Okay, so here's my story.

About a year ago, I found out I have phimosis. I researched it and stumbled across this site, where I found out about foreskin stretching etc. Over the year I stretched my foreskin on and off. At first, I couldn't retract it when flaccid or erect. Now, fast forward a year later, I can fully retract when flaccid (skin completely off the glans and down the shaft) and retract when erect (skin off the glans, but not down the shaft). My glans also used to be hypersensitive, but after wearing my foreskin down for a couple of days it lost this hypersensitivity so I can now touch it/clean it without it being extremely sensitive. This sounds all good right? well I'm still having problems, which is why I stumbled back onto this site.

Here are my problems.

1) I am pretty sure I have frenulum breve. My frenulum is VERY short. When I retract completely when flaccid (off the glans and down the shaft), the head of my penis has to bend forward a bit to compensate for my really short frenulum. Also when I retract when erect, my short frenulum makes it painful, and it also restricts it from retracting fully down the shaft.

2) My "ring' is still pretty tight; when retracting my foreskin when erect I notice that the ring constricts my shaft a bit. (but not too much)

3) I've noticed with regular uncircumcised guys they can retract their foreskin when erect with complete ease, and it sometimes even happens on its own. For me I have to tug it down, and tug it back up, which sometimes can take awhile.

I really want to fix these problems, but so far stretching has only done so much. I would really prefer to not have to do any types of surgery but if I have to I will. Is it possible to fix my short frenulum without surgery? Will the phimotic ring loosen if I just stretch it more? With a looser phimotic ring and longer frenulum, will I be able to retract more easily, have less pain, and be able to completely retract down the shaft when erect?

Thanks so much in advance for the help. I feel that I'm close to finally fixing this problem so I really don't want to just give up on everything and have surgery, so any advice would be greatly appreciated.

What worked before will continue working, if you do it. Why aren't you still pursuing this endeavor with the same enthusiasm?

As for the short frenulum, that's easily solved by doing this:



Doing this will allow further retraction. If you continue to work on whatever you did to loosen the ring, you'll find retraction easier too.

I'm curious where you picked up the term "phimotic ring?" That is a term we've never used here, but it is used regularly by sites which promote circumcision. Those sites can be very detrimental to the well-being of your penis.

Two things:

1. Exactly what "exercises" you are using to stretch - and how you are doing them.
   
   
2. More particularly, have you been doing the one (as Jim illustrates) to stretch the frænulum - and if you are not doing it already, I'd really like to know why?

Thanks a lot for the responses, guys.

@Jim:

I'm not necessarily less enthusiastic, it's just I've been becoming impatient with the fact that I haven't seen much progress recently.

As for your advice, I have done that stretch before, but not as regularly as plainly stretching my foreskin. Would this method regularly stretch out even the smallest of frenulums to an appropriate length? because mine is quite small.

As to where I got that term, I have no idea. I thought it referred to the "ring" inside of your foreskin which is what you are supposed to stretch.

@Paul

1. Well, I have been stretching my foreskin by putting my fingers in there and pulling apart; I think I saw how to do it from a photo someone posted on this site.

2. Yes, I have been doing it but not regularly. I didn't know it could completely stretch out a short frenulum, I thought it could just stretch it out a little. So now ill probably try doing it every day.

And I have another question. Would retracting the foreskin while erect and kind of pulling down until the frenulum becomes really tight be another appropriate way or stretching it?

Yes, pulling on the end of the frenulum will eventually lengthen it to whatever length you wish. Your idea may provide some tension, but try our method first.

I have to suspect - as someone else or in fact, a few people here have astutely observed - that if things are not happening, it is because you are not really doing either stretch particularly enthusiastically.

And "enthusiastically" particularly means regularly - a few times each and every day. We know how this works (or in fact, fails to work ) - it was pointed out in no uncertain terms in a lecture I attended a couple of days ago (and the food was good too!), that when an important medication (to reduce blood pressure and/ or cholesterol) is prescribed by a doctor; one that needs to be taken essentially for the rest of a lifetime in order to perform its task and provide continued protection to the heart etc.; that in fact only about half of patients are still taking it after the first year or so. And that, even if they are telling the doctor that they are taking it, and coming back at approximately the correct times to collect repeat prescriptions and such.

It is quite remarkable to what extent people can convince themselves that they are "following the instructions" accurately.

The point is: It (stretching) works if you do it and to the extent that you do it. There is no "limit" at which it will "fade out" or suddenly cease being effective, either at the beginning or later in the process. If it stops working (granted that I mean stops, and not to be confused with temporary slow-downs) and unless some other problem such as infection has occurred - which should be relatively self-evident - it is no more or less than the result of becoming less determined and regular with the process.

Yes, of course it can be boring to keep doing the stretching. But if you are half-hearted about it, you are only making the process longer and causing your own disappointment. And of course there may be some temptation to "try something different" such as retracting, because that seems to more closely resemble what you wish the end result to be, but we doggedly stick to the particular advice of two specific manoeuvres because as far as we can see, they are the ones offering the greatest "bang for the buck" - in fact, the simplest and easiest way of applying the maximum force for the longest time practical, to the two specific areas which require to be stretched.

And when I mentioned above medications needing to be taken essentially for the rest of a lifetime, that is very different from the situation of stretching. Notwithstanding some deliberately misleading information promulgated on circumcision "fetish" sites, once you achieve your stretching "target", and give it a little "over-kill" by continuing for a couple of months beyond that target point, you will not need to worry about it any further.

But - you have to get there first.