Howdy.

I was told by a doctor of norm uk two weeks ago that I have a "severe grade 2 phimosis" which means I cannot retract while flaccid or erect. I have been stretching for two months however as I was aware of my condition. using the two finger method and the bauge method and have gone from tight phimotic to making results. I can retract to the "rim" after getting warmed up with about 10 mins of bauge stretching while flaccid, and about 3 quarters of the way when erect. Prior to stretching I was not able to reveal hardly any of the glans at all, so this is obviously a result in some way - painful sex was what caused me to want to stretch.

However I am still stretching to try and echieve full retraction. I have not used the two finger stretch for a while due to the bauge method helping. I have been using the Bauge method daily for 2 weeks now. However, further with the bauge method may cause the skin to go over the glans, and i dont want that paraphimosis. Course, I know you have to leave it there to get it, but it's just the general thought of the idea of it happening, bit scary.

Just wondering, I would assume that with results as described I am HOPEFULLY A good way to achieving retraction? How should I go about stretching from now on? Shoudl i continue the bauge method, and also reintroduce the two finger stretch? OR one or the other?

Cheers

Here's a link to his thoughts: http://www.cirp.org/library/treatment/phimosis/beauge/

Well, if you were to read back over the many threads within this site, you'd learn that we favor the two finger method. That's what I recommend to you.

If you cannot retract when flaccid, then painful intercourse is most unlikely to relate to a tight foreskin. The reason is twofold, firstly that if sexual lubrication is sufficient there should really not be enough force pulling the foreskin back to cause it to be stretched to a painful degree, and secondly that it is only when it is such that it "nearly" retracts, that it is strongly stretched by the glans acting as a "wedge" to open it out further.

The cause of pain is more likely to be either an adhesion (read back here regarding the "balloon test") or a short frænulum - so I really do recommend that you be working on the frænulum stretch - indeed you should be doing this instead of worrying about "paraphimosis" - when you have the foreskin loose enough to slip back easily (which you will need the "two finger" method to achieve) you will want your frænulum to be loose enough as well or you will still have a complaint about painful intercourse - even presuming that you have sorted out the lubrication problem.