Hi, I am 26 and I recently discovered that I have Phimosos.

I tried to have sex last year and recently this year but it hurt horribly. Then I started reading the resources. I even saw a GP yesterday. He said that I am too old for the stretching to work and that I needed to get circumsized anyway. Nevertheless he has given me a topical cream and asked me to try stretching. My opening is about 1 cm wide at peak arousal. I am starting the stretching shown in the pictures, taking it to the maximum possible limit that I can comfortably bear.

My question is, is 26 too late to get this fixed?

Thanks so much in advance.

No one needs to get circumcised. This is a ploy to generate income, so don't fall for it.

No, it isn't too late. Your body continuously regenerates until death. Therefore, skin expansion will work at any time. As we age, things might take longer, but they still work. However, you are at least half a century away from having to be concerned with that.

Could you please tell us what the name of the cream is?

wow, i feel great to hear that!
The label says:
ratio-ectosone crm 0.1%
betamethasone val 0.1%

thanks guys:)

You would appear to be amongst the few here to have encountered a competent doctor! Whilst I cannot agree with the proposition that you might "need" a circumcision, and it is quite ridiculous to suggest that you are "too old" for stretching, he has nevertheless prescribed you the correct cream (though my preference would have been for the ointment version, but perhaps that is not so readily available), which demonstrates that he is competent in the field of pharmaceutical therapeutics and actually understands what the steroid is required to do.

In a sense, he has issued you a "challenge" to motivate you - let's hope it is effective (the motivation, not the cream which we already know works)! You are to "prove him wrong" when you go back and say, "Look, this is what I have done with stretching - it works perfectly and I have no problem at all".

I gather from your description of the label on the cream, that there is only one major ingredient; the first name is the trade name and the second is of course, the drug name itself, betamethasone valerate. The 0.1% is the most desirable (highest) strength. You will need very little - as explained (often) before, you need to apply it only to the tight part of the foreskin, and not so much as it feels markedly "greasy" afterward. You apply it after the stretch, or at a different time, so that it does not get spread around on the foreskin or glans.

Saying you have started "the stretching shown in the pictures" doesn't quite help us know which; the most useful method of stretching the foreskin open would be this one, whilst you almost certainly also need to stretch the fraenulum.

Also of course, you don't specify why or how "having sex" hurt?

Well I am really glad to know that he prescribed a good cream I was advised to apply it all over the opening after achieving erection.

I tried the baloon test to find exactly where I was "fixed" but its really hard to tell. Will it cause damage if I apply the cream all over the foreskin. Usually, I simply insert a blob of the cream when I'm erect and once the penis shrinks I wrap the foreskin (as if folding clothes) for a few hours (do you understand what I'm tryin to say?) Is that alright?

Re: Stretching. My condition is exactly same as the picture you have provided, and I am following the exercises recommended for that condition (details on some other thread)

Re: Sex. I'm 26 and I was under church all along, so I had to abstain. Only few months back I quit and had my first sexual experience. However it was impossible to do anything - oral or even a handjob because it felt like my penis is going to explode when someone else touched it. It hurt, I could never have intercourse.. Thats when I realized something was wrong.

I really appreciate all the help here:) Thanks to the forum I'm determined to save the foreskin.

Apply the steroid sparingly just where the tight spot is.

Well, "all over the opening after achieving erection" sounds quite a reasonable description. When you try to retract with an erection, it will generally look something like this - there is an edge which is the tight band all round, preventing further retraction. That edge is where you need to apply the cream, nowhere else and it is probably preferable not to get it on the glans. When you pull it back like that, most of the "edge" will end up on the outside.

The "balloon" trick is to determine whether there are any remaining attachments of the glans proper to the foreskin - there probably are not in your case, and the part you are holding closed will be the tight band anyway, so you are looking at different things. If it looks like a nice little "balloon" and is completely concealing the glans, then there are no adhesions of any concern. If (apart from the frænulum on the underneath,) there are any pieces of the balloon "missing", then you might have an adhesion.

I think it is very apt that you say "it felt like my penis is going to explode when someone else touched it" because there is nothing wrong with that - it is entirely to be expected. Clearly you, being the owner of the penis, know exactly how much pressure and not too much, to use to make it pleasurable. A young lady who does not possess a penis, really has no idea - any more than you would of how to handle her clitoris, which is normally every bit as sensitive as your protected glans - because hers is protected also.

Even if she had experience with penes before, this may have been with circumcised men, who are nowhere near as sensitive, or with intact men whose foreskin retracts easily. If she then attempts to pull your foreskin back and/ or suck on your glans as if it was one of these, she probably expects it to go back easily and you to be less sensitive. The problem is not yours, it's her lack of familiarity and care. You can't expect her to know all about you, and I wonder how you might have fared stroking or tonguing her?

In fact, you probably could have had intercourse (if that was appropriate, and without a condom, I would say it would not be) - if she was sufficiently lubricated for it to happen - which is something you will see I have discussed frequently here before.

Thanks Paul for the detailed explaination from a medical and psychological point of view.

My situation is much worse than the picture you have shown, the opening is smaller, but yeah its something similar. Now I know where to apply the cream.

super!

I'm 25, started stretching 2 months ago (using a plastic insert I just made myself) and my PHIMOSIS IS ALREADY COMPLETELY CURED. I still have a tight frenulum (it even tore while I was stretching), but I'm keeping at it as it has already improved a whole lot. It's never to late!

Look at the people stretching their penis-skin to restore the foreskin they lost at circumcision, I've seen people in their 60s do that.

Could you tell us more about the device you made? What is it made of, and how is it shaped? Did you need more than one?