Tight Foreskin or Phimosis

Has any guy ever had a medical examination during which the doctor suggested that your foreskin might be tight. Did this end up in you being circumcised, or was some other treatment suggested, or was it ignored and the next time you were examined, the doctor did not say there was anything wrong?

Was circumcised at 12 after school medical

This is a fairly rare issue in the U. S. due to the very high circumcision rate.

Yes, this happened to me and I was circumcised

When the man urologist looked my penis, he just told me that I should stretch my foreskin, but next time when female urologist looked me, she suggested circumcision and I was agree with her and after two weeks i was circumcised.

When I started university and had a physical there, I was specifically asked if I was having any problems with my foreskin/had a foreskin check because apparently at a school physical I had when I was 15 my foreskin was tight. at the time I didn't even realise that this had been noted down or had even been checked. I just remember the doctor at the time trying to push it back, frowning and noting something down, but not asking me about it.

Anyway, I said that there was nothing wrong now, but I still had it moved forwards and backwards a couple of times.

Has any Dr mentioned a possibility of a tight foreskin since your university physical, and have you had it retracted by a Dr since?

I had it retracted by the doctor when she mentioned there was a note about it on my file. It goes back no problem now, even when hard. So after pushing it back she just said "i'll note down that that's no longer an issue". I still have it checked at every physical I go to - but I presume everyone has that?

I lately discovered this board.

When I was a child (in Europe, so no quasi automatic neonatal circumcision), my mother got scared when my cousin, her sister's little boy, had to get circumcised due to phimosis.

One day, I must have been 6 or so, my aunt was at home, and my mother and her went to my room. I had to remove my pants and underwear. Then, mother and sister examined my penis and retracted my foreskin (which was indeed very difficult to retract, pain ensued). In the end, my sister pronounced the situation far easier than for her son. I was then instructed to retract the small skin as much as possible when washing, and to wash underneath.

In the 4 or so following years, my mother regularly checked that 1) I indeed washed 2) the skin still retracted...

I did not have such an examination by a physician, but a cousin of mine did and ended up being circumcised. My mother, who had never paid much attention to my foreskin, then got scared and her sister (my cousin's mother) and her attempted to pull my foreskin back, which was possible but difficult and unpleasant - I evidently nearly had a phimosis. From then on for a number of years, mother periodically asked me to show her how it retracted, and insisted I washed under it every night.

And lo and behold, a medical fetish was born! Welcome to the forum!

LadyDoc

My pediatrician would always ask me that question as she rolled my foreskin back and forth. I did have a tightness problem until I was 17 when it finally went away.

At the age of 15 I was required to have a physical for school. The doctor examined my foreskin and suggested that I should consider having it circumcised. I told my mother that I wasn't having any problems with my foreskin so the circumcision was cancelled. A friend 2 years younger than me had his foreskin examined by the same doctor. His parents agreed to the circumcision. He was rather upset after the cut - "look what they did to my boy".

At the age of 31 the company doctor examined my foreskin and recommended circumcision as a means of improving my sex life. I declined.

Good for you. Why in the world would a company doctor have any say in your sex life unless you complained expressly to him?

And moreover why ever give such antiquated and medically unjustified advice in the first place? Especially since you say you didn´t have any problems. Did he get his degree in the 19th century perhaps?

To Agracier, Apparently someone had commented that I was spreading an STD around the company. I was not.

Well, nice to have caring colleagues ...

... that aside though, for an improvement of one´s sex life or as a protection against STD, I still don´t see what circumcision would have to do with either, lacking complaints on your part.

To agracier, I agree with you - there was no need for circumcision. It seems that many American doctors have a phobia with regards to a foreskin.

I also had a tight foreskin throughout my childhood. I remember every once in a while it would be painful and I'd complain about it to my parents. Thankfully they didn't always look themselves, and sometimes would try to make an appointment at my pediatrician. I was so young though I don't remember much.

