Just over ten days ago, I fully tore my frenulum right along its half way mark during intercourse (it split in half and I now have a dangling piece of frenulum skin which disconnected from the bottom of my head's shaft) and I am now also starting to see this hard and white-ish looking 'scar dot'(vertical line from tip to the down of head) beginning to form right below my shaft where the frenulum was initially attached to the head.

I visited a doctor (GP)last week and he pulled my foreskin back twice to look and told me to rest and gave Viaderm cream and asked to apply.
Yesterday I pulled my skin back to the bottom of head and had pain and noticed that piece hanging there and soaked in warm water for 5 minutes and again pulled skin back. There was little pain though.
My questions are:

- Will it ever fully heal at the head/shaft area? Or will I have a hardened scar tissue there which will forever cause me a painful tethering effect when my foreskin is pulled back?

- Do you think that frenuloplasty is the correct treatment I should go for in my case or should I just let it rest for a month of so (no sex or masturbation)? Also, does frenuloplasty reduce sensitivity/sensations?

- What kind of creams do you guys apply to your problem area? Is Polysporin ok? I know that Polysporin (formerly Neosporin) is an antibacterial ointment that contains zinc (and even some vitamin E for proper skin hydration)... and I am thinking that this is the best kind of cream I can use for the time that I let it heal. Tell me what do you think.

- Should I keep pulling my skin down a day and soak in water to relax it? Or use baking soda in water?


Please help me out with this, as this is a deliberating problem for a man to be experiencing and let me know if I can

Don't baby it. If you keep the tissue moving, the scars won't develop as they would if you keep the area isolated. It's best to abstain from unprotected sex until you're sure the area is healed.

I don't favor any cutting, for most guys who have undergone surgery and reported back here have had bad results. If it's cosmetics you're concerned about, talk to your GP about it. He should be able to do it right in his office under a local. Surgery will probably have no effect upon your sensitivity.

If you use an antibiotic cream, apply it once and then leave it. The covering by the foreskin should be enough protection for the wound.

More to the point, beware reading too much nonsense about scarring.

Do you realise that surgery causes scarring? You do not have a "frænuloplasty" to avoid scarring, you have one to cause scarring. Try not to confuse yourself - and do try and avoid the "fetish" sites for this very reason.

There is no reason to use any form of "cream" on a healing area except where excess scarring (Keloid) is anticipated, where it is not an "antiseptic" or "antibiotic" but a steroid ointment - precisely as I discuss in other references here.

It is not accepted surgical practice to use anything on a wound other than very gentle cleaning with soap and water - or as it relates to the genitals, warm water only without soap, to clean away any blood and serum which might favour infection. If scabbing is excessive, petroleum jelly ("Vaseline®") is traditionally used to prevent dressings sticking.

It seems your frænulum was too short. OK, because it was too short (and/ or you were doing something that was pretty silly at the time anyway), it tore. Having torn, it is now by definition longer or looser and you want it to be loose, so you want to be stretching it while it heals so that it heals - in the looser state. If wounds in this area failed to heal up (promptly), humankind (especially women) would be in a sorry state.

Oh yes, the loose tag - as much as it matters anyway - will probably shrink away. Loose bits of skin are pretty much part of the genitals anyway (have you taken a good look at your girlfriend?) and I do think it is a bit much to argue in terms of "cosmetics" in this regard.

I do not actually think the frænulum is that important anyway. Its midline location suggests it has little sensation in itself (though the adjacent areas certainly are sensitive) and I believe its main contribution is to convey the movement of the foreskin to the rather sensitive area of the urethral meatus. If torn/ cut, this effect may indeed be reduced, but I doubt it matters much.

I am sure you are deliberating greatly on it, but I fail to accept it as debilitating. You need to read a lot of the discussions here.