Need help/input re: uneven scar

[ayk1987]

Hey, I am a new poster. I have an issue with my penis but I am embarrassed to go see a doctor. So I'm posting it here just to get opinions and advice.


I was circumcised at birth. My circumcision scar is uneven and much closer to my glans on the right side. My right side also has no sensation when the skin is moved up or down. Basically feels like moving the skin on your arm. My left side has the scar further away and moving the skin up and down has pleasurable sensations. I hate having sensation on only half of my penis.

To illustrate I have attached a drawing that shows my situation. The view is from the underside. I drew it in paint because I don't know if real photos are allowed.

What I want to know: Is my penis damaged from my circumcision? Is this common? And what can I do to fix this? Should I see a doctor?

I am having problems with attempting sex. I go soft during oral and when a girl tries to stroke me, the skin hurts because it's tight around the top and right side. The bottom left is the only area with a pleasurable feeling from skin movement.

The pic is 15kb in size and I drew it in paint. ===>>IMAGE

[z726]

Well, every {cut} penis is damaged by circumcision. Your question is about the extent of the damage. Do see a doctor about it, because at the very least they need to be made aware of how the operation can harm people..

The pleasurable area between the circumcision scar and the glans is what remains of the inner lining of your foreskin. It isn't skin, but rather mucous membrane - the same tissue lining the inside of other bodily orifices - and contains a higher concentration of tactile nerve endings than regular skin.

The process of foreskin restoration involves expanding the skin on the penis, as well as what remains of the inner foreskin. It becomes more mobile, and the pleasurable area can increase. If you're patient enough, you can even expand enough to replace the entire foreskin.

Sounds like your penile skin is tight on just one side. For some of us, it was like that all the way around. A few guys here have dealt with uneven circumcision scars, so they can give you some advice on that.

As far as I know, the forum settings have some sort of waiting period set up before you can post links. Photos are allowed, assuming you're 18 or over.

[greg_b]

Circumcision removes your foreskin. How evenly, how much depends on the doctor and what he was trying to do.

Restoration should improve things dramatically. You can restore even if things are uneven. You can use manual to target specific areas, to some extent. As you grow more skin the unevenness may be lessened.

Go see a doctor if you are concerned about the difference in feelings. Just be aware that most doctors are clueless about foreskins, the effects of circumcision, and restoration. And doctors, by the nature of their work and training are meddlers, so don't just do whatever he or she says, instead take the insight and ponder it, do more research, in short be an informed consumer of medical advice.

Regards

[ayk1987]

But with the uneven cut will restoring bring back sensation on that side? I want symmetrical sensation. If I were to see a doctor, what type would I need? A urologist?

[Tally]

Originally Posted by ayk1987

But with the uneven cut will restoring bring back sensation on that side? I want symmetrical sensation.

If you do nothing, you will go through life the way you are. If you restore, you will most likely have a vast improvement.

[4Foreskin]

ayk1987,

First, welcome to the forum.

You should never be embarrassed about telling or describing what you think are issues to a doctor. So if you have a problem, go see a doctor, BUT understand that doctors are human and make mistakes. Like thinking circumcision is GOOD for you as an example. So do not take what one doctor says as gospel. Understand many doctors do not acknowledge circumcision irreversibly damages the male sex organ and alters it from its natural state and function. You may have to shop around to find a doctor that understands and will work with you to diagnose the problem.

I cannot find or see your drawing, so I am doing this from your description. I think your problem does stem from your uneven circumcision. I have the same issue, but not as bad. I am uneven by only a 1/4 to ½ an inch.

It sounds like you have lost a lot of “inter skin” or really mucous membrane on one side. On top of that you are cut so tight that it also causes pain on that side. Both of these conditions combined are giving you a real problem.

The only solution I have is to see a doctor to make sure it is not something other than the circumcision. If the doctor(s) rule out other items then your only recourse to improve the situation is to start foreskin restoration. If you chose this route I would not worry about focusing on one side or the other at first. I would just start tugging and trying to grow skin around the entire shaft to start giving you some mobility of shaft skin. This may help with the tight skin on one side and relieve you of part of the problem (very tight skin). Then you can work on the uneven part as a secondary effort. Both will take a very long time, years.

Recommend searching on the web “circumcision damage,” “sex as nature intended it,” and many other sites that are online. This will help you understand that you are not alone in this.

I hope this helps. After you do some more reading if you have any more questions, please post them here and the people on this forum will do everything we can to help.

Good luck,

[greg_b]

Originally Posted by ayk1987

But with the uneven cut will restoring bring back sensation on that side? I want symmetrical sensation. If I were to see a doctor, what type would I need? A urologist?

No one can predict how things will change exactly. No one can say what you would have had and how it would have felt if you had not been circumcised.

But the experience of almost everyone who has posted is that if you grow more skin, things will be better than they are currently in terms of feelings. If you grow enough skin to have a mobile, functional foreskin, things will most likely feel a whole lot better, dramatically better.

If you need assurance that their will be improvement before you are willing to restore, Tally gave an excellent response, read it several times.

Regards

[ayk1987]

Thank you to all for the input especially 4Foreskin . I do think much of my inner part of the foreskin was removed on one side and that this could be the cause of my sensation problem. Now that I have a few posts, I am able to post a link to the picture I drew.

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Still not sure about restoring because it will not replace the inner foreskin. I'm guessing that I will still have sensation issues on that side. Do you know how long medical records are kept and if it would be possible to get info on the doctor who circumcised me?

[greg_b]

Restoring will not replace any skin. Or it will replace almost everything you lost. It all depends on how you wish to look at it.

Restoring will grow more skin, nerves, muscles, connective tissue, blood vessels, etc. These will give you feelings very much like your original equipment foreskin would have. I started with almost no inner skin. My feelings now are amazingly better than before. I can see no reason why you will not get a similar improvement.

Let us say, for the sake of argument, that you end up with asymetrical sensations. These sensations will likely be an order of magnitude or more better than what you now experience.

You can worry about the trees (whether your sensations are symetrical or not) and miss the forest ( gaining an amazingly better functioning and feeling penis), or you can restore and enjoy whatever you achieve.

By the way, I have no idea if my sensations are symetrical or not. I am so lost in my feelings, that there is no way I can get to that fine a level of detail. Shrug.

Regards

[Samurai Drac]

Originally Posted by ayk1987

But with the uneven cut will restoring bring back sensation on that side? I want symmetrical sensation. If I were to see a doctor, what type would I need? A urologist?

Definitely go see a doctor, be it a general practitioner or a urologist. You may get a referral.

When you say restore sensation, are you saying that half of your penis is literally numb? If you were to hold a heated needle against that part of your penis, would you feel the painful burning sensation? If you literally never have any sensation on that side, it means there has been some {even more} SERIOUS nerve damage than is normally caused by circumcision. Only a doctor can advise you on whether it is repairable or not.

You may have a legal case if a doctor officially diagnoses it as nerve damage that causes a loss of sensation. If your doctor does do that, I'd seek a lawyer for advice ASAP. Be prepared for them to turn you away; circumcision cases do not often see the light of day, let alone a courtroom. Still worth a try though.

You must understand that the possibility is that whoever did your circumcision cut far too deeply into the penis on that side; they may have severed a major nerve (which branches into many, many, more nerve endings near the surface of the mucosa/skin), thus cutting off all sensation from the branches.