One time I do recall better though is when we were visiting my grandmother and I was having problems. I believe I was 6. My parents suggested that I show her first, as she was a nurse. I remember being really embarrassed by this, even at the time.

I was finally able to retract it around age 12. I remember my female pediatrician at that time gently trying for me and suggesting that I try while letting hot water run over it in the shower. That's what eventually did the trick.

I always had a very long and tight foreskin.

I had until age 16 a bed wetting problem and recall having very intimate examinations by Urologists and Circumcision was often suggested as the long, narrow foreskin was thought to be a contributary reason for causing the wetting.

I did not have much tightness after age of 13 or so as I had discovered masturbation by then and that seemed to help.

Nothing was ever done to rectify my tightness though until I was 44 years old.

I woke one morning with a very sore,tight and very gungy Penis.

I saw my GP and he said I had Phimosis and Balanitis and I should require to be Circumcised.

This was brought about evidently as a side effect of my Diabetes where my Urine was very strong and had given me infection and had literally burned and fused the foreskin.

I have always been fastidious with my personal hygene and was alarmed that this had happened and quite lterally ,Overnight.

I was duly Circumcised and I have to wonder why, during all those many examinations and Doctors suggestions was I never Circumcised much earlier.

I ended up getting full circumcision two days after one of my regular exams.

When I was 4-5 years old my foreskin became tight, so my mum take me to a specialist who had to retract it with some kind of a metal device. It was quite painful as far as I can remember but thankfully it solved the problem till nowadays 😃

When I was very young I had a tight foreskin and our doctor, who recommend that my brother and I not be circumcised when we were born, did a stretching procedure. I was young enough that I have no memory of it or when it happened. Every so often Mom would put me on the kitchen table and retract my foreskin. It was tight and painful. Mom would clean the glans and then she would let me return the foreskin which was very easy to do. When Mom touched my glans it was so sensitive that it was a strange feeling it almost hurt. When I was 6 Mom said I should now do it myself. I said I would and later when she asked about it I said I did only I didn't until I was 12. When my brother was 13 I saw him in the bathtub and he retracted his foreskin with ease. I asked him about it and he said one day it snapped and was easy ever sinse. When I took my bath I tried it and it was hard and I didn't retract it all the way. As my penis grew one day I retracted it and it was easy, all the way to the base of the glans which I had never seen. No doctor has ever retracted my foreskin. When I joined the Navy, I had heard that circumsicion was mandatory, I was asked to retract my foreskin, I did and was never ever asked to do it again. Later I retracted my foreskin and left it that way for 30 years. With in a few weeks my glans had added a few layers of new tissue and became numb. When my daughter refused to have her sons circumcised I decided to return mine to it's proper place and in a few months my glans turned purple again and regained some of it's sensitivity. During intercouse the climax is the same but there many sensations that are missed by all circumcised men. A tragedy done daily in hospitals all over the world. If a man keeps his penis clean and doesn't stick it in dirty places diseses will not get transferred.

Yes, the paediatrician did that and the school doctors.

The paediatrician spoke to my mom that I should have circumcision, but she did not accept and asked if there would be another possible treatment. The paediatrician did a kind of distension therapy, which was successful after a while.

I was 12 and entering puberty when I realized that my foreskin was too tight to be retracted over my glans whilst my penis was erected. One of my mother's friends was a pediatric nurse and she came over to have a look at it. She told me it was a phimosis and she and my mother agreed that streching exercises should be performed instead of a circumcision. Luckily it worked and I can retract my foreskin fully today.

I do have phimosis, as well as long redundant foreskin. I can retract only when flaccid, not at all during erection. The corona of my phallus engorges to a size that keeps my foreskin trapped over the glans. During coitus, I spend approximately 90% of my discharge through the foreskin and into the vagina. Leaving my phallus in the vagina, while in repose, allows the remainder to flow to the vagina. As such, my situation has never caused any problem. Our family doctor has suggested circumcision, but my wife and I have rejected the idea. I have been comfortable with my prepuce intact, and would not want to change it.

