I've just come across a website advertising a device which claims to cure phimosis. It is called the GFS (gentle foreskin stretcher) and it works by inflating a small balloon in the tight opening of the foreskin. I think the idea is that you can leave it in for long periods, so the stretching pressure is maintained for longer than would be achieved with normal manual stretching exercises.I've no idea whether it will work, but I haven't seen it mentioned before on this forum, so thought it was worth bringing to your attention. Someone out there might be willing to splash out USD99 and give it a try.Details are on the GFS Platigo website - note that it doesn't display properly in Firefox, you need to use IE I would probably have given it a try myself if I still had my foreskin, but it's too late for me now
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Device to cure tight foreskins
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That's a ligitimate technique for curing naturally occuring phimosis. It was a technique developed by doctors in China who first use some anesthetic in the foreskin opening. What they detail using is an appropriate size balloon catheter (Foley?) which is very slowly inflated. Their subjects were small children, but their success rate approached 100%. There isn't any reason it wouldn't work on older subjects as long as the tightening isn't caused by trauma and scarring. I found their medical article using a Google search, so I'm sure it's still out there.US $99 seems a bit pricey when all you need is a balloon catheter.
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so if this is proven to work and what not...mabye I could give it a try?am at the point that I either have to wait to get reapplied for medicade before I can even THINK about getting a circumcision (...2 months and nothing has happened) or I can try this thing and keep my foreskin (sounds good to me!).
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There are also some threads on stretching your foreskin...do a search or look through the list. Sometimes a (relatively) low-cost prescription steroidal ointment can help.
There was a thread on a stretching device available in England...I forgot what it's called. It sounds like what the origial poster is talking about.
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Yeah I saw that post but stretching really hasn't helped me much. I'm probably not putting forth enough effort though.
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It takes time, week to months, in some cases. You need patience, and the steroidal cream can help. If you have bad phimosis (a kind of hard ring at the tip), then stretching may be very difficult.
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I wouldn't say there was a hard ring or anything, I can get about half way down the head of my instrument but erg.
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Definitely try to work on that then What I told one of my friends (who wasn't able to pull the skin down AT ALL when we started and didn't believe me it would work) is to pull the skin up forward until it's tight (this stretches the underused frenulum), and to try to open the skin with his fingers (kinda like you'd open a little bag or something) again until it feels tight -- and keep it that way for a while. Rinse and repeat In his case, in about 6 weeks I think, he was able to pull back when half-hard -- the frenulum was still a bit too short for that to be comfortable. [edit] oh bollocks, silly UBB eating my Unicode.
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Checked out the siteThe theory seems goodBut the site is poorly constructed and looks dodgy