De-keratinazation, how long, and what does it look like?

[deadhand31]

I've been manual tugging for about a month now. Luckily for me, I've learned through the information on this site that I was circed loosely, and have alot of tissue to work with. I've actually had a lot of times in the last week or so where I've felt the glans get rolled over by the shaft skin. I should also mention I'm cold a lot, and I'm a grower.

Today, while tugging, I noticed that on the glans, near the area of the corona, there appear to be some fissures in the glans. The area is not at all painful, and seems to be a little more moist than the area above it. Is this the fabled dekeratinazation, which is my main motivation for restoring my foreskin? If not, what could it be? For those of you who have restored their glans to its proper state, what kinds of changes did you notice?

On a side note, my desired goal is simply to have ample glans coverage when flaccid, not erect. Will this help to keep the glans in its natural state?

[greg_b]

If you grow enough skin to stay completely covered while flaccid, then your glans should retunr to as much of it's normal state as possible. Reports form other restorers who have gone that far or farther are that once they achieved that, their glans stabalized at its final state after a time.

I am about 4/5 covered when flaccid. I can see a marked difference in it down by the corona. As you look form the tip to the corona, you can see the skin going form tan dry looking to red-purplish, shiny, and smooth.

Regards

[iwantitback]

I have a question:

Can your glans and mucosa go back to their original state completely? Like 100% dekeritinized? Or will the damage done form years of exposure always have permanent, irreversible damage? I am just curious. It seems to me that it is possible to get everything very close to the original state.

[greg_b]

How do you measure 100% of what it would have been like?

Can you measure the difference between 98% and 100%?

Very few people know what their original equipment was like, since they were circumcised as infants.

Regards

[silverton64]

I think he's referring to an uncircumcised glans. However even those differentiate quite a bit. I seen several uncut guys's glans and they all look quite a bit different. Some are drier than others, some are a different color than others. My guess is this: Compare the keratinized glans to that of a calloused hand. When the hand stops doing work that causes it, the skin heals completely as if had never been calloused. Atleast it did for me when I was working out without gloves for a period of time. My beliefe is that the same concept applies here: stop doing what causes it, and it'll return to normal after a period of healing time.

[orion79]

I have another question related to the topic.
I'm just starting to restore and my glans is not smooth, it has a texture that looks like very small "grooves". Does anyone know if those "grooves" result from being circ or they are just an anatomical variation? Any of you guys restoring for a while have the same appearance? If so, do you notice the glans becoming smoother or that texture didn't change?
Thanks for any enlightenment

[greg_b]

My glans has gotten somewhat smoother. Many have reported this as well. And moister, shinier. Staying covered is the key, and getting to the point where you are covered 100% of the time while flaccid is the big threshhold apparently.

Regards

[Dr. Cool]

In my case, skin has become thinner and shinier (although not as much as I would like it to be, compared to uncircumcised men), but the glans also changed color: when stimulated, it now has an almost dark red to purplish color, while before it had almost the same color of the shaft skin.

[rtnt]

Originally Posted by orion79

I have another question related to the topic.
I'm just starting to restore and my glans is not smooth, it has a texture that looks like very small "grooves". Does anyone know if those "grooves" result from being circ or they are just an anatomical variation? Any of you guys restoring for a while have the same appearance? If so, do you notice the glans becoming smoother or that texture didn't change?
Thanks for any enlightenment

I have grooves in my glans also. There's a slight chance that the grooves are cracks in the keratin, in which case those grooves would totally disappear if you totally dekeratinize. Of course though most likely the grooves are pitting from having the foreskin ripped off when an infant, or just anatomical variations, in which case I don't see how those grooves could ever go away. With people who have dekeratinized, did grooves or craters in your glans totally disappear?

[mewpokemon]

I wasn't mutilated but I kept my prepuce retracted from the age of 10 to 20. It shrank over the first year or so and so stayed that way permanently. I did this as an experiment. I had a terrible time trying to convince the medical "professionals" that I wasn't mutilated. They had no idea what a frenulum was nor how to indentify a frenar band versus a dorsal scar. I'm in australia.

It did cause terrible keratinisation of my glans. In fact, I was starting to lose sensativity, which was kind of what the experiment was about. I wish I hadn't done it because it has caused minor, but what I can see will be permanent damage.

I applied a manual stretching technique with retention taping (magic tape around the outside) over about 2 years to get it to stay forward again.

It took about 2 years of being covered for the keratinisation to decrease to the level it is at now. I applied lanoline infrequently during this time.