Being Circumcised on Saturday

[Uncle Flo]

Frenulum is known to be difficult to make numb. My doc had to make extra injectionafter everything was numb, but I still felt pretty painful when it was cut. So many nerve endings in there. As the pain was bearable I thought about these countless boys who get cut without any anesthetics.
Right after the circ I was given painkillers to reduce the pain as anesthetics wore off, but I didn't use them intentionally, to see and feel how it feels. For few hours pain was pretty close to unbearable, but then it faded and went away. Only slight itching remained. That kind of pain you could feel only once in your life

The frenulum is difficult to make numb. I removed my own frenulum a number of years ago and it was painful indeed! I have come to the conclusion that it can not be completely numbed, so the pain must be endured or a more comprehensive anesthetic needs to be used. --FLO--

[Philleep]

I had my circ done around the age of 35. I was not fond of my foreskin throughout my childhood due to schoolboy taunts..."what's wrong with your dick?"..."hey come look at this guy!" It was mortifying at the time. I had a dick that looked like a "pineapple" to me (in my 6 yr old "mind") while everyone else had a nice smooth round "silo" (we lived in farm country!) Mine was all shrivelled up...I didn't get it that I just had to pull back the skin but it never stayed like that anyway. When real sex entered the picture I had real issues with that damn foreskin...and then there is that one word most dreaded in my vocabulary..."SMEGMA!" Gawd awful stuff...stinks like Limburger cheese. It required several washings each day to keep that at bay...but I digress...
I did not get a super tight cut...I did not know that was even an option or I would have gone for it. However, I was ecstatic with the outcome. The hype about all the nerves and sensitivity lost with the foreskin was just a no-show for me...not an issue. Having a smooth hot cock made me much hornier that that old FS ever did!

[manc-wannabe]

hey all, quick update -

The doctor has spoken to a couple of anesthetic experts and they are of the opinon that a general anesthetic is needed, as benzocaine is apparantly in the same chemical group as licodaine and means that its unlikely to work on me. Thus he needs to sort out a general anesthetic setup for me. The one he proposed using (diprovan I think) has a 10-15% of a severe allergic reaction and so needs doing in full theatre setting with support available.

I should probably clarify the nature of the operation. It was being done by a friend of a friend who is a qualified doctor, but being done off the record due to the fact that I want it tighter than the NHS allows and the NHS has *long* waiting times. However, to get the general anesthetic, it seems we'll have to through the official channels. As such, I need to go on his client list, and join the waiting list (lovely socialised medicine here in the UK). That may take a while. Thus my penis is still uncirced Hopefully, when the operation does eventually happen in an official setting, given he is the one holding the scapel, he'll be able to ignore NHS circ regs and do it tightly

Given he is geographically distant from me, and I've been unable to contact him since this all came to light, I'm going to persue a local circumcision option as well. I think I'll go to the Manchester GUM, complain of a tight foreskin, and ask to be circed. Assuming I can persuade them to do that, come the circ, they'll realise that lidocaine doesn't work and that general anesthetic is needed. Then I can get at least some kind of circ done on me. As a bonus, I should then know which general anesthetic is safe to use on me and so can then tell my doctor friend, and he can tighten the circ up for me.

[Riven]

I hear what you're saying about wanting a tight circumcision, but bear in mind that the tighter you're cut, the greater the amount of scrotal skin that gets pulled forward when you get hard. Ie. you'll get a lot of 'turkey neck'. I don't like that effect, and if I had my time over I'd ask for a circumcision that leaves a tube of skin long enough to fit my erect shaft, even if it means having a little roll of skin when flaccid.

[manc-wannabe]

Yeah, that is deffo a good consideration to keep in mind. Another reason why I didn't contact the NHS first (apart from waiting and issue of if I can actually persuade them to circ me) is that I want a frenulumectomy and the NHS will not do those. Assuming I can get a circ done on the NHS, I'll know what anesthetics are safe and can get my doctor friend to tighten it up and do the frenulumectomy.

