Hi everyone!
My name's Val, and I'm new to the group (I've actually been somewhat of a lurker for about 2 months
). My husband found this site for me because our pediatrician recently retracted our son's foreskin as far as he could force it to go-my son said it brought tears to his eyes, and there was a tiny amount of blood in his underwear later !
My son is seven, and not retractile- the opening of the inner foreskin is very small, but he has no trouble urinating, so I'm hoping that's not an indication that something is wrong. He has never had a problem with his foreskin until recently, when he suddenly had burning while urinating. I took him to the pediatrician to make sure he didn't have a UTI. At least the doctor did recognize that it was just an irritation, which cleared up right away by following his advice to soak in plain water and eliminate any sitting in sudsy water at bath time. But I couldn't believe he thought he needed to push my son's foreskin back so hard! Now I'm vacillating between anger at the doctor's ignorance, and worry that he caused damage, or that there really is something abnormal about this non-retractile state at age 7. Does anyone else have older sons with non-retractile foreskins? When he pushed the foreskin back, the doctor exclaimed in a shocked tone that my son has "phimosis" and "adhesions", and that it will have to be addressed if he "wants to lead a normal life", all right in front of my son, of course
: I have talked to Marilyn Milos (sp?), and the attorney for DOC, and feel a little better, but now have the seemingly impossible task of finding a good doctor who knows normal anatomy and physiology! Does anyone know of a good pediatrician in SE Wisconsin?
My name's Val, and I'm new to the group (I've actually been somewhat of a lurker for about 2 months
). My husband found this site for me because our pediatrician recently retracted our son's foreskin as far as he could force it to go-my son said it brought tears to his eyes, and there was a tiny amount of blood in his underwear later ! My son is seven, and not retractile- the opening of the inner foreskin is very small, but he has no trouble urinating, so I'm hoping that's not an indication that something is wrong. He has never had a problem with his foreskin until recently, when he suddenly had burning while urinating. I took him to the pediatrician to make sure he didn't have a UTI. At least the doctor did recognize that it was just an irritation, which cleared up right away by following his advice to soak in plain water and eliminate any sitting in sudsy water at bath time. But I couldn't believe he thought he needed to push my son's foreskin back so hard! Now I'm vacillating between anger at the doctor's ignorance, and worry that he caused damage, or that there really is something abnormal about this non-retractile state at age 7. Does anyone else have older sons with non-retractile foreskins? When he pushed the foreskin back, the doctor exclaimed in a shocked tone that my son has "phimosis" and "adhesions", and that it will have to be addressed if he "wants to lead a normal life", all right in front of my son, of course: I have talked to Marilyn Milos (sp?), and the attorney for DOC, and feel a little better, but now have the seemingly impossible task of finding a good doctor who knows normal anatomy and physiology! Does anyone know of a good pediatrician in SE Wisconsin?
Odds are that nothing bad will happen if it hasnt already.