Employee medical department at my friends job recommends all men with Phimosis to see a specialist asap!

Usually I would lie down naked on my bed after taking a bath. My mother\'s friend would take my erected penis with three fingers and pull down the foreskin as far as possible without it hurting too much. After a while she would roll the foreskin back up and then retract it again.

This is the kind of scenario one would think belongs in a fantasied story ... you must have experienced special feelings about such a treatment, not to mention being aroused ... is there anything you can tell about that? I would think you would develop some kind of feeling towards the lady performing the treatment. It was after all not that much different from a form of masturbation ...

@Agracier: Well, from what I recall from back then is that I had very mixed feelings about this procedure. Of course I was aroused, but it was this sort of early teenager arousal that resulted from me being naked in front of a woman and knowing that she would touch my penis whilst this treatment. A stronger feeling was the shame that I felt from being exposed and, unsurprisingly, not being totally committed to this treatment, but rather being told by my mother that it was necessary and the lesser of two evils (the other being circumcision). Most of all, however, I remember the uncomfortable feeling of my too tight foreskin being stretched over the glans of my erected penis - it was not really a sharp pain, but felt not very nice all the same.

I didn't really have any sort of special feeling for this friend of my mother. I was rather ashamed to meet her on some other occasion than for the treatment, but that was really it. But my mother once mentioned that it was better that her friend was doing this treatment instead of her, since she did not want me to associate her hand with any pleasurable feeling whilst the stretching exercises.

@Yoanna: My mother and K. (her friend) told me that in their view it was necessary that K. would perform this treatment on me. They thought that if I was left alone with it I might simply make it easy for me and masturbate to a quick ejaculation to avoid any unpleasant feelings.

When I was younger my foreskin was quite tight. I remember during my school medical when I was about 7 or 8 stood before the Dr naked as he examined my penis. I became semi erect and when he came to retract my foreskin he held onto my bum with one hand and pulled it back with his other in order to stop me pulling away. I remember him doing it a few times it was quite tight and was sore when he had finished

I believe I never really had overly tight foreskin for real (I've been masturbating since I was quite young, and even though I initially was not able to pull the foreskin back all the way, it has always been moving quite ok) but still I do have a few experiences of this nature.. While my foreskin was moving, I had occassional redness and itching under the foreskin in early puberty (probably mild version of phimosis) so for the 8th grade school exam I made the mistake of honestly ticking the box about that issue in the pre-exam questionnaire. Nothing much came of that in the actual exam (everyone got genital exam anyway as a routine), but only years later I found out that this information has followed through in my papers all the way, as once in an exam the doctor asked me about that and obviosuly I got a genital exam as a result.

Another time, when I was about 25 y.o. and seeing a female doctor for another topic, I got a surprise suggestion that if I had nothing against it, she would suggest having a quick look also "down there" to make sure everything was ok. I have to say I was quite surprised, but consented to the exam so soon I found myself naked waist down on the exam table.. It was a private clinic and for sure she had no access to the papers from my earlier genital exams, but strangely enough when she started pulling back my foreskin to examine my glans she seemed to all by sudden pay a lot of attention to the movement of foreskin and started moving it back and forth a number of times eventually commenting that she though my foreskin was quite tight and asking me whether a circumcision has been considered?

Fair enough, I do have some mild tightness (especially if you try to pull it too gently) and I have to admit I had not been washing under the foreskin for a day given I had NOT expected to get a genital exam at all, so there was some accumulation of smegma underneath which I have realized increases the "feeling" of tightness and probably also made her think I was not taking care of my hygiene well enough because of the tightness, but still it was strange to first end up panties down in an exam where I least expected that and then hear circumcision suggested to me.. We did discuss it again in the end of the exam when I had my clothes back on, but I just told her I don't want to consider circumcision at least for now.. Still, I wonder what the papers now say about me and what happens if I have to see a doctor again in that clinic..