Hi, I'm 26 and I'm practicing stretching exercises with cortisone ointment becouse of phimosis from 1 week. My frenulum is not so short, and the phimosis is not closed (I can pull back also erected, but just behind the glans). Consider I tried a therapy with cortisone ointment when I was about 7 (my doctor suggested it ), my questions are:

1) did the past therapy already thin my skin to its limit?

2) In this case, what could appen if I continue?

3) I wish I could enlarge the foreskin maximally. Is it really possible?

4) Can I remove completely the phimotic ring?


Did someone succeed?

Thank you.

If you can retract while erect, what problem do you perceive?
Do you have pain? Is there a strain put upon the frenulum when you have sex?
Is the skin especially thin that it cause you worry?

1. As Jim so elegantly puts it, when was the last time you personally saw a person explode because they had put on weight and the skin was stretched and thinned "to its limit"? When have you heard this reported on television?
   
   Come to think of it, I am a bit worried about your source or sources of information. Why are you talking about "skin thinning" anyway? Who has put this idea into your head, because clearly you have not been reading back through this discussion board here sufficiently to have seen the full explanation that I so frequently provide?
   
   Also, when you refer to "cortisone ointment", just what do you mean, because I am not aware of an ointment on the market containing plain cortisone as an ingredient. If in fact you are referring to hydrocortisone, then the answers to your first two questions are just a little different.
   
   
2. Depends on what you are actually doing.
   
   
3. See answer 1. What do you mean by "maximally" anyway?
   
   
4. Well, if you have one, you can remove it, but actually, we are not sure of just what problem you have. You imply that you can retract your foreskin fully when flaccid so that there is no "bunching" of the skin anywhere as would happen if the frænulum was restricting it. If this is the case, then when erect if you successfully pull your foreskin back behind the head, it would generally be able to be pulled back further, resulting in a "neck" where the tight part was. If on the other hand it is on the underneath that you cannot pull it back further, then you clearly do have a short frænulum and I strongly suspect that is actually the case.

Many have succeeded, but only those who actually did the stretching, and kept at it until they achieved the result. Those who tried it for a couple of days, or maybe a week only, and gave up, or did it just a couple of times every few weeks, mostly did not succeed - because you have to actually do it and not just talk about it, or think about it.

Now, people have succeeded by simply pulling back the foreskin often, without going through the process we detail here, I would not say that you cannot, but I do suggest that if you want to get the fastest and most satisfactory result, then what we detail will undoubtedly be the most effective because what we advise is based on a sound understanding of the principles by which the body functions.

So, perhaps you could explain what the perceived problem was when you were seven years old, exactly what the "therapy" consisted of, what did you do, and what was the result; what happened to your foreskin between then and now?