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Skin Bridge
Im 15 and i have a big skin bridge behind the back of my penis one inch and im afraid that its going to prevent some growth it hurts abit when i have an erection and im kind of scared to tell my parents. Should i tell them i dont know if its really serious and frankly im worried. can some one help plz :(
yea i really didnt want to be circumcised and thats one reson that im scarred to tell them. but i will. ill properly have to wait till a vacation from school to get that fix but i will get it fix. thanks for everything ill give you an update when possible and all the best for you
Hi,
I'm sorry to tell you that there is really no easy way to talk about this. I have allways been very open in talking to our children. Not that long ago my son started living with my parents because he got a job in the town where they live. At our place being on a small farm, he was used to walk nude from the bathroom to his room. All nice and fine exept at my parent's he is in a town and my dad had to remind him that they have neighbours who can see him.
I believe the best way to bring this to your parent's attention is to tell your dad that you have a concern regarding your penis and possible complications from the circumcision that was done. There are several web sites that show pictures of skin bridges. If you are not comfortable with that, then the next best thing is to let the family doctor handle to conversation for you. You could ask your parents to get you an appointment with the family doctor concerning a matter regarding puberty. Should your parents ask any details, you can tell them that it is nothing serious but that you'd prefer to discuss this concern with your doctor. If more questions arise from this, you can simply tell them that it deals with a minor medical condition.
I might have missled you by mentioning our now 19 y/o son. When he noticed the skin bridge he was just around 12 at the time. Even though my wife and I had been very open regarding these matters, he still was somewhat uncofortable telling us about it. What you have needs to be dealt with sooner than later. There are many situations in a person's life that are difficult to talk about openly.
I myself with my parents still being a live had a situation a few years ago which dealt with me having to bring a very personal issue to their attention.
In 1999 after having had several urological problem, my wife and I felt that it was best for me to have a vasectomy. It was not for a method of birth control, but due to a neurogenic bladder, I used to come down with a lot of kidney infections which in some cases spread to the testicles. I had come accross an article which mentioned that some men undergoing a prostatectomy used to get a vasectomy as well to prevent any infections from going into the testicles.
When I had the vasectomy done, I went home and went to bed early in the hope to sleep the first day off. The next morning I woke up in pain and when I looked I noticed a blue to black scrotum about the size of a grapefruit.
My wife took me to the doctor and a female doctor was present because our regular doctor was on leave. This female doctor sent me home stating that it was normal. The next day I felt even worse and we went back to the doctor. This time she sent me back to the hospital and when I arrived the surgeon booked me for emergency surgery to have a large blood clot removed.
After this surgery there remained a small hole in my scrotum that never closed. So a year later when I had to be at the urologist as a follow up for my neurogenic bladder, I mentioned and showed the small hole in my scrotum. He too told me not to worry about it.
About a week after that I ended up in the local hospital since my scrotum had swelled up and had turned to a redish blue color. They admitted me and had me on antibiotics while they waited for the urologist to get in touch with them. After a week my scrotum split open and I was transferred to the city hospital from which the urologist worked out off.
On the night of my birthday at around 11:30pm I went into emergency surgery to have a Strep B infected left testicle removed.
Our children stayed with my parents as my wife stayed with me during this itime. Since it was my birthday, my parents and kids came to visit me in my hospital room. When I was alone with my mom while the kids and my wife went for something to drink, my mom asked me what the problem was. I was in an isolation room of the intensive care unit. I had hoped that my wife would have told the reasons so I did not have to tell my mom. When I finally told her what had taken place, there was no strange feelings of having to tell my parents. It was just reated as any other medical situation. The only things that my parents were upset about was the fact that I went back home after the female doctor had told me that things were normal. For over a year they did not even know that I had a vasectomy.
We seem to be a shamed talking about things that involve our genitals. The thing is that there are only two models, male and female. Maybe three in what they call intersexed. Even though all of us have simmilar equipement, we still make a big deal about it.
When do children and parents stop talking to each other once genitals or any sexual matter is at hand.
I'm sure that your parents would like you to get married and have children at some part in your life. Sex is a normal part of life and is a neccessity for reproduction. In your particular case, the skin bridge between the penile shaft and glans is a defect that will cause you a problem during sexual activity.
