Hello! This is my first post here, but I’ve been a member since a little bit before my surgery. I wanted to wait a little bit until I shared my journey, since I wanted to make sure everything was going well.
I’m sharing a bit of my backstory for anyone who has a similar one and is considering circumcision.
I had phimosis since I was a child. I remember my glans was painful to touch when showering so I decided I wasn’t going to do much about that, pull my skin back and such. When puberty hit I started exploring and found out that I cannot pull my skin back when erect, even though it was fine when flaccid. I started jerking off with my skin being over my glans all the time. At one point around 18 i decided I should try to resolve what I assumed by then was phimosis. I tried multiple stretching techniques and creams and such, without much luck.
*I want to make a point here: stretching and corticosteroids help only with very young children and even then the chances are it won’t work.
So anyways, 19 came around and I started studying medicine. That’s where I realized that anything but circumcision won’t work. With the information and the professionals around me constantly, I started to realize all the potential problems that could occur if I didn’t resolve my issue. Because I was constantly busy during my first 3 years of uni, I didn’t get around to doing the surgery, plus I was still building up the courage.
That’s when we come to August of last year, when I decided it was time. However, the doctor that I went to thought that I might not need a circumcision, so he decided on performing a frenulectomy. I will skip through that part, cause apparently it didn’t do much.
Fast forward to August this year when I decided to visit the doctor again (a different one this time). Because I was a student, I took some shortcuts and found a surgeon that I trusted.
*One quick point here, feel free to say no to anyone that you feel won’t do a good job, try to read up on the whole thing before doing any type of surgery. There’s a lot of horrifying botch stories.
Anyway, on the 12th of August I got circumcised. The surgery by itself is unpleasant but bearable, nothing to be scared about. I did it in local anesthesia and it went well, lasting about an hour. After it was done, I was bandaged and sent home with a list of medications I should buy (just antibiotics and anti-swelling meds). Tomorrow was the first check up, where they took the bandage off, cleaned up the wound and put a new gauze dressing on. From then on, I was told to clean the wound by myself at least once a day with an anti-septic spray and change the dressing regularly.
When it comes to personal care at home, I had some luck. My swelling was relatively prominent, so it was pushing my skin from the shaft of my penis up. That allowed me to have a skin flap over my glans at all times so I didn’t have much discomfort when it came to movement. Morning erections were unpleasant but not painful.
On day 12 I got my sutures removed at the urology clinic where I got operated on.
So we come to today, day 14, I finally managed to jerk off. The swelling is still present on one side, it’s interfering with masturbation a bit but it’s nothing dramatic. I’m trying to get my glans a bit used to the environment, so I rub it with vaseline slowly. I already noticed the sensitivity started going down. I was advised to not have intercourse for a full month after the surgery, so around 2 more weeks. I couldn’t manage not masturbating anymore, but I’m being careful.
I hope I helped someone with this story, and if anyone has any questions feel free to ask. I probably forgot to mention half of it.
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