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Had circumcision, the “important stitch” popped (Dorsal slit).

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Got a circumcision

From day 2 after taking the wrap off I noticed a small open wound created by one of the sutures leading into the prepuce near the corona. as well as sutures with strange knot formations with smaller less noticeable wounds. One of the strange knot formations is where the open cut was. This didn’t really bother me. I was worried about a collection of dried blood leading left of the surgical sight about three or four sutures, as well as inhabiting the surgical site completely. There was a formation of a noticeable bump of black blood or scar tissue protruding from the surgical site, it felt off, it felt painful. It was very visible and was directly on a stitch. The two little stitch hairs were poking out. a couple days later my entire prepuce is swelled up and that initial cut by the corona is getting bigger. The stitches were poking through the puffed up prepuce in all sorts of directions and it was really swelled up and painful, it was also more of an orange yellow red than anywhere near my normal skin color. Soon after a small white bubble formed on the head of the black bump, between the stitch hairs, as well as a small amount of blood just around that small stitch. I went to my surgeon, doc said I was healing good.

A day or two later the red from the stitch spread streaks forming across the frenulum line and across the foreseen dried blood sutures. A couple more days later I was able to see the purple skin of the shaft underneath the surgical site and now gooey openings of yellow mixed with dried blood, which wasn’t even coming off but blending into the mess of the sutures. Stitches began falling out and coming apart around the dried blood area and surgical site.

A couple days later out of discernment I went to another doc. Doc said it was infected and gave me local and topical antibiotics.

I felt ill a couple days later.

I had went to get a referral from this new doctor to see someone

The referral would be a month away.

I decided to go back to the facility. I specifically told doc to send my referral to one place but for some reason they sent it back to my original doctors before putting it as a referral to the correct new hospital so I could get another opinion from a urologist. That is confusing that he went directly against my wishes.

The second urgent care doc said to put hydrogen peroxide on it and I would not be receiving another, quicker referral and that I didn’t know what I was talking about. I think doctor google might have hit his ego since he is only an urgent care doc. (Is this a red flag?)He prescribed ibuprofen and more topical antibiotic well after first making a mistake inputting pharmacy when I specifically told him what to put. I did the hydrogen peroxide treatment, maintained a balanced diet, most importantly fruit. I don’t think I’d have made it without fruit in all honesty, but back to the point. The peroxide treatment I did, mostly water and a bit of peroxide on a large gauze pad. After day one of treatment that corona area suture fell out and you could see the shaft, this location was bad because each time I needed to pull back the painful ring of prepuce to clean underneath the head of the penis, which had built up some smegma. Each time I did that I could feel it hurting and pulling away at the shaft skin which was supposed to be connected. The stitch next to it popped with a sharp zing like feeling within my penis a bit later.

Eventually, after three or four days,

the rest of the stitches around the site were pulled out due to the hydrogen peroxide treatment, leaving the surgical site completely open to heal. One good thing is that the swelling from the prepuce went down completely due to I guess a loosening and falling out of those sutures and a decrease in inflammation. Though, a day later the prepuce was a bit swollen, no where near as bad as before, but still needed drainage, oh and painful to touch still. There were still a couple of stitches left around I don’t even know but it was pretty itchy all around. there is now open shaft popping out by the corona with a little white string coming out of it. (cotton or anything?)

The surgical site got smaller as the days went by, but I decided that since these doctors weren’t going to cut it I had to go back to my original doctor surgeon. I scheduled but they said doc was doing surgery and I would be talking with another doc. This doc said I was healing and it would take a few weeks more. I have been healing for these past couple weeks and it’s like there are different layers to the penis. The surgical site scar looks and feels like raised skin and it is more on the hard side, I’ll have to wait some time more but I’ll be going in somewhere soon for another look. Pls let me know if you know what is going on because I don’t think it will heal the way they say. Doc says if issues persist then I would need to talk to a reconstructive surgeon about “foreskin things”. But also tried to scare my poor father by saying people would take your money no questions asked and that these procedures like skin grafts etc could cause more harm than good. Is this guy telling the truth? I wonder if I should go back and have a convo with my original surgeon after I have it checked by the place I was referred by the earlier doctors. Just to see if all of the points line up? Any and all advice is helpful, sorry for normal people reading this for explaining in medical terms but that’s how they gaslight you. It’s about a month and a half I’m still wearing wraps, I started with Vaseline, Neosporin, cold compress etc. After the opening I was told wet to drys would heal it better from the bottom up. If I don’t wear my wrap everything is super painful. I have trouble breathing and can’t move how I would want to. My biggest challenge right now is taking showers, they take over my usual time cleaning is hard, and my ball hairs poke into the damn surgical site, which is still painful to the touch.

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Post op healing can take many weeks. Why do you not discuss this with your father and get his view on the healing. I am not sure that you are the best person to judge. If sutures come out early, the wound will still heal by secondary intention - from below.

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Granolaloverss in reply toNorwich1

How long does healing from second intention take after the whole site is open and bloody, after infection?

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Norwich1Moderator in reply toGranolaloverss

There is no set time for such healing

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Granolaloverss in reply toNorwich1

When should I be able to stop wearing my wraps, because the pain without a wrap is extreme. with the wrap it is annoying and I can’t focus well. I want to go back to my job but I physically can’t, doctor I last saw said I could go back to my job, I said pain was too bad, he said then stay out for a few weeks because healing will take a few weeks. He said I was able to go back the day I went there if I do desk work and in a few weeks if heavier work. I don’t see myself able to do any sort of work even desk work without a wrap as of today, (a few weeks later)

I don’t want this to have set my life back because of negligence.

