After my consultation at the urologist's office about my phimosis, I spent several weeks applying steroid cream and stretching my foreskin as directed.
About the second week, I started to see progress. I could actually view the whole meatus (urethral opening) and roll the preputial opening around to expose other parts of the glans. Still couldn't begin to get it out of the foreskin, though. But it felt thrilling to see a part of my body that had been hidden all my life, for the first time.
After the fourth week of daily application, I hit a breakthrough: my foreskin, reddened and shiny from all the stretching and medication, slipped completely down over the edge of my glans! It still formed a tight collar, and the glans began to turn purple after a couple of minutes. I pushed it back into the foreskin and called the doctor's office to schedule a follow-up appointment, in case there was anything more I needed to do. I left a voice mail and continued toying with my newly freed glans, popping it in and out of its home.
The surface itself had a white sheen to it. I looked up some phimosis blogs and learned this was a combination of smegma and the remains of fibers called synechia, which had bonded my glans and inner foreskin while I was a baby. The fibers looked microscopic and proved hard to dislodge with soap, water, and rubbing with a wet cloth.
In fact, the rubbing posed its own problem. This newborn glans of mine hurt like hell to touch! Like a first-degree burn, almost. I had to treat it gently while it was exposed. I got relief only when I sealed it back up inside its protective foreskin. I made a mental note to ask the doctor about the sensitivity when she examined me.
On my last visit, detailed
here
, I didn't actually get to see the urologist. She'd been called away for a family emergency, and left me to see her PA (physician's assistant). That young woman, Liz, had examined and spoken with me in some rather unprofessional, but thrilling, ways. I wasn't prepared for what happened in the exam room, and the memory of how she handled me had me jerking off almost daily since. Read that story, if you haven't. It sets the stage for this next appointment.
The day after I left my message, Liz called me back.
"Hey, we got your request for an appointment. Is there anything you need to see us about right away?"
"Well, I wouldn't call it urgent. I did get my foreskin to open all the wayβ"
Liz's voice took on a sudden brightness.
"You exposed your glans? Your foreskin is fully mobile now?"
"Yes."
"Are you able to masturbate by rolling the skin on and off the glans?"
Uh-huh. Nothing had changed about Liz.
"Sort of. The glans is super-sensitive. That's mainly what I'm calling to ask about."
"Ooh, a hypersensitive glans. That's not terribly uncommon when it's first exposed. Tell me what it looks like."
I described the color and texture. She asked for more details.
"Are you in a place where you can take your penis out and look at it right now?"
I don't know why this request surprised me.
"Yes."
"Okay, look at your penis for me."
I did as requested, in the privacy of my bedroom.
"I have it out now."
"Slowly peel back the foreskin as far as you can."
"Got it. It's there now."
"Describe for me what you see."
As I told her how the foreskin now bunched below the corona, exposing the pink-white glans and sulcus, I heard Liz breathe slowly in and out through pursed lips.
"Go on."
I told her the skin felt taut around the middle of my penis, and the glans was becoming engorged and purplish from lack of circulation.
"That's good, that's good," she whispered, then stopped herself. "No, that's bad. Can you get the foreskin back up to close over the glans?"
"Just a second."
"Tell me how you do it."
"I pinch the glans gently, then with the other hand I slide the loose skin up until it snaps over the glans."
"It 'snaps'?"
"Yes."
"That's so totally cool. I mean, that you're able to get it back into position. I think I told you if you couldn't get it back up we might have to amputate your glans. Remember that?"
"Vividly."
"You wouldn't want us to have to cut off the end of your penis, right?"
"No, I would not."
"Okay. Since this isn't that urgent, we can just schedule you an appointment," Liz said, over the sound of a keyboard clicking. "You can see Dr. McGinnis on Thursday after next, or ..." her voice trailed off.
"Yes?"
"Or you could come in tomorrow, that is, Friday, at the close of business. I'll be working late and can see you then."
I felt my scrotum swell at the prospect of another one-on-one inspection by Liz.
"I can do that."