4 months after circumcision

[Pcbuell99]

I got circumcised 4 months ago. My healing process was unfortunately longer than most people and took 6 weeks for stitches and cuts to fully dissolve and heal. It has now been 4 months and I am curious, is it normal for the skin to still be pink, the incision line to be raised and bumpy, and for there to be some pain when trying to masturbate or have my partner play with it pulling the skin?

[Timthemoth]

It all depends on age, general health, and how well the wound has healed (no infection, wound maintenance, sexual abstinence...doing what the surg told us to do!).FredFlintsone gave a good reply in Qwerty1000's post 3 days ago about his timeline for healing. It is worth a read.

The 'cosmetic' result or look can take a year or so to settle down according to most guys' experience reported on this site and can be helped by products such as Bio Oil and that special post op surgical gel to reduce scarring.

It may be wise to reduce friction round the scar line during sex if there is pain and concentate attention on other erogenous zones in the meantime. The pain may indicate that inner healing of the wound is still occurring after outer healing is completed.

Hang in there Mate...it's one helluva of a journey but there are incremental improvements over time in the healing process as you will have experienced up to now.

[MerlinTheWizard]

My recovery is still on going with similar problems that you experienced and i had my op September of last year. Numerous infections and extremely limited information available, Circumcison in general has very little information on the before and after awareness which is a travesty in itself. On the whole i agree with Timthemoth there are incremental points of healing.

I had the op because of medical reasons and the procedure has fixed that issue so i cant complain there but it has created other issues with the cosmetic appearance, size difference and healing aspect, had i known everything to this point now i may have went a different way.

[Pcbuell99 in reply to MerlinTheWizard]

Agreed. Very limited information out there. Glad I found this forum. I think I still would go through but the information ahead of time would have calmed my concerns.

[Devon-uk]

Hi. I'd say it's taken longer for sure. Not sure how bumpy is bumpy. There is definitely a pronounced change in colour at the skin join with the former inner skin redder. Happy to show you healing at 3 months for comparison. DM me your details...

[Norwich1 Moderator in reply to Devon-uk]

Can we please not offer, in postings on-forum, to share dick pics. Thanks.

[Jasper71]

18 month later the result is awesome. But recovery can be slow. I don’t recall pain at that point, but a few small bumps around the scar line yes. In fact, I’d say some very tiny bumps where the stitches were are still just visible and a little discolouration. But this is all lost against the health benefits and just how totally awesome my new cock looks!!

Really - hang on in there buddy it’s a slower recovery than we thought but the end game is so much better - I was cut because of balanitis and phimosis. Now just wish I’d been brave enough to have down it 20/30 years earlier!!