[Riven]

I paid for my circumcision. As far as I know you can only get it on the NHS if you have a medical need, ie. phimosis.

As regards the frenulumectomy: I had already cut my frenulum several years previously, so it no longer pulled my cock head over when my foreskin was pulled back. However, there were folds of frenulum skin still there. But after my circumcision the skin in the cleft under of my cock head was smooth.

[manc-wannabe]

Ah thats nice - thats exactly how I want mine to look. Can you give a head-up (pardon the pun) on what clinic you used? I need one that has the facilities to use general anesthetic, as licodaine/benzocaine do not work on my penis, so that pretty much rules out local anesthetics.

[Riven]

My circumcision was done in 1985. My GP (family doctor) referred me to a surgeon (now retired) who worked at the county Hospital. I went to see the surgeon at his private office, and I was scheduled to be circumcised in the operating theatre in the county hospital. As a private patient I was given a separate room rather than being allocated a bed on a ward.

You could ask your doctor to refer you to a surgeon in the same way as I did. I had to pay a fee to the surgeon, and another to the hospital for the night in the room plus the anesthesiologist. Get a quote up front. You could also approach a private hospital (Bupa, etc.) or look in the Yellow Pages for surgeons in your area and approach them directly. There's plenty of choice.

[wallynoballs]

I had a mini snip of the membrane underneath the glans. Excellent result means that I can hang my knob end out on nudist beaches etc or keep it underwraps for comfort. Masturbation is definately better and wife used to like it more when we had sex. sadly that is now long gone so thinking of getting the big snip

[patricia]

I had my circumcision when I was the ripe old age of a few days, in other words I have been circumcised all my life, and don't know any other way (71Yrs)

[Wilfried]

Hi,

I am new here. Instead of a formal introduction I want to tell about my cicumcision:

A few years ago I had hernia. I looked in the internet for clinic who is specialiesed on hernia operations. I found one in another town. They offered also cicumcision. Because I had the desire to become circumcised for a long time, I thougt this is a good opportunity to get the cicumcision together with the hernia operation. So the circ would be done under general anesthesia and I would save recovery time, when both operations were done at once.

The clinic I selected was run by two surgeons. In the pre op meeting I told them my desire that I want circumcision, want all of the inner foraskin removed and the shaft skin made very tight. The older surgeon advisesed me against this plan. He meant 2 operations at once would charge my body too much, but the younger one did not see any problems and so a few days later we went on.

When I awoke from anesthesia if found my my penis with about an half inch of inner foreskin, loose shaft skin and ande the scare very lopsided. I calmed myself down by the thought, that I should wait the healing to jugdge the result finally . But before the healing came a disagrable complication was awaiting me.

After 5 days I was released from hospitial an 1 day later my penis' right side become swollen and devoloped a strange smell. Another day later there was a storng, pulsative pain in my penis and I could hit to roof, because the sutures were cutting into the infected flesh. Unfortunally it was Saturday and no doctor was in his office. But to go to ER with that problem I was too shameful. So I took a smal side cutter and cutted 3 sutures, what gave me a little release. On Monday I visited a surgeon nearby ( I was neither able to walk much, nor to drive a car), but he could (or didn't want to) help me.

After one week this horror was gone and the wound began to heal. But there was a big and fleshy scare left left on the right side of my penis. I also realised that my frenulum was only partly removed and the bottomside of my glans looked like a cockscomb. I was so unhappy with the outlook of my penis. Still I hoped, that with the time it will look better. So I stood every day naked in front of the mirror. But nothing changed. In front of the mirror I only realized, that it could be seen from far distance that something is wrong with my penis. I started to hate that doctor who has done this with me.

But this is not the end of the story. About one year later I found on a circumcision related website the address of surgeon who is specialised on circumcision. He promised me to be able to help and also explained, that in his office the risk of an infection will be much lower than in a hospital. So the thing was done and as I had my first masturbation after 4 weeks. I was satisfied with the result, optically and fuctionally.