I assume that your parents in good faith, thought that they did you a favor by having you circumcised thereby preventing any future health problems. Most people in the US and Canada have their male children circumcised almost out of tradition. In todays world uncircumicsed males experience very few problems because they still have their foreskin. As a matter of fact, circumcision produce more complications than what is is supposed to prevent. I myself being intact cannot say that it is better than being circumcised, however I had a younger brother who got circumcised out of medical need. He hated the results.
It is mentioned that the foreskin plays a big role during intercourse. It acts like a gliding mechanism. There are also a lot of nerves in the foreskin which would aid in the sensations during intercourse.
I hope that I did not confuse you and make this more difficult for you. Tha is not my intention.
I sincerely hope that things will go smoothly for you and that your parents will be off support for you.
Please give me an update on how things worked out for you. I don;t know of any other way of helping you, but if you have any questions or concerns, I'm available to help in any way I can.
In your case of a larger skin bridge, surgical intervention is required.
God bless,
Ron
I'm sorry to tell you that there is really no easy way to talk about this. I have allways been very open in talking to our children. Not that long ago my son started living with my parents because he got a job in the town where they live. At our place being on a small farm, he was used to walk nude from the bathroom to his room. All nice and fine exept at my parent's he is in a town and my dad had to remind him that they have neighbours who can see him.
I believe the best way to bring this to your parent's attention is to tell your dad that you have a concern regarding your penis and possible complications from the circumcision that was done. There are several web sites that show pictures of skin bridges. If you are not comfortable with that, then the next best thing is to let the family doctor handle to conversation for you. You could ask your parents to get you an appointment with the family doctor concerning a matter regarding puberty. Should your parents ask any details, you can tell them that it is nothing serious but that you'd prefer to discuss this concern with your doctor. If more questions arise from this, you can simply tell them that it deals with a minor medical condition.
I might have missled you by mentioning our now 19 y/o son. When he noticed the skin bridge he was just around 12 at the time. Even though my wife and I had been very open regarding these matters, he still was somewhat uncofortable telling us about it. What you have needs to be dealt with sooner than later. There are many situations in a person's life that are difficult to talk about openly.
I myself with my parents still being a live had a situation a few years ago which dealt with me having to bring a very personal issue to their attention.
In 1999 after having had several urological problem, my wife and I felt that it was best for me to have a vasectomy. It was not for a method of birth control, but due to a neurogenic bladder, I used to come down with a lot of kidney infections which in some cases spread to the testicles. I had come accross an article which mentioned that some men undergoing a prostatectomy used to get a vasectomy as well to prevent any infections from going into the testicles.
When I had the vasectomy done, I went home and went to bed early in the hope to sleep the first day off. The next morning I woke up in pain and when I looked I noticed a blue to black scrotum about the size of a grapefruit.
My wife took me to the doctor and a female doctor was present because our regular doctor was on leave. This female doctor sent me home stating that it was normal. The next day I felt even worse and we went back to the doctor. This time she sent me back to the hospital and when I arrived the surgeon booked me for emergency surgery to have a large blood clot removed.
After this surgery there remained a small hole in my scrotum that never closed. So a year later when I had to be at the urologist as a follow up for my neurogenic bladder, I mentioned and showed the small hole in my scrotum. He too told me not to worry about it.
About a week after that I ended up in the local hospital since my scrotum had swelled up and had turned to a redish blue color. They admitted me and had me on antibiotics while they waited for the urologist to get in touch with them. After a week my scrotum split open and I was transferred to the city hospital from which the urologist worked out off.
On the night of my birthday at around 11:30pm I went into emergency surgery to have a Strep B infected left testicle removed.
Our children stayed with my parents as my wife stayed with me during this itime. Since it was my birthday, my parents and kids came to visit me in my hospital room. When I was alone with my mom while the kids and my wife went for something to drink, my mom asked me what the problem was. I was in an isolation room of the intensive care unit. I had hoped that my wife would have told the reasons so I did not have to tell my mom. When I finally told her what had taken place, there was no strange feelings of having to tell my parents. It was just reated as any other medical situation. The only things that my parents were upset about was the fact that I went back home after the female doctor had told me that things were normal. For over a year they did not even know that I had a vasectomy.
