting but don't do it so many times you make your foreskin sore. And the cortisone-type cream does really help the foreskin to stretch but in any case you will have to stretch for quite a few months before you can retract it easily. Feel free to send me a message if you have any questions and I'll reply privately to you. Good luck and don't get rattled.
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In reply to: you will regret it for the rest of your life Lemme borrow your time machine, I have some powerball numbers I need to check out. In reply to: Be your own boss in that department Yet you constantly try to talk him out of it. In reply to: but in any case you will have to stretch for quite a few months before you can retract it easily. Or forego the extra time and have the procedure done. EITHER WAY let it be YOUR choice, not OURS and not your friends.
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Well I had a visit with the doctor on monday, and all I had to do was say 'yes' to be circumcised, the doctor was prepared to do it right then and there, but i sorta chickened out. He perscripbed betamethasone cream and im supposed to use it for 4-6 months. He said i do not have any tpye of phimosis, and my fernulum is normal to long. He said that there is no medical need for my circumcision that my foreskin even while my penis is erect is fine,even if its tight its just tight from lack of use. That as i go through puberty and learn to.. utilize... it, and use the cream It will come out perfectly fine. He gauranteed me that if the cream doesnt work for me that I can still be circumcised exactlyh how I want to be done with the plastibell thing so I have a lot of extra skin at christmas time. *shrug*
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Bud! Listen to your doctor; he is trying to help you, even though you might want to be circ., trust me when I say, that I was circ at 6 years old; not my choice. To make a long story short, I have restored my foreskin and had surgery by a doctor how hates to do any circ's, and I am back with a working foreskin that is a little tight (because I wanted it that way) but it does retract if I pull it back and no pain. Masterbation is very enjoyable to me with my "working foreskin". Please listen to your doctor and let him help you with the cream, and you keep working at stretching... you will not be sorry! Do keep us informed of your progress. By reading your comments, and what your doctor said, I see no medical reason for you to be circ. Good luck!