Hi,
First off I should say that I've torn by Frenulum before. About two years ago. I'm 22 now.
It took a long time to heal - which was not helped by the fact I continued to try and have sex, resulting in it re-tearing a few times.
Last night it happened again while with my (new) girlfriend. She freaked out. It was by far the worst time.
There was much more blood and pain than the last time. I thought I was going to pass out for a moment.
Now I've been reading up on the best way to let it heal. Some are saying that it's important to keep the frenulum from healing back together (re-joining). How on earth are you supposed to do this though? I've tried to pull the foreskin back to take a look but the pain was unbearable. It also started to bleed again. So I'm actually unsure as to weather it's just another partial tear or has completely broken through.
Is my best bet to wait for it to heal and then try some stretching exercises?
Obviously this is not something I want to keep having to go through, but at the same time I honestly don't think I could bring myself to go to the doctors about it. For whatever reason, I have a phobia of going to the doctors at the best of times, let alone about something like this.
Okay - I've just made an account so I can reply to any answers.
Any help would be really appreciated!
I just want to add this...
It's been a few days now and the pain has settled down enough so I was able to pull the foreskin back again and properly take a look at it.
The rip actually doesn't appear to be the frenulum... but just under the glans where the skin of the foreskin joins to the shaft. It's a some what long tear that runs vaguely horizontal unter the glans.
I've been trying to pull the foreskin back each day to bathe it in warm soapy water... but this actually seems to be irritating the area more.. It now seems somewhat reddish and sensitive.
Should I just leave it alone? Or is it important to keep washing it?