Examination of the foreskin

Guys: How old were you at the last examination of the foreskin. How and for what reason was the foreskin shown or had to be examined by the doctor?

I never had a doctor retract my foreskin. Even in the Navy it was never examined. One day, when I was very young, Mother picked my up and put on my back, on the kitchen table, and exposed my penis and said “I am going to fix your wetter”. She then took her thumb and fore finger of both hands and forced my foreskin back exposing the glans. It was tight and quite painful. She then using a damp cloth and cleaned off the smegma (she called cheese). The glans was so sensitive that it hurt to touch. This was done about once a year and when I seven I was told that from now on I was to take care of it myself. I didn't but when I was13, In Jr.Hi, I was standing at the urinal, between class I slid the foreskin and it popped over the end glans which I had never seen before and was worried that it not go back. It was clean and went back and a new game started.

I was a baby, I don’t remember. After this examination, I was circumcised.

My pediatrician checks it every year. My school doctor too. I had a light phimosis, and my foreskin stuck to the glans, that is the reason.

Age six when I was circumcised

Nobody has ever checked mine in 82 years. From my first memories until I was about 6 my mother used to slide it back to wash in there at bath time then she turned the job over to me. She watched me do it for a few years. She told me the doc asked her if she wanted me cut and she declined.

He told her that she would have to wash under it if she didn't have it removed. When I was about 6 or 7 the neighbor girl used to like to examine it because when she skun it back it would be instant hard-on which she liked to see but no one else, certainly not the doctor, has ever examined it.

When I was in the hospital a few months ago the nurse came in saying they wanted a clean urine sample. She said all I had to do was stand next to the bed and she would do all the work. She wiped it off with a wet wipe, then retracted the foreskin and wiped what she just exposed then put the sample cup in position while holding the skin back. When she was through, I wasn't, so she pinched it off to stop the flow and put that funny looking bottle they call a urinal over it to catch the rest. She then kept a grip on it while still holding it back until I was empty. She wiped my glans and let me put it away.

Probably when I was a few days old. Haven’t had one since!

School doctor at age 7. My foreskin was very tight. letter was sent home saying I needed to go to my doctor . He then said my father was to help me stretch it on an evening

Several years ago before I underwent circumcision I was examined a couple of times.

When i was quite young i couldnt retract my foreskin ,the doctor gave my parents a cream ,it had to be used once a day and dad used to apply it and check my skin would move back and forwards,this avoided me being circumcised.

@Alexx How did you feel about having your father do that? I would have preferred having my mother do it or even a sister.

I had mine thoroughly examined when I was 5 or 6 years of age. Mine wouldn't retract because of phimosis.

I was sent home with the task to stretch it, what I did in the warm water during bathing. It worked like a charm, and a week later, It retracted without any problems, thankfully. If I would not have been able to get it to work, I might have been circumcised.

It's still quite tight, and I like it that way 😃

At age 31, just before being circumcised. It was quite a cursory examination, as it was clear that I had severe phimosis and my foreskin would not retract even slightly.

I don't remember it ever being examined in a medical setting when I was young, and at that time it retracted fully and easily. After I developed phimosis around the age of 11 or 12 I was terrified that it would be discovered at a medical examination, but to my great relief it was never checked.

Is it actually common practice to check the foreskin during a normal checkup?

So also after the pediatrician. Or for what reason was it last checked?

It was when I was young, had to be retracted to check the head in any case.

My pediatrician examined my foreskin every time he visited me because it was tight. It happened until I was 12 when I was circumcised.

As a child, my doctor checked my foreskin at every physical until I was 17. He always said he was concerned about it being tight. Never had an issue with it. I think he just liked playing with it.

12 or so. When I was 6 or so my mother had become concerned I might have phimosis, as a cousin of mine did, and, probably on advice of our doctor, checked on me periodically for years afterwards.

In the later years these checks were embarrassing. Previously, they were scary as I knew my cousin had been circumcised and I knew mom had appreciated the clean look. Mom had a phobia of “germs” and really insisted on hygiene down there.

I'm cut (very loosely, though. Lots of extra skin still), but I remember sometimes at school physicals overhearing the doctor tell uncut guys to pull their foreskin back.

@JakeNewYork I think my cousin's phimosis was diagnosed first during a school physical, the doc giving a note to his parents to have him seen by their GP.

Just in my experiences, it was very common that my foreskin was checked during any physical. My pediatrician always examined my foreskin, glans and meatus. If anything, my foreskin was more loose than tight.

Additionally , most of the doctors that ever gave me a physical typically checked my foreskin along with my glans and meatus. These physicals included : in high school sports, college and employment exams. Whenever, a doctor does not take the time to check my foreskin it feels like an incomplete physical.

@Surfboard How we had different experiences in the same country. Of course I don't know our age difference but in my 82 years mine has never been checked. That should be about to change though as I am going to get my first ever skin check no thanks to my regular doctor, I just think it's about time so I'm going to make an appointment with a dermatologist.

… mine has never been checked. That should be about to change though as I am going to get my first ever skin check …

@roscoe I wouldn't be completely sure about that. My dermatologist views my penis and genitals in a round about way, but has never touched my genitals or even directly examined them. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't retract my foreskin if I had any. From what I've read on here, many dermatologists don't even have you remove your underwear. Every doctor is different though, hopefully you get a very thorough one.

In 2019?

I was circumcised very young, but an urologist wrote recently in his report: “good retraction of the foreskin”. Cut and paste? Or copy and paste from a sample report, in Europe the default is a “good retraction of the foreskin”.

In 2019?

I was circumcised very young, but an urologist wrote recently in his report: “good retraction of the foreskin”. Cut and paste? Or copy and paste from a sample report, in Europe the default is a “good retraction of the foreskin”.

Yes. The foreskin was permanently retracted by removal; therefore, very good retraction. But not good coverage.

I had some examination when I was young (less than 10) at the pedetrician with control of the retraction of the foreskin. And I never had another one until last week. It's not exactly the forsekin which has been checked, but the whole body, at my dermatologist's, including the penis and, of course, the forseskin (with a little retraction to see under).

My doctor checks always my foreskin in my physical. She retracts it once or twice and that's all.

I always had to retract the foreskin during exams growing up. The last time was when I was 18 and was examined by a military doctor.

I was 18, and it was part of my final school medical. The doctor retracted my foreskin as part of the genital exam. I have not had my foreskin examined since I left school.

In the UK we don’t have physicals - the first time I’d ever (beyond infancy) had a doctor examine my penis was when I went to ask for help with phimosis. The doctor then had me lie down, and he gently retracted my foreskin, pushed it back and forth a couple of times, then let me pull my trousers back up.

the cream didn’t help and I had repeats of the same experience with a couple of urologists until I ended up having a circumcision under general anaesthetic