Hi I am 19 yrs old and i also am suffering from frenulum breve coz i cannot retract the skin past the head when fully erect,

at first i thought it was because of my size since i am almost 7" length wise and also good girth wise too, but after realizing that i have this problem i want to get rid of it,

what would you suggest an operation (tying the knot) or stretching, although my skin rolls back behing the head when fully erect but that is the max it goes,

i also wanted to know how that if i took stretching and followed it religously would i be able to get it fully moveable up and down the shaft, Can stretching really make it that much flexible?

Have you ever looked through your great-grandpa's National Geographic magazines and seen the African women and their huge lower lips? That one example of what stretching skin can produce.

More recently (since about 1985), thousands of circumcised men have used skin expansion techniques to stretch the skin of their penises to produce a replica of their lost foreskins. Some are amazingly authentic looking. www.foreskinrestore.com

Yes, you can make your foreskin retract a lot more than it presently does. It will take time and diligence, but you can do it. I highly recommend it over any kind of surgery.

Here is what to do:

Well i have been reading through this blog and i am gonna try stretching over tying the knot thing coz it is just scary to use a needle around a balloon filled, i guess i will have to read a lot though as i have seen your other posts that is what u suggest so i will go read now and come later and tell you my experience.

Thanks!!!

I think perhaps you should point out to what degree you can retract your foreskin when not erect. If it is indeed your frænulum that is short, it will not permit the foreskin to retract much further when flaccid, than when erect.

If on the other hand, you can retract your foreskin well past the glans when flaccid, but not when erect, then the restriction would be the foreskin opening itself.

If indeed it is the frænulum that is the restriction and it pulls your glans down severely as you retract (when flaccid), then you do need to stretch it by the technique Jim illustrates. It should actually be pretty easy to do this many times during the day as it only requires one hand and can in many situations be done fully clothed.

I have to giggle at the suggestion of "following it religiously". People tell me about taking their medication "religiously" and I put it to them that doing it once a week on Sunday morning is nowhere near regular enough!

The point is - we are pretty much always going to tell you to approach the problem by stretching in the first place as

1. We know that stretching must work - and can give you the examples such as the "body modification" practices that not only the tribal Africans practiced, but so do the tribal Americans (and British, etc.) in our current day with "flesh tunnels" in ears and such.
   
2. Stretching is applied to structures that are not actually defective but simply have not grown sufficiently; and is virtually guaranteed not to damage nerves or any other function - as surgery always carries at least a risk of doing.
   
3. Effecting the "repair" yourself is a particularly rewarding activity through which you gain "mastery" over your own body and the confidence to approach other problems that you may face.

Well firstly when flaccid i can easily retract my foreskin to its maximum limit without any problems,although when at the extreme point the head starts to bend but when erect it starts to feel uncomfortable right at the base of the head and once it moves beyond the head that is the limit i cannot go beyond that.

However i know for sure that it's a combination of both - my frenelum is also short coz it tends to bend my shaft when i retract it when flaccid and when erect also it bends it so i am pretty sure it's both frenelum + opening but not to a very high degree,i mean i can easily put both my thumbs in my foreskin's opening, also i can easily retract my foreskin fully when half erect, the problem comes when i am fully erect.

and yes i do agree with all the points u made and that is the reason why i didn't go for tying the knot thing, i stretched for 5 minutes 3 times a day yesterday, apart from the technique u illustrated here i also tried a new technique, since i don't have a very sensitive head i could get hold of the frenulum with the index fingers and thumbs of both my hands( although getting hold of it was tricky but still i managed) and stretched it to the max possible tension i could endure and kept it there for 30 seconds, right after that i put both of my thumbs in the opening of the foreskin to stretch the opening for 30 sec, i did both these exercises in succession for around 5 mins and right after the stretch i made my myself erect and i could easily go beyond the head without any pain or discomfort but beyond that it still is a prob, but still it's a good improvement for 1 day itself and yes i know it has to be done regularly and also beyond a comfortable position for it to stay there, i will keep u posted about my progress and keep asking for suggestions from time to time

Thanks

Your progress thus far is your inspiration to complete the task.

Well 2 days of stretching and i can't believe the results i have got, maybe my skin type or whatever but today i could go beyond the head by about 2mm and for the first time saw the shaft beyon the head when fully erect, this is soo cool! foreskin can now roll of the head without any pain or difficulty but after those 2 mm it started to pain and shaft started to bend so i didn't go beyond that but stil i think it's more than enough for just 2 days of stretching, well i also found another very useful thing to do while doing the stretching exercise shown in the pic above, one should use a piece of cloth or towel for pulling the foreskin, the added piece of cloth adds extra friction and u get a good grip and you also have really good control over the amount of force and the point of application of force applied, it gives better stretches in shorter duration because then u don't have to compensate for the foreskin slipping out of your fingers, it really helped me, i could feel the tension to be uniform throughout the stretch whereas it varied when i was doing it with my bare hands. I will keep you guys updated on my progress

Thanks bye !!

How ironic that you should be describing that method to me!

Using a piece of cloth to get a good grip on a slippery piece of something is precisely what is done in the operating theatre during surgery where the cloth is either a surgical "sponge" (smooth cotton towel about eight inches square) or "Ray-Tec®" gauze! But I have not made the rather "lateral" transfer of that technique to the matter of getting a grip on the foreskin for the purpose of stretching.

Certainly an excellent idea which we will mention in future explanations; clearly you can get a much better grip using something such as a "real" cloth handkerchief (which would be far easier to explain than a surgical sponge ) - even paper tissues could be useful though they shred easily as soon as they get damp and you then have a problem with lint.

I tend to think that it is quite sufficient to hold the end of the frænulum as it merges onto the foreskin as in the illustration Jim gives, as the other end is quite firmly "anchored" below the glans, to the penis proper and despite the all-too-common claims on the Internet, that isn't going to stretch any day soon!

I also found out one thing more

using pure coconut oil to lubricate the glans really helps in stretches since it is beneficial for any type of skin as it is not very oily, also it smells of coconut which is not a bad smell at all + it gives a lot more flexibility to the skin when stretching just a few ( 4 to 5) drops are enough for 1 session of stretching + it does not irritate the skin or the glans rather it is kind of mildly hot then the body temperature and gives a very soothing feeling, those who have severe case of phimosis this won't be advisable since then it will become very difficult to get hold of the foreskin but those with rather mild phimosis and short frenulum (like me) can really benefit from using coconut oil

the skin when oiled naturally tends to stretch more giving far more better stretches without any discomfort, Though i would say not to use too much otherwise u won't be able to get hold of the skin, i massaged the oil first for around 2 minutes and it disappears into the skin and after that i washed with water which removed any excessive oil there was and after that the skin was so much easy to stretch and also so much easy to control the stretches

Thanks !!!