He cuuted away all scary tissue and left as much inner foreskin as possible (about 1cm). This is important, if someone wants good feeling by fucking, because with the time the glans becomes to numb to serve well for that purpose. And he made it almost tight, so that in flabby stage, the shaft skin can cover the the inner foreskin a little. The penis now looks circumciesed, but not unnaturally striped. But in errected stage it is sufficiant tight and the shaft skin does not move much forward and back.

I am happy with this result, because it is a good compromise. A high circumcision (min 2cm inner forskin) gives better feeling, but looks strange, a low cicumcision (max 0.5cm inner foreskin) looks natural, but on cost of the feeling. Tight ist always good, cause the fucking feeling is better, if the shaft skin does not move.

I hope @manc-wannabe you already have got your cicumcision. It's nice to be circumcised.

[Jere Timm]

Hi, I was circumcised, and castrated last year and my female Dr. advised me I would be more sensitive with the glans exposed and Would have more pleasure from sex after being castrated, I now take testostrone injections and inject my penis with eather edex or tri-mix to get erect these meds. work well for me and yes I do feel more with my glans now fully exposed I don't have much semen in my ejackulation but it feels better then ever when I do cum. I do enjoy being a eunuch and think of my castration as I masturbate. If you have any questions please feel free to ask me anything...good healing with your new cir. and if you want to be castrated ask to be awake , it was a great turn on for me to watch as the Doc and his young nurse castrated me, many great pics and love being castrated...jere

[SplitDik]

Hello,

Was a complication on Saturday - the anesthetic did not work. Despite several injections of lidocaine, the frenum wasn't numb. When the doctor touched it with a scapel, I nearly hit the roof. He didn't want to inject any more anesthetic as he was worried that it didn't work and that I had an allergic reaction to the lidocaine.The evening after the appointment, I could barely stand peeing - it burnt that bad and my penis was very swollen. 2 days after the attempt, the swelling has gone down, but it still hurts like mad to pee. As such, its back to square 1 whilst we work out what to do now. Benzocaine could be used, as could general anesthetic, but he's worried about any allergic reactions my body could have to them, given the swelling is larger than would normally be expected. He's talking to an anesthetic expert today and if he can sort that out, its been rescheduled for next saturday. Soo annoying it didn't happen as planned

Does topical lidocaine work on you? I can completely (I mean really completely where you can cut, burn or pierce and not even know it is happening) using 5% lidocaine cream (available on Amazon in US). Anyway, it would be a way to test whether lidocaine works and also whether you are allergic to it. Lidocaine is so effective for me, I'm surprised to hear of your experience.

I went under general for my circumcision. However, that has its own risks and dangers, so I'm not really advising to do it particularly. For example, one thing is you need someone to drive you home and so I had to let in my cousin on what I was doing so he could give me a ride.

[manc-wannabe]

Wow, that's an old post of mine. I never went ahead with the Circ, because of the complications with local anesthetic. When I eventually got castrated, 10 days ago, I was worried I'd have the same problem again. The first injection of lidocaine again didn't work, but a second round of injections did the trick. The Dr said he'd go ahead and test if the anesthetic was working, and the next thing I knew, he was tying off the cords to the right testicle ready for removal. Very glad it worked. Now my balls are gone, I think that's it for surgery down there. I may get the scrotum removed as/when funds allow, but since being cut, the idea of a penectomy or circumcision no longer appeals. I'm very happy with the equipment that I've got left. It's odd how these things work eh?

[smoothie36]

Getting circumcised or even getting an orchie now seems pretty available and straight forward. However....how in the world can I get a glansectomy? Considered less invasive than an orchie, but must be done correctly of course. Surely there is a way to make this happen safely but my extensive searching has so far failed. Any ideas? Send me a private message, please!

smoothie