i am 25 years old. i have phimosis. the opening of my foreskin was about half a centimeter straight across. i have browsed through this site and done tons of reading.

i have been stretching for exactly a month now. i use pen caps and sawed off empty pens. i leave them in all day and take them out at night.

i have been able to stretch the opening to 1 centimeter across.

the thing is, in the morning, the opening is back to half a centimeter. the skin around it is also white now, is this new skin forming? well, when i go to stretch it, it stretches right back and wider, but doesn't stay if left alone for a period of time. even masturbation will make it stretch back. this is normal right? the skin cells just haven't formed yet, right?

been using vitamin E oil as a lubricant. any thoughts on those creams that fade scars? was thinking about using the hydrocortisone. i've given up on my doctor prescribing me any kind of betamethasone.

You've already doubled the width of the opening, so that's remarkable. Although by morning, the progress seems to have disappears, you have no problem achieving the same results, right? That's good.

What you are probably experiencing is the tightening of the little muscle.

I know nothing about the scar fading creams. You really shouldn't have any signs of stretching if you're being gentle.

i have been gentle. i won't push it any more than it can handle. if it hurts, i don't do it. it took a few weeks to move up to wider objects.

i am worried about this white ring. it wasn't there before. it just came about with the stretching. it is only there when the opening has shrunken back to this tiny little thing. when i stretch it out nice and wide, the white is gone.

any thoughts?

If there is no impediment to stretching, it is very likely nothing. If you start having problems with the stretching, then we have a problem.