We seem to be a shamed talking about things that involve our genitals. The thing is that there are only two models, male and female. Maybe three in what they call intersexed. Even though all of us have simmilar equipement, we still make a big deal about it.
When do children and parents stop talking to each other once genitals or any sexual matter is at hand.
I'm sure that your parents would like you to get married and have children at some part in your life. Sex is a normal part of life and is a neccessity for reproduction. In your particular case, the skin bridge between the penile shaft and glans is a defect that will cause you a problem during sexual activity.
I assume that your parents in good faith, thought that they did you a favor by having you circumcised thereby preventing any future health problems. Most people in the US and Canada have their male children circumcised almost out of tradition. In todays world uncircumicsed males experience very few problems because they still have their foreskin. As a matter of fact, circumcision produce more complications than what is is supposed to prevent. I myself being intact cannot say that it is better than being circumcised, however I had a younger brother who got circumcised out of medical need. He hated the results.
It is mentioned that the foreskin plays a big role during intercourse. It acts like a gliding mechanism. There are also a lot of nerves in the foreskin which would aid in the sensations during intercourse.
I hope that I did not confuse you and make this more difficult for you. Tha is not my intention.
I sincerely hope that things will go smoothly for you and that your parents will be off support for you.
Please give me an update on how things worked out for you. I don;t know of any other way of helping you, but if you have any questions or concerns, I'm available to help in any way I can.
In your case of a larger skin bridge, surgical intervention is required.
God bless,
Ron
thanks for your response and yes i was circumcised and cause since you said that your son had that can you tell me a way to tell my parents that cause i dont know what to tell them im kind of scarred to tell them :C
Hi,
Were you circumcised? A skin bridge can form when an inproper circumcision is done. At time it can be fairly severe, it causes problems during masturbation or intercourse.
It is also possible for uncircumcised males to develope a simmilar condition. During the first years in a boys life, the foreskin is attached to the glans. As you grow the foreskin will seperate from the glans. In the case of my now 19 y/o son, the skin started the separate from the corona of the glans. There was just a few mm. of skin that stayed attached between the foreskin and glans, sort of like a tunnel of skin between the edge of the glans and foreskin. I told him to use a small pair of surgical scissors that were sterilized to cut the little band of skin. In his case the skin bridge was so small that I felt that there was no need to go to a doctor to get it done.
I told him to hold and ice cube to the area and after a few seconds told him to cut it. I let him do it so that he could stop if it was too painful. He was about 11 at the time. He mentioned that he had some minor pain for two days, and never complained about it after that.
Since you indicate that it is about one inch, I would suggest to get a doctor to do this for you. They will most likely use a topical freezing. At your age you most likely need a parent to accompany you. If your parents feel that you can handle this between your doctor and yourself, the decission is your's.
All the best,
Ron
Were you circumcised? A skin bridge can form when an inproper circumcision is done. At time it can be fairly severe, it causes problems during masturbation or intercourse.
It is also possible for uncircumcised males to develope a simmilar condition. During the first years in a boys life, the foreskin is attached to the glans. As you grow the foreskin will seperate from the glans. In the case of my now 19 y/o son, the skin started the separate from the corona of the glans. There was just a few mm. of skin that stayed attached between the foreskin and glans, sort of like a tunnel of skin between the edge of the glans and foreskin. I told him to use a small pair of surgical scissors that were sterilized to cut the little band of skin. In his case the skin bridge was so small that I felt that there was no need to go to a doctor to get it done.
I told him to hold and ice cube to the area and after a few seconds told him to cut it. I let him do it so that he could stop if it was too painful. He was about 11 at the time. He mentioned that he had some minor pain for two days, and never complained about it after that.
Since you indicate that it is about one inch, I would suggest to get a doctor to do this for you. They will most likely use a topical freezing. At your age you most likely need a parent to accompany you. If your parents feel that you can handle this between your doctor and yourself, the decission is your's.
All the best,
Ron
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