Any more info would help

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Granolaloverss in reply toNorwich1

U sure know what you’re talking about. Side eye

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Side eye???

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Granolaloverss in reply toNorwich1

I went back, asked questions. Asked for neurology referral due to the nerve pain. Which I still have. They ended up terminating care after asking if I had weapons. If I had depression, if I wanted to see a psychiatrist. Common manipulation tactics in the Med. I still have severe pain and I am still working on getting to a neurologist for proper evaluation. I think I am very suitable to judge, and at this point I will be suing for medical malpractice.

I wasn’t given wraps and had to force them to write me a letter for more time off work. I guess they realized not doing that would be stupid on their part.

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you have to wear wrap until it completely heals , it will take at-least 3 months to properly heal and do visit the Dr who had performed ur surgery, he will guide you for faster healing

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Granolaloverss in reply toMyself_123

I went back, asked questions. Asked for neurology referral due to the nerve pain. Which I still have. They ended up terminating care after asking if I had weapons. If I had depression, if I wanted to see a psychiatrist. Common manipulation tactics in the Med. I still have severe pain and I am still working on getting to a neurologist for proper evaluation. I think I am very suitable to judge, and at this point I will be suing for medical malpractice.

I wasn’t given wraps and had to force them to write me a letter for more time off work. I guess they realized not doing that would be stupid on their part.

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zara1986 in reply toGranolaloverss

dam im sorry ur are going through this, im getting cut may 8th and im scared as hell. how are u doing now?

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I hope your circumcision helps your penis health problem.

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I think this might be a rare incident. There were so many problems after I couldn’t count them on the tips of my fingers.

I wonder why they said initially I was doing better than 80 percent of their patients.

Theyve only done Neonatal Circumcisions, that’s on babies

Before you get the circumcision make sure the practice is good, especially if you had phimosis like me. And make sure to ask questions about the procedure and write them down. Forbid something happens to you you’ll have evidence.

Now, I am still in excruciating pain. I have to wear a soft wrap dry for the pain. And if it starts slipping it is excruciating. And none of the doctors before gave me soft wraps even when I asked, up until 2 months after.

They tried to stick a camera up my penis on day 8 when I already had an infection they said I didn’t have. For clarification, that’s not something you do with someone who has an infection. It can cause to further infection, sepsis and death. They also tried putting me on so many meds that I would die from appendicitis or respiratory failure. Benadryl, tramadol, ibuprofen, Tylenol. And this is after I was doing long term use of ibuprofen 800. These shouldn’t be taken long term. The Benadryl took me through a loop. You expect me to be on all these meds and just go back to work. Later they denied me wraps, further care from a neurologist, and terminated care.

After I stayed alive, stayed strong, and questioned them further they just couldn’t take it. Because over time. Your lies will come to truth. This is the reason they terminated care, I caught them in lie after lie, lie after lie. The surgeon was pissed that his manipulation tactics he held in high regard didn’t do anything to me. They will receive their judgment in due time.

I plan to go to court now and bring all their lies to the surface because I am alive and still in extreme pain and no one can explain anything to me.

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Granolaloverss in reply tozara1986

I think this might be a rare incident. There were so many problems after I couldn’t count them on the tips of my fingers.

I wonder why they said initially I was doing better than 80 percent of their patients.

Theyve only done Neonatal Circumcisions, that’s on babies

Before you get the circumcision make sure the practice is good, especially if you had phimosis like me. And make sure to ask questions about the procedure and write them down. Forbid something happens to you you’ll have evidence.

Now, I am still in excruciating pain. I have to wear a soft wrap dry for the pain. And if it starts slipping it is excruciating. And none of the doctors before gave me soft wraps even when I asked, up until 2 months after.

They tried to stick a camera up my penis on day 8 when I already had an infection they said I didn’t have. For clarification, that’s not something you do with someone who has an infection. It can cause to further infection, sepsis and death. They also tried putting me on so many meds that I would die from appendicitis or respiratory failure. Benadryl, tramadol, ibuprofen, Tylenol. And this is after I was doing long term use of ibuprofen 800. These shouldn’t be taken long term. The Benadryl took me through a loop. You expect me to be on all these meds and just go back to work. Later they denied me wraps, further care from a neurologist, and terminated care.

After I stayed alive, stayed strong, and questioned them further they just couldn’t take it. Because over time. Your lies will come to truth. This is the reason they terminated care, I caught them in lie after lie, lie after lie. The surgeon was pissed that his manipulation tactics he held in high regard didn’t do anything to me. They will receive their judgment in due time.

I plan to go to court now and bring all their lies to the surface because I am alive and still in extreme pain and no one can explain anything to me.

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zara1986 in reply toGranolaloverss

Wow I can't believe that I'm honestly shocked wtf I'm so sorry bro

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Granolaloverss in reply tozara1986

Yeah, I’ve decided to get therapy, I have an appointment soon. Just to clear my head and talk to someone.

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I went back, asked questions. Asked for neurology referral due to the nerve pain. Which I still have. They ended up terminating care after asking if I had weapons. If I had depression, if I wanted to see a psychiatrist. Common manipulation tactics in the Med. I still have severe pain and I am still working on getting to a neurologist for proper evaluation. I think I am very suitable to judge, and at this point I will be suing for medical malpractice.

I wasn’t given wraps and had to force them to write me a letter for more time off work. I guess they realized not doing that would be stupid on their part.

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