My Circumcision Story

Got a dorsal slit just under a week ago.

Foreskin is really swelled, this happen to anyone else? How long does it take for the swelling to go down?

I didnt realise so many lads are in the same boat! Did any one hear of paraphimosis secondary? and if so, what the recommendations are for it. I was informed I need a full circumcision but want to explore all avenues before i go ahead and get it done.

Hello There,

To be honest urinating fo me has been great since the op, before the procedure i had to sit down all the time because it was spraying all over the place, now its great i can stand up, it may just be swelling that is causing u the problems, wait for it to go down and then see.

I had the op done just over four weeks ago, the last of the stiches came out last night, didnt expect it woudl take quite so long.

Anyway I have noticed that almsost overnight two tiny lumps have appeared near the scar joint, they are tiny little capers, soft to touch, is this normal? I expect they will disappear.

Dont want medical advice, just wondering if anyon else has had them?

My boyfriend had a circumcision about 3 months ago now due to medical reasons and he still is having problems, when we have sex he gets tender and sometimes we have to stop, does anyone else get this problem? he also has a lump on his penis near the stitches but were just putting it down to scar tissue.

Can anyone give me a rough idea of how much the procedure costs?

Late 30's here. Very tight foreskin that couldn't ever retract but managed to 'survive' until now. Should have dealt with it much sooner but not the easiest thing to deal with as a teenager or ever for that matter.
Sexually everything worked and as the biggest sex organ is the mind I had no real complaints about sensitivity and anyway, I had nothing to benchmark against! But there was always the issue of tearing, infection etc. and I suppose a curiosity about how things 'should be'.

So anyway, I went to my GP around Christmas and was referred to a surgeon for a consultation about having a vasectomy. While I was there, I did the "There's one more thing..." line and the rest is history.
Had the operations on Thursday. I couldn't really read this thread beforehand but managed to read it all today and the support and information on it is brilliant. I didn't get much information while in the hospital because to be honest my blood pressure dropped when the surgeon called around afterward and he quickly left my vicinity to let the nurses look after me!
All the staff were excellent... Went in at 9am, was waiting around for a good while in the hideous gown (brought a book). Anesthetist was a pet... felt the drugs coursing through my vein and then nothingness. Not very sore when I woke up, but uncomfortable just the same. Was bandaged up. Had a shower the next morning and the bandage came off and the emotional difficulties of the dog-chewed look (great description lol) were harder to deal with than any physical pain. Supposed to pull the skin back in the shower but that's not easy. There's plenty of sensitivity and the careful movements around the house are more in fear/anticipation of feeling something than actually feeling it if that makes sense.
Getting into comfortable positions can be a little difficult. Not loving it but this too shall pass. The earlier posts about being patient have been a great help. Fingers crossed.

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Late 30's here. Very tight foreskin that couldn't ever retract but managed to 'survive' until now. Should have dealt with it much sooner but not the easiest thing to deal with as a teenager or ever for that matter.
Sexually everything worked and as the biggest sex organ is the mind I had no real complaints about sensitivity and anyway, I had nothing to benchmark against! But there was always the issue of tearing, infection etc. and I suppose a curiosity about how things 'should be'.

So anyway, I went to my GP around Christmas and was referred to a surgeon for a consultation about having a vasectomy. While I was there, I did the "There's one more thing..." line and the rest is history.
Had the operations on Thursday. I couldn't really read this thread beforehand but managed to read it all today and the support and information on it is brilliant. I didn't get much information while in the hospital because to be honest my blood pressure dropped when the surgeon called around afterward and he quickly left my vicinity to let the nurses look after me!
All the staff were excellent... Went in at 9am, was waiting around for a good while in the hideous gown (brought a book). Anesthetist was a pet... felt the drugs coursing through my vein and then nothingness. Not very sore when I woke up, but uncomfortable just the same. Was bandaged up. Had a shower the next morning and the bandage came off and the emotional difficulties of the dog-chewed look (great description lol) were harder to deal with than any physical pain. Supposed to pull the skin back in the shower but that's not easy. There's plenty of sensitivity and the careful movements around the house are more in fear/anticipation of feeling something than actually feeling it if that makes sense.
Getting into comfortable positions can be a little difficult. Not loving it but this too shall pass. The earlier posts about being patient have been a great help. Fingers crossed.

Well it all didn't go swimmingly for me either....
The ops (circumcision & vasectomy together) were done on a Thursday... no real issues.
Fairly tender but not too painful.. very sensitive alright. I was prescribed ponstan forte 500 and could also take paracetamol.

Anyway, over the weekend and into the Monday everything seemed to be a bit too inflamed and the glans was super sensitive. Now this had never really seen the light of day due to a foreskin that couldn't ever retract so maybe that was contributing to it. The only real relief I could get was taking long soaks in the bath with epsom salts. I phoned the surgeon on the Tuesday morning (D-day +5) and he was able to see me in the county hospital and gave me a prescription for antibiotics... Augmentin Duo (500/125 I think). The wound was healing fairly well I thought but the sensitivity was still intense.
I was using melolin pads, vaseline and conforming bandage, taped up with silk tape at night time... letting it all hang out whenever I could.

So, Thursday was one week on and Thursday night into Friday morning I decided this wasn't working so I went to see a GP in my local medical centre... was out of pads so couldn't bandage it up. Driving wasn't pleasant, walking the short distance from the car to the doctors office was worse. Hand inside the tracksuit, looked like a dodgy sort of bloke
The doctor had the sort of reaction you'd expect any normal man to have - "Oh my God!" He gave me the martyr of the week award. It was a fairly heavy case of balanitis and he told me to stop taking the current antibiotics and gave me Flucloxacillin (4 times a day) and Calvepen (3 times).
So after taking them for half a day on Friday and all day Yesterday I finally began to feel a bit more normal today. 1 stitch came out this morning (hard black yoke, certainly not dissolved) and there was a small bit of bleeding along the cut line but I wasn't really worried about that because the glans seemed to be a bit clearer. This evening it's fairly comfortable - I've had to keep it bandaged because of people in the house and also can get dressed and feel more human rather than having it hanging over my pyjamas with the curtains drawn.
Getting there.

Op was 2 weeks ago today.
Been taking 2 antibiotics for the last 6 days on top of the augmentin duo I had taken for the previous 3.5 days.

It seems to be healing and the infection is dying down but there are still some traces of it remaining. Another stitch was out this morning - either I have had 2 different kinds of stitches or else I had a reaction to some of them because some were black and some were white. The black ones are gone now but they all were hard and intact (still knotted) when they came out so it was the body that dissolved rather than the stitch
The 4 that still remain are white and softer.
Where the black one came out this morning, the cut is the least healed but in general the wound is healing nicely and I'm pleased with it. I was surprised this morning to find it looking so improved, probably helped by the swelling having gone down too.

The glans still had matter on it and most of this comes away with the saline dip. There is still a couple of sore points on the glans and I'm concerned about my course of antibiotics ending tomorrow before it's fully healed so I've put in a call to my GP and will discuss that with him later today.

I wasn't prepared to be out of action for 2+ weeks and am finding it tough going at times but still trying to keep the chin up. Looking forward to getting out and about.
When I have to go out and also in bed at night, the melonin pads with vaseline, conforming bandage and silk tape is the business. Got a couple of tight enough briefs too and need to get more of them as they seem like the best idea. Still, the thought of tucking Mr. Man into the jocks without any bandage makes me wince a little so I'm not 'cured' yet