I had so many detailed examinations of my penis by several medics and over a period of several months when I was 12. They seemed to have disagreements in what might be my issue. They thought I had a tight foreskin and suggested circumcision. I was freaked out about the idea of having part of my penis cut off. One doctor was of the view this should be a last resort, and also said that the look of a circumcised penis often caused ridicule from other schoolboys. In any case it seemed to me that I would look very different to others. So I got my parents to oppose surgery and alternative doctors were enlisted, each time with me at an awkward age having to drop my underwear and let both men and women handle my penis as well as staring at it. A lot of foreskin pulling was involved, back and forth, but also attempts to see how wide they could pull my foreskin too. Bizarrely, they also measured my testicle size by comparing me against a range of standard egg shaped blocks. They said I had the testicles of a 15 year old at just 12 but I didn't really get why that might be a problem.
I suppose it didn't help matters that I was too embarrassed to give specifics regarding the discomfort I said that I felt. Specifically, I didn't volunteer that it only became an unbearable issue when I grew an erection.
From about 11 my testicles had grown rapidly, my penis too, and by age 12 I had pubic hair not just on my balls and base of penis, but some way along my cock too. I had been getting erections for years but they were becoming much more spontaneous and pleasurable to rub and I was now ejaculating strongly and frequently. I suppose I was addicted to masturbating. Anything would turn me on, my favorite being holiday brochures (bikinis, topless girls, & bulging speedos for guys) and underwear adverts (both male and female). Reading about sex was also a big turn on.
But each time I jerked off, I had to negotiate the treacherous phase of my foreskin drawing back across the swelling head of my cock. It felt like a tight rubber band cutting into my cockhead as though my cockhead was too big and I'd get sore, especially when I was wanking hard typically 3 or more times a day and for prolonged periods (not just 5 or 10 mins at at time).
Having frustrated the doctors away from their easy response of full circumcision for a tight foreskin, the medics explored the potential importance of my abnormally advanced development. I instinctively felt this was part of it too and had become well aware that I was genitally developed years beyond my age.
Although I avoided being nude with my peers I frequented the local swimming pool locker rooms where almost all were strangers who didn't know me. Back then, all showers and changing facilities were communal and open. For the older boys, bravado replaced the shyness of early puberty so getting a good look at lots of 15 year old cocks was easy. I realized that although most were a bit hairier, only a few had longer penises or bigger balls.
Another clue was that my underwear had become very ill-fitting with half of each of my balls peeking out and lifting the elastic off my leg at the leg elastics. The front of the waistband was also pushed away from my belly. I guess my 12 year old's underwear was now being asked to accommodate the genitals of a 15+ year old. I was too embarrassed to tell my mother, so the first and only things I remember stealing as a schoolboy were pairs of underwear off the washing line of older boys in the neighborhood. I had to tell my mother a lie to say I'd found them left at lost property from the locker rooms and they fitted me better.
The thing is, my foreskin was tight when I was flaccid but not so tight that it didn't retract (all be it with quite a bit of coaxing). What the doctors couldn't see was how different the situation was with an erection. Eventually I was asked if I got erections and if my discomfort was worse then. My parents weren't there so I felt I should fess up, even though I thought I might be told off for pleasuring myself. The doctor became particularly concerned when I said 'yes' to his suggestion that my foreskin didn't always come back over my 'helmet' without working it back down with a bit of pain, and that if I didn't draw it back over the head it would start to feel tight under the rim of my helmet.
Again I was told I really needed to have my foreskin either fully cut off or partly cut off or at the very least to have slits put in it to release tension. He urged me to think about it and in the meantime showed me how to stretch my foreskin enough to exercise it going back and forth and to apply an ointment he gave. He said that if any part of my penis started to change color that I should get my parents to call him right away so that he could have a look at it.
On my next check up he told me it would be best to have a circumcision, the sooner the better. He said less aggressive procedures were possible but without seeing for himself what I had described when I got stiff he couldn't safely prescribe anything less than a full removal. I was afraid I would have to give in soon, so when he wanted me to demonstrate practicing repeated retraction exercises, I took the opportunity to let my cock do its instinctive thing and respond a bit to rubbing it in front of him. Although only partly erect he could see how readily my glans had started to swell up and tried to insert some kind of tools under my foreskin to see how much it was tightening. I felt myself reddening in the face as I had only let myself be big when I was alone before. However, he could see how much my glans indented where the inside rim of my foreskin was squashing it. He said it wasn't my foreskin tightening on my penis, but that it was my penis becoming too large for my foreskin. I suppose I'd expected some reprimand when I'd confessed to getting erections but I hadn't been chastised for it, nor was I even when my penis started to grow in front of him. He was more interested in seeing how difficult it was to move my skin when my cockhead was swollen. I now felt less awkward about its ongoing growth which continued till I was at least three-quarters stiff, after which the to & fro was no longer possible and the tight band of my foreskin lodged behind the rim of my helmet, not to return till my penis softened again.
In the end, I did get fully circumcised, which I guess had been the right thing, but my unusual period of preoperative examination haunted me a bit to the point that I am now seeking more and more cases similar to mine. Of course back then I didn't know medical terms or understand my sexual development. Nor did I know what normal was ... what I thought abnormal usually wasn't, and what I thought normal sometimes wasn't.
I also now realize that phimosis (tight foreskin) isn't as rare as I'd thought, and erection phimosis is quite a common form (makes sense that a greatly enlarged penis makes things tighter, especially the glans).
I have now made contact with two other guys who had erection phimosis when going through puberty and whose doctors observed their penises when they were at least partially erect. One of those cases said he was fully erect and had been proactively encouraged to be by the specialist.