It's been quite awhile since I've posted in this forum, so a quick history...
My son is 4.75 years old. He is circed, as I posted a loooong time ago in the "circed and regret it" thread. I'll never get over the devastation of having allowed his perfect body to be cut... it's even more acute since I've now married a wonderful intact man who would have known better than to let a doctor come near DS with a knife back then....
He has what looks like a very loose circ. The foreskin covers over half of the glans (It used to cover more when he was younger) but it's very "bunched up" looking at the end. He can easily stretch it out past the glans, and in fact can cover the glans by "smoothing down" the bunched part. I think he still has his frenulum because when the foreskin on that bottom part is stretched out I can see that line of skin stretching up toward the glans. I don't know if any of this is pertinent to my post but I'm adding it just in case. It's really hard to write this stuff out.
Almost two years ago he told me his penis hurt, and I saw a couple round lumps under the foreskin. I had no idea what they were, and took him to a doctor who also had no idea, but who told me that his foreskin was adhered to the glans and that I should have been retracting it since the circ. (I was not told that at the time of the circ.) The ped advised me to use a steroid cream and pull it back a little each day.
The round lumps turned out to be smegma pearls (I assume this is the case, they found openings and white "cheesy" stuff came out)... I did not feel comfortable ripping ds's skin so I left it alone. I think I may have posted around that time.
Here we are now, and yesterday ds was at the ped because he's had several days worth of fever. DH had noticed that day that ds's penis looked red, so he had this dr check it out, and he said it looked like a yeast infection, to put Lamisil (sp?) on it and that it could take weeks to heal up.
I don't want to put ds through that if it isn't really a yeast infection (that cannot be the only reason he'd have redness/irritation down there right?) so I asked ds to let me look at it. It was only red and hurt at the top, and I used A&D on it - it looks better already but ds says it still hurts. The last couple showers he's had, he's used DH's Ivory soap instead of his usual soap. I myself have a reaction to that brand of soap if I use it on my genitals so it seems plausible that's what it is... at least to me.
I also noticed during this time that his corona is still trapped by the foreskin, it doesn't pull back any farther. Should I be doing anything? All the research I've done, and I can only find information on this for intact boys (and how I wish that were the case!!!!). I know that for an intact boy the advice is to leave it alone. But I can't seem to find the answer anywhere as to whether this kind of adhesion will go away on its own in a boy who has been cut.
My son is 4.75 years old. He is circed, as I posted a loooong time ago in the "circed and regret it" thread. I'll never get over the devastation of having allowed his perfect body to be cut... it's even more acute since I've now married a wonderful intact man who would have known better than to let a doctor come near DS with a knife back then....
He has what looks like a very loose circ. The foreskin covers over half of the glans (It used to cover more when he was younger) but it's very "bunched up" looking at the end. He can easily stretch it out past the glans, and in fact can cover the glans by "smoothing down" the bunched part. I think he still has his frenulum because when the foreskin on that bottom part is stretched out I can see that line of skin stretching up toward the glans. I don't know if any of this is pertinent to my post but I'm adding it just in case. It's really hard to write this stuff out.
Almost two years ago he told me his penis hurt, and I saw a couple round lumps under the foreskin. I had no idea what they were, and took him to a doctor who also had no idea, but who told me that his foreskin was adhered to the glans and that I should have been retracting it since the circ. (I was not told that at the time of the circ.) The ped advised me to use a steroid cream and pull it back a little each day.
The round lumps turned out to be smegma pearls (I assume this is the case, they found openings and white "cheesy" stuff came out)... I did not feel comfortable ripping ds's skin so I left it alone. I think I may have posted around that time.
Here we are now, and yesterday ds was at the ped because he's had several days worth of fever. DH had noticed that day that ds's penis looked red, so he had this dr check it out, and he said it looked like a yeast infection, to put Lamisil (sp?) on it and that it could take weeks to heal up.
I don't want to put ds through that if it isn't really a yeast infection (that cannot be the only reason he'd have redness/irritation down there right?) so I asked ds to let me look at it. It was only red and hurt at the top, and I used A&D on it - it looks better already but ds says it still hurts. The last couple showers he's had, he's used DH's Ivory soap instead of his usual soap. I myself have a reaction to that brand of soap if I use it on my genitals so it seems plausible that's what it is... at least to me.
I also noticed during this time that his corona is still trapped by the foreskin, it doesn't pull back any farther. Should I be doing anything? All the research I've done, and I can only find information on this for intact boys (and how I wish that were the case!!!!). I know that for an intact boy the advice is to leave it alone. But I can't seem to find the answer anywhere as to whether this kind of adhesion will go away on its own in a boy who has been cut.
